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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Zygmunt Bauman"”.
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Relações humanas sob o impacto da virtualidade e do consumo à luz da modernidade líquida de Zygmunt Bauman
… tem por objetivo um aprofundamento na obra de Zygmunt Bauman, especialmente no que se refere à chamada modernidade líquida, considerando-se especialmente as consequências que o consumo e a virtualidade, tão característicos dessa época, promovem na vida cotidiana das pessoas
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Truth and strangers in Jean Rhys's novels : Good morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea
… between the postmodern cultural theory of Zygmunt Bauman and the novels Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. These novels portray marginal women who are excluded from the very community which has created them. Rhys illustrates how the need to sustain an artificial …
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In the Shadows of Capitalism: Human Trafficking, Embodied Potlatch, and Enclaves of Entrapment in Brazilian and Mexican Cultural Production
… Georges Bataille, Teresa P.R. Caldeira, and Zygmunt Bauman. Valencia’s theoretical concept of gore capitalism allows me to theorize how human trafficking functions as an excess of gore capitalism. Furthermore, Bataille’s reading of the ritual of the potlatch allows me to understand how male …
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First Hospitality for Educability: An Ethical, Epistemological, and Political Symbiotic Relationship
… Arendt, Emanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Zygmunt Bauman the thesis develops an original argument for the centrality of the engagement with 'the other', a conception of 'first philosophy' based on ethics, epistemology and politics, and the formulation of 'first hospitality' for educability. …
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Islands in the (main)stream : the desert island in anglophone post-war popular culture
… the technique of market dominance described by Zygmunt Bauman. Semiotic, psychoanalytic and spatial approaches are also used in close readings. The relationship of ‘home’ to ‘the Other’ was transformed by the advent of affordable international travel and communication; the thesis considers …
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Coming into View: Black British Artists and Exhibition Cultures 1976-2010
… the notion of legitimate coercion as defined by Zygmunt Bauman (2000), the study determines that long-standing hegemonic structures continue to inform the modes through which public art museums and galleries in Britain curate and control black creativity.
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A critique of the ecclesiology, missiology and sociology of the Mission-shaped Church report
… Chapter four will use the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman as an experimental basis to help the Church of England understand its contemporary context. His work illustrates that the ideology of consumerism is the major missiological challenge the church faces today, one that MSC failed to …
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‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’
… in studies of modernity (for example, from Zygmunt Bauman, Marshall Berman, and Paul Heelas, Phillip Blond, John Milbank, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault).5 Ultimately, my thesis validates Burke as an originator of modern (and contemporary) religious conceptualization, which transcends …
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Failed futures, broken promises, and the prospect of cybernetic immortality: toward an abundant sociological history of cryonic suspension, 1962-1979
… produced by what Anthony Giddens and especially Zygmunt Bauman regard as the principle constitutive feature of modern social life—the ultimately futile yet pervasive modern impulse to sequester death, dying, and the dead from the realm of the living. I furthermore argue that the distinctly modern …
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Flawed consumers: understanding the impact of intersectional political consumerism during the Chicago Welfare Rights Era
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