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"Boring, Frustrating, Impossible": Tracing the Negative Affects of Reading from Interviews to Story Circles
Download2019-05-15
Fuller, Danielle; Rehberg Sedo, DeNel
How can you trace the negative affects of reading experiences? Reading studies research often relies on heroic, transformational and celebratory narratives about reading elicited from research participants but also co-produced by the researchers because of the methods employed. In this essay we...
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Adoption as Political History [Review of Laura Briggs, Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption]
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The article reviews the book \"Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption,\" by Laura Briggs.
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2020-12-31
Rob Shields (University of Alberta), Ge Zheng (Sichuan University)
This study considers virtuality in ink wash paintings with a focus on two late, Qing dynasty works from an album by Pan Gongshou (c. 1790). We examine the painterly devices by which a liminal, virtual, “as if” space is constructed as a “realm” or world in which the viewer is synaesthetically...
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2019-01-26
Hughes, Karen D., Silver, William A.
Contemporary work is increasingly mobile, sparking new challenges for scholars of work and organizations. In this review article, we argue that a ‘mobilities lens’ offers strong potential for rethinking established approaches, focusing on one important sub-field: workfamily studies. Drawing on a...
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2009
In this article, we use narratives of cultural identity among U.S. parents of children adopted from China to conceptually explore the ideas that underwrite socially intelligible kinship. Although these narratives address the cultural heritage of the child, we find that they also perform a kind of...
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Building gender-aware ecosystems for growth: Women’s entrepreneurial learning and leadership development.
Download2019-12-01
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine processes of entrepreneurial learning and leadership development (ELLD) for women involved in growth-oriented businesses. It considers how ELLD can be supported by building gender-aware ecosystems for growth. Design/methodology/approach – Data are...
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Community Engagement in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: Academic Dispositions, Institutional Dilemmas
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Dorow, Sara, Acuña, Nicole Smith
Engaged scholarship is increasingly concerned with how community engagement might be institutionalized in the contemporary university. At the same time, it must be attentive to diverse academic approaches to knowledge and to the forms of engagement associated with them. Attention to this...
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2019-02-01
The research creation project "CRSC Lightbox" presents a ‘light show’ of publicly projected still images and short moving images. The theme of the project was public skating and outdoor community infrastructure. The hand-drawn logo design is intended to express the temporality of lightbox...