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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...social groups became associated with or excluded from such stories. It highlighted how landscapes could tell us about cultural values and how they served to create particular, selective understandings of ‘nature’. Then, since the late 1990s, many geographers have sought to suggest that something important has been lost in this keen focus on the ‘representational’...
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Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...social media, a place where we only read and hear what friends that we share stuff with think. Similarly, it appears that governments like the UK swallow the same tired discourses emanating from authoritarian undemocratic regimes across the Middle East. Except that in the case of governments the matter is much more serious, because of the implications of their upholding...
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‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability
History & The Arts

‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability

...and London: Chicago University Press. McRae, K., Misra, S., Prasad, A. K., Pereira, S. C., Gross, J. J. (2012). ‘Bottom-up and Top-down Emotion Generation: Implications for Emotion Regulation’. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 7: 253-62. LeDoux, J. E. (1996). The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. New York: Simon & Schuster....
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To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...social role clearly is important here (the same could be said for the historic centre of Warsaw, which was also reconstructed). The process of reconstruction itself raises a host of philosophical issues. To reconstruct something is to recreate it as it was – one aim must be some degree of authenticity. But what should be recreated? The house as it was in its heyday? Or...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
Languages

How Spanish sounded across its history

...Transcript Las siete cabritas French-born Mexican author Elena Poniatowska (1932) writes about social and political issues and has received numerous prizes and awards across the world for her works. This fragment belongs to Las siete cabritas (The seven kids), devoted to the lives of seven Mexican women, of which only Frida Kalho is well known globally. Transcript...
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Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...social and cultural contexts”, then “sleep” in the early twenty-first century generates similar questions and discussions as did “sex” and “gender” in the late twentieth century. Greaney’s broad expertise in literary analysis, critical sleep studies and cultural theory result in readings of contemporary literature that are highly complex and interwoven...
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...social identities and related systems of privilege and oppression, and how these have shifted – or not – over their lifecourse. Regular lists of multiple experiences, where diverse individuals tell brief stories around an aspect of gender. These are anonymised accounts we heard in our therapy, activism, and research – from women, men, and non-binary, trans, and...
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The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...social systems represent a massive undertaking to achieve them within the 12 year window recommended in the IPCC 2018 climate change report. This demands a level of attention in the UK that is comparable to the UKs war effort during World War II. Such efforts must focus not just on immediate carbon targets but engage more comprehensively with the need for deep adaptation...
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