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Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music
History & The Arts

Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music

...concept of leitmotiv (or leading motif) employed to such good effect by composers like Wagner, Strauss, and Puccini, and also used in much film music. Talismanic But who wields the Bond theme? Is this music the sign of a narrator figure identifying the character (rather obviously) for us? Or might Bond himself use the theme as a kind of talismanic protective blanket; as a...
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Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...concept: hegemony. Thatcherism, he argued, was a ‘hegemonic’ project which had won an ideological battle and was in the process of constructing a new consensus. He also argued that the left had failed to understand the nature of the crisis and had no alternative. In making this case, Thatcherite ideology drew on the work of Milton Friedman and applied his free market...
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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...concept is ‘Kalyana mitta’ (Good friends who can provoke your thoughts). We first need to see the reality of injustice or structural violence in our socio-economic or political systems (‘suffering’ in Buddhism) and then we will seek our desirable future (Nirvana), by using Kalyana Mitta to help sort out the root causes (Samudaya) of the climate crisis by looking...
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Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...concept, participation is complex, rarely questioned within a critical arena and often tokenistic in practice. Discussions on participation are synonymous with many claims - from providing opportunities for personal and social growth, learning and development, to basic human rights and democracy. Yet our research shows that this all too often this glosses over complex...
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Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation
Society, Politics & Law

Shifting notions of trauma-informed practice: from the individual to the organisation

...concept of trauma-informed (TI) practice originated in healthcare and with the recognition that differing notions of trauma affect patients in unique ways. It has now become apparent that for individuals to provide a TI approach to their service users, organisations also need to portray and deliver this ethos with their employees. In policing this is aligned with what we...
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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...concepts we can see what individuals are able to do at home, in work and socially, as well as their physical environments and the services they can access. Comparing what different countries value can be revealing. We found that Americans, for example, report being better able to get help from the police compared with people from the UK, whereas there is a substantial...
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Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy
Society, Politics & Law

Uncanny valley: why we find human-like robots and dolls so creepy

...concept. Academics are even engaged in an active debate as to whether the uncanny valley exists at all – Jari Kätsyri and colleagues recently reviewed the evidence and drew the conclusion that the effect remains elusive. Either way, the debate has not yet been won – although perhaps the most compelling evidence for the existence of the uncanny valley has just been...
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Welcome to nowhere special
Languages

Welcome to nowhere special

...concept of “banal nationalism”. Banal nationalism refers to the mundane discourses – flags, maps, national references, etc. – that enact national belonging in everyday life. Similarly, banal cosmopolitanism refers to mundane discourses that enact globalization in everyday life. Banal cosmopolitanism is apparent in the “mediatization and consumption of spatially...
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