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Designing the Spanish nation
Languages

Designing the Spanish nation

...concept of allowing or forbidding entrance through a gate has survived until these days. From the three original Muslim gates (Puerta de la Vega, Puerta de la Mezquita, Puerta de la Sagra) to the mostly symbolic arches of the 20th century gate (Puerta de la Ilustración), Madrid has built and destroyed numerous gates in its ever expanding territories. From all the ......
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Protestivals - What are they?
History & The Arts

Protestivals - What are they?

...concept, but scholars say that the roots of this particular form of protest can be found in the alternative globalisation movements that started in the 1980s. ...If you’re unfamiliar with the concept and oh-so curious, Dr Maria Nita explains the phenomenon, from the recent climate change Protest Festivals to the carnival occasions that took place in Classical Greece....
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How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?

...concepts, like kuvhura pfungwa (which translates to “opening up the mind”) – it became a critical component, and the community could identify that term,” Chibanda said in an interview with SciDev.Net. "Other terms included kusimudzira, which means “to uplift”, and kusimbisa, which means “to strengthen”. That early research also prompted a renaming from...
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Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: the kale smoothie of TV

...prompt questions about consumption and lifestyle. Sky has offered a package of popular rainforest shows that have clearly referenced the topic. The right onscreen talent can make a big difference. Hence Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Fish Fight (Channel 4) and Hugh’s War on Waste (BBC One) have taken a campaigning tone to raise environmental issues about consumption....
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Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices
Health, Sports & Psychology

Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices

...prompting’ of an action can aid in eliciting movement. An assisted communication and teaching method called Rapid Prompting Method has been used by many non-speaking autistic people to help them initiate the action of pointing to letters on a letterboard in order to communicate. There has been some pushback from the academic community, most notably from those who are...
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What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...concepts in politics, and the implications of such contestability for the practice and study of politics...What is politics?: 1 Politics: the extraordinary and the ordinary - As you are obviously interested in studying politics, you probably already have a sense that politics is important. You may also have developed some ideas of what politics is all about. Activity 1...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Heritage, whose heritage?
History & The Arts

Heritage, whose heritage?

...concept of heritage What does heritage mean? A professor of cultural studies discusses how concepts of heritage have changed. Perceptions of heritage Comparisons between British and Afro-caribbean values and concepts of heritage. Save Britain's Heritage How architectural heritage is fundamental to a sense of nationhood and identity and why it's vital to preserve it,...
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Identity In Question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identity In Question

...concepts in real situations. The material is taken from The Open University course D853 Identity in question... Identity In Question A short introduction to this album. Language Approach Why this approach of Identity formation been so influential in cultural studies. Lacanian Theory The centrality of the Lacanian theory within the broader subject of Language approach....
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