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Anoop Nayak, Alexander Sam Jeffrey (2011)
1. Geographies of Empire: The Imperial Tradition Introduction Empire, imperialism and colonialism Defining terms Portuguese and Spanish empires British Empire The institionalisation of geography From 'fabulous' to 'militant' geography The R...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.25405/ncl.34150662
E. M. Bruck, K. Gruszka • Geographica Helvetica
(2026)
Food-delivery riders embody a constitutive paradox of platform-mediated labour. Although visible and physically exposed in public space, their labour is obscured, their subjectivities unacknowledged, and their presence marginalised. This ar...
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DOI: 10.5194/gh-81-603-2026
Robert Desjarlais, C. Jason Throop • Annual Review of Anthropology
(2010)
This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, a...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092010-153345
Brendan James Gleeson • Taylor & Francis eBooks
(1988)
This book explains how space, place and mobility have shaped the experiences of disabled people both in the past and in contemporary societies. The key features of this insightful study include: * a critical appraisal of theories of disabil...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203266182
Julia Twigg, Wendy E. Martin • The Gerontologist
(2014)
Over the last decade, Cultural Gerontology has emerged as one of the most vibrant elements of writing about age (Twigg, J., & Martin, W. (Eds.) (2015). The Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology. London: Routledge). Reflecting the wider...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnu061
Julia Twigg • Routledge eBooks
(2015)
Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097090
• Choice Reviews Online
(2004)
Bintliff, John, ed., A Companion to Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. word archaeology conjures up images of people in pith helmets digging into the sandy earth of the desert or monumental buildings rising above jungle foliag...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1649
Rusakova, O.F., Rusakov, V.M., Moiseenko, Y.Yu. • Дискурс Пи
(2023)
The article aims to reveal the main features of the Bolshevik project to build
the Kingdom of Reason in the USSR, associated with the radical reformatting of the relationship between the rational and irrational in the establishment of the ...
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DOI: 10.17506/18179568_2023_20_4_27
Lee Campbell • Body, Space & Technology Journal
(2016)
Arguing for the positive disruptive nature of interruption, this article concentrates on my current performative and pedagogic usage of Skype in order to promote the positive aspects of interruptive elements within performative pedagogy. Re...
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Sy Taffel • Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
(2015)
This paper asks how coltan, casseterite, wolframite and gold ores mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo relate networked microelectronics to brutal warlords, and what legal and industrial actions have been enacted by activists, NGOs, po...
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DOI: 10.16997/wpcc.210
Fikry Latukau • SASI
(2019)
One of the animals favored by people and can be used as food for some people in Ambon City is cuscus (phalanger spp) is one of the long-tailed marsupial mammals and is also a part of natural resources that is priceless so that its sustainab...
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Eileen E. Green, Diane Thompson, Frances E. Griffiths • Health Risk & Society
(2002)
The 'management' of midlife women's bodies is becoming an increasingly important focus for both themselves and medical 'experts'. Health technologies play a major part in this process, given health promotion messages about their usefulness ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369857021000016632
Deborah A. Lupton • Sociology Compass
(2014)
Abstract Discussions of digital health technologies in the popular media and the medical and public health academic literature frequently comment on how these technologies might offer new or improved ways of delivering health care, conducti...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12226
Hooman Aghaebrahimi Samani, Elham Saadatian, Natalie Lee-San Pang, Doros Polydorou et al. • International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
(2013)
In this paper, we have investigated the concept of “Cultural Robotics” with regard to the evolution of social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture, the potential development of a culture between human...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5772/57260
Eduardo Benítez Sandoval, Ricardo Sosa, Ricardo Sosa, Massimiliano Cappuccio et al. • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
(2022)
Creativity in social robots requires further attention in the interdisciplinary field of human–robot interaction (HRI). This study investigates the hypothesized connection between the perceived creative agency and the animacy of social robo...
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DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2022.695162
Sara B. Kiesler, Aaron Powers, Susan R. Fussell, Cristen Torrey • Social Cognition
(2008)
People's physical embodiment and presence increase their salience and importance. We predicted people would anthropomorphize an embodied humanoid robot more than a robot–like agent, and a collocated more than a remote robot. A robot or robo...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2008.26.2.169
Adriana Tapus, Maja J. Matarić, Brian Michael Scassellati • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
(2007)
Socially intelligent robotics is the pursuit of creating robots capable of exhibiting natural-appearing social qualities. Beyond the basic capabilities of moving and acting autonomously, the field has focused on the use of the robot's physi...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2007.339605
Myriam Dunn Cavelty • Politics and Governance
(2018)
This article sets out to show how different understandings of technology as suggested by Science and Technology Studies (STS) help reveal different political facets of cybersecurity. Using cybersecurity research as empirical site, it is sho...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i2.1385
Mina C. Johnson-Glenberg, Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz • Cognitive Research
(2017)
Abstract A mixed design was created using text and game-like multimedia to instruct in the content of physics. The study assessed which variables predicted learning gains after a 1-h lesson on the electric field. The three manipulated varia...
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DOI: 10.1186/s41235-017-0060-9
Wonseok Chang, Yura Kim, Hye Jin Park • Korean Journal of Medical Education
(2024)
Purpose Although interest in various forms of learning media is increasing due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic there is relatively little research on influencing student motivation by intervening in cognitive processing....
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DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2024.288