3,342 research outputs found
Interview: Anne-Marie Fortier
No full textThis paper is an edited version of an email interview conducted by Debra Ferreday and Adi Kuntsman with Anne-Marie Fortier, the author of Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation (Routledge, 2008). Fortier’s work has been informative in the development of some of the arguments explored in this special issue; in their conversation Ferreday and Kuntsman asked her to comment on the ideas of haunting, racial imaginaries, nostalgia, national anxieties, political feelings and hopes for the future
Marie-Rose: She Who Believed in Tomorrow: The Story of the Foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (Expanded Edition 2015)
No full text40 leaves; a brief history of Mother Marie-Rose, née Eulalie Durocher, and her life of service
Gender Moderates the Relationship Between Avatar Customization and Enjoyment in Popular Video Games
No full textThis is the accepted version of the following article: Devlin, M. Marie, Morgan E. Ellithorpe, and Erin Oittinen. “Gender Moderates the Relationship Between Avatar Customization and Enjoyment in Popular Video Games.” Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 27, no. 3 (March 1, 2024): 227–31. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2023.0289., which has now been formally published in final form at Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking at https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2023.0289. This original submission version of the article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers’ self-archiving terms and conditions. © 2024, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersUsing online survey methods (n = 153), this study investigates whether exposure to different levels of customization in games will increase the experiences of enjoyment, both directly and indirectly, through the experience of avatar embodiment, as well as whether these relationships are influenced by gender identity. Results indicate a positive relationship between level of exposure to customization and enjoyment for women-identified participants. These outcomes may provide insight into gendered preference in gaming, potentially providing an avenue by which to make games more inclusive to women gamers.There is no funding associated with the work featured in this article
Marie Dressler, the Unlikeliest Star
No full textSHE WAS a good old girl. Yes, that\u27s what you think while reading author Betty Lee\u27s biography, Marie Dressler, The Unlikeliest Star. It\u27s a very satisfying book and it merits a careful reading. The prologue says what Marie Dressler was all about, really all about, and her story which follows is one of the most enjoyable I\u27ve ever read. It\u27s dispassionate, it\u27s non-judgmental, the author gives you time, date and place consistently, which isn\u27t easy, considering the profession Marie was in and the number of times she bought and sold properties when she became affluent, and even before she became affluent. In our day, Marie Dressler would have been called a \u27risk taker\u27. Her career was lived through five decades, at a time when there was constant opportunity for a great stage career, if you had the talent, skill, friends, luck and sheer perseverance to make a life in..
Anne-Marie Ericsson. The Interiors of M/S Kungsholm: Masterpieces in Swedish Art Deco
No full textArt Deco is a style that has hitherto gained too little attention in Swedish history of art and design. With her special focus on the 1920s and 1930s Anne-Marie Ericsson, a well known author and lecturer in the Swedish design world, is the just author for this period. Therefore I open her M/S Kungsholms inredning. Mästerverk i svensk art deco [The Interior of M/S Kungsholm. A masterpiece in Swedish art deco][i] with great expectations. As the title implies, the aim of the book is to treat the interiors of M/S Kungsholm, the show-piece of the Swedish American Line. This focus is reasonable, insofar as the exterior presented nothing new, according to the author, whereas the interior was enthusiastically received by the New York press as a “fairy tale castle” when she arrived on her maiden voyage in New York, December 1928. (p. 9). Trying to present a reconstruction of how the ship looked, although almost nothing remains of it today, Anne-Marie Ericsson has taken upon herself a task that is not an easy one. The fate of M/S Kungsholm was unfortunate. After a glorious decade, she transported troops during World War II, incredibly enough escaped bombs and torpedoes, became a cruise ship in the Mediterranean and was finally broken up in Bilbao in 1964. By that time, the interiors had been almost entirely extinguished and the furniture plundered or sold. [i] If not stated otherwise, all the translations from Swedish to English are my own, M.T
Materializing Modernity - Socialist and Post-socialist Rural Legacy in Contemporary Albania
No full textThis upload is part of a book section titled "Humanities and Arts, Career Development, Sustainable Research Practice" from the book: G. M. Greco, G. Emidio, P. E. Tomatis, A. Avasthi (Eds). (2022). Book of Abstracts: 2022 Poster Sessions. 9th Annual Conference of the Marie Curie Alumni Association, March 25-27, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal. Brussels: Marie Curie Alumni Association. ISBN 978-94-6433-602-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6608826
The poster has been presented online at the Annual Conference of the Marie Curie Alumni Association which took place in Lisbon (Portugal) and online on 26-27 March 2022. The poster was selected and included in the panel "Humanities and Arts, Career Development, Sustainable Research Practice" and presented online by the author.
This poster is part of a research project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 896925.This upload is an excerpt from G. M. Greco, G. Emidio, P. E. Tomatis, A. Avasthi (Eds). (2022). Book of Abstracts: 2022 Poster Sessions. 9th Annual Conference of the Marie Curie Alumni Association, March 25-27, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal. Brussels: Marie Curie Alumni Association. ISBN 978-94-6433-602-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.660882
A gender‑stereotyped representation of Marie in Jean‑Philippe Toussaint’s tetralogy M. M. M. M. (2017)
No full textThis article examines the portrait of Marie in Toussaint (M.M.M.M., ed. de Minuit, Paris, 2017) and asks how Marie is represented as a woman in the tetralogy. The study shows that although Marie is portrayed as a modern, independent woman, she is also presented with diferent gender-stereotyped characteristics. The theoretical and methodological approach to this topic will be based on Simone de Beauvoir’s The second sex (1949), in particular the chapter “Myths” that focuses on women and myths in a historical perspective. Another question the article raises is what may be the author’s intention by playing with stereotyped characteristics. I will argue that the author exposes a modern woman’s ambivalent situation in our patriarchal society. Furthermore, that he writes within a literary tradition that gives a stereotyped representation of women as part of the collective myths.publishedVersio
BIOFUELS, AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
No full textIn the context of ever-increasing petroleum prices combined with concerns about climate change, timing of adoption and rate of diffusion of land-based fuels and backstop technologies for transportation use are examined in this paper. A global model of land allocation joined with a Hotelling model has been developed. Using this framework, effects of climate and energy policies on world agricultural and energy markets have been explored. Further, their regional impacts are also analyzed. Whereas mandatory blending bio-fuels have substantial effects on world food prices and do not succeed in curbing down carbon emissions fluxes, carbon targets are expected to speed up date of adoption of backstop technologies. Then, sensitivity scenarios with regards to technological parameters reveal that higher is the rate of technological change, earlier backstop technologies are adopted and lower is the stock of carbon accumulated into the atmosphere. Finally, interplay between land-based fuels and deforestation has been studied. Results show that land-based fuels production speeds up world deforestation and causes substantial carbon emissions due to conversion of forests into agricultural lands.Ricardian rents, land use, biofuels, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
No full textIn a sample of fourteen source countries making bilateral investments in forty five countries, the author finds that taxes, capital controls, and corruption, all have large, statistically significant negative effects on foreign investment. Moreover, there is no robust support in the data for the"efficient grease"hypothesis - that corruption helps attract foreign investment by reducing firms'tax burden and the irritant of capital controls.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Capital Markets and Capital Flows,Decentralization,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Theory&Research,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Governance Indicators,National Governance,Capital Flows
Unfinished memories
No full textExhibition catalogue of Spencer J. Harrison.
Jann L.M. Bailey and Anna-Marie Larson of Kamloops Art Gallery wrote the catalogue essay.Not peer reviewedArtist catalogu
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