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Introduction to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
This chapter introduces the book Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. We reflect on the terms ‘difficult death’, ‘dying’ and the...
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Semantics of Cleanliness
What is meant by “clean” when talking about nuclear energy? Cleanliness in the context of environmental crisis presumably means less pollution to the...
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When Fictional Ethnography Goes Digital
This chapter argues that a key contribution of digital humanities to the field of anthropology lies in the generation of imaginative “texts”...
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The Use of Gendered Chatbots in Nigeria: Critical Perspectives
In a bid to improve service delivery and efficiency in Nigeria, the use of conversational agents such as chatbots capable of providing round the...
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Health Inequalities and Ethics of Responsibility: A Comparative Ethnography
This chapter develops comparative reflections on healthcare practices in Italy and the UK. Although they share a constitutionally declared goal of...
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Research trends in cybercrime victimization during 2010–2020: a bibliometric analysis
Research on cybercrime victimization is relatively diversified; however, no bibliometric study has been found to introduce the panorama of this...
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The Optimised and Enhanced Self: Experiences of the Self and the Making of Societal Values
The desire to become better is at heart of human existence. This claim has been advocated, criticised, contested, and explored philosophically and...
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Women Engendering the Just Energy Transition
In this chapter, the role of women as actors in the energy transition is described using an energy justice and gender lens and with a policy...
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International Positioning
The final overarching task we have identified concerns a country’s international positioning in the field of AI. This task is slightly different from...
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A National Portrait
The purpose of A National Portrait is to present the elements needed to explore the overarching question this book addresses: How did the Mexican...
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Dealing with COVID-19 in a Mexican University: Academic Challenges, Psychological Wear, and Family Economy
Our research is both a description and an analysis of how management staff and professors at a small Mexican university faced the pandemic. Asking...
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Birthing in Unprecedented Times
Within the UK, the National Health Service quickly began modifying structures and services to manage the health impacts of COVID-19. Perinatal...
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The Discursive Landscape
The Discursive Landscape explores how assisted reproduction was presented in the media and in other discursive spaces (e.g. trade shows, public...
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“I’m trying to create, not destroy”: Gendered Moralities and the Fate of IVF Embryos in Evangelical Women’s Narratives
Although conservative evangelical Protestants advocate for protecting the embryo in their opposition to abortion and embryonic stem-cell research,...
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The politics of Danish IVF: reproducing the nation by making parents through selective reproductive technologies
In this article, we look at how the politics of reproduction take form in Denmark when people are denied access to IVF. Approaching IVF as a...
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The Universe Is Expanding
The Universe is Expanding focuses on how assisted reproduction was made usable for the biomedical community, a process that resulted in the growth of...
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Adjusting the analytical aperture: propositions for an integrated approach to the social study of reproductive technologies
The ever-expanding availability of reproductive technologies, the continued roll-out of ‘family planning’ and maternity services across low- and...
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Conjunctures of the Welfare State Crisis: The Cracks Are Deepening
In this section, the debates that have been smouldering for several decades and have flared up in waves on the tense relationship between the...
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Investigating Financial Development and Its Direct and Indirect Environmental Effects in South Africa: Fresh Policy Insights
Results on the connection between financial development and CO 2 emissions are presented in contradicting ways in earlier research. In order to solve...
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Engineers and the Project of Development: A Historical Review of Critical Events and Concepts
This chapter begins with a reflection on the language and terms used within the project of development. It reminds students to be thoughtful and...