Browsing by Subject "Identity"
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Conceptualizing the mediating role of power asymmetries in research communication: A social representations approach
(2014)While the issue of power within the research relationship has been evoking constructive discussions for over two decades in qualitative research, existing approaches fail to understand power both as macro-socially determined ...
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The Cypriot Affect: The First Pride Parade in Cyprus and the Queering of Cypriot Culture
(InterAlia, 2022-12)In May 2014 the first ever Gay Pride Parade was held with tremendous success in Cyprus, a society that is still by-and-large very conservative. At the same time, in an adjacent street, the powerhouse that is the Greek ...
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Divide and rule: redistribution in a model with differentiated candidates
(2017)We study an electoral competition model in which each voter is characterized by income level and non-economic characteristics, and where two vote share maximizing candidates, with fixed non-economic characteristics ...
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La educación de la memoria en la formación del ciudadano: el caso del curriculum greco-chipriota
(2010)I don't forget and I struggle is a phrase that decorates all Greek Cypriot classrooms. Since 1974 the phrase has become the symbol of an educational system that has fostered the collective memory of new generations of Greek ...
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Book Chapter
Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements
(Oxford University Press, 2012)This chapter analyzes the semantic consequences of crossing national borders. When crossing borders, identities change, and alterity is encountered. We ask: what are the semantic structures, or meanings, that enable alterity ...
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Globalisation, Globalism and Cosmopolitanism as an Educational Ideal
(Routledge, 2005)In this paper, I discuss globalisation as an empirical reality that is in a complex relation to its corresponding discourse and in a critical distance from the cosmopolitan ideal. I argue that failure to grasp the distinctions ...
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Making Sense of Immigrant Identity Dialogues
(2010)This commentary builds on the contributions of Ali and Sonn (2010), Hale and Abreu (2010) and on the growing literature in the field to extend the discussion on the development of identity for immigrant and ethnic populations. ...
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Pandemic Totalitarianisms, Limit Situations and Forced Vaccinations
(Medwin Publishers, 2021-12)In this article, I critically discuss the politics of forced and mandatory vaccination that is being now promoted in certain countries as a means for overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic. I canvass my critique through Karl ...
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Conference Object Open Access
A psychoanalytic complacency of the text: Two romanian cultural cases of the narrative fetish
(2012-07)The present study will approach some analytical and applicative levels regarding: a psychoanalytic pattern: representation / symbol/ fetishism;; the consecrated models and their psychoanalytic exhaustion, establishing that ...
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Re-thinking Desire: Constructing the Male Self in Hanif Kureishi
(2017)Hanif Kureishi’s work has focused on the shifting and polyvalent manifestations of desire within a socio-political context during the last decades in Britain. The basic contention of such dynamics is that Kureishi’s work ...
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Sexuality, gender and the (re)making of modernity and nationhood in Cyprus
(Elsevier, 2019)This article studies Cypriot LGBs' identity construction processes and understandings of politics amidst the sociopolitical environment within which they are articulated. It does so by addressing a question that is central ...
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Tell me a story Dad: (Post)memory and the archaeology of subjectivity in Hanif Kureishi’s My Ear at His Heart
(2016-03-22)This article argues that there are complex connections between imagined and lived experiences of “Britishness” in Hanif Kureishi’s (re)constructions of the past in his memoir My Ear at His Heart. These connections are ...