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Friend or Foe? Re-visioning Friendships Beyond Borders 朋友还是敌人?重新审视跨越国界的友谊

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2022-07-20 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40331

Zaynab Ali

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Spoiled Friendships and Perverted Foods in Yōko Ogawa’s The Diving Pool Yōko小川的《跳水池》中被宠坏的友谊和变态的食物

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2022-07-20 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40320

J. Lundquist

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Ragged Men on the Move: Poverty, Inertia and Friendship in Latife Tekin’s Swords of Ice (1989/tr.2007) 衣衫褴褛的人在移动:贫穷，惰性和友谊在拉蒂夫·特金的冰之剑(1989/tr.2007)

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2022-07-20 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40330

Ayse Irem Karabag

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Speculations on the Mediterranean Borderscape: Le Baiser de Lampedusa 对地中海边界景观的推测:兰佩杜萨岛的Le Baiser

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2019-04-02 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40302

S. Ruzzi

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Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping: Sylvie’s Fundamental Mentorship through New Western Historicism and Ecofeminist Criticism 玛丽莲·罗宾逊的《家政:新西方历史主义和生态女性主义批评下西尔维的基本指导》

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2019-04-02 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40301

A. Zastrow

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What Can Play: The Potential of Non-Human Players 玩什么:非人类玩家的潜力

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2019-04-02 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40291

Kara Stone

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Decolonizing the Cosmopolitan Geospatial Imaginary of the Anthropocene: Beyond Collapsed and Exclusionary Politics of Climate Change 非殖民化人类世的世界地理空间想象:超越气候变化的崩溃和排他性政治

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2019-04-02 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40293

Shelby E. Ward

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Unlovely Seeds: Human/Nature/Wilderness in Isabella Valancy Crawford’s Winona; or, The Foster-Sisters 不可爱的种子:伊莎贝拉·瓦兰西·克劳福德《薇诺娜》中的人/自然/荒野或者《寄养姐妹》

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2019-04-02 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40295

R. Jackson-Harper

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The Poetics of Settler Fatalism: Responses to Ecocide from within the Anthropocene 定居者宿命论的诗学:人类世对生态灭绝的回应

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2019-04-02 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40303

Philippa Henderson

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“A Meat Locker in Hebron”: Meat Eating, Occupation, and Cruelty in To the End of the Land 《希伯伦的一个储肉柜》:直到土地尽头的肉食、占领和残忍

Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought Pub Date : 2019-04-02 DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40308

Aaron Kreuter

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