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Conspiracy theories in political-economic context: lessons from parents with vaccine and other pharmaceutical concerns 政治经济背景下的阴谋论:来自疫苗和其他药品问题家长的教训

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.1886425

E. Sobo

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引用次数: 13

Towards an ecological ethics of academic responsibility: debunking power structures through relationality in Greek environmentalism 走向学术责任的生态伦理：通过希腊环境主义中的关系性来揭穿权力结构

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.1886426

Elvira Wepfer

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引用次数: 6

What should academics do about conspiracy theories? Moving beyond debunking to better deal with conspiratorial movements, misinformation and post-truth 学术界应该如何看待阴谋论？超越揭穿，更好地处理阴谋运动、错误信息和后真相

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2021.1886420

Elżbieta Drążkiewicz Grodzicka, Jaron Harambam

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引用次数: 16

A critical glance into the metacinematic gestures of The Act of Killing 对《杀戮演绎》中机械动作的批判一瞥

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1836979

Matteo Ciccognani

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引用次数: 1

‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds’: science, perversion, psychoanalysis “现在我成了死神，世界的毁灭者”:科学、变态、精神分析

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1861811

B. Nedoh

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引用次数: 1

Durkheim meets Cthulhu: the impure sacred in H. P. Lovecraft 涂尔干与克图胡相遇：洛夫克拉夫特笔下的不纯神圣

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1835443

J. Guy

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引用次数: 1

Relationship between cultural values and well-being: analysis from some East Asian countries 文化价值观与幸福感的关系:来自东亚一些国家的分析

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1861812

W. Kim, N. X. Trung, Le Van Hung, Nguyen Ngoc Trung

引用次数: 2

American individualism and masculinity? The case of nursing homes 美国的个人主义和男子气概?以养老院为例

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1835444

Rosa M. Pacheco Baldó

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The rise and fall of empathy in an era of financial crisis: rethinking the neoliberal imaginary 金融危机时代移情的兴衰：对新自由主义想象的反思

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2020-09-14 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1820305

Tammy Amiel Houser

引用次数: 1

The iron screen: an ideological analysis of the discourse on Russia through the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl 铁幕：从切尔诺贝利核灾难看俄罗斯话语的意识形态分析

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Journal for Cultural Research Pub Date : 2020-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1810584

Mayte Donstrup, Cristina Algaba

引用次数: 0