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Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI: 10.4159/9780674242029-fm

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II. HOW INEQUALITY SUBVERTS 2不平等如何颠覆

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-12-31 DOI: 10.4159/9780674242029-005

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Black Hole Suns: Binarism and Gravity in Cultural Fields 黑洞太阳:文化领域的二元主义和引力

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-12-17 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.191217A

A. Gerber

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Making Invisible Changes Visible: Animal Examples and the Communication of Biodiversity Loss 使不可见的变化可见:动物的例子和生物多样性丧失的交流

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-11-27 DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.191127

Marit Ruge Bjærke

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Spark Joy? Compulsory Happiness and the Feminist Politics of Decluttering 引发快乐吗?强制性幸福与女性主义政治的整理

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-11-08 DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.191108

Laurie J Ouellette

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Volunteering as Media Work: The Case of the Eurovision Song Contest 作为媒体的志愿者工作:以欧洲歌唱大赛为例

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-09-17 DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.19112231

Fredrik Stiernstedt, I. Golovko

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In Good Condition: The Discourse of Patina as seen in Interactions between Experts and Laymen in the Antiques Trade 状态良好:古董交易中专家与外行互动中的铜绿话语

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-09-17 DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.19112252

Karin Wagner

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Paradoxes of Mentoring: An Ethnographic Study of a Mentoring Programme for Highly-educated Women with Migrant Backgrounds 辅导的悖论:对移民背景的高学历妇女辅导计划的民族志研究

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-09-17 DOI: 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.19112297

Tytti Steel, Anna-Maija Lämsä, M. Jyrkinen

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Heritage Churches as Post-Christian Sacred Spaces: Reflections on the Significance of Government Protection of Ecclesiastical Heritage in Swedish National and Secular Self-Identity 遗产教堂作为后基督教的神圣空间:反思政府保护教会遗产在瑞典民族与世俗自我认同中的意义

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-06-27 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.20190627

Tobias Harding

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Good and Bad Squatters? Challenging Hegemonic Narratives and Advancing Anti-Capitalist Views of Squatting in Western European Cities 好与坏的擅自占用者?挑战霸权叙事，推进西欧城市的反资本主义观点

Culture Unbound Pub Date : 2019-04-12 DOI: 10.3384/CU.2000.1525.2019111165

Miguel A. Martínez

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