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1 – 4 of 4This essay brings structural intimacies – theorised as the meeting of social structural patterns with interpersonal lives – to the border to consider transnational LGBTQ kinships…
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This essay brings structural intimacies – theorised as the meeting of social structural patterns with interpersonal lives – to the border to consider transnational LGBTQ kinships. Specifically, the paper considers ‘the border’ and its state-driven bio-regulations as a reproductive technology that produces LGBTQ, racial/ethnic and social class inequities through the consolidation of heteronormative, bio-genetic kinship institutions and ideations of family. Structural intimacies harnesses intimacy as both subject and as an analytic lens for queering reproductive sociology that insists on re-conceptualizing institutions central to our lives. Structural intimacies move our analytic gaze from how the border structures sexuality, and vice versa, to consider the border as at once a structural and an affective domain. Structural intimacies is a conceptual tool useful for cross-disciplinary inquiry into the social and structural contexts in which reproductive technologies render meaning, as well as produce families, and to illustrate the analytic necessity of storying both content and method as integral to queer/ing scholarship. Straddling the most proximal forms of daily care and labor patterning everyday intimacies with the policies and practices of the state, the concept of structural intimacies reveals moments of encounter between state institutions with the most intimate components of a person's life and identity, in this case amplified by the bio-politics of the border.
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the changing patterns of learning, thinking and acting to help identify and describe the need for new frames of reference in a complex…
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the changing patterns of learning, thinking and acting to help identify and describe the need for new frames of reference in a complex world.
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Looking at our changing environment, the question is asked: are these changes superficial or transformative? This questions leads to exploring the frame of reference from which we view reality, and then the sequence from our frame of reference to learning to thinking to action.
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The author offers that as our world speeds up and becomes more complex, with less time for learning and thinking and more information than anyone can process, we need to move from the mechanical perspective to a new organic frame of reference and reconsider how we learn, think and act. Each of these areas is then expanded upon, with the end result of asking even more questions.
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This paper will help leaders and researchers recognize the need to – and importance of – reframing their perspective to better match the complexities of the problems and opportunities they face.
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Tarikul Islam and Armina Akter
Fractional order nonlinear evolution equations (FNLEEs) pertaining to conformable fractional derivative are considered to be revealed for well-furnished analytic solutions due to…
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Fractional order nonlinear evolution equations (FNLEEs) pertaining to conformable fractional derivative are considered to be revealed for well-furnished analytic solutions due to their importance in the nature of real world. In this article, the autors suggest a productive technique, called the rational fractional
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The rational fractional
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Achieved fresh and further abundant closed form traveling wave solutions to analyze the inner mechanisms of complex phenomenon in nature world which will bear a significant role in the of research and will be recorded in the literature.
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The rational fractional
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This paper aims to explore the contemporary fascination with seemingly new, benign and transcendent virtual organizations.
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This paper aims to explore the contemporary fascination with seemingly new, benign and transcendent virtual organizations.
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The paper extends Gerlach and Hamilton's investigations and critique into virtuality within the genres of business restructuring and science fiction.
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The paper unravels a purposeful, enveloping consciousness that masks both neo‐liberal fictions and postmodern fantasies dominating the virtual organization discourse. This paper finds that practical examples of de‐physicalized, technologically transcendent virtual organizations, crucial to this virtual consciousness, do not exist or are fundamentally different from expectations. The paper finds that the presumed new epoch of global capitalism, based on the productivity unleashed by virtual organizations, is illusory. The paper concludes that once virtual consciousness is penetrated not only are the material and ideological aspects of virtual organizations unmasked but it is possible to locate a pragmatic, conjoint, physicalized type of “virtualized” organization that is not new, benign or transcendental. This type of co‐destiny, virtual organization (such as terrorist organizations and organized crime), is more reflective of enduring concerns and contemporary purposes fundamental to what organizations make visible or render invisible.
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This paper presents an innovative and critical examination of the collusion between neo‐liberal and postmodern thought and the practicalities, or otherwise, of designing virtual organizations. This paper should also be valuable to those concerned with the “virtuality” of terrorist and criminal organizations and the relationship between the visible and invisible aspects of organization.
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