Search Results - Insular Cases
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Writing the self: case studies in phenomenology and fiction
Published 2007“…Writing the Self: Case Studies in Phenomenology and Fiction explores the way in which the notions of self, being and consciousness find expression in works of literary fiction and philosophical texts. …”
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Species richness and endemicity of the herpetofauna of South and Southeast Asia
Published 2013“…Examples of vicars are evident in insular-insular or continental-insular comparisons of assemblages, many being the presumed result of Pleistocene sea level lowering. …”
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Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and methionine synthase reductase gene polymorphisms in Iranian ventricular septal defect subjects
Published 2013“…Heart defects at birth occur as an insular malformation, but are also linked with other anomalies or occur as part of a syndrome. …”
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Mapping the social responsibility of small business as discourse and practice: an investigation of African and Caribbean microbusinesses in London and Nottingham, UK
Published 2011“…The key findings of the study include: that African and Caribbean owner/managers of small businesses were oblivious of the terminology of corporate social responsibility and that their interpretation and practice of social responsibility was in many ways incongruent with normative notions of "Corporate Social Responsibility"; that the concept of social responsibility is generally interpreted as a moral imperative to contribute to the welfare of stakeholders and others in society, but in some cases, also understood as a responsibility exclusively owed to co-ethnics; that social responsibility as practiced by African and Caribbean owner/managers was generally inconspicuous, informal and motivated by their idiosyncratic predispositions towards cultural, moral and/or religious traditions; that while the embeddedness of SR practice in co-ethnic business and social networks predominates, nonetheless, second generation African and Caribbean small business owner/managers were more likely to locate their SR activities and practices within mainstream networks and communities; and that the different styles of BSR behaviour of African and Caribbean small business owner/managers can be understood as "insular", "clannish" and "eclectic", On the basis of these findings it was concluded that the SR attitude and behaviour of African and Caribbean small business owner/managers were influenced and shaped by their ethno-cultural and religious beliefs, as well as their embeddedness in social and institutional networks across space and time.…”
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Anti-colonial feminism: discourses of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ania Loomba
Published 2004“…Although, since its inception feminist literary criticism has gone much further in ideological and theoretical terms, it cannot come out of the indictment of parochialism and insularity yet; because subaltern feminist experiences have not found an equal standing in global feminist arena. …”
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Introduction to selections from Akram Khan's Tafsirul Qur'an
Published 2009“…While our predecessors in the region left an indelible mark of devotion, selflessness, altruism, profound intellectualism and great scholarship, and above all, self-respect and confidence, we have indulged in flippancy, selfishness, insularity and narrowness, greed and avarice, conceit and narcissism, intellectual pretension, and the worst of all, a fatalistic tendency of self-defeat and self-hate. …”
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