This study employs a poststructuralist theoretical framework to explore parents’ attitudes towards children’s right play in Shanghai, China. It adopted mixed methods of online questionnaires ( N = 880) and semi-structured interviews 11). The findings suggest that participants struggle with embracing practising as defined by the United Nations Convention on Rights Child (UNCRC), reflecting cultu...

Responding to the multiculturalist critiques of deliberative democratic education, Amy Gutmann and Sigal Ben-Porath suggested a more inclusive version education that emphasizes toleration, public recognition, mutual respect. Despite its benefits possibilities, however, their concept fails embrace poststructuralist ideas regarding education. In pursuit sustainable vision for citizenship this stu...

This paper contributes to process-oriented international business research by showing how three distinct historical approaches can enrich theoretical understanding concerning temporality in firm de-internationalization. First, we show comparative analysis unleashes the causal structure of process and provides explanatory temporal grounding mechanisms driving process. Second, explicate interpret...

This essay considers the digital avatar not simply as a name for a virtual double of the player of videogames, but as bound to or manifesting psychological drive, a kind of homunculus of the drive. Drawing on a wide range of theories that have informed technical constructions of the subject, it applies in particular an important moment in Lacan's description of the drive to the concept of the g...

Framed within critical poststructuralist sociolinguistics, this narrative study sheds light on the language ideologies and practices of eight Greek heritage (HL) teachers in schools Montreal Toronto. Examining teachers’ is important, as they can either engage or alienate HL learners. Engaging learners significant, because for many them school their only opportunity to use language. Language por...

the vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). while there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. after look...

purpose this case study explores the lived experiences of an elite female paralympic powerlifting athlete. the focus is on restrictions and coping responses employed to manage the daily hassles within the cultural and ethnic requirements for achieving athletic excellence. methods with an unstructured interview, the narrative was acquired which ranged to a total of 75 minutes (approx) and 20 sin...

Recent poststructuralist theories of identity posit identities as being discursively constructed in interactions with society, institutions, and individuals. This study used a Linguistic Ethnographic framework to investigate the discursive identity construction of two English teachers, one ‘non-native’ English speaker, and one ‘native’ English speaker, teaching English in a tertiary institution...

The centrality of abstract labor in the Marxian theory value seems to imply an essentialist position incompatible with Ernesto Laclau’s poststructuralist hegemony. However, this essay argues that theory—in interpretation offered by Moishe Postone—is fact very much compatible focus on social contingency insofar as it understands a framework relations. This raises question: if abstract-labor equi...