This PhD dissertation explores the affordances and limits of the sublime for figuring modes of materiality and non/human agency in contemporary American ecobiographical memoirs. Because the sublime has a particularly contested literary and cultural history in the United States, where the ‘American sublime’ has been conflated with problematic notion...
peer reviewed / Since the early twenty-first century, there has been a gradual shift from a biomedical approach to mental illness to a bio-psycho-social-existential and interculturally sensitive model that led to the rise of the interdisciplinary field of health humanities. This model has, for example, emphasized the existence of visible and invisi...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
The current stage of consciousness science has reached an impasse. We blame the physicalist worldview for this and propose a new perspective to make progress on the problems of consciousness. Our perspective is rooted in the theory of conscious agents. We thereby stress the fundamentality of consciousness outside of spacetime, the importance of age...
Published in Frontiers in Human Dynamics
Decisions made by millions of refugees about where to go, how to make a living and how to secure a future are fundamental drivers of secondary movements. While a substantial body of literature addresses factors contributing to migrants’ decision-making, a comprehensive understanding of the central role of refugees in secondary mobility decision-mak...
Audio descriptions are soundtracks added to (audio)visual products, e.g. movies, to make them accessible to blind or visually impaired persons. This paper focuses on adverbs as markers of women's objectification events in the audio descriptions of English feature films. It presents a textometric analysis of the English AD scripts of 488 movies whic...
Published in Open Archaeology
This article explores the challenges of translating the empirical data recorded in the microhistorical events documented in most archaeological sites into narratives that provide a deeper understanding of long-term historical processes. It specifically focuses on the importance of studying the history of subaltern communities through this microhist...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Narrative identity allows individuals to integrate their personal experiences into a coherent and meaningful life story. Addictive disorders appear to be associated with a disturbed sense of self, reflected in problematic and disorganized self-narratives. In recent literature, a growing body of research has highlighted how narrative approaches can ...
Published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Introduction The potential of aviary housing for improving laying hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) welfare will be constrained if rearing conditions limit the hens’ behavioral ability to take opportunities. Incorporating theories on developmental plasticity and animal agency, this study aimed to determine: (1) whether a choice of litter and perch typ...
Cette étude longitudinale met en lumière comment et pourquoi un dispositif institutionnel d’apprentissage de l’anglais intégrant les opportunités de pratiquer/apprendre la L2 en dehors de l’environnement pédagogiquement structuré ou « Wild » (Thorne et al., 2021), contribue à l’émergence et à la persistance d’une dynamique agentive d’apprentissage ...
Published in arcadia
The South-Tyrolean author Sepp Mall, born in 1955, is renowned for his intricate artistic poems. For the writer, composing poetry is a practice of deceleration: an act of both reducing speed and slowing down. Similarly, he describes the process of reading poems as a practice of standing still, of reflecting, and as a highly attentive practice of pe...
