Threatened by possible government regulation and critical public opinion, industries often undertake self-regulatory actions, issue statements of concern for public welfare, and assert that self-regulation is sufficient to protect the public. The food industry has made highly visible pledges to curtail children's food marketing, sell fewer unhealthy products in schools, and label foods in respo...

Social robots are being groomed for human influence, including the implicit and explicit persuasion of humans. Humanlike characteristics understood to enhance robots’ persuasive impact; however, little is known how perceptions two key capacities—mind morality—function in potential. This experiment tests possibility that perceived robot mind morality will correspond with greater impact, moderate...

For Kristeva (1982) the abject not only caused visceral disgust but posed a threat to established order of society. The is product particular times and places limited attention has been given understanding process transitioning away from status. We address this gap here through an examination planning profession in post-apartheid South Africa. paper examines how fluid resilient, evolving fit ch...

This article takes as its starting point the furious backlash against Otto Bathhurst’s 2018 remaking of Robin Hood legend, noting visceral disgust film evoked in many viewers despite critics’ generally favorable reviews. Taking a cue from Julia Kristeva’s work on abject and Michael Kimmel’s white “aggrieved entitlement,” essay teases out two interconnected threads that constitute sufficient thr...

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among homeless deportees living in the Tijuana River canal, I examine how ‘rehabilitation’ of toxic terrains can have corporeal and social consequences for those inhabiting such spaces. For decades, basin traversing U.S.–Mexico border has been perceived by officials from both countries as an unruly body water. Prone to persistent flooding, canal also experience...

The question about fantasy and fiction in religion is probably as old the first interrogation critique of revealed religion. However, relation between a two-way street. Underlying both imagination which brings into play psychological dimension but this turn always based on body. Fantasy dreamily imagines perfect body precisely to try fill gap left by imperfection. As an example from religious f...