While tourism scholars have sought to problematize the unevenly distributed impacts of COVID-19 pandemic, we know much less about how resilience is cultivated among practitioners and communities whose lives livelihoods are been placed in limbo. Drawing on literature at intersection critical studies theory as well interviews with local academics, four historically situated place-based trends Sou...

Dealing with the unstable (virtual) realities that are repeatedly constructed in film Tag (2015), Sion Sono explores entirely new forms of amusement realm transhumanism. In following text, I will discuss concept ressentiment light a master-slave relationship between gamer/fan and an objectified game character, meant to entertain transhuman subject. From perspective critical theory, is further e...

Critical illness is a sudden traumatising lived experience that affects the sufferer and their family throwing them into a crisis situation [1,2]. It is disruptive and alienating. Critically ill patients emerging from unconsciousness often suffer from confusion that could be momentary or lasting. There is an increasing number of critical illness survivors in intensive care units (ICU) with nume...

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. In the current times of change, deconstruction and ever-growing relativisation, pastoral praxis finds itself in methodological limbo. Pastoral practitioners currently face the challenge of effectively reaching postmodern people through the pastoral process. This ch...