Metaphors of underdevelopment: reflections from Nigeria by Tijani, Kyari

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Qualitative network analysis for migration studies: beyond metaphors and epistemological pitfalls by Ryan, Louise, Dahinden, Janine

“…We argue that social network analysis has the potential to address epistemological pitfalls in migration research especially in overcoming the metaphoric use of networks as well as nation‐state and ethnicity‐centred epistemologies. …”
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The intricate web: network and rhizome metaphors in hypertext and the web and the epistemic challenge of fake news by Tredinnick, Luke

“…Purpose: This article analyses the structure of hypertext and the World Wide Web through the contrasting metaphors of the network and the rhizome and applies that analysis to the epistemic challenge presented by fake news. …”
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The shipwrecked shore and other metaphors : what we can learn from occupation of, and representations in, virtual worlds by Burns, Tom, Sinfield, Sandra, Holley, Debbie

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The translation of original metaphors from Spanish to English in two novels by Carmen Laforet : Nada and La isla y los demonios by Matthews, Esther Margaret

“…This thesis is about 'new' metaphor, conceived and created by authors, often called 'original metaphor' in the world of Translation Studies. …”
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Encouraging creative thinking in strategic management courses : review of C. Wagner Weick (2003) ‘Out of Context: Using Metaphor to Encourage Creative Thinking in Strategic Management Courses’ Journal of Management Education, 27 (3) pp.323-43 by Day, Lisa

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In limbo by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…In Limbo is a practice-based research project in the form of a participatory performance, presented at Tate Modern through Tate Exchange in association with AAD, in collaboration with A-VR and Anise Gallery. Depicting a metaphorical waiting room, in which to share lived experiences of waiting, its aim is to explore new creative strategies in public engagement within a museum context.…”
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Marta Czok EX_PATRIA by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Czok, Marta

“…On the other hand, the construction of this concept involves the identification of "borders", the physical and metaphorical barriers that reinforce the imaginary distinction of Self and Other. …”
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The persistence of the oral: on the enduring importance of the human voice by Karpf, Anne

“…The outputs set out to demonstrate that, although metaphorical and narrative meanings of 'voice' have come to displace a sense of the audible voice in popular discourse as well as in many scholarly texts, it remains a prime and powerful modality in both human communication and new technologies. …”
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No longer fledglings but struggling to fly: peer support workers' experiences of forming an occupational identity within an urban NHS trust: an interpretative phenomenological anal... by Ward, Eileen

“…By feeling accomplished at work, being future-orientated and having a solid OI provided participants with the motivation to spread their metaphorical wings and explore the transferability of their skills. …”
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Meaningful eating: a new method for food design by Zampollo, Francesca

“…The Five Aspects Meal Model makes this design method specific for an Eating Design process, and Visual Explorer enables TED to reach participant's tacit and latent knowledge through metaphorical thinking, allowing the themes to have the potential to facilitate the design of eating situations that propose radical new meanings. …”
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Into the abyss : a study of the mise en abyme by Snow, Marcus

“…Formal readings of the play within the play in Hamlet and the gothic story read in The Fall of the House of Usher are both starting points to relink Gide’s idea to its, more common, metaphorical applications. Thus, metaphors of the abyss, the dark, the occulted, the uncanny and, most precisely, the ‘sinister’ are examined in this dissertation. …”
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Embodied reflective practice : the embodied nature of reflection-in-action by Gray, Andrew Lee

“…This thesis proposes that this and other issues, such as the emphasis on problem solving, and particularly, a reliance on a conversational metaphor, is likewise problematic for visual art practice. …”
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Complexity Theory and the Web by Tredinnick, Luke

“…It seeks to critique the role of complexity theory as a governing metaphor in the discourse of the web, and to examine whether complexity theory is able to provide an adequate description of the web, and its relationship to society and knowledge.…”
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Not a home! by Jones, Nick

“…This commentary considers why a metaphor from the private sphere is used when talking about public spaces and public libraries.…”
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Circling around:looking(s) and empathies by Keefe, John

“…Case-studies examine metaphor, empathy, repetition and re-working. Concepts from phenomenology are drawn on to reference reciprocal agent-action-object relations, mutual embodied simulation and mirror mechanisms as an embodied approach underpinning inter-subjectivity.…”
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Shadows and light: diversity management as phantasmagoria by Schwabenland, Christina, Tomlinson, Frances

“…In their accounts of resistance, reluctance and a lack of effective organizational engagement, participants shared a perception of diversity management as something difficult to concretize and envisage; and as something that organizational members associated with fear and anxiety; and with an inability to act. We draw on the metaphor of the phantasmagoria as a means to investigate this representation. …”
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Each one of us is several: networks, rhizomes and web organisms by Tredinnick, Luke

“…This paper develops a conceptual analysis of hypertext and the World Wide Web by exploring the contrasting metaphors of the network and the rhizome. The idea of the network has influenced the conceptual thinking about both the web, and its wider socio-cultural influence. …”
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Conflict management and peacebuilding in Africa: the role of state and non-state agencies by Abdulrahman, Imran, Tar, Usman A.

“…Though the all-too familiar derogatory metaphors (such as Kaplan's 'the coming anarchy [1994]) are slightly reversed, particularly since the 2000s, following substantial democratic transformation, the continent continues to experience spates of intra- and inter-state wars with impact on the prospects of peace, stability and security in the continent. …”
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Like the sea: living communityship as a form of participatory leadership within the creativity for learning in HE (#creativeHE) community by Nerantzi, Chrissi, Gillaspy, Emma, Sinfield, Sandra, Karatsiori, Marianthi, Burns, Tom, Hunter, Anna, Seat, Hannah, Tasler, Nathalie

“…The authors reflect, critically analyse and review the leadership of this open peer support community as it is experienced by them using visual metaphors and paired conversations. Insights gained through this inquiry seem to suggest that the leadership within this community is characterised by and experienced as communityship, a highly participatory and democratic way of leading that brings harmony, offers refuge and stretches the leadership team. …”
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