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agential

Used to describe a case of nouns that identify the person peforming the action of a verb, for example, “singer.”
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Adj.1.agential - of or relating to an agent or agency
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First, it may be argued that, because of strong institutional and agential support of English, most of these Pakistani students might have internalized the domination of English and, therefore, do not consider it as a foreign imposition or colonial legacy.
National and Collective Interests Motivating English Language Learners in a Pakistani Context
The majority group of a society is one that has social power over the other, structural social power that they have just because of the structural hierarchies of the society or agential social power that agents have because of the role they have in these societies.
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Karen Barad acuna asi el termino 'agential realism' para describir <<a relational ontology that rejects the metaphysics of relata, of "words" and "things.
Mi vida sin mi: una aventura performatista de Isabel Coixet
After her second quarantine, the authors direct attention towards Mallon's agential acts of malediction.
"All Smell is Disease": Miasma, Sensory Rhetoric, and the Sanitary-Bacteriologic of Visceral Public Health
The quality of the female gaze is displayed as agential and humanizing.
All We Know of Pleasure: Poetic Erotica by Women
The debate on this divide is evident in explicit discussion about the theoretical significance of either side of this division but when not explicitly pursued the choice between one or the other is implicit in the manner in which a researcher chooses to position the agential capacity of selected actors in a given social science research (Wendt, 1987).
Systemic Theorizing: Traversing Between Constructivism and Structural Realism
In fact, as we have seen, fragmented agency is not only a form of compromise but can actually be a positive good, giving the women who exercise it special freedoms not available to more traditionally agential characters.
Secret Agents: Agency without Responsibility in The Mysteries of Udolpho
Finally, we consider how an historicized understanding of bodily suffering might provide an increased sense of agential possibility.
We Are All Abnegation Now: Suffering Agency in the Divergent Series
Theoretically she adopts an agential historical materialist approach, informed by the works of J.-P.
Verity Burgmann, Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (London and New York: Routledge 2016)
This study takes its theoretical point of departure in new materialism (Alaimo & Hekman, 2008; Lenz Taguchi, 2010) and agential realism (Barad, 2003, 2007, 2014).
Photographic agency and agency of photographs: Three-year-olds and digital cameras
This is a common theme in the praise for immersive technology: that the artifacts are somehow more transparent because they disguise the agential determinants behind representations so well.
Virtual Reality and the Syrian Refugee Camps: Humanitarian Communication and the Politics of Empathy

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