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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
Pierre Bourdieu's habitus explains how dispositions internalise through exposure, a process the essay extends into mediated circulation: familiarity supports acceptance, and narratives that travel widely acquire the weight of truth. Rural Odisha...
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
This reflection questions whether contemporary individuals ever stop performing entirely. Identity, shaped continuously by imagined audiences and platform expectation, appears to persist even in private moments, revealing how thoroughly social performance has...
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