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Charity Chowrangi: Topographies of Giving, Receiving, and Refusal in Karachi
ABSTRACT Like most megacities in the Global South, Karachi's streets pulse with constant streams of pedestrian and automotive activity. In addition to facilitating traffic and commerce, these intersections and roundabouts also serve as the stage for a dynamic economy of reciprocity.
Salwa Tareen
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Abstract Background Religious obsessive‐compulsive disorder (religious OCD; scrupulosity) presents unique challenges in psychotherapy due to the interaction between religious beliefs and obsessive‐compulsive symptoms. Understanding how individuals benefit from psychotherapy in this context can inform more effective and culturally sensitive treatment ...
Taha Burak Toprak
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Breaking Barriers: Scaffolding Social‐Symbolic Work for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Abstract This study advances the understanding of Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in non‐Western contexts by theorizing how social‐symbolic work facilitates empowerment despite entrenched institutional and cultural constraints. Drawing on a qualitative study into the establishment of Kuwait’s first women’s business incubator, we explore how female ...
Mohsen Abumuamar, Juliane Reinecke
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Despite decades of policy interventions, the world suffers from profound social problems including drug abuse, family breakdown, and systemic injustice. The research problem is the persistent gap in existing sociological theories: objective criteria lacking for diagnosing social harm before it becomes visible.
Jilani Ben Touhami Meftah
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ABSTRACT Rather than examining the identification of Black people in the United States with Arabs and Muslims, this article explores emerging scholarship about people who identify as Black and Arab and Muslim. The article first charts the larger intellectual contexts in which Arabs and Muslims became associated with U.S.
Edward E. Curtis IV
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Investigation of the Reasons for the Non‐Return of Lapsed Blood Donors: A Qualitative Study
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Retaining and re‐engaging blood donors to ensure a safe and sufficient blood supply is a key responsibility of the Blood Transfusion Organization. This study aimed to investigate the reasons for the non‐return of lapsed blood donors to facilitate their re‐engagement.
Hayedeh Javadzadeh Shahshahani +8 more
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INTRODUCTION: REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY AS PROPHECY, CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION
ABSTRACT In this essay, I provide brief introductions to the notion of “prophetic” historiography that I developed in Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java (1995) and to the five essays of this forum that were written in dialogue with it. I argue that “history as prophecy” forms a practice of writing in which the
NANCY FLORIDA
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