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Thinking With Post‐Birth Bodies: Articulating Sociological Care for Bodies That Function Differently After Birth

open access: yesSociology of Health & Illness
ABSTRACTThis paper articulates a sociological approach to bodies that function differently after birth. We suggest that post‐birth bodies are distributed across a variety of areas of existing scholarship and that this can make it difficult to grapple with experiences that encompass gestation, altered functioning/injury, parenting and medical knowledge.
Siân M. Beynon‐Jones, Alankrita Anand
openaire   +3 more sources

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Outburst: Charting a New Frontier for Understanding and Treating Irritability in Autistic Adults

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Irritability is a prevalent and impairing feature associated with autism, yet remains poorly understood, particularly in adults. Drawing heavily on insights translated from pediatric and transdiagnostic literatures, we propose that irritability in autistic individuals often reflects a psychophysiological stress or threat response, rooted in a ...
Hsiang‐Yuan Lin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uno spazio d’ombre. Viaggio alle origini della voce di Carlos Liscano.

open access: yesFunes
Literary work is a complex cultural product, a stratified device of textual and extra-textual levels, which are formal, biographical and social. The literary voice emerges in the articulation of these levels.
Erika Filardo
doaj   +1 more source

Social construction of drug policies and target populations: U.S. Policy and media discourse

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2017
In this review, we discuss the historical changes in U.S. drug policy discourse, institutional racism, and the social construction of target populations in media discourse.
Jonathan Langner, Anna Zajicek
doaj   +1 more source

Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theories and Practices of Development: An Anthropological Perspective

open access: yesDhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2014
Development is a contested ideology and concept. There is a long anthropological tradition that looks at development actions and events from different perspectives.
Binod Pokharel
doaj   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Animer l’espace public ? Une question pluridisciplinaire de recherche

open access: yesAmbiances, 2017
The animation of public spaces is the central theme of this special issue of the Ambiances journal. It deals with the articulation of places and temporalities that stages a plurality of actions and actors.
Pascale Pichon, Jean-Paul Thibaud
doaj   +1 more source

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