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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
wiley   +1 more source

Personal and relational experiences on meditation journeys following developmental trauma: An IPA study of adults who experienced an inconsistent evolved developmental niche

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Anna‐Maria Frastali, Adhip Rawal
wiley   +1 more source

From Tolstoy's Expressionism to Nietzsche's Skepticism of Philosophers' Neutrality—Constructing and Dismantling the Bridge Between Art and Philosophy

open access: yesThe Philosophical Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to Tolstoy's theory of art, personal expression plays a crucial role as an essential artistic element since it is associated with originality and emotional communication. Is personal expression also significant in philosophy? We often tend to believe that in a philosophical theory, this element is, or should be, absent in the pursuit
Tiago Sousa
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
wiley   +1 more source

Applying Social Cognitive Theory to Understand Perspectives on Child Feeding Practices of Thai Female Caregivers With Young Children With Stunting

open access: yesMaternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Childhood stunting remains a public health challenge in Thailand. While national surveys provide prevalence estimates, there is limited understanding of the multilevel influences shaping child feeding practices. This qualitative study aimed to explore individual, familial, and socioenvironmental determinants of child feeding practices among ...
Thanit Vinitchagoon   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal Diet Quality and Third Trimester Depression: Insights From a Nepali Birth Cohort Study

open access: yesMaternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Maternal diet quality and perinatal depression significantly impact maternal and child health, yet their relationship remains underexplored in low‐resource settings. This cross‐sectional study examined the association between overall diet quality and risk of depression during the third trimester among 296 pregnant women receiving antenatal ...
Kalpana Chaudhary   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Love (Drugs), Happiness, and Morality

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 219-224, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Various authors, including myself, have argued that happiness and morality operate in a circularly supportive relationship. In this paper, love will be added to this relationship. The new triple correlation will be explored through the following lens: not only do love and happiness reinforce moral action, but they appear to be in a triple ...
Vojin Rakić
wiley   +1 more source

Re‐theorizing the Sexual Minority Closet: Evidence From Queer South Asian Women

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship generally assumes the closet is a place of safety from the perceived risks associated with coming out. However, this overlooks its function as a source of violence, particularly for those belonging to multiple marginalized communities.
Sonali Patel
wiley   +1 more source

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Anthropic principle, Perspectival ontology, Hard problem, Why something rather than nothing, Life after death, Buddhism ...
Merriam, Paul
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