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The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 520-533, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing through the rage: Maternal refusal as ethnographic method

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract This article theorizes maternal rage as an ethnographic method and affective archive, drawing on interviews with birthing people of color navigating medical neglect, obstetric violence, and postpartum abandonment. Rather than treating rage as an excess or failure of care, I frame it as a form of witnessing and refusal, a bodily record of harm ...
Lalaie Ameeriar
wiley   +1 more source

Ephemeral Lives Versus Colonial Afterlives: Building Decolonial Urbanisms Through Two African Culture Festivals in Athens

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how African migrantised and diasporic communities in Athens contest the city's dominant colonial imaginary through cultural festival practice. We argue that Athens has been constructed as a racialised chronotope: a frozen, whitened tableau anchored in classical antiquity that renders contemporary racialised presences ...
Anna Papoutsi, Antonis Vradis
wiley   +1 more source

No Destination? Unveiling the Traces of the Future Among Young Asylum Seekers in “Waithood”

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 6, August 2026.
ABSTRACT What is the future like for young men who feel spatially and temporally stuck, like dozens of thousands who fled West Africa and reached Europe over the last decade, only to end up in the “waithood” of asylum reception? Is there any meaningful destination ahead of them? On the surface, their social and legal precarity is hard to reconcile with
Paolo Boccagni
wiley   +1 more source

The Sanitization of the Night: Gentrification and the Everyday Temporal Politics in Belgrade

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Urban scholarship increasingly recognizes that processes such as gentrification unfold not only through spatial transformations, but through shifts in sensory environments and everyday rhythms. In this paper, drawing on twenty‐three months of fieldwork in Belgrade, I examine how urban redevelopment (re)organizes time for middle‐class people ...
Alexandra Dantzer
wiley   +1 more source

Delomization, or the esoteric Nechung kang so, the Dalai Lama, and exilic imaginings of a Tibetan community

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
wiley   +1 more source

Value Perception of the Chronotope in the Author’s Discourse (Based on the Works of Kazakh Authors)

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies
The relevance of the study is due to the increased interest of researchers in the study of the chronotope category in recent decades, and the lack of a unified approach to the analysis of the chronotope in the scientific community.
Zhiyenalina Aizhan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

TO BE “A HOMELESS”: Refugeetude in Birmingham's Somali Diaspora

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 565-594, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The city of Birmingham acts as a microcosm for the United Kingdom's urban housing crisis, where hostile migration policies intersect with austerity‐driven divestment in public housing stock to produce insecure provisioning for Birmingham's migrant and refugee communities.
NIKITA SIMPSON   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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