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Does Living with a Wild River Improve Mental Health and Well‐Being? A Case Study of Blue‐Space Interaction and Stress Reduction in Southern Albania

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract The effect of natural blue space on subjective well‐being and self‐perceived stress among residents of Përmet, Albania (N = 203), with 80.3 per cent of whom reside within 1 km of the Vjosa River was examined. Three exposure indicators – visit frequency, proximity and time spent in the river surroundings – were focused on using the PYER ...
Elena Kokthi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

User Perceptions of Endearment Love and Regional Identity in Northern England

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the contemporary pragmatic scope of the endearment love and its indexical links with British regional identities as perceived by English language users in the United Kingdom. Popular metapragmatic stereotypes often associate the term with specific ‘northern’ English, working‐class and White socio‐ethnic identities ...
Nicole Baumgarten
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
wiley   +1 more source

Relational Cartographies of Mobility: Arts‐Based Approaches to Territorial Belonging in Internal and International Migration

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article develops a relational approach to human mobility by integrating internal and international migration into a single analytical framework. Addressing the persistent fragmentation in migration studies, it explores how territorial belonging is constructed through narrative, visual and material practices in different contexts of ...
Lucía Martín Ramis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An ecology of moral infrastructure: Canadian social work ethics, 1940–2024

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 35, Issue 4, October 2026.
Abstract Social work is held to be unified by a stable, coherent value base across time and jurisdiction. Drawing on articulation theory and infrastructure studies, this paper provides the first systematic historical analysis of eight Canadian Association of Social Workers codes (1940–2024) as assembled within an ecology of moral infrastructure ...
Tina E. Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

The missing middle in AI native music production: Compression, editorial musicianship, and governance in the generative stack

open access: yesAI Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 3, Fall 2026.
Abstract This article examines the structural reconfiguration of contemporary music‐making within AI‐mediated production environments. From a historical perspective of music technology, it compares algorithmic composition, electronic instruments, and Digital audio workstations (DAWs) to argue that the present transition represents not a rupture but a ...
Eun Ji Park
wiley   +1 more source

Between Two Worlds: Cultural Bereavement, Intersubjective Memory and the Politics of Identity in the Lebanese American Immigrant Experience

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on oral history interviews conducted in 2025 with Lebanese and Arab American immigrants and their descendants, archived at the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (GR0020, NC State University), to develop a cultural‐psychological framework for understanding the psychic dimensions of migration without ...
Anastasia Christou
wiley   +1 more source

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