Beyond the Dichotomy of Success and Failure: Making Activism Meaningful in South Korea and France
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT First deployed in the 1970s, prefiguration has recently gained traction among ethnographers of political action as a descriptor for activist practices that foreground participatory democracy, horizontality, and direct action, as seen in social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Notably, ethnographers have come to understand these prefigurative‐
Guilherme Fians, Sera Yeong Seo Park
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The Artificial Levite: AI and the Temptation to "Pass By" the Patient. [PDF]
Linacre QPetruconis L.
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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Predictors of sexual attitudes in arranged marriages: the mediating role of sexual intercourse frequency. [PDF]
Sex MedYildiz Karaahmet A.
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Co‐operatives and public policy: A scoping review
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We sketch a first‐ever map of the scholarly literature on co‐operatives and public policy from a selection of English‐language studies published since 2000 using a scoping review methodology. We find that while co‐operatives are often framed as solutions to societal problems, few scholars draw on formal public policy theories.
Marc‐André Pigeon +1 more
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Strength and Vulnerability: A Qualitative Study of Mental Health and Unmitigated Communion Among Female Migrants in Southeast England. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public HealthNyikavaranda P +10 more
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Cooperative success for Cambodia's small‐scale rice farmers
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract In 2013, Cambodia introduced new cooperative legislation and began providing policy and material support for the establishment of ‘modern’ cooperatives. However, only 7% of the country's small‐scale farmers were members of registered agricultural marketing cooperatives (ACs) in 2020.
Narith Roeun +2 more
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Jan of Jenštejn's <i>De bono mortis</i>: Reconstructing a Sceptical Patient's Travel Narrative. [PDF]
Soc Hist MedOuthwaite P.
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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