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When survival becomes politics: Necessity activism and identity work under precarity
Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Collective action is essential for tackling social, institutional, and environmental challenges, often fueled by shared identities, common norms, and a belief in the possibility of change. However, the impact of participating in collective action on individual identities, and how this knowledge can shape future efforts to maintain engagement ...
Lucia Garcia‐Lorenzo +2 more
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Sacred journeys: Letnica in Kosovo [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2014 From the anthropological linguistics perspective this paper tries to trace the transformations of pilgrimage to the Roman Catholic shrine in Letnica (Kosovo), in the Day of Assumption over the course of the previous century.
Sikimić Biljana
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Metamorphosis of the Sacred: Power, Identity, and New Ontologies in Late Modernity
ReligionsThe sociology of religion, as a discipline, has traveled a long path since the predictions of the founding fathers of sociology to the complex reality of the 21st century [...]
Juan María Sánchez-Prieto +1 more
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Consumers, Play and Communitas—an Anthropological View on Building Consumer Involvement on a Mass Scale [PDF]
, 2014 There is an increasing interest in effective methods for building consumer involvement on a mass scale. This paper offers an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for consumer involvement analysis and forwards an anthropological approach to this ...
Karpinska-Krakowiak, Malgorzata
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The long now and liminality: will we create communitas? A macro-social perspective of COVID-19
Media International AustraliaThe ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has changed society are the source of widespread discussion. But references to a ‘new normal’ are mostly confined to hybrid working and a possible four-day working week.
Jim Macnamara
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, 2021 Initial Teacher Education (ITE) can be viewed as a formative space in professional teacher identity development. Practice plays a key role in shaping teacher identity, providing a window into the reality of school life, as well as nurturing professional ...
Irene White, M. McSharry
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Creating New Rural Communitas: The Case of China Taiwan’s Rural Regeneration
Journal of Regional and City Planning, 2021 Traditional sociological theory explains that a rural community is an enclosed unit. China’s fast modernization and urbanization, however, display a rather different phenomenon, where rural communities are changing into open communities, which face the ...
Li Wenqi, Li Zhang
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Mereological Perspectivism in Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT This paper presents the philosophical implications of the position that we call mereological perspectivism. Mereological perspectivism asserts that determining whether a composite biological object constitutes a single unit (an individual) necessarily depends on the selection of privileged parts of the composite.
Adrian Stencel, Javier Suárez
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Enduring Liminality: Creative Arts Therapy When Nature Disrupts
Creative Arts in Education and Therapy, 2021 Ecopoiesis invites us to become response-able from within our position as part of, rather than separate from, the natural world. What happens, however, when nature disrupts? When being ‘within’ and ‘part of’ becomes disturbing?
Deborah Green
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Integrative Conservation, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 695-705, December 2025.The Next Jane program from Roots & Shoots was found effective for the conservation leadership improvement even though the participants attended it with different motivations. The development of conservation leadership traits was facilitated by skills development, a supportive environment, and reflective action.
Zhang Zekun, Chen Jin, Gu Siqi, He He
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