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‘It affected everybody, but affected people differently’: the health and wellbeing impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on East Coast communities of Aotearoa New Zealand

Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 1271-1291, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In February 2023, Severe Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle devastated the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand with loss of life, extreme flooding, damage to homes, roads and infrastructure particularly in the regions of Te Tairāwhiti (Gisborne) and the Te Matau‐a‐Māui (Hawke’s Bay).
Holly Thorpe, Fiona Langridge, Victoria Egli, Josie McClutchie, John Bell, Emma Horgan‐Heke, Manu Caddie, Judith McCool, George Laking   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

No Façade to Hide Behind: Long-Distance Hikers’ Journeys Through Self and Society

The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2021
This ethnographic study uses a phenomenological approach to better understand how Appalachian Trail (AT) and Long Trail (LT) thru-hikers create meaning and make sense of their experiences while hiking.
Lauren Reiss
doaj   +1 more source

The missing study groups: Liminality and communitas in the time of COVID‐19

Annals of Anthropological Practice
We examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on teaching and learning in an Engineering School of a large US research university. We focus on the adjustment of instructors as they converted their courses to distance teaching and learning formats (e ...
Fredy R. Rodríguez-Mejía, Elizabeth K. Briody, Ethan L. Copple, Edward J. Berger   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Intensity Matters Inside and Outside Primary School: Evidence from High‐CLIL, Low‐CLIL, and Non‐CLIL Learners

TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 1564-1595, September 2025.
Abstract Research involving secondary school EFL learners has demonstrated that greater intensity of exposure, via CLIL lessons, yields notable benefits. However, studies in primary school are scarce and less optimistic. Furthermore, little is known about the effects of different degrees of CLIL intensity and of learners' exposure to Extramural English
Amparo Lázaro‐Ibarrola
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem of Sustainability in Independent Theatres in Istanbul, Its Current Status, and a Proposal: Performance as an Audience Ritual

Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi, 2022
This article presents a theoretical proposal regarding the issue of sustainability in independent theatres operating in Istanbul based on the concepts used by performance studies and symbolist anthropology and aims to describe the current social ...
Tamer Can Erkan, Hakkı Alper Maral
doaj   +1 more source

‘It feels like we're out of the rat race’: Family reflections on traumatic school experiences leading to home education

British Journal of Special Education, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 298-309, September 2025.
Abstract The rise in numbers of children experiencing school attendance difficulties in recent years makes this an important focus for UK school inclusion. Simultaneously, increases in school deregistration in favour of home education have caught media as well as regulator attention. These figures disproportionately include children on schools' special
Sarah Gillie
wiley   +1 more source

The Journey of Youth Religiosity: From Socialisation in Uncertainty to the New Forms of Fulfilment

Religions
This paper analyses the religious experience of young people in contexts of digitalisation. The secularisation thesis has not been imposed. Youth, who are more open to the porosity of social and cultural boundaries, live outside of dogma and the church ...
Pablo Echeverría Esparza, Enrique Carretero Pasín, Celso Sánchez Capdequi   +2 more
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Religion in a Time of Crisis: Pagan Experiences of Liminality and Communitas During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Calgary, Alberta

The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted social norms and positioned people within a prolonged space of liminality wherein individuals experienced danger, vulnerability, and freedom due to an existence without associated social rules or taboos.
Maddi Tolmie
semanticscholar   +1 more source

MORALLY IMMUNIZING DEBTS: Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 410-434, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of readily available credit in shaping new masculine ideals among underground mineworkers in Soma, a lignite‐coal basin in Turkey's North Aegean region. The availability of easy credit forges a new approach to self and intimate others in this coal basin, allowing miners to navigate intimate relationships through ...
FERDA NUR DEMİRCİ
wiley   +1 more source

Taniec w kręgu: nowe i dawne communitas

Politeja, 2014
Circle Dance: Old and New Communitas Circle dances are observed in various cultures and times. The paper indicates certain social, political and situational contexts of the phenomenon of communal circle dances in remote territories: Catalonia, Balcans,
Ewa Nowicka
doaj   +1 more source