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Tales of “Good Indian Hair”: Race, Value, and Sensory Contact Zones in Afro‐Asian Delhi

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Hair, as a sociocultural bodily signifier, also becomes, once disembodied, a highly globalized and specialized commodity used for weaves, extensions, wigs and toupees around the globe. “Indian” hair is particularly valued in such commodity chains.
Bani Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Ecce crucem domini fugite partes adversas. The Cross of Conjurations of the Cathedral of Orihuela

open access: yes
En este trabajo se estudia una pieza de platería inédita de la colección artística de la Catedral de Orihuela: la Cruz de los Conjuros. Esta singular obra es la expresión material de las creencias en torno al poder de la Santa Cruz en momentos dramáticos
Ruiz Ángel, Gemma   +1 more
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Food Sovereignty, Whakapapa, and Place

open access: yesNew Zealand Geographer, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Food sovereignty is increasingly promoted as an alternative to dominant food systems. In Aotearoa it is inseparable from Māori relationships to whenua and from colonial dispossession. This paper presents a kaupapa Māori review of academic, policy, and grey literature, with insights from the Manawatū region.
Georgia McLellan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘No Dumping!’ Threshold Work in Voluntary Sector Mental Healthcare in Inner‐City London

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 8, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the sociomaterial dynamics of mental healthcare by following metaphors circulating among voluntary sector providers that they were becoming ‘dumping grounds’ within a system in crisis. In the United Kingdom, the voluntary sector has long been called upon to deliver flexible, community‐based care that reduces pressure on ...
Natassia Brenman
wiley   +1 more source

Settler Toxicity: Contaminated Restitutions and the Contagion of Hope

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This article introduces settler toxicity: the symbolic charge that lodges itself in Indigenous cultural‐material worlds through their passage through settler institutions, producing real harm through institutional and epistemic vectors rather than particle matter.
Noam Leshem
wiley   +1 more source

Hormonal Hinterlands: Mapping a Materialist Prehistory of Trans Medicine

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reexamines social histories of sex hormones in relation to critical theories of trans embodiment. It aims to foreground the entanglement of medical transition's materials in the uneven development of space, labor, and value under racial capitalism.
Danny Foster
wiley   +1 more source

Should We Use Citizens' Assemblies to Make Health Policy?

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 40, Issue 9, Page 954-961, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This article assesses the normative case for using citizens' assemblies—small deliberative forums of randomly selected citizens—in health policymaking. Although they are increasingly popular, their normative justification remains underexplored. We reconstruct three possible rationales: Norman Daniels's ‘Accountability for Reasonableness’ (A4R)
Daniel Hutton Ferris, Johannes Kniess
wiley   +1 more source

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