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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 701-712, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Release of Genetically Intervened Microorganisms: Towards a New Narrative

open access: yesMicrobial Biotechnology, Volume 19, Issue 9, September 2026.
From control to partnership: Rethinking the environmental release of laboratory‐trained microorganisms for bioremediation. ABSTRACT The deliberate release of genetically engineered microorganisms for environmental applications has remained largely blocked since the early days of recombinant DNA technology, when limited ecological knowledge, lack of ...
Victor de Lorenzo
wiley   +1 more source

The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 553-565, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
wiley   +1 more source

Origins of life: the possible and the actual. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Solé R, Kempes C, Stepney S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
wiley   +1 more source

From healing landscapes to biocultural conservation: the role of Ficus septica in karst ecosystems of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Ismail A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

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