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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
wiley   +1 more source

Screening Adult Patients in Emergency Departments (EDs) for Risk Factors of Child Maltreatment. A Swedish Pilot Study

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Swedish healthcare staff are obliged to immediately report suspected child maltreatment (CM) to child protection services (CPS), but often fail this duty. The use of screening instruments in EDs increases detection of adults with risk factors for CM. Such instruments have previously not been available in Sweden.
Christoffer Dovik, Josefine Cattell, Lisbeth Jönsson, Andreas Rantala, Pia Lundqvist, Louise Laurell   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
wiley   +1 more source

The world is an unjust place: The impact of lifetime adversity on belief in conspiracy theories

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conspiracy mentality ‐ the tendency to view important events as the product of secret plots by powerful groups ‐ is known to arise from collective victimization and discrimination. Yet less is understood about how adversities such as illness, financial loss, or trauma, unrelated to social identity, foster such beliefs.
Daniel Jolley, Anna Maughan, Laura E. R. Blackie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between the Eisteddfods: A Journey Through Learning Disability History to Inclusion

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This paper reports on a participatory project on the social history of learning disability in resonance with current sociocultural discourses with people with learning disabilities, who have commissioned this work as their own original research.
Steven J. Walden, C. Jenkins, D. Price, P. Carter, E. Alcock, S. Harding, L. Evans, S. Taylor, B. Jones, L. Bradford, W. Ashford‐Payne, P. Saunders, K. Haines, P. Morgan, C. Rasmussen, R. Currie   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking at a Blind Spot: Using a Longitudinal Population Cohort Study to Examine Inequalities in Child Social Worker Contact Among Mothers Experiencing Domestic Abuse in Scotland

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on inequalities in children's services in the UK highlights a lack of systematic data on parental demographics, obstructing analysis of structural factors influencing children's outcomes. Using Growing Up in Scotland, a nationally representative longitudinal child cohort study of children born in 2004–2005, we investigate social ...
Valeria Skafida, Eve Mullins, John Devaney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child Protection in the Digital Age in South Korea: Professionals' Perceptions on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Efficacy and Ethical Challenges

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse big data in child protection holds significant potential for enhancing early detection, risk prediction and intervention in child abuse cases. This qualitative study explores the use of AI‐driven big data in child welfare in South Korea by exploring the perspectives of 10 child protection ...
Sook Hyun Kim, Yoewon Yoon
wiley   +1 more source

Court Child Experts' Experiences in Assessing Parenting Cases Involving Parental Mental Illness

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the experiences of Court Child Experts (CCEs), professionals employed by the Australian family courts, in parenting matters involving parental mental illness. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, interviews were conducted with five senior CCEs who reflected on their assessment practices, the challenges associated
Taegan A. Holford, Andrea E. Reupert
wiley   +1 more source

Nurturing Futures: Foster Carer Perspectives on Looking After Unaccompanied Asylum‐Seeking Children With Histories of Trafficking

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a small‐scale qualitative study exploring the experiences of Foster Carers looking after unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC) who are identified or suspected victims of child trafficking (‘UASTC’—unaccompanied asylum‐seeking and trafficked children).
Rosie Galbraith
wiley   +1 more source

Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source