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Learning To Be Affected: Social suffering and total pain at life’s borders. [PDF]

, 2012
The practice of Live Sociology in situations of pain and suffering is the author’s focus. An outline of the challenges of understanding pain is followed by a discussion of Bourdieu’s ‘social suffering’ (1999) and the palliative care philosophy of ‘total ...
Ahmed S., Ahmed S., Back L., Badiou A., Bar-On D., Bourdieu P., Brown G., Butler J., Calarco M., DeLanda M., Derrida J., Derrida J., Gordon A., Gunaratnam Y., Hagglund M., Harman G., Keats J., Lawton J., Levinas E., Saunders C. M., Saunders C. M., Saunders C. M., Scarry E., Shields R., Stanworth R., Turner B. S., Waddell M., Weber M., Wyschogrod E., Yasmin Gunaratnam   +29 more
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa and Life, Death, and the Desire of Eternity in “Il Gattopardo”

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017
In his work, "La Sicilia del Gattopardo" (The Sicily of the Leopard), Massimo Ganci emphasizes that according to Tomasi di Lampedusa the lithied aridity of Sicily is a reection of human life (ref. Gioia, 2014). The impossibility of changing this barren
Özge PARLAK TEMEL
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
wiley   +1 more source

Death - Cultural, philosophical and religious aspects [PDF]

, 2016
About death, grief, mourning, life after death and immortality. Why should we die like humans to survive as a species. "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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The new meaning of retirement for bridge employees: Situating bridge employment through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model

Human Resource Development Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 89-112, Spring 2025.
Abstract Retirees re‐entering the workforce, popularly termed as bridge employment, is a phenomenon that is anticipated to increase in the coming years. Though research establishes that these employees have unique aspirations and work motives (see Mazumdar et al., 2020), primary research on how the retirement transition and bridge employment shape each
Bishakha Mazumdar, Amy M. Warren, Travor C. Brown   +2 more
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus Under the Lens of Structure: From Prefusion Stabilization to Next‐Generation Immunotherapies

iNew Medicine, EarlyView.
This illustration integrates key concepts covered in the review, including high‐risk populations, viral structure, host entry factors, the replication cycle, and licensed antibody‐based prevention strategies. ABSTRACT Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a negative‐sense RNA virus belonging to the genus Orthopneumovirus within the family Pneumoviridae.
Zekai Cheng, Qianqian Wang, Jiachen Zhang, Sandra Chiu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crushing Animals and Crashing Funerals: The Semiotics of Free Expression [PDF]

, 2012
With insights from philosophy of language and semiotics, this article addresses judicial choices and semantic errors involved in United States v. Stevens, 130 S.Ct.
Lloyd, Harold Anthony
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The dialectics of trauma and political conscientization: A psychosocial study of activism for supporting sexual and gender minoritized communities in Brazil

Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examined the dialectical association between psychosocial trauma and political conscientization in the lives of activists advocating for persons with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (2SLGBTQIA+) in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Gab C. Siqueira, Luisa F. Velásquez Vallejo, Antonio Euzebios Filho   +2 more
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Dying to Eat: Terror Management and Attitudes Toward Eating Plants [PDF]

, 2018
Terror management theory posits that the drive for self-preservation and the knowledge of our inevitable death create anxiety in people, which they manage in a variety of ways, including favoring those who are like them and distancing themselves from ...
Lewis, Erika J
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