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Worldviews and values of key societal actors influencing decision‐making around nature: The case of wild pollinator conservation in Europe

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity is vital for life on earth but faces many anthropogenic pressures. Mitigating these pressures and improving biodiversity status requires understanding the worldviews and values of actors involved in conservation or responsible for creating pressures on biodiversity.
Zafarani Uwingabire, Adam J. Vanbergen, Florence L. P. Damiens, Tom D. Breeze, René van der Wal, Juliette C. Young   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mothers, milk and mourning: The meanings of breast milk after loss of an infant

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 109-127, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Breast milk is a highly valued substance, immunologically and nutritionally, which also signifies maternal care and love for the infant. This intersection of biological and cultural qualities confers breast milk with complex meanings, which necessarily shape the experience of breastfeeding.
Catherine Waldby, Debbie Noble‐Carr, Katherine Carroll   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data Ecofeminism [PDF]

arXiv
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is driving significant environmental impacts. The rapid development and deployment of increasingly larger algorithmic models capable of analysing vast amounts of data are contributing to rising carbon emissions, water withdrawal, and waste generation.
arxiv  

Feminism in philosophy of language: communicative speech acts [PDF]

, 2000
Book synopsis: The thirteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume are written by philosophers at the forefront of feminist scholarship, and are designed to provide an accessible and stimulating guide to a philosophical literature that has seen
Hornsby, Jennifer
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The multiple values of nature show the lack of a coherent theory of value—In any context

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Pathways to sustainability require a broader and fuller representation of the multiple values of nature in policy and practice. In this People and Nature special feature entitled ‘The Multiple Values of Nature’, researchers interpreted all three key words differently: multiple, values and nature.
Kai M. A. Chan, Rachelle K. Gould, Cecily Maller, Robert Fish, Rosemary S. Hails, Kevin J. Gaston   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 128-144, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Eugenic ideas in Mexico were popularised after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) as a way of ‘modernising’ and ‘civilising’ the nation. As a result, eugenic ideas were able to linger and be maintained through different departments, institutions, and individuals from all disciplines. After eugenics was considered a pseudoscience, its practices
R. Sanchez‐Rivera
wiley   +1 more source

Imagining the Far East: Exploring Perceived Biases in AI-Generated Images of East Asian Women [PDF]

arXiv
Image-generating AI, which allows users to create images from text, is increasingly used to produce visual content. Despite its advancements, cultural biases in AI-generated images have raised significant concerns. While much research has focused on issues within Western contexts, our study examines the perceived biases regarding the portrayal of East ...
arxiv  

Tani E. Barlow, ed. Gender politics in modern China : writing and feminism

, 1998
This article reviews the book Gender Politics in Modem China: Writing and Feminism , edited by Tani E ...
CUI, Shuqin
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Reclaiming Korean queerness through the gender bender drama: Analyzing gender fluidity in “Coffee Prince” and “Secret Garden”

Popular Culture Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This thesis engages in a “queering” of two South Korean television dramas, “Coffee Prince,” or “커피 프린스 1호점,” aired in 2007, and “Secret Garden” or “시크릿 가든,” aired in 2010, by exploring the complex representations and visuality of gender fluidity in tandem with queer, Marxist, and postcolonial theory.
Arin Kim Wise
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising health equity research for people with intersex variance through new materialism

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 163-178, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Health inequalities impact sex‐variant people in highly differentiated ways. This is evidenced in much academic and activist intersex research documenting the highly specific forms of inequalities arising from misrecognition, discrimination and human rights abuses inherent to pathologised accounts of non‐normative bodies. Important theoretical
Laetitia Zeeman, Kay Aranda
wiley   +1 more source