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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 960-981, July 2026.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Theorizing Patriarchy Against a Backdrop of Workplace Sexism and Stress in UK Academia

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1480-1492, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Our analysis investigates the distinct relationship between sexism and workplace stress as experienced by women academics in the UK higher education system. We argue that due to the insufficient literature on this issue there is a limited knowledge base of the harmful psychological effects of stress in the workplace upon women academics in the
Andrew Baron, Charlotte Barrow
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Vegetation and Topographic Controls on Post‐Fire Snowpack: Evidence From the 2021 Caldor Fire

open access: yesEcohydrology, Volume 19, Issue 4, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The increase in wildland fires in recent decades due to long‐term fire suppression policies and increasingly favourable climate factors has also increased the elevation range of wildland fires. In the mountainous western United States, this has led to an increasing influence of fire on landscape‐level vegetation patterns in snow‐dominated ...
Marianne Cowherd   +7 more
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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 390-411, June 2026.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Wages and Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: The Relevance of Foreign Ownership in New Sourcing Countries

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 233-249, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The debate on the relationship between labour conditions in manufacturing sectors and global value chain (GVC) participation takes a new turn with the emergence of sub‐Saharan African (SSA) economies as important sourcing destinations. With lower levels of economic development, and significantly lower wages than most other exporting countries,
Luc Fransen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 180-189, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
wiley   +1 more source

‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 255-267, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
wiley   +1 more source

The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas Le vrai soi du chatbot: vers une archéologie des personnes artificielles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Literary Literacy as Situated Practice: Teacher and Mediator Beliefs in a Writers' House Museum

open access: yesLiteracy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the beliefs of secondary school teachers of ‘Valencian Language and Literature’ (official subject title in Valencian secondary education, where Catalan is officially referred to as Valencian) and of mediators at the Joan Fuster House‐Museum (Sueca, Spain), regarding the literary mediation and literacy practices developed ...
Javier Roig‐López   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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