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Governing by Ambiguity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Platforms in China

open access: yesPolicy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Besides clear policy directives, the unresolved and open‐ended elements in policy communication also create discursive politics. This article argues that ambiguity in policy communication reflects the state's exercise of power within a fractured sociocultural landscape.
Fangyu Qing, Ngai Keung Chan
wiley   +1 more source

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

Genetic Composition of Polish Hucul Mare Families: mtDNA Diversity. [PDF]

open access: yesGenes (Basel)
Błaszczak A   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 396, Page 442-459, June 2026.
Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
wiley   +1 more source

Elucidating the Functional and Taxonomic Diversity of Soil Microbial Communities From Three Commercial Soybean Farms in South Africa

open access: yesEnvironmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 18, Issue 3, June 2026.
Prior to inoculation of soybeans, South African soils contain no Bradyhizobia that nodulate and fix nitrogen in soybeans. Soybean cultivation with prolonged inoculation resulted in the establishment and dominance of Bradyrhizobia in three soybean farms in South Africa as revealed by a microbial community study using shotgun metagenomics. ABSTRACT Prior
Khumbudzo Ndhlovu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

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