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Opening the Sacred Chamber: The Cultural and Ethical Odyssey of Cardiac Surgery. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Cardiovasc Dev Dis
Leivaditis V   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Between Deliberation and Interpretation: Social Movements’ Democratic Rationalities in Legal Discourse

open access: yesConstellations, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 115-129, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on democratization often reduces social movements’ legal engagement to deliberative rationality, obscuring how transformation operates through distinct yet complementary procedural logics. This article argues that movements democratize law through dual‐track engagement: Political deliberation universalizes moral demands via ...
Diego Alonso Ramírez Pérez
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring up: an afterword

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 159-166, March 2026.
Abstract Towards the end of their Introduction, the editors of this special issue suggest that a principal challenge in ethnographic description is ‘how to measure the measures of others’. It is their own measure of persons, say, or of transactions, on which anthropologists frequently draw in adjudicating social phenomena, not least when characterizing
Marilyn Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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