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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

The Biographical Narratives of an Adolescent in Kinship Care: A Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Case Study

open access: yesPsychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia
The presence and impacts of violence, abuse, and neglect in the context of Australian children in kinship care is an ongoing concern for health services.
Grant T. Ryan
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Work and Employment in Social Care: New Challenges, New Priorities

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human Resource Management (HRM) research focused on social care is sparse. This gap is surprising given the scale of the social care workforce in many countries, its vital role in meeting the increasingly complex needs of vulnerable community groups, and the persistent challenges in recruiting and retaining staff.
Ian Kessler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Compelling Intimacies: Domesticity, Sexuality, and Agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This introduction highlights what we call Compelling Intimacies —the multiple desires, affects, and affinities that arise at the intersection of institutions, actors, technologies, and ethical discourses to exert persuasive pressures on subjects.
Goodfellow, Aaron, Mulla, Sameena A.
core   +1 more source

Pubertal timing and incident uterine cancer in the Sister Study cohort

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
What's New? Younger age at menarche is an established risk factor for uterine cancer. Age at onset of breast development (thelarche), the earliest marker of pubertal estrogen exposure unopposed by progesterone, may also be relevant to uterine cancer risk, but this association has not been explored. Using data from the US prospective Sister Study cohort,
Ariayana N. Harrell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Not a Single Leaf Is Meant to be Taken With You”: Conservation Motivations and Belief Systems in a Khasi Sacred Landscape of Meghalaya, India “一片叶子都不许带走”:印度梅加拉亚邦卡西族神圣景观中的保护动机与信仰体系

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, EarlyView.
This study examines the Mawphlang Sacred Forest in Meghalaya as a culturally embedded model of community‐led conservation. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, it highlights how spiritual reverence, sacred taboos, and ancestral authority shape ecological stewardship, complementing formal governance systems.
Mrinal Saikia
wiley   +1 more source

Indicators of contact visit quality in non‐kinship foster care: An observational checklist [PDF]

open access: hybrid, 2023
Miguel Ángel García‐Martín   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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