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Leadership and the Virtue of Humanity: Conceptual Clarity, Systematic Review, and Future Research Agenda

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Humanity – the virtue enabling meaningful human connection – is vital to the leadership we need to survive our polycrisis context. As a prerequisite to sustainable human community, the virtue of humanity is considered universal. It has been claimed as a ‘higher‐order virtue’, comprised of and enacted by – but irreducible to – a suite of ‘lower‐
Toby Newstead, Saeed Loghman, Alexander Newman, Ronald Riggio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic and cultural changes relating to kinship in the Columbus Somali community [PDF]

, 2016
Since the 1980’s, the Somali Civil War has caused millions of families to seek refuge all around the world. Nearly 40,000 Somalis have made Columbus, Ohio their new home. Eight thousand miles separate them from their motherland, creating serious problems
Castle, Rachel
core  

Correction: A Phylogenetic Comparative Study of Bantu Kinship Terminology Finds Limited Support for Its Co-Evolution with Social Organisation. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2016
PLOS ONE Staff.
europepmc   +1 more source

Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results from a 20‐year‐long case study in African striped mice

Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.
Animals in harsh environments rely on specialised adaptations. Two decades of field research on African striped mice (Rhabdomys pumilio) in the Succulent Karoo semi‐desert reveal a distinct ‘harshness response’—marked by reduced metabolism and glucocorticoid levels—that differs fundamentally from the classic stress response.
C. Schradin, N. Pillay, R. Rimbach
wiley   +1 more source

Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton, Leslie Riddle, Jennifer Elyse James   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

How to make people do things with words

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship Values and the Production of ‘Locality’ in Pre-Colonial Cameroon Grassfields (West Cameroon)

Suomen Antropologi, 2010
Igor Kopytoff introduced the concept of the ‘African frontier’ in the mid 80s, providing scholars of Africa with a powerful tool which helped to overcome scientific and political objections posed by concepts such as ‘tribe’ or ‘ethnic group’, though in ...
Emile Tsékénis
doaj  

Ecological restoration in rights‐of‐nature laws and restoration as a substantive right of nature: challenges and opportunities

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Introduction A growing number of countries have adopted legislation that recognizes nature as a subject of rights. The purpose of many rights‐of‐nature laws is linked to restoring biodiversity and ecosystems. Consequently, an ecosystem's right to restoration has emerged as a substantive right of nature.
Mariam C. Kanyama
wiley   +1 more source

The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
wiley   +1 more source