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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Lived place, embodied remembering, and narrative belonging in Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House and Pauline Kaldas's “A House in Old Cairo”

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.
Abstract Samia Serageldin's The Cairo House (2000) and Pauline Kaldas's “The House in Old Cairo” (2006) allow a comparative analysis on place dynamics and the psycho‐spatial aspects of subjectivity and belonging. This article builds on the premise that place has an ontological implication for its occupants as it allocates a portion of space for them ...
Daniella Krisztán
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Designing utopias: Toward Clementsian industrial climax ecology

Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 29, Issue 6, Page 1946-1958, December 2025.
Abstract The ecosystem has long served as the core metaphor in industrial ecology, shaping numerous debates throughout the discipline's history. However, other ecological metaphors can be equally productive. Before Tansley's ecosystem concept became paradigmatic in ecology, the field's most influential framework was Frederic Clements’ climax theory ...
Marcin Krasnodębski
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The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Does the digital/virtual have a reality? For a critical realist, there is no doubt it does, since what can cause something is real. But what kind of reality is it? The article argues that this reality is a relational quidditas. The diffusion of new AI‐based technologies increasingly blends analogue and virtual realities, making it essential to
Pierpaolo Donati
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Silence, Awkwardness and Discomfort: Understanding How Health Interventions Fail—An Ethnographic Study of a Peer Support Intervention for People With Type 2 Diabetes in Denmark

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 47, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Unsuccessful peer support interventions rarely receive detailed ethnographic attention. The article examines a peer support intervention part of a randomised controlled trial designed to provide people with type 2 diabetes socio‐emotional support while adopting self‐care technology. The trial concluded that the intervention yielded no benefits.
Astrid Andrea Anesen, Bryan Cleal, Tine M. Gammeltoft   +2 more
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Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Understanding the Role of Everyday Life in Coping With Health Challenges

Nursing Philosophy, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Theories of everyday life provide valuable insights into the experience of health and illness. Everyday life, as an essential part of social reality, is characterized by routines, familiarity, and practices that offer meaning, orientation, and security.
Berta M. Schrems
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Conceptualising Lived Experience in Mental Health Research: Problems, Insights and Implications

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 47, Issue 4, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Across health research, drawing on accounts from people with lived experience is often promoted as a shift away from epistemic injustice wherein the knowledge of the marginalised is ignored/silenced. Paradoxically for people with mental distress who are given a diagnostic label, aspects of their accounts may actually be foregrounded to ...
Rajvinder Samra
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Spouses' Experiences of Emotional and Existential Support When Caring for a Frail Partner Late in Life

International Journal of Older People Nursing, Volume 20, Issue 3, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Introduction The ability to care for a frail older partner late in life often entails the need for support and help from others, a need that sometimes can go unmet. Exploring spouses' views of emotional and existential support can guide further development of supportive structures, which in turn can promote family caregivers' existential ...
Helena Larsson, Anna‐Karin Edberg, Kerstin Blomqvist   +2 more
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Desire: A Theological Reappraisal

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-23, January 2025.
Abstract Desire and its cognates—longing, yearning—do a lot of hard work in modern theology, the work grounded in philosophical precedents going back at least as far as the early German Romantics. These precedents helped to inaugurate the twentieth century explorations of psychoanalysis.
Graham Ward
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