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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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Minjung Theology in Contemporary Korea: Liberation Theology and a Reconsideration of Secularization Theory

open access: yesReligions, 2018
The Sewol Ferry tragedy in April 2014 has drawn a renewed attention to the role of religion in South Korea. Theologians and religiously-motivated NGOs in Korea at the time and thereafter have called for the need for religion, and religious organizations,
Andrew Eungi Kim
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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NU dan Paradigma Teologi Politik Pembebasan: Refleksi Historis Pasca Khittah

open access: yesWawasan, 2016
This research means to study the religious institution’s role to liberate from the problems of ummah in their real life. Theological study on dimension of liberation here aims to investigate what are Muslim scholars’ opinions on this issue and how to ...
Muhammad Masyhuri
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The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
wiley   +1 more source

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