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Before, Behind and Beyond: Life Stories and Identity in Dementia Care

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 7, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Life stories are widely promoted in person‐centred dementia care as tools to preserve the identity of the ‘person behind the dementia’. However, as cognitive decline progresses, staff often face dilemmas when current expressions of preference appear to contradict a person's documented past, for example, a devout Muslim requesting pork or a ...
Tove Harnett, Glenn Möllergren
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, such as Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, pluriversality promises a world in which multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and lifeways coexist without
Ilan Kapoor
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Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India's Political Forests

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Why does fire suppression remain central to forest governance globally, despite the increasing recognition of fire's ecological and livelihood significance? This study examines the persistence of fire suppression in India, arguing that it continues not for ecological reasons but as a political technology of state territorial control.
Kapil Yadav, Emma Tebbs, Kate Schreckenberg   +2 more
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A framework for characterising and capturing the quality of digital interactions and experiences in early childhood education

British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1299-1319, September 2026.
Abstract Understanding what constitutes quality in digital interactions within Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings has become paramount in an increasingly technology‐enabled world. This imperative has grown, with diverse ingrained positions about the role of digital technology in ECEC, and limited evidence and guidance to support ...
Steven J. Howard, Kate Lewis, Natalie Day, Lois Peach, Lisa K. Kervin   +4 more
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Neighbour‐Based Organisations as Social Infrastructure: Gathering, Channelling and Remaining in the Midst of Mexico City's Water Crisis

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 3, September 2026.
Short Abstract This article examines how neighbour‐based organisations become social infrastructures in contexts of water scarcity. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the Water Defence Committee in Mexico City, it identifies three practices (gathering, channelling and remaining) through which organisations bring people together, shape resource ...
Andres Emiliano Sierra Martinez
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Assumable plausibilities: Rhetoric as a doxastic technique of probability

Argumentation et Analyse du Discours
From the perspective of rhetorical theory, knowledge is primarily the result of a communicative dynamic of asserting and contesting claims to validity according to a range of normative criteria.
Fabian Erhardt
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1707-1719, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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Insights Into Self‐Care of Feet When Living With Diabetes: A Phenomenological Hermeneutic Interview Study

Journal of Clinical Nursing, Volume 35, Issue 9, Page 3912-3920, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To describe how persons with diabetes experience learning about self‐care, with a particular focus on foot self‐care. Methods Narrative, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with persons diagnosed with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes.
Kristofer Björk, Henrik Eriksson, Ulla Hellstrand Tang, Susanne Andersson   +3 more
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Social Control of Everyday Life and Political Construction of (Montenegrin) Identity

European Review Of Applied Sociology
The research problem is the influence of global crisis on identity and daily life of Montenegrin people. The subject is the political construction of (Montenegrin) identity, as a result of social control on everyday life, where identities are born.
Slijepcevic Dusanka, Dabrowska-Prokopowska Ewa, Vejnovic Dusko   +2 more
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