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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
wiley   +1 more source

Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
wiley   +1 more source

Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

Poetic Sociology

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer.
Victoria Reyes
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Transitions to Adulthood for Young Disabled People: Personalisation and the Quiet Dismantling of Social Care

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across OECD countries, policy frameworks to support disabled young people in their transition to adulthood remain fragmented, under‐resourced and poorly aligned. This article examines how these longstanding weaknesses have been exacerbated by the shift towards personalisation in social care. Drawing on a three‐year qualitative study in England
Charlotte Pearson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The hunger artist and academic migration: On political depression and relational poverty

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This autoethnography presents fragments of an invisible life, an ordinary body navigating the terrain of ‘academic migration’ (2009–2025), from rejection as a PhD applicant to recognition as a high‐achieving graduate. Provoked by my recent pursuit of Fulbright Postdoctoral Award in the United States, I draw on Kafka's figure of the hunger ...
Dave Yan
wiley   +1 more source

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