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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 148-158, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
wiley   +1 more source

United States Holocaust Museums: Pathos, Possession, Patriotism

open access: yesPublic History Review, 2011
This article examines the role of United States holocaust museums in directing (American) knowledge and memory of World War II, and demonstrates how signifiers of race, colour and Jewishness are played out and theatricalised. Erected in two principal U.S.
Rob Baum
doaj   +3 more sources

What They Left Behind: Reclaiming the Unknown History of World War II [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
From 2011 to 2013 RWU student Thanasi Metropoulos interviewed fifteen WW II veterans living in the East Bay. Melissa Patricio\u27s article in RWU Magazine provides more information about Thanasi\u27s project and some of the veterans he ...
Patricio, Melissa
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Diasporic Identity and Mourning: Commemorative Practices among Okinawan Repatriates from Colonial Micronesia

open access: yesPORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2019
Could colonial settlers who repatriated from colonies to metropole after the empire’s fall be considered ‘diaspora’? How do these migrants of decolonization maintain their collective memory of the past and solidary identity as a group?
Taku Suzuki
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Religion and Official Politics in Contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT With increasing discussions on political deification and the official references to traditional religions in the People's Republic of China (PRC), recent debates on the PRC's alleged infiltration over Taiwan elections through the goddess Mazu, and the post‐Handover government's emphasis on filiality to China in Hong Kong, it is high time to ...
Ting Guo
wiley   +1 more source

Images Assisting Wor[l]ds: Black History Murals in South and West Philadelphia

open access: yesSociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 88-104, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Black history murals are often understood as examples of state or corporate obfuscation of racial inequality, sometimes known as “artwashing”; or, conversely, as “insurgent” political interventions. Focusing on murals in historically Black neighborhoods in South and West Philadelphia, this article instead highlights the processual, but no less
Gareth Millington   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Picturing the perpetrator [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There is considerable potential in examining images associated with atrocity that do not depict the actual act of violence or the victim itself, but rather depict the circumstances around which such acts occurred.
Lowe, Paul
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-47, February 2026.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
wiley   +1 more source

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