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Making beautiful babies: Performative parenting, parental determinism, and personhood in Côte d'Ivoire

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract According to the notion of “parental determinism,” parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills.
Konstanze N'Guessan
wiley   +1 more source

Motherhood amidst reprimands and advice: Parenting and class in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract The article explores how the moralization of women mothers in contemporary Brazil reinforces structural inequalities. The analysis focuses on two forms of communication: reprimands and advice directed from experts toward mothers or circulated between mothers of young children in two different social contexts in the city of Rio de Janeiro ...
Laura Lowenkron, Camila Fernandes
wiley   +1 more source

What exactly is a family man? Performing and precluding respectable fatherhood in Dominica

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract How does a father come to be regarded as a “family man” in the Caribbean? By tracking the stories and strivings of various Dominican men who seek recognition as dedicated fathers, this essay unfolds complex answers to this seemingly simple question.
Adom Philogene Heron
wiley   +1 more source

On Agonistic Mini‐Publics for Participatory Governance: Reading Agonism as Conflict Regulation in the SER Dialogue

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addressing “wicked” governance challenges requires participatory processes that engage diverse perspectives, embrace contestation, and foster innovative solutions. This article examines social and environmental reporting (SER) as a context for exploring how participatory governance can be designed to enable pluralistic engagement.
Matthew Sorola
wiley   +1 more source

Singing Community in Martin Luther's Kirchenlieder

open access: yesThe German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 1, Page 54-70, Winter 2025.
Abstract In this essay, I claim that Martin Luther's Kirchenlieder can be read as Volkslieder, a reading which allows us to account for their function of consolidating identity through communal singing. Luther's songs, I argue, are activated in their being voiced—voice, here, understood in a non‐metaphorical mode, as the material utterance of a singing
Evan Strouss
wiley   +1 more source

Research theme mapping and future directions on corruption and religion: a bibliometric analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Sociol
Salahudin   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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