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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen, Kiira Parikka, Herman Stål, Teemu Vaarakallio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstructing Al-Farabi's ethical framework in contemporary bioethics: genetics, reproduction, and technological challenges. [PDF]

Philos Ethics Humanit Med
Tattibek N, Ungarova M, Kuranbek A, Altayev J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Resource Scarcity and Individual Creativity: Processes and Conditions of Practicing Frugality for Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The literature on frugal innovation conceptualizes frugality as a value orientation or a set of resourceful practices that promote the sustainable use of available material and ecological resources. It suggests that various manifestations of frugality contribute to addressing local needs and global challenges.
Birendra Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing collective identity through Theravāda Buddhism: religious memory, monastic authority, and sacred infrastructure among the Bulang community in Southwest China. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Yan W, Liu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
wiley   +1 more source

Uncertainty tolerance in healthcare: towards a normative conception. [PDF]

Theor Med Bioeth
Han PKJ, Hofmann B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Torn Between Identities: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Nurses' Dual Allegiance During COVID-19 and Armed Conflict. [PDF]

Nurs Rep
Zusman N, Scheinberg Andrews C.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
wiley   +1 more source