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When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Violence Against Women: Myths, Facts, Controversies

open access: yes, 2011
In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem.
DeKeseredy, W
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“Who Is Watching me?”: Recovering the Grammar of Stigma in Interaction

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article offers a praxeological respecification of stigma. I argue that the term “stigma” is a category term and glossing device, used to gather together and stand in for a diverse range of interactional experiences, including, but not limited to, degradation, discrediting, discrimination, marginalization, and being demeaned.
Phil Hutchinson
wiley   +1 more source

The Couch: Belonging, Memory, and the Making of the Self—A Heartfelt Autoethnography

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This heartfelt retrospective autoethnography explores a personal episode of adolescence through the lens of ritual, memory, and symbolic interaction. At the age of 14, after returning to Italy following years abroad, I found myself on the margins of a gang of boys whose shared language, stories, and music represented the codes of belonging I yearned to
Alessandro Porrovecchio
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Hype and Fear: Decolonizing ELT Materials Through Generative Artificial Intelligence

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
wiley   +1 more source

A South African Language Teacher Educator's Reflective Journey Through Sociocultural Theory and Asset‐Based Mediation

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This reflective article chronicles a South African English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) university teacher educator's journey from professional disillusionment toward a more intentional, transformative praxis. The catalyst for this journey was the recurring observation of novice teachers abandoning dialogic, asset‐based pedagogies learned ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source

Content analysis of TikTok videos about tick prevention methods for dogs and cats

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Social media is a major source of pet health information. On platforms such as TikTok, algorithm‐driven recommendations may expose users to health‐related content even without active searching. This study described tick prevention videos on TikTok.
Heidi Jim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shared struggles: Parallels in caregiver burden between canine and paediatric epilepsy

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Disease‐specific aspects of pet owners’ caregiver burden could be missed by generic burden measures. This study aimed to assess whether a framework developed to describe caregiver burden in parents of children with epilepsy was applicable to caregivers of dogs with epilepsy.
Zoe Belshaw, Rowena M. A. Packer
wiley   +1 more source

Updates on Breeding Success and Conservation Challenges for White‐Rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) in Rampur Valley, Nepal 尼泊尔兰普尔山谷白腰兀鹫繁殖成功研究进展及其保护挑战

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
This study investigates the breeding success of the critically endangered White‐rumped Vulture in Khaireni Community Forest, and examines local knowledge and perceptions toward its conservation. We found that 71% of active nests were successful, with breeding success significantly influenced by the proximity to carcass deposition sites.
Siddhartha Regmi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organic Representation as a Critical Media Approach to Leadership Studies in Popular Culture

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 75-80, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT This article applies the critical media concept of organic representation to leadership studies as an analytic of how various creators in popular culture today are not just writing inclusive storytelling but, more notably, modeling new modes of production and self‐presentation that are actively challenging hegemonic industry practices and ...
Raffi Sarkissian
wiley   +1 more source

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