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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

The Uncharted Territory of the New Obesity Drugs in Users Without Obesity: A Sociomedical Perspective

open access: yesObesity, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The off‐label use of glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonists (GLP‐1ra) among people without obesity and/or diabetes is rapidly expanding, despite a lack of clinical justification or safety data in this population. This Perspective explores the sociomedical dimensions of this trend, highlighting key research gaps and emerging hypotheses ...
Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing trees on farms: Navigating the goals and values of farmers

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agricultural landscapes represent critical contexts for advancing policy objectives related to tree cover expansion. This paper explores how farmers' values influence their willingness or ability to grow trees on farms. Research is based on 49 interviews and two focus groups with farmers in England and draws on two social science research ...
Stephen McConnachie   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Des sculptures récréatives des années 1970 aux aires de jeux contemporaines à la Grande Borne : jouer n’est pas joué

open access: yesEnfances, Familles, Générations, 2018
Research Framework: The question of the practices of the children in public space is often analyzed by a a sociology or environmental psychology point of view but and not by an urban or architectural entrance.Objectives : This article ask the process of ...
Fanny Delaunay
doaj  

Situating implementation science (IS) in res(IS)tance: a conceptual frame toward the integration of scholarship from the black radical tradition

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
This manuscript undertakes a disciplinary self-critique of the field of implementation science, a field which attempts to bridge the gap between evidence-based interventions and their practical application.
Cory D. Bradley   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unlocking landscape transient dynamics: Integrating traditional ecological knowledge for enhanced analysis of land‐use changes and forest expansion in a Mediterranean ecosystem

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The Industrial Revolution triggered rural abandonment in Europe and had a profound impact on land configuration and ecosystem dynamics, mainly the growth of forests at the expense of open agricultural habitats. However, rural abandonment has been asynchronous in space and time, depending on regional socio‐economic dynamics.
Joan Bauzà, Miquel Grimalt, Daniel Oro
wiley   +1 more source

Stephen Turner, American Sociology. From Pre-Disciplinary to Post-Normal

open access: yesLectures, 2013
Stephen Turner avait intitule un precedent ouvrage sur la sociologie etats-unienne The Impossible Science. L'expression designe pour l'auteur une ambition souvent affirmee, mais jamais realisee, de la sociologie, celle de s'etablir comme une discipline scientifique coupee des valeurs et des jugements spontanes et focalisee sur la production et l ...
openaire   +1 more source

Review Article: Normal science? Texts for teaching the sociology of health and illness [PDF]

open access: yesSociology of Health & Illness, 1999
Ellen Annandale, The Sociology of Health and MedicineRob Baggott, Health and Health Care in BritainDavid Field and Steve Taylor (eds), Sociological Perspectives on Health,Illness and Health CareJohn Germov (ed), Second Opinion: an Introduction to Health SociologyRon Iphofen and Fiona Poland, Sociology in Practice for Health CareProfessionalsLesley ...
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Using expert elicitation to predict feral cat, Felis catus, responses to management

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
We generated estimates of lethal feral cat management success for 864 scenarios, only 71 lethal management scenarios met a population reduction target of 57%. Cat‐targeted poison baits, in dry conditions and arid areas were most successful. Feral cat management requires continued adaptive strategies to reduce cat impacts.
Annalie Dorph   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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