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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
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Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
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Deteriorating Mental Well‐Being of the Young in the UK
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using several data sets for the UK we track rising perceptions of mental well‐being among the working‐age population in the UK. The trend is apparent among all age groups and for men and women, but it is most pronounced among the young, and especially young women aged under 25.
David G. Blanchflower +2 more
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Enacting Lived Sovereignty Amid Epistemic and Ontological Violence in the Settler‐Colonial Academy
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and the structural and institutional logics of the settler‐colonial academy. Critical scholarship suggests that higher education can regulate epistemic boundaries, discipline knowledge production, and shape the subjectivities of colonized students.
Nadera Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, Abeer Otman
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper introduces transboundary spanning as a novel concept for social movement analysis. Using Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the United States as a case study, we examine the relational dynamics of social movement boundary spanning: processes wherein actors and organizations engage across symbolic boundaries.
Tobias Müller, Peter Gardner
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer.
Victoria Reyes
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How to write when you are the problem
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract Writing from inside the fire, this intervention refuses innocence, expertise, and redemption, asking what it means to keep telling stories from within academic, colonial, and institutional complicity when doing so is implicated in harm.
Omer Aijazi
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Citizenship Education‐Based Political Thinking Skills: Thinking About the Refugee Issue
European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT This study employs action research, a qualitative research design, to enhance political thinking skills (PTS) of social studies teacher candidates studying at Ege University in Türkiye. In this context, a needs analysis was conducted, leading to the redesign of the political literacy course.
Selda Şan
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