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(De)Legitimizing Language Policing: Enregisterment and Linguistic Authority in Taiwan's Digital Public

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to be political and how such policing is subsequently supported, resisted, or (de)legitimized in the context of Taiwan–China relations. Three orders
Hsi‐Yao Su
wiley   +1 more source

Top 10 Public Health Challenges for 2024: Charting a New Direction for Global Health Security. [PDF]

Public Health Chall
Lucero-Prisno DE, Shomuyiwa DO, Kouwenhoven MBN, Dorji T, Adebisi YA, Odey GO, George NS, Ajayi OT, Ekerin O, Manirambona E, Xu L, Obnial JC, Viola AM, Ogunkola IO, Ahmed MM, Ogaya JB, Huang J, Sium AF, Suntay MLR, Chung WK, De Paz PIV, Elmi HSA, Hersi OO, Gabaake KP, Baricaua T, Dirie NI, Yepes PIG, Wilson DJ, Tofaeono-Pifeleti R, Tapia EDT, Wong MC.   +30 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Impact of TikTok on Elections: (Mis)information and Regulatory Challenges

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT TikTok's algorithm‐driven feed is reshaping electoral communication, yet a clear understanding of its effects is lacking. This study synthesizes and appraises evidence on how the platform's design and governance shape political (dis)information and may affect electoral dynamics.
Michele Giuseppe Giuranno, Mauro Sebastian Manni   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prominent peaks and social discourses of the 2023 Escalation in the Ongoing Israel-Hamas armed conflict. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ng R, Chow TYJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano, Hari Basnet, Anna Durrance‐Bagale, Natasha Howard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking Populist Secessionism: Elite Discourse and Mass Attitudes in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While political leaders increasingly combine populist and secessionist appeals, systematic evidence remains lacking regarding their effectiveness in mobilizing public support. Drawing on original survey data from Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where leader Milorad Dodik employs populist‐secessionist rhetoric, this study finds that
Semir Dzebo
wiley   +1 more source

Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle: Bacteriophages and Microbial Surveillance (1921-2023). [PDF]

Phage (New Rochelle)
Kirchhelle C, Lipton MF, Nolan TM, Meijer WG, Saha S, Sankaran N.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
wiley   +1 more source