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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
wiley   +1 more source

Body-Map Storytelling as a Health Research Methodology: Blurred Lines Creating Clear Pictures

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2018
In this article we review the literature on body-mapping (BM) as an approach to health research in order to systematize recent advancements and to contribute to its development.
Denise Gastaldo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Faire rêver le monde avec Leïla Slimani (entretien)

open access: yesFrancosphères, 2023
L’écrivaine franco-marocaine Leïla Slimani a fait irruption sur la scène littéraire française avec son premier roman, Dans le jardin de l’ogre (2014), qui raconte l’histoire d’Adèle Robinson, une Parisienne de la classe moyenne supérieure qui a un goût ...
Adina Stroia
doaj   +1 more source

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

Settler colonialism, multiculturalism and the politics of postcolonial identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The twentieth century saw the development of nationalism and the construction of postcolonial identities in many newly independent nations. Formerly colonised peoples have struggled to restore and adapt their customs and to construct postcolonial ...
Lovell, Melissa
core  

Understanding access to healthcare among Indigenous peoples: A comparative analysis of biomedical and postcolonial perspectives

open access: yesNursing Inquiry, 2018
As nursing professionals, we believe access to healthcare is fundamental to health and that it is a determinant of health. Therefore, evidence suggesting access to healthcare is problematic for many Indigenous peoples is concerning.
Tara C. Horrill   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

An Eighteenth-Century Ecology of Knowledge: Patronage and Natural History

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014
This article analyses the construction and dissemination of natural-history knowledge in the eighteenth century. It takes the mapping and narration of Orkney as a case study, focusing on the local minister and amateur natural-historian George Low and his
Linda Andersson Burnett
doaj  

Amitav Ghosh and the Aesthetic Turn in Postcolonial Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This essay explores the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies in light of the literary works of Indo-Burmese author Amitav Ghosh. While a renewed interest in aesthetic theories is apparent throughout the humanities in the past decade, it is ...
Su, John
core   +1 more source

Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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