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Social disharmony, inauthenticity and patriarchy: an Ubuntu perspective on the practice of female genital mutilation

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a universal issue which affects girls in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America, and immigrant communities in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. FGM is a cultural practice in approximately 29 countries in Africa, affecting over 140 million girls.
Tauseef Ahmad Ally, Lizeka Amanda Tandwa
wiley   +1 more source

Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Political Epistemology without Apologies

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Political epistemology has become a popular field of research in recent years. It sets itself the ambitious task to intertwine epistemology with social and political theory in order to do justice to the relationships between truth and politics, or reason and power.
Frieder Vogelmann
wiley   +1 more source

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