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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to the Special Issue on English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Three decades after Kachru's characterization of English as a source of both “agony and ecstasy,” debates about its global spread remain ambivalent. Despite significant advances in world Englishes scholarship, celebratory and critical stances toward English continue to coexist, sharpened by the political polarization of our times, and renewed ...
Josep Soler
wiley   +1 more source

English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice: Past and Present

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This opening article of the special issue “English worldwide and linguistic justice” starts from the premise that more interdisciplinary work is needed that bridges sociolinguistic research with linguistic justice theories to provide deeper, more nuanced understandings of the position and functions of English around the world today.
Josep Soler, Thomas Ricento
wiley   +1 more source

Public opposition to protest online: A qualitative content analysis of YouTube comments on UK climate activism videos

open access: yesAnalyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract Public discourse plays a crucial role in shaping the success of social movements. While research has explored public support for collective action, less attention has been paid to active opposition and delegitimization strategies. This study investigates the discursive contestation of climate protests by Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil ...
Harry M. Lewis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reclaiming a Basque youth voice in Navarre: The Iruinkokoa carnival as an agentive chronotope

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article analyzes Iruinkokoa, a contemporary Basque carnival in Pamplona‐Iruñea, as an example of emerging forms of minority‐language activism grounded in carnivalesque critique and performative intervention. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, the study examines how parody, satire, and collective performance ...
Agurtzane Elordui   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Walk the Line? A Reply to Kate Phelan

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 224-227, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT Kate Phelan's defense of feminism as a movement exclusively concerned with sex‐based oppression rests on two interlocking moves: a sharp division between women as women and women as members of other oppressed groups, and a “sex‐right” framework that is supposed to entail an abolitionist conclusion about prostitution.
Annabelle Lever
wiley   +1 more source

How Bots Threaten Democracy by Misrepresenting Actors and Ideas: The Case of the 2022 Swedish Election

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Online democratic discourse faces threats from diverse forms of information manipulation, including disinformation campaigns and foreign influence operations. Among these, political bots represent a covert and scalable threat, infiltrating online debates, amplifying select viewpoints, and distorting perceptions of public opinion.
Linus Wahlberg
wiley   +1 more source

Keywords for Feminist Conjunctural Analysis

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Geography's engagement with conjunctural analysis is resurging as scholars attempt to sharpen our shared analytical tools to make sense of our contemporary interregnum. Conjunctural analysis (CA) is not, however, merely about better apprehending a crisis; it should be understood as knowing a given crisis and conjuncture for politics.
Kate Derickson, Diksha Shriyan
wiley   +1 more source

Unbuttoned: The Interaction Between Provocativeness of Female Work Attire and Occupational Status [PDF]

open access: yesSex Roles, 2015
Gender-biased standards in United Kingdom (UK) workplaces continue to exist. Women experience gender discrimination in judgements of competence, even by other women. Clothing cues can subtly influence professional perceptions of women.
Neil Howlett, Karen J Pine, Ben Fletcher
exaly   +4 more sources

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