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Reasoning without consensus: grassroots experiments in radical inclusion in Israel/Palestine Raisonner sans consensus : expériences locales d'inclusion radicale en Israël et en Palestine

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Liberal public reason seeks to provide a neutral platform for political engagement. Yet, its conditions, notably the rules of engagement and the demand for consensus, effectively exclude many populations with non‐liberal subjectivities from public participation.
Erica Weiss
wiley   +1 more source

Life unsettled: debating abortion in the US Supreme Court and the Irish Citizens’ Assembly La vie en question : débats autour de l'avortement à la Cour suprême des États‐Unis et dans l'Assemblée citoyenne irlandaise

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines polyvalent uses of the word ‘life’ in the debate about abortion in the United States compared with Ireland. It takes two axiomatically liberal events as its ethnographic site of comparison: the US Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v.
Natalie Morningstar
wiley   +1 more source

The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
PETROS SPANOU
wiley   +1 more source

The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source

Postnatal development in the cold render bird mitochondria more susceptible to heat stress. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Biol Sci
Correia M   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

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