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

open access: yesMedical 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Discretion to Calculation: How Analog Automation Shaped Digitalization of Finnish Social Assistance

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Automation in public administration is often seen as a recent, purely digital phenomenon that transforms decision‐making and governance. This article challenges that view by elucidating a historical continuum in the automation of administrative decision‐making.
Aleksander Heikkinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seriality and style: The embodiment, perception, and normalization of collectives

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Within existential phenomenology, both seriality and style have been drawn on to theorize the embodiment and perceptibility of (social) ontological differences. While style refers to how we encounter the world and others not in the abstract, but as immediately and intuitively meaningful, seriality is a form of collective being that pertains to
Tris Hedges
wiley   +1 more source

Dead time, hard time, and narrative redemption: Delimiting the life proper

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Is every detail of your life a candidate for the meaningful, valuable, or worthwhile? If not, which do you exclude? Thaddeus Metz nominates “dead time”: the nail‐clipping, line‐waiting, traffic‐jam enduring, generally commonplace moments of our life. Dead time, while prevalent, is not remarkable. Metz recommends that we set at least some of it
Kathy Behrendt
wiley   +1 more source

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