The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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“We Cannot Allow Ourselves to Imagine What it All Means”: Documentary Practices and the International Criminal Court [PDF]
, 2014 Werner, Wouter G.
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how persistent inequality in London can be addressed through a place‐based systems approach, using Feltham in the Borough of Hounslow—one of the capital's most deprived areas—as a case study. It offers a blueprint for community regeneration using a ‘pathways to progression’ education model.
Peter John
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Religion's role in managing infertility in Ghana: views from obstetricians and gynaecologists - a qualitative study. [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthMensah NA +3 more
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Suicide Risk Assessments Understood as Medical Rituals: Functions and Implications from Societal and Medico-Ethical Perspectives. [PDF]
J Bioeth InqLundahl A.
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden
Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
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Grieving in virtual worlds: emotional processes and generational differences in avatar-based memorials on VRChat. [PDF]
Front PsycholFu M, Xiao H, Ruan H, Lin Y, Dong X.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
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Impact of urban and cultural landscape heritage on mental health: a systematic review and meta-synthesis. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthLi H +6 more
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