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Emotional labour in midwifery care: Balancing between woman’s autonomy and clinical control during childbirth through watchful attendance

open access: yesSSM: Qualitative Research in Health
This article explores midwives' engagement with emotional labour. Drawing on theorisation first proposed by Arlie Hochschild, we investigate how midwives display emotions to induce certain emotional states in the birthing woman and, while doing so ...
Giulia Sinatti   +5 more
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Editorial in "Fashion Practice: Design, Creative Process and the Fashion Industry" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The landscape of research in fashion has blossomed over the last decades. A marked increase in academic debate and a burgeoning number of publications have begun to map the diversity, complexity, and breadth of fashion as simultaneously a major industry ...
Black, Sandy
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Hyper‐Precarious Lives: Understanding Migration, Global Supply Chain, and Gender Dynamics in Bangladesh

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
This article examines the lived experiences of precarity in Bangladesh’s ready‐made garments (RMG) industry, focusing on female migrant workers employed in Dhaka and surrounding industrial areas.
Hosna J. Shewly, Ellen Bal, Runa Laila
doaj   +1 more source

In the chaos of today's society: The dynamics of collapse as another shift in the quantum anthropology of Heidi Ann Russell [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The presented study introduces a new theoretical model of collapse for social, cultural, or political systems. Based on the current form of quantum anthropology conceptualized by Heidi Ann Russell, further development of this field is provided.
Trnka, Radek
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Cartographic storytelling: reflecting on maps through an ethnographic application in Siberia

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2022
In this paper, we explore the methodical, methodological, epistemological and outreach potential – and related challenges – of cartographic storytelling in ethnographic research, based on the online portal Life of BAM.
Gertrude Saxinger   +2 more
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Missing in Mexico: Denied victims, neglected stories

open access: yesCulture & History Digital Journal, 2014
In this article, I will describe the mostly invisibilized “fight for rehumanization” of the families of the dehumanized disappeared of the Mexican Dirty War of the 1960s and 1970s. The conflictive memory politics in Mexico and the ambivalent transitional
Sylvia Karl
doaj   +1 more source

The object of fashion : methodological approaches to the history of fashion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This essay considers the role of artefacts in the historical study of dress and fashion and suggests the existence of three different approaches. The field of history of dress and costume has a long tradition going back to the nineteenth century.
Riello, Giorgio
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Reproductive choices: a qualitative study of Dutch Moroccan and Turkish consanguineously married women’s perspectives on preconception carrier screening

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2018
Background Cousin marriages, in the Netherlands most frequently between Turkish or Moroccan couples, are at higher risk of having offspring with recessive disorders.
Petra Verdonk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Politeness in Ecuadorian Spanish [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This paper examines politeness phenomena in Ecuadorian Spanish as reflected in the language of telephone conversations, and, as such, attempts to add another cultural perspective to the discussion of politeness issues and of Brown and Levinson's (1978 ...
Placencia, Maria Elena
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Social and Cultural Barriers and Facilitators Affecting Mothers’ Dietary Practices in Eastern Ethiopia: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesCurrent Developments in Nutrition
Background: Inadequate dietary practices during pregnancy and breastfeeding, adversely affecting the health of both mothers and their children, are a serious public health challenge in Ethiopia.
Ketema Degefa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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