How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term
ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
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A cross-sectional study of the predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan. [PDF]
Ahmad S, Safdar MR, Ahmed MNQ.
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
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Subsistence fishing patterns near food deserts. [PDF]
Swinea SH +5 more
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Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Toward a safer school environment: A mixed-methods analysis of bullying and its impact on romanian middle school students. [PDF]
Coman C +4 more
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Sociological Significance of the General Population’s Awareness of Voice Disorders
Mirjana Petrović-Lazić +1 more
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Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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The Impact of Trust in Science on COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes: Parallel Mediation Through Conspiracy Beliefs and General Vaccine Hesitancy. [PDF]
Kara S +3 more
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