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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Stigma is on the rise. [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Psychiatry
Schomerus G   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Increasing Student Teachers' Preference of Scientific Evidence—Insights From a Utility Value Intervention

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Teacher education should equip student teachers with scientific evidence and scientific theories as a resource for future pedagogical action. In opposition to this, student teachers tend to perceive a rather low utility value of scientific evidence and scientific theories for pedagogical action.
Michael Rochnia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Key soil health indicators under humid grazing lands

open access: yesGrassland Research, EarlyView.
Soil health can be described using a few key soil health indicators that target a diversity of soil functions. This perspective article highlights how forage management affects these soil health indicators in humid‐zone grazing lands. Abstract Background Soil health describes critical soil functions influenced by land management. Although some key soil
Alan J. Franzluebbers
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Education Governance as a Mediator of Movements Toward Justice

open access: yesNew Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter explores the intersection of higher education governance and social movements, focusing on how governance actors respond to equity‐focused demands. Integrating scholarship from governance and social movement theory, we develop a framework to analyze the conditions under which actors can adopt or resist social change initiatives ...
Crystal L. Couch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Academic Departments as Microfoundations of Institutional Governance

open access: yesNew Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considerations of governance in US higher education do not typically include the academic department. This results in a knowledge gap about the role of these central organizing units of academic work in the governance of colleges and universities.
Karley A. Riffe, Meghan J. Pifer
wiley   +1 more source

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