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Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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Journal of Philanthropy, Volume 31, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT Addressing ongoing calls for a more robust understanding of philanthropic foundations, this paper uses metaphor analysis to map and analyse analogical metaphors on foundations—metaphors that make a direct comparison between philanthropic foundations and another domain—put forward in academic and non‐academic discourse.
Tobias Jung
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Mobilizing Documents: Identification, Bureaucracy, and Policing in Transnational Mobility
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and ...
Sahana Ghosh +5 more
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Metaphysics of Progress in the Russian Religious Philosophy
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 In the article, views of the Russian philosophers on progress are considered. It is noted that a basic point of reflections of a number of domestic thinkers on the matter is the criticism of the «eudemonistic» approach consisting in understanding of ...
Vladimir Borisovich Aleksandrov
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Guts, Grit and God? Spiritual Capital and Entrepreneurial Resilience in a Turbulent Environment
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, Volume 43, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Entrepreneurs operating in turbulent environments face significant uncertainty, resource constraints and institutional instability, requiring innovative coping mechanisms. Although resilience research has traditionally focused on tangible and network‐based resources, the role of spiritual capital as a critical, yet largely unexplored, resource
Oluwaseun Kolade +3 more
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Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 3, March 2026.Tree‐health policies must balance identifying likely entry points and deployment of traps, targeted information campaigns and surveillance subsidies for land managers. Our unique, cross‐disciplinary approach can be applied to other pest/pathogen systems to inform tree‐health plans and how to balance resources.
Vasthi Alonso Chávez +11 more
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Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?
History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 217-236, March 2026.Abstract This article offers a detailed analysis of Winston Churchill's relationship with Spain over the course of his long and eventful political and personal life. The article focuses on three key episodes: Churchill's ambivalent stance during the Spanish Civil War; his leadership and policy towards Spain during the crucial years of the Second World ...
EMILIO SÁENZ‐FRANCÉS
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 123-142, March 2026.The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract This paper examines corporate LGBTQ+ activism and the productive incorporation of queers into capitalism in Brazil. Mobilising transnational queer materialist critiques in tandem with critical perspectives from teoria do cu, the paper sheds light on how homonormativity operates not simply as a set of cultural norms or representational tropes ...
Olimpia Burchiellaro
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