Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.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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Education matters: the emergence of social media and scepticism towards science
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses General Social Survey (United States) data and provides evidence that the advent of Facebook and other social media platforms has widened the gap in scepticism towards science between low‐educated Americans and their more highly educated counterparts.
Gianluca Cerruti
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Mobilising Zionist and philo-Semitic sentiments through melodrama: Brazilian biblical telenovelas in the production of a neo-Pentecostal political culture. [PDF]
Relig State SocCarpenedo M.
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"Kids these days pretend to be grownups" (dekkaedaet): sexual control and negotiation among young Thai female students. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Waratworawan W +4 more
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Preaching in Canada: the absence of constitutive narrative and the problem of identity [PDF]
, 2006 Farris, Stephen
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how outsourcing household care in modern South Korea has shaped gendered migration from both rural areas and abroad. To clarify the interplay between macro‐level power and individual lives—an aspect often treated piecemeal in earlier research—it introduces the concept of circular carescapes. This notion captures the looping
Junyoung Park, HaeRan Shin
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"We don't care because we are not sick": understanding youths perceptions of hypertension in urban South Africa. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthSamakosky MJ, Crouch SH, Norris SA.
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Use of the behaviour change wheel to improve everyday person-centred conversations on physical activity across healthcare. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Reid H +7 more
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