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Democracy, Representation and Local Governance in Crisis: Reflections on the 2026 Tower Hamlets Elections

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a practitioner‐scholar reflection on the 2026 Tower Hamlets local elections, in which the Aspire party secured thirty‐three of forty‐five council seats, the Labour Party was reduced to five and the Green Party emerged as an equal opposition force.
Gulay Icoz
wiley   +1 more source

Scrap the Food Waste: An Investigation of the Effect of Sociodemographic Factors and Digital Activism on Food Waste Prevention Behavior. [PDF]

Foods
Piochi M, Migliavada R, Onorati MG, Fassio F, Torri L.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Body maps of counter-hegemonic midwifery practices in Chile: a collective case study. [PDF]

Front Glob Womens Health
Rodríguez-Garrido P, Márquez-Mosquera Y, Salazar-Toro N, Villarroel-Vergara P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Why didn't you bring us a pumpkin?’ Relational recognition of caste, class, and tribe in rural Andhra Pradesh, India « Pourquoi ne nous as‐tu pas apporté de citrouille ? » Reconnaissance relationnelle de la caste, de la classe et de la tribu dans les zones rurales de l'Andhra Pradesh (Inde)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
wiley   +1 more source

A multimodal discourse analysis of select Indian queer advertisements and representation of negotiated queer visibility in mass media. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Aswani SS, Preetha R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking social action through the info-ecological dimensions of two collaborative public health platforms: the people's health movement and the citizen sense project platforms as examples of health-net-activism. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Surrenti S, Di Felice M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Active Street : Walkability and activity in urban design

The public space is receiving a growing attention among scholars for its role in the city. Spaces like squares and streets are more and more seen as sources of social values which provide citizens with community and trust. Adapting the city’s public spaces to suit this new role becomes essential but is, at the same time, not easily done since much of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
wiley   +1 more source