Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation
Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
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AI enhancing prefabricated aesthetics and low carbon coupled with 3D printing in chain hotel buildings from multidimensional neural networks. [PDF]
Sci RepCai G, Lou Y, Lu F.
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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Skin Lightening Practice and Its Cutaneous Effects Among Women in Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]
J Cosmet DermatolFrancis MY, Minja E, Dennis M, Shayo G.
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt +7 more
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A scoping review of overweight and obesity prevalence and determinants among immigrant adults in Nordic countries. [PDF]
J Migr HealthKronstad LE, Tokovska M, Kisa A.
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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Unveiling the sedentary epidemic through insights from college students in Guangdong. [PDF]
Sci RepTao X +7 more
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Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Objectives Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme workers (hereafter referred to as PALM participants) are integral to Australia's economic landscape, contributing predominantly to agriculture and meatworks sectors. Many PALM participants come from regions with high burdens of blood‐borne viruses (BBVs) such as hepatitis B virus (HBV),
Geraldine Vaughan +3 more
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