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At the Crossroads: Intersections at Colonization
Intersectionality arose as a strategy to understand how oppression operates simultaneously on multiple aspects of a person’s identity. As such, it...
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Societal and Individual Impacts of Substance Abuse
A drug, distinct from food, is a chemical substance that alters physiological and psychological functioning. Drug addiction, resulting from repeated...
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Social Theory and Transgender: Beyond Polarization
This paper argues that social theory can cast light on some of the main themes in current debates about trans issues. It considers four such themes:...
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Why and How Couples Leave Relationships: A Twenty-First Century Landscape
A multiplicity of reasons account for the departure of couples from adult intimate relationships in the first decades of the twenty-first century....
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Participant Observation: The Personal Commitment in Native Life—A Problematic Methodological Topos
While it is well known that fieldwork started long before Malinowski, it is equally well known that the ethnographic method based on participant...
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Everyday Use of Violence and Experience of Violence
The last points already refer to an aspect that goes beyond the staging of the body: visual experience of violence becomes possible through the...
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Hegemonic Masculinity and African Masculinity Studies
The chapter explores how to decolonise and Africanise the concept of hegemonic masculinity invented by Raewyn Connell and colleagues over three...
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Facilitating Ethical Participatory Visual Research in Taboo Spaces
Gender intersects in interesting ways with practices of witchcraft globally, with people’s sexuality used as a yardstick towards possible witchcraft...
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Multilingual Multi-Sited Ethnography
Mobility and migration multilingualize people and thus open their horizons to the world. This social and cultural fact also became apparent in the...
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Evaluating the Model of Causal Relations between Organizational Identity and Organizational Commitment in Hospital Nursing Staff through the Mediation of Organizational Culture
In the healthcare sector, organizational identity (OI) and commitment (OCO) are essential in ensuring quality nursing care. Therefore, the...
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From Power Imbalance to Interdependence: A Case Study of the Chadian Sesame Supply Chain
Smallholder farmers are crucial actors for rural development in Africa. Their participation in global agro-food chains assures a source of revenues...
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Find Your Face: The Case of Gender Sociocultural Transformations within the Art of Drag Queens in Chile
The art of drag queens has been transformed over the last thirty years in Chile. The change in the material conditions of its production and the...
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The Moral Dimension of Countermovements: The Case of Anti-Feminism
The aim of the chapter is to develop an analytical framework for studying the moral dimension of countermovements, which despite obvious significance...
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The Significance of Relationality in “Doing Transitions”
It is common to interpret transitions as individual experiences that are largely the result of personal choices and behaviors or that are being...
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Examining Cross-Cultural Relationships Between Meaning in Life and Psychological Well-Being in Turkey and the United States
This study explored the extent to which meaning in life (i.e., presence and search) relates to different aspects of psychological well-being in...
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The Device of the Spirit Medium for Connecting Humans to the Supernatural: A Case Study of Shamanic Healing in the Qorčin Region of China’s Inner Mongolia
Mongolian medicine coexists with biomedicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and folk medical practices such as shamanic healing rituals in Inner...
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Surviving the Tides: A Study of Small-Scale Fisheries and Community Livelihoods in Selected Coastal Towns of the Western Cape, South Africa
This study explores the livelihood activities of small-scale fishers in selected coastal towns of South Africa, particularly in the Western Cape...
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“Between Heaven and Hell”: Love, Sex and Intimacy—International Retirement Migration of Older Men to Thailand
Désirée Bender and Cornelia Schweppe examine the migration of older men from German-speaking countries to Thailand, which is (partly) motivated by...
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The Role of Social Norms: A Case Study of Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescent Girls in Nigeria
Intimate partner violence (IPV) poses a significant threat as young as adolescence, globally. Girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) often face...
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Identity, Persona and Issues of Recognition
Until the end of the series, the question of who this Spartacus actually is remains open, because the viewer does not learn his real name. If you...
