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“In the Danube Delta, you will always find food”:Gendered access to ecosystem services and blue justice in a post-communist coastal wetland

This article examines how the transition from state-managed resource exploitation to conservation-oriented governance in Romania's Danube Delta has reshaped women's access to ecosystem services, revealing that blue justice requires addressing not only resource distribution but also the intersecting influences of gender, ethnicity, age, and place on recognition and participation.

Petruța Mădălina Teampău, Monalisa S. O. Rodrigues, Natașa Văidianu, Priscila F. M. Lopes2026-09-18

📄 social science

Iranian Elite Perceptions of the Underlying Factors of the Iran‑Russia Strategic Partnership

This study employs a mixed-methods approach to reveal that Iranian elites perceive the Iran-Russia strategic partnership as a structural epiphenomenon driven primarily by systemic pressures and shared threats against Western hegemony, rather than by internal factors like trust or institutional cooperation.

Saeed Khavarinejad2026-09-18

📄 social science

'I Love Baku': Azerbaijani YouTubers and Citizen Diplomacy

This study analyzes how Azerbaijani YouTubers leverage Russian-language vlogs to act as informal cultural ambassadors, fostering citizen diplomacy and enhancing Azerbaijan's international image through authentic narratives of daily life and culture.

Narmina Abdulaev2026-09-18

📄 social science

The Right To Appeal First Instance Judgments Handed Down By The Supreme Federal Court Of Brazil: Constitutional Challenges

This article argues that while the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil's original jurisdiction is not inherently incompatible with the right to appeal, its legitimacy depends on the functional sufficiency of internal review mechanisms to provide substantive re-examination, accessibility, and real decisional impact.

Randermei Marinho de Almeida Oliveira2026-09-18

📄 social science

“As an Unidentified Star to a Pilot”? Reclaiming the Common Good for Liberal Democracy.

This article argues that liberal democracy can reclaim the concept of the common good from populist appropriation by developing a procedural, fiduciary account that integrates instrumental, aggregative, and organicist dimensions through subsidiarity, thereby demonstrating its compatibility with democratic theory and offering a foundation for post-neoliberal politics.

Alessandro Volpi2026-09-18

📄 social science

Extending Instrumental Orchestration for AI-Mediated Mathematics Classrooms: The AISIO Framework

This paper proposes the Artificial Intelligence-Supported Instrumental Orchestration (AISIO) framework as an extension of instrumental orchestration to address how teachers in AI-mediated mathematics classrooms must regulate AI-generated pedagogical participation while sustaining collective mathematical activity and epistemic authority.

Hee-jeong Kim, Luc Trouche, Yunhwa Noh2026-09-18

📄 social science

Human-AI Relationships at the Intersection of Engineering, Ethics, and Policy: A Systematic Review

This systematic review of 169 studies (2022–2026) reveals that current human-AI governance is fragmented and reactive, characterized by significant gaps between engineering, ethics, and policy, and argues for an urgent shift toward a rational, anticipatory, multi-stakeholder framework to address issues like anthropomorphic deception and user vulnerability.

Zi An Wang, Srikanth Hari, Tinah Dembele, Channarong Intahchomphoo2026-09-18

📄 social science

The Psychological Burden of Displacement: Anxiety, Isolation, and Trauma Among Adolescents

This cross-sectional study of 110 displaced Rohingya adolescents in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, reveals that while anxiety and social isolation are significantly interconnected, neither factor significantly predicts trauma-related symptoms, suggesting that adolescent well-being in displacement contexts is shaped by a complex array of individual, relational, and community-level factors beyond these specific measures.

Md Mostafizur Rahman, Md Toufiqur Rahman, Soyed Rakibuzzaman Roky, Sayma Akter Pata, Md Rezaul Islam, Md Mostofa Kamal (…)2026-09-18

📄 social science

Heritage Mapping: Personalities and their Contributions to Arts and Culture Development

This study synthesizes thirteen biographical cultural-mapping investigations in Calabanga, Philippines, to propose a people-centered heritage framework that demonstrates how the interconnected networks of educators, artists, leaders, and patrons—not just individual artists—drive arts and culture development through an ecology of memory, education, governance, and civic service.

Richard Gavina Castor2026-09-18

📄 social science

Heritage Mapping: Cultural Institutions and their Contributions to Arts and Culture Development

This study synthesizes three cultural-mapping cases in Calabanga, Philippines, to argue that cultural institutions function as active relational heritage systems and proposes a "Cultural Institution Heritage Cycle" to transform their documentation into policy and community development strategies that ensure cultural continuity and sustainable place-making.

Richard Gavina Castor2026-09-18

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