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Institutional Homophobia and Unclaimed Queer Trauma in Orange Is the New Black: A Multimodal Analysis through Butler’s Performativity and Caruth’s Trauma Theory

This study employs a multimodal analysis of ten episodes from *Orange Is the New Black*, utilizing Judith Butler's performativity and Cathy Caruth's trauma theory to reveal how the series depicts the interconnectedness of institutional homophobia, carceral violence, and unclaimed queer trauma while highlighting both systemic abuse and queer resistance.

AARADHANA SATISH PANIKKAR, YADAMALA SREENIVASULU2026-09-10

📄 social science

Perezhivanie and Teacher Identity in the Training of Two Chilean Teachers

This study analyzes the identity formation of two Chilean trainee teachers using the Vygotskian concept of *perezhivanie* to interpret how dramatic life events, motivations, support networks, and reflective opportunities shape their development as educators.

Yerko Muñoz-Salinas2026-09-10

📄 social science

The Affective Arena: Posthuman Subjectivity Beyond Cerebral Humanism

This article proposes the "affective arena" as a posthuman model of subjectivity that transcends the limitations of rationalist humanism and deconstructive discourse by integrating the work of key theorists to reconceptualize subject formation as a relational, embodied, and materially entangled process of circulating intensities, thereby offering cultural psychology new theoretical and methodological tools to study distributed affective phenomena.

ADITHYA PAVITHRAN, Poongodi A2026-09-10

📄 social science

When social norms collapse against rights: the polycrisis and a behavioural architecture of gender rights rollback under far-right populism

This article introduces the Behavioural Architecture of Gender Rights Rollback (ABRDG) framework to explain how the convergence of a global polycrisis, affective polarization, and digital amplification drives far-right populists to systematically target gender rights as an epistemic rupture, utilizing cognitive traps and manipulated social norms to erode democratic stability.

Maria Salomé Mejía Ochoa2026-09-10

📄 social science

Making of the Future through the Past: Imagination in Action

This article proposes a framework in which imagination dynamically reorganizes temporal relations among past, present, and future to regulate affective processes and facilitate human development, illustrated through a longitudinal psychotherapy case that highlights how psychological change emerges from the continuous restructuring of these temporal connections.

Jennifer Sigurddatter2026-09-10

📄 social science

How a Humanitarian Form Takes Shape: Practice Sedimentation and China’s Engagement with Africa, 1950-2022

Drawing on practice theory and historical institutionalism, this article argues that China's distinctive humanitarian engagement in Africa (1950–2022) is not merely a tool for political interests or soft power, but the sedimented outcome of three cumulative mechanisms—bilateral path dependence, institutional coupling of relief and development, and platform convergence—that have shaped a genealogically distinct non-Western humanitarian form.

Yingjie Zhao, Guosen Wang2026-09-10

📄 social science

Divergent Educational Tracks and Mental Health: A Propensity Score-Matched Network Analysis of Adolescent Depression and Anxiety

This study utilizes propensity score matching and network analysis to reveal that while general and vocational high school students share a similar core symptom structure for depression and anxiety, vocational students exhibit a denser, more fragile psychopathological network driven by somatic-arousal bridges despite lower overall symptom prevalence, whereas general students face higher symptom rates due to academic pressure, highlighting the need for distinct, dual-targeted interventions for each educational track.

Antai Shi, Yaofei Xie, Shu Yan, Taimin Wu, Fu Li, Yang Zhou2026-09-10

📄 social science

Innovative Design and Practice of Flipped Classroom Based on Modified RBL for Cultivating Creative Thinking in Plastic Surgery Education

This study demonstrates that a modified Research-Based Learning (RBL) approach integrated with a WeChat-supported flipped classroom effectively enhances undergraduate medical students' creative thinking, self-directed learning, and research competence within plastic surgery education.

Zhaowei Zhu, Yu Deng, Haibo Liu, Yi Zhang, Shuqia Xu, Zi Ye, YingXiong Huang, Bo He2026-09-10

📄 social science

Sex Differences in The Relationship Between Peer Support and Stress in Emerging Adulthood

This study reveals that among employed emerging adults in Taiwan, the protective effect of peer support against psychological stress varies significantly by sex, with appraisal support uniquely benefiting men and emotional support uniquely benefiting women, while financial stress and workplace bullying differentially impact each gender.

Chun-Lun Hsu, Daphne Yih Ng, Yu-Ning Chao, Yu-Lung Chiu2026-09-10

📄 social science

Social Exclusion, Occupational Stigma, and Constrained Agency among Harijan Sanitation Workers in Urban Bangladesh: An Ethnographically Informed Case Study of the Ganaktuli Sweeper Colony, Dhaka

Through an ethnographic study of the Ganaktuli sweeper colony in Dhaka, this article argues that despite formal wage employment, Harijan sanitation workers in urban Bangladesh experience constrained agency due to the interlocking forces of caste-based occupational stigma, gendered mobility restrictions, and spatial exclusion, which collectively limit their social integration and economic empowerment while fostering specific aspirations for their daughters' education.

Borun Chandra, Anuradha Parasar2026-09-10

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