3054 papers
This ethnographic study of middle-aged Kazakh women in Xinjiang reveals that physical activity inequality is socially produced through a mutually reinforcing "time-space-cognition trilemma" driven by gendered labor burdens, normalized chronic illness, and culturally inaccessible fitness infrastructure, rather than by individual lack of motivation.
This paper critiques the concept of "algorithmic colonialism" to expose how current international trade laws and digital monopolies perpetuate global structural inequalities, advocating for a reformed governance framework that prioritizes equity, accountability, and sustainable development through enhanced transparency and inclusive policy solutions.
The paper "Beyond Boundaries" analyzes how transnational criminal networks in the Horn of Africa (2010–2024) exploit weak governance, porous borders, and informal financial systems like hawala to sustain resilient illicit economies across Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Sudan, necessitating enhanced regional cooperation among financial intelligence and security agencies to counter these adaptive threats.
Based on a survey-weighted analysis of 20,966 Korean adults, this study reveals that while offline leisure engagement and life satisfaction are negatively associated with smartphone overdependence, digital competency and specific content-use patterns are positively linked, suggesting that offline activities serve as a protective factor while digital skills alone may not prevent overuse without self-regulation training.
This qualitative study reframes formative assessment in critical care residency as a constitutive emotional encounter rather than a purely technical process, demonstrating how the affective architecture of evaluative interactions shapes professional identity and calling for care-ethics-informed frameworks that prioritize relational attentiveness over behavioral accountability.
This paper argues that the non-hierarchical nature of the global nuclear security regime complex enables Southeast Asian states to engage in "forum shopping" by selectively prioritizing low-accountability mechanisms over high-accountability ones, a behavior that exacerbates regional security vulnerabilities amidst the post-2016 decline of Nuclear Security Summit momentum and calls for tailored policy interventions to strengthen governance without relying on major-power consensus.
This paper argues that despite India's progressive judicial recognition of environmental rights and existing legal frameworks, the country's poor environmental performance highlights the critical, yet often overlooked, role of judicial dissent in catalyzing more effective environmental jurisprudence and governance.
This 2025 cross-sectional study of Kerman, Iran, reveals that both older adults and urban managers perceive the city's age-friendliness as generally poor, yet they hold significantly different views on specific dimensions such as transportation, outdoor spaces, housing, and information access, highlighting a critical need for more inclusive urban planning.
This study of a Taiwanese gay-father family reveals that even in the absence of a mother, parenting labor can remain hierarchically divided not by gender but by academic credentials, a phenomenon the authors term the "gender-disguised capital hierarchy."
This study analyzes the Tadarus on the Road controversy in Banten, Indonesia, to illustrate how competing logics of "Institutional Spatial Purism" and "Performative Spatial Populism" drive an "Authority Displacement Loop" where embodied religious practices contest formal urban regulations and reshape religious authority through spatial occupation and counter-mobilization.