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Extractive Landscapes and Discursive Violence in African and South Asian Fiction: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis

This study employs a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis framework to examine how four postcolonial novels from Africa and South Asia narratively frame extractive harm and environmental injustice, revealing that damaged landscapes function as social archives of unequal burden while highlighting regional differences primarily in witness orientation rather than intensity.

Ruilin Zhao2026-08-18

📄 social science

Asymmetries of Vulnerability: How Party Lines Shape Racialized Online Violence Against Women in the 2024 U.S. Election

This study analyzes over 700,000 tweets from the 2024 U.S. congressional elections to demonstrate that partisan identity intersects with race and gender to create asymmetric vulnerabilities to online violence, specifically targeting Democratic women of color and white Republican women with elevated levels of abuse compared to their counterparts.

Jungmin Han, Müge Finkel, Dhanaraj Thakur, Steven Finkel, Firat Duruşan, Erdem Yörük2026-08-18

📄 social science

Campus Party Wings and Future Political Leaders: Evidence from the University of Malawi

Drawing on political socialization theory and interviews with twenty participants, this study of the University of Malawi reveals that university-based party wings serve as consequential yet institutionally constrained bridges between campus and national politics that simultaneously cultivate future leaders' competencies and democratic dispositions while exposing them to patronage networks.

Alpha Bekelesi, Ernest Pondani2026-08-18

📄 social science

Perception of Academic Staff on the Readiness for Institutional Autonomy in the Public Research Universities

This study examines the moderate level of academic staff readiness for institutional autonomy in Ethiopian public research universities, identifying that successful transition depends not only on policy adaptation but also on psychological preparedness, clear organizational structures, effective communication, and constructive dialogue between university management and the state.

Tadesse Bekele Megenessa, Mitiku Bekele Gemeda, Dessalegn Beyene Debelo2026-08-18

📄 social science

Development and Validation of a Student-Centered Tpack-Based Instrument for Evaluating Technology-Supported Environmental Learning in Higher Education

This study developed and psychometrically validated a reliable 41-item student-centered TPACK-based instrument to assess university students' perceptions of technology-supported environmental learning, thereby extending the TPACK framework's application from teacher education to higher education contexts focused on Education for Sustainable Development.

Zulfiya Unerbayeva, Turar Akylbekova, Onlassyn Kulumbetova, Salih Çepni, Zhazira Mukatayeva, Bekbolat Ibashev, Dauren Ba (…)2026-08-18

📄 social science

Reasoning Attention under Evidential Underdetermination

This paper introduces the concept of "reasoning attention" to argue that attention performs an epistemic function by organizing evidential salience during inference, distinguishing three forms of attentional organization and demonstrating how severe evidential underdetermination prevents the stable realization of the most decisive form (Type C).

Runlin Cao2026-08-18

📄 social science

Emotion–Message Congruency in Sustainability Communication: The Interactive Effects of Discrete Emotions and Message Framing in Reducing Single-Use Plastic Consumption

This research demonstrates that the effectiveness of sustainability communication in reducing single-use plastic consumption depends on the congruency between discrete emotions (sadness or disgust) and message framing (gain or loss), with psychological distance serving as a key moderator of these interactive effects.

Duygun Alici Kilic, Ibrahim Taylan Dortyol2026-08-18

📄 social science

The Uprooted Political Socialization of DACA Recipients

This paper argues that while the DACA policy initially fostered American identity among recipients, its lack of permanent legal protections and pathway to citizenship ultimately eroded that attachment, causing recipients to prioritize more secure racial and gender identities over a revocable national one.

Conner Martinez2026-08-18

📄 social science

Rumors Across Borders: How TransnationalTies and Social Media Shape Latino Belief inMisinformation and Support for Trump

This paper argues that transnational social ties expose Latinos to cross-border misinformation, which, when believed due to social media influence, significantly increases their support for Donald Trump, as demonstrated by a 2024 YouGov survey.

Francy Luna Diaz2026-08-18

📄 social science

Assessing surveillance in the European Union migration and asylum policies through MAXQDA

This article proposes a methodology-centered approach using MAXQDA qualitative data analysis software to examine and code EU migration and asylum policy texts, prioritizing the demonstration of the analytical process for understanding surveillance and disciplinary power over presenting empirical results.

Filiz Kaval, Emrah Zengin, Murat Cingöz, Ramazan İzol2026-08-18

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