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Constructing Epistemic Authority in Geopolitical Crisis Reporting: A Comparative Heteroglossic Analysis of the FT and the NYT Coverage

This study employs a comparative heteroglossic discourse analysis of Financial Times and New York Times coverage of the Huawei CFO case to reveal how the two outlets construct competing forms of epistemic authority by utilizing distinct configurations of dialogic resources, with the FT favoring expansion and openness while the NYT prioritizes alignment and closure.

Junfeng Jiao2026-10-08

📄 social science

Spatial Grammar, Not Room Inventory Configurational Clustering of Albanian Vernacular Dwellings across Five Cities

By applying space-syntax analysis to traditional dwellings across five Albanian cities, this study demonstrates that regional spatial grammars, rather than room inventories, define the nation's vernacular housing typologies, thereby establishing a statistically grounded basis for regionally differentiated heritage conservation.

Shkëlqim Sherifi2026-10-08

📄 social science

Named or served? a critical analysis of how Australian sexual and reproductive health policies represent the needs of migrant and refugee women

This paper critically analyzes Australian sexual and reproductive health policies using Bacchi's WPR framework to reveal that they predominantly frame migrant and refugee women's disparities as issues of cultural difference and health literacy, while systematically obscuring the structural exclusion caused by visa status and Medicare ineligibility, thereby necessitating legal and eligibility reforms rather than merely cultural service adjustments.

Negin Mirzaei Damabi, Mumtaz Begum, Jodie C. Avery, Myat Myat Thein, Patience Castleton, Zachary Munn, Zohra S. Lassi2026-10-08

📄 social science

The Evolution of Ideas in South American Immigration Policy

By analyzing a comprehensive corpus of 34,017 legal texts across nine South American countries from 1900 to 2024 using large language models, this study reveals that while the region is renowned for rights-based immigration policies, the dominant and most durable governance paradigm is actually managerial-developmental, with rights-based norms remaining concentrated in statutes rather than the administrative regulations that constitute the bulk of binding governance.

Mayra Feddersen, Felipe Castro, Catalina Salas Pizarro, Beatriz Quiroz2026-10-08

📄 social science

Negotiating the Ideal Graduate: Employer Expectations and Graduate Employability in a Changing Labour Market

This qualitative case study reveals that the "ideal graduate" is not merely a product of skills matching but emerges through a complex, negotiated process where universities and employers align on transferable capabilities while navigating divergent interpretations and tensions between educational values and labour-market demands.

Zhuoying Yan2026-10-08

📄 social science

Re-centering the Social Dimension in Clinical Social Work: Professional Reflections from Continuing Education MOOCs

Based on a qualitative analysis of 540 reflective texts from continuing education programs, this article argues that Clinical Social Work can effectively re-center the social dimension of psychic suffering by navigating the tension between biopsychosocial care and the constraints of managerialism, thereby resisting the individualization of distress through socially grounded interventions.

Francisco Gómez-Gómez2026-10-08

📄 social science

Implementation of Regulatory By-laws in Sustaining People's Livelihoods in the Informal Sector: A Case Study of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng Province

This mixed-methods case study of the City of Tshwane analyzes the implementation gaps in regulatory by-laws affecting informal street traders, arguing that effective enforcement and improved infrastructure are essential to sustaining livelihoods within the inner city's restrictive regulatory environment.

Mkhacani Thomas Mkhatshane, Rendani Tshifhumulo2026-10-08

📄 social science

Trends of Time Management Practices and Academic Achievement Among Pre- Service Teachers

This empirical study of 531 pre-service teachers in Odisha reveals that while gender, sleep quality, and attendance significantly influence time management practices, there is no significant correlation between time management and academic achievement, highlighting an urgent need to integrate structured time management training into teacher education curricula to support holistic development under NEP 2020.

Ishita Mishra, Swagatika Meher, sohini das, dipanshu Sharma2026-10-08

📄 social science

When Practice Spaces Shrink: Livelihood Transitions and the Erosion of Pastoral Knowledge among the Brokpa

Based on qualitative research among the Brokpa of Western Arunachal Pradesh, this paper argues that the erosion of traditional ecological knowledge is driven less by cultural forgetting than by the contraction of practice spaces caused by livelihood diversification, borderland governance, and environmental uncertainty, which restrict the conditions necessary for learning and enacting pastoral knowledge.

Kusum Valley Devi, Rishi Kumar Sharma2026-10-08

📄 social science

Credential farming in the age of generative AI: relocating trust from outputs to communities

This paper argues that generative AI has undermined the reliability of traditional academic credentials as proxies for competence, necessitating a shift in epistemic trust from polished outputs to the relational communities and formative processes that genuinely cultivate and witness scholarly judgment.

Gift Osei Agyemang, Rawad AL-Louzi, Melat Mezgebu Bawoke, Connor Bender, Leo Anthony Celi, Nishita Chavan, Rahul Gorijav (…)2026-10-08

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