Dutch national climate change adaptation policy through a securitization lens: Variations of securitization by Heleen Mees, Jana Surian

“…Securitization is studied with respect to the discourses used to frame the climate as a risk or threat, and the actors and tools that are put forward to address the climate risk or threat. …”
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“Espantar Vícios”: Prescrições para a Saúde Física e Moral em Manuais de Civilidade (Santa Catarina/Brasil – Década de 1950) by Maria Teresa Santos Cunha

“…Abstract This article presents an analysis of civility handbooks regarding civilizing discourses seeking to rule over aspects of physical and moral health issues throughout the 1950 decade, establishing a brief counterpoint with the medical perspective defended since the 1920 decade in the city of Florianopolis, Brazil. …”
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离散的诱惑 : 马华作家韦晕的离散书写 = The lure of diaspora : a critical study of Malaysian Chinese writer Wei Yun's diasporic writings by Lee, Wan Rong

“…Since the Uniqueness of Malaya Literature debate in 1948, the emergence of Sinophone Literature Studies, also with the major focusing on contemporary Malaysian writers, these had echoed different interpretations on diaspora and locality, both inside and outside literary discourses. However, the research on the early Chinese writers were relatively lacking, especially those have been contributing to the writing paradigm associated with the diaspora discourses in Malaya. …”
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Vernacular queer and shifting power in Russia: from the late Imperial era up to the 1930s by Roldugina, I

“…The current historiography of homosexuality provides a somewhat limited view, emphasizing the importance and overarching influence of medical and legal discourses on queer subjects. The thesis offers a different perspective, shifting the analysis of hegemonic discourses of experts to the self-expression of homosexuals and gender and sexual non-conformists in the tumultuous time of the 1920s. …”

Arctic science in circulation at the Royal Geographical Society c.1880–1914 by Martin, P

“…Much historical scholarship has examined the events which took place as various explorers ventured into the Northernmost areas of the earth’s surface. Such analysis has sought to understand the multiple and overlapping motivations that lay behind these Arctic expeditionary practices. …”

A gift of time: the contemporary artist-in-residency programme by Hutchens, J

“…The thesis is structured through an analysis of some of the main types of artist residencies, since these are also related to the key concepts that shape contemporary residency thinking. …”

Measuring and reducing acquiescence in vocational profiling procedures for first time job-seekers with mental retardation by Kilsby, M, Bennert, K, Beyer, S

“…Discourse analysts have shown that interview interactions between staff and people with mental retardation are especially subject to problems of 'acquiescence'. …”

Care needs of pregnant women with a private health insurance: a comprehensive social phenomenology approach Necesidades de cuidado de mujeres embarazadas que poseen seguro de salud... by Miriam Aparecida Barbosa Merighi, Renata Tavares Franco Rodrigues, Selisvane Ribeiro da Fonseca Domingos

“…It was based on the qualitative research of phenomenological inspiration. The discourses analysis was based on the sociologist and fenomenologist Alfred Schutz's thought. …”
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Menarche and reproductive health in Spanish Roma women from a reproductive justice perspective: a qualitative study by María Félix Rodríguez-Camacho, María José Sanchís-Ramón, Gaby Ortiz-Barreda, Daniel La Parra-Casado, Diana Gil-González

“…Design Qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with Roma women ages 18 through 67 in different neighborhoods in the southeast of Spain. Using a thematic analysis, we analyzed experiences related to menarche and menstruation and their significance for reproductive health, the preparation for the phase of menarche and intergenerational support. …”
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Locating Sweden in Time and Space: National Chronotopes in Civic Orientation for Adult Migrants by Simon Bauer, Kerstin von Brömssen, Tommaso M. Milani, Andrea Spehar

“…Such national chronotopes are not innocuous but are part of a rhetoric of nationalism that constructs a linear and comprehensive story of prosperity and superiority, not least vis-à-vis some other geographical areas in the world. As such, the analysis seeks to contribute to the burgeoning scholarship on civic orientation programmes by offering further empirical evidence of the shapes such programmes take, and how civic values become nationalised. …”
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WOMEN'S HEALTH INCARCERATED: A PROPOSAL FOR INTERVENTION, LOVE AND LIFE by Marlene Menezes de Souza Teixeira, Sebastiana Micaela Amorim Lemos, Elizangela Beneval Bento, Diogo Onofre Gomes de Souza, Maria Rosa Chitolina Schetinger

“…The data were collected in interviews and the written responses and grouped into categories through content analysis, we studied 38 women prisoners in the age group of 18 to 40 years. …”
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Comparison of the energetic performance of a binary cycle and a flash evaporation binary cycle, using low-enthalpy geothermal energy by Héctor Miguel Aviña Jiménez, Gabriel León de los Santos, Miguel Ángel Benítez Torreblanca

“…In this article, the comparison of the energetic performance of a binary cycle and a modified binary cycle with flash evaporation is presented, both using a low-enthalpy geothermal resource. The comparative analysis is based on two main discourses: the first one evaluates a conventional binary cycle (CBC) with isopentane as working fluid in order to validate and compare the generated data with those reported in similar studies; the second one uses the same input parameters for both cycles, obtaining the cases in which the modified binary cycle is the most viable choice to use. …”
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Talking about Difference: Cross-Cultural Comparison and Prejudice in Anthropology and Beyond by Bob W. White, Mathilde Gouin-Bonenfant, Anthony Grégoire

“…Starting from the observation that perceptions and representations of difference have an impact on the way that individuals and groups interact with each other in increasingly diverse urban environments, we argue that a systemic approach to the analysis of intercultural situations gives us a unique window into emerging discourses and evolving norms about difference. …”
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Who Are the Protagonists of History? Exploratory Study on Historical Relevance after Completing Compulsory Secondary Education in Spain by Pilar Rivero, Iñaki Navarro-Neri, Borja Aso

“…Based on this statement, a quantitative and qualitative analysis was conducted to explore the students’ discourses justifying their choices using the categories proposed by Partington, Hunt and Lévesque. …”
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Digital Ecologies of Youth Mental Health: Apps, Therapeutic Publics and Pedagogy as Affective Arrangements by Simone Fullagar, Emma Rich, Jessica Francombe-Webb, Antonio Maturo

“…Our approach builds on an understanding of public pedagogy to examine the pedagogical modes of address (Ellsworth 1997) that are (i) produced through ‘expert’ discourses of mental health literacy for young people; and (ii) include digital practices created by young people as they seek to publicly address mental ill health through social media platforms. …”
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The conceptualisation of life in Nursi's Damascus Sermon by Abdullah, Nur Sakinah Thomas, Hossein, Vahid Nimehchisalem, Mohd Kasim, Zalina, Gulerce, Hakan

“…In this study, the conceptual metaphor utilised by Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s (1877-1960) in his Damascus Sermon that relates to life is examined. The method of analysis is qualitative research through an explanatory case study which is based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). …”
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Building legitimacy by criticising the pharmaceutical industry: a qualitative study among prescribers and local opinion leaders by Anne-Laure Pittet, Michael Saraga, Friedrich Stiefel

“…This qualitative study addresses the distinction between the opinion-leader-as-marketing-tool and the opinion-leader-as-educator, as it is revealed in the discourses of physicians and experts, focusing on the prescription of antidepressants. …”
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Claiming the Countryside: Ekistics, Socio-Political Conflicts, and Emerging Cold-War Geopolitics During Greek Reconstruction by Petros Phokaides, Paschalis Samarinis, Loukas Triantis, Panayotis Tournikiotis

“…By focusing on the paradigmatic case of Greece, this article advances an understanding of European reconstruction as an uneven, contested, and transitional process and highlights the implications of architecture and planning discourses and practices amid ideological, territorial, and geopolitical contestations.…”
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The search for alternative knowledge in the post-truth era: Anti-vaccine mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey by Hande Eslen-Ziya, Ezgi Pehlivanli

“…As the worth of scientific expertise is devalued, the counter-scientific discourses supported through populist political rhetoric help to produce a culture of resistance to science. …”
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Frontiers of Bio-Decolonization: Indigenous Data Sovereignty as a Possible Model for Community-Based Participatory Genomic Health Research for Racialized Peoples in Postgenomic Can... by Arafaat Amin Valiani

“…By means of a genealogical analysis of bioethical discourses, I examine the problem in which genomic science claims to offer potentially beneficial genetic screening tools to Indigenous and racialized peoples who have and continue to struggle with historical health inequity, exploitation, and exclusion by the very biomedical institutions which would be charged with the task of ethically introducing these biomedical tools. …”
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