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Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This paper employs Lezlie Lowe’s book,No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs, as a crucial site to examine how restroom facilities have historically perpetuated categorical inequalities based on factors such as race, disability, and ...

Social Studies of Science, Ahead of Print.
Accounts of scientific work at the lab bench largely overlook or sideline the considerable time and effort that scientists devote to the acquisition, management, and dispersal of funding. While multiple studies explore the subject of scientific funding ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the lessons for antiracism provided by Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of language. The late Martinican scholar (1928–2011) writes extensively about language in correspondence to core concepts in his thought, in particular Relation, ...

Journal of Family History, Ahead of Print.
This study examines how rising marriage expenses in the late Ottoman Empire became a socio-legal problem and analyzes subsequent reform proposals. Based on the Hacı Adil Bey Papers, the research focuses on the views of Zekeriya Zihni Bey and Süleyman ...

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
COVID-19 compelled people to seek new ways to get by during a stressful time. In this study, I explain how Palestinians in Gaza used digital storytelling to survive a stressful situation by leaning on community and finding joy in the simple things. They ...

International Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study investigates how hip-hop songs and memes operated as cultural and political alternative expressions during the July 2024 mass uprising in Bangladesh. The student-led movement, initially focused on quota fairness and accountability, evolved into ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the politics of the Mexican power industry between 1949, when the World Bank made its first major loan to a developing country, and 1954, when the loan project came to an end. By analyzing Mexico's largest power company, Mexican ...

French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
RésuméLe secteur éditorial de la littérature jeunesse constitue un domaine majeur des industries culturelles à destination des enfants. Pourtant, en France, les travaux scientifiques se sont concentrés sur l’analyse littéraire ou didactique de ses ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
This article examines the strategic deployment of Christian themes in Nazi propaganda aimed at Latin American Catholics during the Second World War. In contrast to the regime's fraught relationship with Christianity in Europe, Nazi propagandists adopted a ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
In 1972, psychologist Jerome Kagan boldly proclaimed that research he had recently conducted on the Maya of Guatemala would overturn the most cherished assumption in his field of child development. He insisted that early deprivation did not doom a child ...

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nSince the 1980s, caste associations in Maharashtra have re‐emerged as interest groups and as critical sites of identity reconstitution in response to social and economic transformations. This article examines the contemporary articulations of Maratha identity through the case of the Maratha Seva Sangh (MSS), a prominent caste association. Focusing on the structure, discourse, and strategies of MSS, it analyzes how the association addresses the dual questions of “Who is Maratha?” and “What is to be Maratha?”. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and MSS's published material, the article argues that MSS adopts a distinctly non‐Brahmin ideological stance seeking to redefine Maratha identity amid sociopolitical contestations, including economic decline, growing Dalit and Bahujan critiques, and weakening caste cohesion. In doing so, the article contributes to broader debates on caste, identity‐making, and the evolving role of caste associations in contemporary India.\n"]

French Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
In 1946, French film director Julien Duvivier was invited by the popular film magazineCinémondeto write a series of weekly columns and give his anonymous views on current filmmaking policy in France and the role of the popular film critic and rate new ...

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Ahead of Print.
The violence that Palestinians experience in their everyday lives has been the subject of Palestinian as well as non-Palestinian artists for several decades. In this article, we explore the work of contemporary Palestinian cartoonist and graphic artist ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
Despite decades of feminist critique, historical realism retains a powerful hold on historiography, sustained not only by disciplinary convention but by the imaginative investments that realist norms simultaneously require and disavow. This article argues ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
Jalal Al-e Ahmad was an Iranian public intellectual and writer, best known for his concise, modern prose and bold critique. One of his works was a famous monograph on what he termedwestoxication. This article addresses the question: can this concept be ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.
People often reject scientific evidence that is at odds with their previous beliefs. Here, we examine the role of threat in such motivated science rejection and whether affirmations in science communication can effectively reduce threat, thereby ...

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
Poland was not the first country in communist Eastern Europe to reach for support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to overcome its sovereign debt crisis. Poland was first, however, to experience the deep tensions between Western calls for ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article reexamines Frank Ramsey's interest in Freudian psychoanalysis, seeking to understand how it makes sense with his behaviorist legacy which prioritized observable behavior rather than human depth. I analyze the private notes the English ...

Public Understanding of Science, Ahead of Print.

Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This article explores how graffiti removal practices—often seen as mundane concealing tasks—can produce visually compelling outcomes that are reminiscent of what they attempt to erase. These unintended visual outcomes, marked by awkward color patches, ...

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article analyses the cycle of social and political conflict that unfolded in Chile in the early twentieth century. It focuses on the uncertainty‐rich phase of 1918–1925 as a critical juncture that opened competing institutional pathways. Leaning on democratization studies and on Polanyi's double movement approach, the article conceptualizes capitalist dislocation as a main trigger of the crisis and of the emerging protective demands from that period. This perspective is introduced an analytical framework for examining Chilean specific democratic pathway. Empirically, the study draws on case study method. In that line, and in order to gain deeper understanding of political conflict debates of the period a systematic qualitative analysis of press debates across ideologically diverse outlets (1918–1925), complemented by secondary scholarship extending from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis study analyses the demographic trends at the Hugo Awards, with a focus on the authors' genders, languages, nationalities, and uses of pseudonyms. This research uses publicly available information published by the World Science Fiction Society and the Hugo Awards to determine demographic trends in nominated and winning authors for the Best Novel category over 7 decades. Several years of controversies around manipulation of the voting, and how these controversies themselves reflect and represent social changes, have also been considered. This analysis shows that trends for some of the demographic features of authors have changed significantly over the decades and done so largely in line with corresponding societal changes and changes to the publishing industry and science fiction. However, some demographic categories have remained stable over the years, despite external sociocultural and changes and changes to the operation of the awards themselves. The changes in demographic trends at the Hugo Awards observed in this paper have been slow, inconsistent, and met with multiple occasions of backlash.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nIn the twentieth century, academic concerns about changes in the racial demographics of the United States emanated from the potential crisis of settler colonial decline. In their references to previous empires, stories of contact between people groups, and changes in demographics, settler scholars worked to provide solutions to the ever‐present threat of racial difference. Two variants of eugenic responses aimed to predict the relationship between people(s) and the empire‐state. Early US sociology was central to these efforts. Scholars trained at the University of Chicago combined eugenic ideas with settler colonial ideologies of Indigenous erasure and elimination. They worked for the empire‐state as social scientists tasked with predicting the stability of the empire through notions of race. They argued for laws and programs that either criminalized interracial unions or promoted racial amalgamation. Seemingly contradictory strategies shared an ideology that the greatest crisis was the instability of the empire‐state. The impetus for eugenic projects, that states that not only rule over populations but can and should work to produce a certain kind of population amenable and useful to state rule, is still with us today.\n"]

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
More-than-human metabolic processes increasingly constitute the locus of contemporary biopower, often responding to industrially-altered biogeochemical cycles. We conceptualise ‘metabolo-politics’ to examine the targeting of bodies and populations via ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
We are fascinated by the abnormal, transgressive, and irresolvable. Apart from zombies and other horrific tropes, there are also literary figures that are both obscene and enticing. We focus on the Marquis de Sade, whose macabre fictions continue to ...

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article focuses on the politics of use and pollution (due to both light and debris) of the night sky as an environmental commons and discusses the fraught postcolonial dynamics of accessing and occupying orbits. It establishes a dialogue between the ...

Space and Culture, Ahead of Print.
This article argues that contemporary urban, domestic, and digital environments function as interconnected micro-architectures of neoliberal self-optimization, shaping everyday practices of self-monitoring and self-governance. Rather than treating space ...

Memory Studies, Ahead of Print.
This article focuses on how consumer platforms normalize forgetting by design through three widely integrated features: Microsoft Recall (over-capture), Google Ask Photos (curated retrieval), and Apple Journal (preemptive guidance). It develops a ...

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article investigates the cyclical return of authoritarianism in Iran between 1906 and 1925. The theoretical foundation of this study lies in the concept of political modernity. The central argument is that the dynamics of political modernity transition Iranian society from an authoritarian regime toward a phase of democratic consolidation. In this process, the authoritarian regime is overthrown, initiating a democratic transition. However, after a brief period, the process of political modernity is disrupted during the phase of democratic consolidation, leading to a gradual return to authoritarianism. Based on empirical evidence, it is argued that Iran experienced both the failure to consolidate political modernity and the reemergence of authoritarianism in 1908 and 1925. Theoretically, the cycle of authoritarianism is explained through the framework of multiple conjunctural causality. This study employs a historical‐comparative method, integrating both within‐case and causal analysis. It concludes with the proposition that whenever institutional structures are suspended, authoritarian actors subjugate civil society to state dominance, constitutional individual and civic rights are ignored, and external actors interfere negatively, radical agents mobilize society toward the collapse of the incumbent regime.\n"]

Theory, Culture & Society, Ahead of Print.
The notion of the digital commons emerged in the late 1990s and has been elaborated in the service of divergent political commitments in the following years. These have ranged from a renewal of liberal market capitalism, to a development of institutions ...

Memory Studies, Ahead of Print.
This study explores memory activism and emotion during the 1989 Romanian Revolution, addressing a gap in existing memory studies on this event. Drawing on 60 video interviews with participants in the revolution, the study uses a deductive approach to ...

History of the Human Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article traces the divergent approaches to the scientific analysis of facial and bodily movement from the 1950s to the 1970s. Drawing on the writings and exchanges of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ray Birdwhistell, as well as psychologists Paul ...

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 287-288, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 297-298, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 299-300, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 305-306, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 288-290, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 290-292, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 292-294, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 294-297, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 300-303, April 2026.

European History Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 303-305, April 2026.

Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the emotional regimes and refuges developed by male inmates in Nazi concentration camps (KL), focusing on Dachau, Mauthausen and Sachsenhausen. Drawing on survivor testimonies and memoirs, it argues that the SS imposed a top-down ...

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nUnderstanding how vegetation is perceived, named and valued requires attention to the social positions from which these perceptions are produced. This article analyses vegetation perception from different social positions based on qualitative research conducted in the province of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain), a Mediterranean landscape characterized by high plant diversity and the predominance of olive cultivation. Drawing on discussion groups with the general population and in‐depth interviews with experts, the study applies sociological discourse analysis to identify patterns of vegetation perception and recognition. The results show that experts and the general population share references to a limited set of socially prominent species, but differ markedly in how vegetation is classified, prioritized and interpreted. Expert discourses rely on technical and ecological classifications, whereas those of the general population are shaped by everyday experience, social uses, memory and sensory recognition. These differences vary systematically according to social position, life trajectories and forms of practical engagement with the plant environment. The study highlights the existence of multiple forms of plant recognition and underscores the contribution of sociological approaches to understanding biodiversity perception and informing more socially attuned environmental management strategies.\n"]

["Sociology Lens, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment. Drawing on historical sociology and decolonial critique, the article argues that postwar development legitimated global stratification by promising political recognition while deferring redistribution. As this legitimating order unravels, illustrated by U.S. foreign aid retrenchment and the European Union's migration‐security nexus, a new mode of governance has emerged: one that manages inequality through exclusion rather than inclusion. The analysis contributes to sociology by reframing development as a mechanism of stratification, by showing how racialized hierarchies structure global governance, and by advancing postimperial solidarity as a normative alternative grounded in redistribution, epistemic plurality, and collective responsibility.\n"]

Journal of Visual Culture, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 411-430, December 2025.
This article is based on Miele Bal’s second session after her inaugural lecture at the Collège de France in 2023. She reflects on the relationship between textual and audio-visual images. She argues that filmmaking has two advantages as a research method, ...

Journal of Visual Culture, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 431-451, December 2025.
This article proposes that, through synthesizing language acts with visualization processes, generative AI is currently altering the architecture of human cognition, necessitating a new way of understanding our relationship with images. The multifaceted ...

Journal of Visual Culture, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 452-472, December 2025.
This article examines the adoption of photography in the surveillance efforts of the French colonial state in Vietnam before World War I. Through the colonial state’s historical documents, prison records, and photographs, the author investigates the role ...

Journal of Visual Culture, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 473-476, December 2025.

Journal of Visual Culture, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 477-480, December 2025.