The material in the anthology Future of Childhood Studies outlines how field needs to and might develop future. After a decades-long theoretical hibernation, scholars have begun making reconnaissance our once-so-bold onto-epistemologies breaking new grounds terms reconceptualizing children childhood. This is warmly welcomed as one many attempts push state-of-the-art forward, into In preface, se...

Introduction Since the early 1990s, parts of Africa’s Great Lakes Region have experienced political strife, armed conflict and population displacements with severe humanitarian consequences. Despite great progress towards sustainable peace in all the countries of the region, sporadic violence continues in some areas, particularly in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Conflicts in t...

When computer networks link people as well as machines, they become social networks. Such computer supported social networks (CSSNs) are becoming important bases of virtual communities, computer supported cooperative work and telework. Computer mediated communication, such as electronic mail and computerized conferencing, is usually text-based and asynchronous. It has limited social presence, a...

How do we understand the public character of public health in contemporary Africa? What are the parameters of community engagement in health care delivery, medical research and disease control programmes? To what extent is public health in Africa a project led by African Governments? Through what political processes and deliberative practices can African publics influence the priorities of rese...

This article focuses on the relation of affect and mobile commons by drawing case migrant solidarity in Spanish state during so-called “refugee crisis”. I begin portraying context emergence Catalonia its to “humanitarian affective governmentality” (HAG) both migrants their supporters—a regime that redirects affects collective organising reinforce European borders. Despite these attempts co-opti...

The paper presents the results of the empirical study devoted to mapping and measuring the aggregated political positions – viewed as a specific form of discursive public opinion – expressed by ordinary citizens on a discussion forum on the Russian internet. The study is considered as part of the broader inquiry into the field of online deliberations. New evidence is discussed in this regard by...

Review of Secret Feminist Agenda, Season 4
 By Andi Schwartz and Morgan Bimm
 The Agenda podcast was first encountered by then-graduate student as assigned ‘reading’ in a Queer Pedagogies seminar. seminar part student-run initiative facilitated co-reviewer, Bimm, who started the series critical response to lack teaching resources available graduate students. podcast’s aims sensibiliti...

Most human beliefs are acquired through communication, and so are most misbeliefs. Just like the misbeliefs discussed by McKay & Dennett (M&D), culturally transmitted misbeliefs tend to result from limitations rather than malfunctions of the mechanisms that produce them, and few if any can be argued to be adaptations. However, the mechanisms involved, the contents, and the hypothetical adaptive...

What are some of the effects women's participation in 2011 Egyptian uprising on their personal biographies? A small body feminist scholarship has examined how gender mediates consequences social movement for women. These studies have largely focused participants' experiences under Western democracies and within movements, yet we know less about impact women protestors Arab autocracies. Using ca...

The ‘cities without slums’ initiative has resuscitated an old and dangerous term from the habitat vocabulary. Use of the word ‘slum’ will recreate many of the myths about poor people that years of careful research have discredited. The UN has employed the word in order to publicize the seriousness of urban problems and to improve its ability to attract funding with which to tackle the issue. Bu...