This article explores Somali transborder/transnational activism through the role of two individual actors, drawing upon their life histories and a selection initiatives they have been involved in over time. The Somali-populated Horn Africa provides highly complex environment for production identities, based on its ethno-linguistic heritage, clan affiliations, Islam variable state-like affiliati...

This study focuses on young Polish viewers living in Vienna, the capital city of Austria, and their reception Turkish television series. is an under-researched audience group. The analysis gives voice to viewers’ comments through use semi-structured interviews gain deep insight into viewer experiences. introduces another, less-studied component by scrutinising ways which audiences deploy media ...

An overview is given of effective gravitational field theories with fixed background fields that break spacetime symmetry. The behavior of the background fields and the types of excitations that can occur depend on whether the symmetry breaking is explicit or spontaneous. For example, when the breaking is spontaneous, the background field is dynamical and massless Nambu–Goldstone and massive Hi...

As John Berger and Jean Mohr pointed out in The Seventh Man [5] an arresting photographic essay of European migrant labour in the 1970s the incapacitated and dying migrant is a murky presence within capitalism’s unconscious. Parodying the mounting tension between the global demand for healthy aspirational migrant workers and the responsibility for their long term well-being and care, Berger wro...

In this article, we explore how minority parents construct and promote cultural identities through a multicultural school event in Norway. Such events respond to the call for diverse inclusive initiatives facilitate learning, belonging, cohesion schools. Schools see these as helping further inclusion. Prior research on subject has criticised such promoting essentialist understandings of identit...

This study problematises the contribution of India’s school textbooks in students’ national identity constructions an overseas Kingdom Saudi Arabia. The construct on concepts secular democracy, colonial resistance and equal citizenship rights. Notwithstanding participants’ ambivalent identification with these ideals, they mostly express confusing identities evincing religious tendencies, gender...

INTRODUCTION Literature indicates that racism, sexism, homophobia and HIV-related stigma have adverse impacts on health, well-being, and quality of life among HIV-positive women of African descent (African/Black diaspora). However, limited evidence exists on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at reducing stigma tailored for these women. This study systematically reviewed randomized contro...