technologia: Political narrative

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Political narrative is a term used in the humanities and political sciences to describe the way in which storytelling can shape fact and affect understandings of reality. However, political narrative is not only a theoretical concept, it is also a tool employed by political figures in order to construct the perspectives of people within their environment and alter relationships between social groups and individuals. As a result, fiction has the potential to become fact and myths become intertwined into public discourse. Political narrative is consequential in its ability to elicit pathos, allowing the narrative to be influential through the value it provides rather than the truth that is to…

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Cultural Alignment and Psychological Well-Being: Insights from Person-Culture Match Research.. Background : Research on psychological well-being has traditionally focused on individual characteristics such as personality traits, values, and beliefs. However, comparatively less attention has been paid to the sociocultural contexts in which individuals are embedded and that influence how the individual characteristics are expressed, evaluated, and rewarded. One theoretical framework that captures this interaction is person-culture match (PCM), defined as the alignment between individual traits, values, or beliefs and those prevalent within the surrounding culture. Objectives : This narrative…

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Mental health knowledge production on Palestinians: a historical and analytical study (1948-2024).. Research on Palestinian mental health has expanded substantially over recent decades. However, limited attention has been paid to how this body of knowledge has been historically produced. Knowledge production is not neutral but rather shaped by broader global political dynamics that influence how research is framed, prioritized, funded, and legitimized. In contexts shaped by intractable conflict and structural inequality, examining knowledge production is essential to understanding how mental health is framed. This study offers a narrative-historical examination of academic knowledge on Pale…

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Narrative transportation theory, proposed by Green and Brock suggests that people become immersed in a story when they experience focused attention, emotional engagement, mental imagery, and a detachment from reality while reading. In this state, individuals tend to remember the story content better, adopt beliefs and attitudes more aligned with the narrative, and engage less critically with its content. Van Laer, de Ruyter, Visconti, and Wetzels further elaborate that narrative transportation occurs when a reader feels as if they have entered the story's world, driven by empathy for the characters and imagination of the plot. Braddock and Dillard found in their meta-analysis that familiari…

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Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health.. Policy Points Public health has lost political influence because of a mismatch between the forms of power primarily deployed in this field-knowledge and moral authority-and the forms of power that currently shape societal rules and health outcomes-economic, political, ideological, and physical. Rebuilding the influence of public health requires a strategy shift that returns the field to its roots: building people power through partnerships with labor and community organizing groups; strengthening ideological power through the development of narrative infrastructure; and in moments of institutional breakdow…

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Feminist political ecology is a feminist approach within political ecology that draws on various theoretical traditions, including Marxism, post-structuralism, feminist geography, ecofeminism, and cultural ecology. It uses intersectional frameworks within and between these traditions to explore ecological and political issues, including development, landscape, resource use, agrarian reconstruction, and rural-urban transformation. Scholars in this field argue that gender is an important factor in shaping access to, control over, and knowledge of natural resources, and that mainstream environmental policies often rely on gender-neutral assumptions that can overlook women's knowledge of resour…

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Ecofeminist heterotopias: gendered ecologies, memory, and ecological displacement in Elif Shafak's <i>There Are Rivers in the Sky</i>.. Ecofeminism reveals how ecological degradation and water insecurity have a profound impact on women and marginalized communities, emphasizing that ecology, power, displacement, and social inequality are deeply interconnected. The article proposes "ecofeminist heterotopias" as an analytical framework combining ecofeminism, Astrida Neimanis' Hydrofeminism, and Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia to study how rivers function as gendered counter-spaces in the novel There Are Rivers in the Sky (2024). The research emphasizes that rivers in the n…

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Post-politics is a term in social sciences used to describe the effects of depoliticisation—a move away from the antagonistic political discourse, empowering unelected technocrats with decisions—in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, when the representative democracies of the post–Cold War era had arguably entered depoliticisation. Generally related to and used alongside similar terms such as "post-democracy" and "the post-political", the term "post-politics" carries negative connotations of depriving the people from having a voice on issues deemed settled by the elites.

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Stakeholders' views on the development and adoption of health policies related to pharmacist scope of practice and the pharmacy practice environment in Australia.. Background Translating research on Pharmacy Practice Environments and Pharmacists' Scope of Practice (PPEAPSOP) into actionable policy requires a comprehensive understanding of policy components, underpinning processes, and identifying barriers and enablers influencing policy formulation and adoption. This research examined the influences on the development and adoption of PPEAPSOP policies and whether frameworks, theories or models (FTMs) are employed to support these processes. Method Three focus groups and ten semi-structured…

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Da art of storytellin': hip-hop epistemology, hip-hop theorization, and the discursive continuity of black cultural expression in/through sport.. Black cultural expression (BCE) is inextricably linked to sport through Black athletes, coaches, consumers, and practitioners - resulting in Blackness being infused through the sporting complex, e.g., operations, participation, branding, and more. While scholarship exploring Blackness within sport has contributed greatly to the shared understanding of Black representation, resistance, uplift, and a myriad of other topics - the framing is either through a historical review or timely (episodic) analysis. While both are valuable, minimal scholarship…

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Afghanistan is a multiethnic country, with its population comprising a variety of social, linguistic, cultural, and tribal communities. The formal categorization of ethnicity in Afghanistan is a relatively recent development, emerging primarily in the 20th century and gaining political significance during the conflicts that began in the 1970s. Major ethnic categories traditionally identified in Afghanistan include Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks. Minor categories include Aimaqs, Turkmens, Balochs, Nuristanis, and Arabs, among others. However, the boundaries between these communities are fluid, with language, self-identification, urban or rural residence, and regional affiliations inte…

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Respectability politics, or the politics of respectability, is a political strategy wherein members of a marginalized community will consciously abandon or punish controversial aspects of their cultural-political identity as a method of assimilating, achieving social mobility, and gaining the respect of the majority culture. The term "politics of respectability" was coined by historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham in 1993. According to her, respectability "emphasize[s] reform of individual behavior and attitudes both as a goal in itself and as a strategy for the reform of the entire structural system of American race relations." Respectability politics is also the process in which privileged…