Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 225: Measuring Peripherality as a Proxy for Autonomous Community Coping Capacity: A Case Study from Bua Province, Fiji Islands, for Improving Climate Change Adaptation Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8080225 Authors: Nunn Kumar Over the past thirty years, externally-driven interventions for climate-change adaptation in rural Pacific Island contexts have largely failed to be effective or sustained. One reason is that traditional (culturally-grounded)...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 226: Moving with Touch: Entanglements of a Child, Valentine’s Day Cards, and Research–Activism against Sexual Harassment in Pre-Teen Peer Cultures Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8080226 Authors: Pihkala Huuki Sunnari In this paper, we respond to feminist new materialist scholars’ calls to explore what research in the field of gendered and sexual violence can be, do, and become. This paper explores the microprocesses of change within...
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Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Pages 224: New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia? Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci8080224 Authors: Tanja Kubes Feminist discourses on sex robots and robot sex largely focus on the dystopian fear of an exponentiation of hegemonic masculinity. The very possibility of robot sex is put on a level with slavery or prostitution and is rejected as a continuation of male dominance over women. Proceeding from a feminist new materialist...
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