Narrative

  1. Congress, especially Republicans, uses more security framing in trade policy
    Analysis of US trade discourse from 2001 to 2025 shows Congress uses security framing more than the executive branch, with Republicans in Congress leading the trend.
  2. Media lobbying varied by policy stage and narrative
    Study examines how Finnish business associations strategically use media lobbying during public health crisis, analyzing narrative tactics and timing across policy stages.
  3. Challenging Europe's Memory Regime: The Far Right's Narratives on Russia in The Shadow of War
    Analysis of how far-right parties in Germany, France, and Hungary construct competing historical narratives about Russia that challenge the EU's post-Cold War memory framework.
  4. Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological knowledge and norms
    Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological governance, environmental ethics, and resource management frameworks that challenge anthropocentric legal paradigms and offer relational approaches to.
  5. Swiss COVID-19 discourse framed misinformation differently across media
    Explore how Swiss COVID-19 discourse defines misinformation versus disinformation using NLP analysis. Discover how public narratives reflect societal tensions and information literacy's role in.
  6. What is groundwater?
    Examines how groundwater shifted from participatory knowledge to abstracted resource in Western thought, suggesting metaphysical reorientation could improve water crisis responses.
  7. AI in higher education offers benefits and raises governance concerns
    Explore AI's transformative impact on higher education, examining opportunities in personalized learning alongside challenges in academic integrity, bias, and institutional governance.
  8. Review finds Hall rethinks race in Muslim West African history
    Critical review of Hall's reassessment showing racialized hierarchies developed within precolonial Sahelian Islamic societies, challenging Eurocentric narratives of race as solely colonial invention.
  9. Islam and identity in Leila Aboulela's Elsewhere, Home
    Literary analysis of Leila Aboulela's short stories examines Islam and cultural identity as fluid processes shaped by displacement and postmodern conditions.
  10. Teras Cihempelas shows the tensions of formalising street vending
    Study of Teras Cihempelas elevated walkway in Bandung, Indonesia examining design politics and impacts of integrating informal street vending into formal urban infrastructure over a decade.
  11. Integrated analysis links media, geopolitics, and Arab reception
    Analysis of how transnational elite networks and media discourse shape geopolitical perceptions, examining differential Arab and Western framing patterns through the Epstein case.
  12. Radicalization pathways differed across convicted terrorist groups in Indonesia
    Mixed-methods study reveals distinct radicalization pathways in Indonesian terrorist groups, showing how personal crises and identity fusion drive violent activism differently across organizations.
  13. Women-led movements combine culture, science, and law to protect rivers
    Women-led movements in Quito combine cultural engagement, scientific evidence, and legal action to protect contaminated rivers under Ecuador's Rights of Nature paradigm.
  14. Neural activity patterns predicted treatment response in internalizing disorders
    Neural fMRI patterns predict treatment response in depression and anxiety through emotion regulation pathways, offering insights for precision medicine approaches.
  15. Dominant psychiatric explanations shape self-narratives
    Examination of how dominant psychiatric explanations function as master narratives to shape self-narratives and psychiatric self-understanding in individuals with diagnoses.
  16. Women’s opt-out decisions were shaped by labor and household structures
    Qualitative study examining choice feminism through Brazilian women's labor market exits, revealing structural constraints underlying ostensibly voluntary career decisions.
  17. Young African migrants in the UK use religion as a hybrid resource
    Explore how young Nigerian and Zimbabwean migrants in the UK navigate religion and spirituality across individual, communal, and transnational dimensions, challenging linear integration models.
  18. Reimagining Identity in Postcolonial East African Literature: A Comparative Analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Comparative analysis of Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Abdulrazak Gurnah examines divergent approaches to representing postcolonial identity and historical trauma in East African fiction.
  19. Newspapers use speech acts to frame immigration differently
    Corpus analysis of speech acts in U.S. newspaper immigration coverage reveals how constatives, directives, and commissives shape public opinion differentially across liberal and conservative outlets.
  20. Patricia Noah is framed as a site of black female resistance
    Analysis of Patricia Noah's womanist resistance and non-violent opposition to apartheid legacies in Trevor Noah's Born a Crime using postcolonial and womanist theoretical frameworks.