This section features automated summaries of research focused on social systems, history, politics, and governance. Articles are generated from publicly available research metadata and abstracts to support exploration of social structures and collective life.
Society, Work & Social Policy RSS
Rural Outmigration and Land Use Changes in the High Monte of Northwest Argentina
How rural outmigration reshapes agriculture and settlement patterns in Argentina's mountain region
Decent and Meaningful Work: Experiences of Immigrant Construction Workers in Portugal
How migrant construction workers find meaning despite precarious employment
Reinforcing the Unreal: Subliminals and the Normalization of Unscientific Body Transformations on Reddit
How online communities normalize unscientific body transformation claims
Social norms and intentions to adopt double surnames in Italy: evidence from two survey experiments
Why Italian parents choose double surnames despite supporting gender equality
The Bad Side of a Good Economy: How Perceptions of the Economy Moderate the Relationship between Financial Strain and Powerlessness
Why a strong economy intensifies powerlessness among financially struggling workers
Caring about care: anatomical pathology technologists and the medico-legal autopsy
How pathology technologists integrate care into autopsy practice and death investigation
Anthropology & Archaeology RSS
The Transcontextual Process—Materials, Objects, and Their Changing Meanings Across Contexts
How Viking communities repurposed ancient glass into valued trade goods
Strengths and constraints in ivory provenance research: La Beleña (Córdoba, Spain) as a case study
Proteomics outperforms traditional methods for identifying prehistoric African elephant ivory
Times of Execution, Transit and Use of the Palaeolithic Rock Art of the Cave of Altamira (Cantabria, Spain): A Case Study
Reconstructing when and how humans created and reused rock art in Altamira Cave
Ancient echoes as clues to the structural relationship between grotto soundscapes and auditory perception
How ancient cave temples use sound and space together
Cognitive affordances of South Scandinavian Mesolithic portable art as inferred from complexity and entropy measures
How visual complexity and motif diversity changed across Mesolithic portable ornaments
Once a Carib, Always a Carib: Historical Movements from Terra Firma to the Lesser Antilles
Archaeological evidence of Caribbean migration from the mainland to the islands
History & Area Studies RSS
Race and Book Collecting in Colombia on the Eve of Digitization
How racial hierarchies shaped Colombian book collections before the digital age
Macassan Muslims and Aboriginal Australians: Cultural and Spiritual Encounters
Early Islamic traders and Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia
The Singing Prophet of the Dogon. A Nineteenth Century Voice on Dogon-Fulbe Relations and his Legacy
A nineteenth-century Dogon prophet's songs document ethnic relations and influence modern conflict.
From Religious Conversion to Political Revolution: Women’s Christian Missions in Colonial Korea
How female missionaries mobilized Korean women's political participation during colonial rule
Mapping Agricultural Change in Eastern Africa: A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Approach to Early Imperial Sources, 1857–76
Nineteenth-century crop adoption patterns in inland East Africa mapped from explorer accounts
Politics & Governance RSS
Simpler than you think: the practical dynamics of ranked choice voting
How ranked choice voting performs in real elections
Democratic decay by design: how political dynasties rewrite the rules of power in Indonesia?
How dynastic politicians manipulated Indonesia's democracy while preserving electoral legitimacy
The politics of industrial decline: Blame and compensation
How plant closures affect voting and whether compensation can reverse political damage
International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr’s Reflexive Realism
Colonial critique in Carr's realist theory of international progress and power
Dominating the Narrative: How Scholars Outside of Africa Define African Politics in the Top Political Science Journals
Who defines African politics in top academic journals?
Sublimation: Towards an Ethics of Justice in the Service of Republican Rebuilding in Madagascar
Political virtue and power dynamics in Madagascar's governance crisis
