Weekly Digest #79

Something for the weekend:

1. Academic abuse: A conceptual framework of the dimensions of toxic culture in higher education and the impact on the meaning of work

2. Discipline, caregiving, and identity work of frontline professionals: Talking about the acts of compliance and resistance in the everyday practices of social workers

3. Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory

4. Things that don’t work (including acupuncture)

5. Educating with Paulo Freire: Teaching and learning on the digital culture

6. ‘Alright my lovely’: The use of terms of endearment as a mitigation device in the care of people living with dementia in the acute hospital environment

7. Autochthony: Abandoning Social Mythologies of Rationality

8. ‘We posit that writing, especially in doctoral research, is not just a tool for communication but a means of self-formation’ Link

9. Exhortations to “sit up straight!” ring from Goop to TikTok to hatha yoga to far-flung corners of YouTube. Why so much posture panic? (Beth Linker, PT historian)

10. Why Disability Is Technologically Mediated?

11. The Summers of Theory: How it rose, fell, and may rise again.

12. Traveling At The Speed Of The Soul

13. Vitalist Marxism: Georges Canguilhem and the Resistance of Life

14. ‘As two queer people, we find relief in seeing hetero and cisnormativity in a physiotherapy paper title. It is a disruption of norms in itself – to have what you feel reflected, for a change, within your profession. It fosters the sense the profession might be ready to make changes. And, as Ravi and colleagues say – “Change is not only possible, it is imperative for just, safe, and effective clinical care” (p.7)’ Link

15. Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History