ABSTRACT Can collectively caring for others by engaging in community kitchen contribute to transforming the lived citizenship experiences of women in Mexico City’s peripheries? While collectivizing care work does not necessarily expand formal citizenship rights for women whom traditional citizenship regimes have excluded, we argue that engaging in collective kitchens contributes to redefining their daily experiences, agency, and subjective meanings and feelings about citizenship in both public and private spheres. This transforms their everyday experiences of citizenship. Drawing from research on lived citizenship, we have examined the experiences of three women, using qualitative narratives to illustrate how cooking for others is an act of collective care. In doing so, they assume new social roles within their community, fostering an interpersonal understanding of citizenship as caregivers, intermediaries, and community builders. Second, through action, interactions and the emotions they bring them, those women develop feelings of empowerment, agency, and a sense of belonging to their community.

ABSTRACT In contemporary public and scientific discourse, the role of social media in young people’s lives is frequently problematized. However, technologies are often involved in practices of care, and this complicates dystopian images of digital technologies and their influence. In this study, I draw on feminist and Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspectives on care to analyze five focus group discussions with a total of 38 adolescent girls, demonstrating how social media is an integrated and important part of how they practice care during a night of drinking. The results indicate that girls’ care in nightlife can be characterized as embedded in a feminized culture of care, rather than solely a response to the risks they experience. Moreover, the study emphasizes two particular ways that social media is part of this culture of care: location sharing as a means of providing care for others, and the use of media involvement shields as a form of self-care. Social media applications are simultaneously objects of commercial practices and of objects of care practices. Both aspects are part of young people’s lived experiences with digital media, and political initiatives targeting their media use should be attentive to such complexity.

Debates in science and engineering ethics increasingly focus on how professionals should act under conditions of uncertainty, especially when essential technologies may pose low-probability but non-negligible risks to human health or the environment. A normative framework for engineering decision-making is developed, grounded in Islamic ethical concepts, and applied to four contemporary technological domains: electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure from high-voltage power infrastructure, radiofrequency (RF) exposure from mobile phones, water use in hydrogen fuel production, and hazardous waste from end-of-life solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. Drawing on the Qur'an and Hadith literature, as well as contemporary discussions of the higher objectives of Islamic law and professional engineering codes, the moral significance of public interest, harm prevention, stewardship, justice, and trusteeship is elaborated. The analysis shows how these values support precautionary yet innovation-friendly responses to uncertain risk, emphasizing transparency, distributional fairness, long-term environmental responsibility, and accountability to affected communities. By articulating points of convergence and complementarity between Islamic ethics and mainstream engineering ethics, a faith-informed framework is contributed that can guide engineers working in Muslim-majority contexts and in culturally diverse societies toward more responsible design, regulation, and deployment of emerging technologies. Read through the lens of the five ethical principles articulated in this framework-harm prevention, public interest, stewardship, justice, and trusteeship-the hadith metaphor emphasizes that ethical engineering consists of small but responsible actions taken with awareness of risk, care for others, and accountability to both present and future generations.

This study examines food advertisements in Women’s Health and Men’s Health magazines as a hitherto underexplored site of gendered meaning-making. Using content analysis and multimodal critical discourse analysis, we investigate a large corpus of food ads and identify three dominant gendering strategies: (1) food advertising is more prevalent in Women’s Health , often directing women toward self-care and caring for others; (2) food types are gendered, with ‘healthy’ foods associated with femininity and protein or ‘unhealthy’ foods with masculinity; (3) multimodal representations construct food as feminine through emotional, relational, and sensual appeals, and as masculine through references to performance, science, and sport fame. We show how food is semiotised to reproduce traditional gender stereotypes while also reinforcing newer ideals, such as the muscular female body adding a new regime to women’s labour. Overall, food advertising sustains neoliberal discourses that frame food as a technology for gendering the self and the body.

ABSTRACT This qualitative study explored the meaning, process, and outcomes of collective mindfulness. Current mindfulness research and practice centers around individualist models of care, missing dimensions of religious communities and collectivist cultures. Nine mindfulness practitioners self-identifying with collectivist ethnic and cultural backgrounds participated in in-depth semi-structured interviews. Interviews explored participants’ experiences with individual and group mindfulness practices, cultural influences, and definitions of collective mindfulness. Data analysis employed an iterative, inductive thematic analysis approach that embodied the collectivist spirit of the study through collaborative team processes. The research team maintained monthly meetings throughout data collection and analysis phases, conducting formal constant comparison analysis followed by collective dialectic conversations to create and share themes. Three major themes emerged: (1) Collective mindfulness involves intentionally cultivating awareness with others for the sake of the group; (2) Mindfulness practice often reflects Western individualist values, while collective mindfulness both reflects and challenges these values depending on cultural norms; and (3) Collective mindfulness cultivates enhanced care for others, empathy, compassion, co-regulation of mood states, and desire to meet community needs. Findings suggest collective mindfulness may provide sacred corrections to individual collectivist models that align with social work values to promote communal well-being.

This article examines how healthcare professionals working on COVID-19 wards experienced psychosocial burdens during the pandemic and how they managed these within the intersecting pressures of personal vulnerability, professional duty, and institutional expectation. Drawing on deep-structure hermeneutics, 13 qualitative interviews were analysed to explore latent meaning structures underlying professional discourse. From this corpus, one analytically rich interview was selected for an in-depth single-case analysis. It illustrates how a rhetoric of positivity and a strictly maintained professional role served as protective defences against anxiety, helplessness, and loss of control. Within this dynamic, functionality emerged as a latent mode of coping that re-established a sense of agency and order, yet simultaneously suppressed emotional expression and acknowledgement of personal needs. These findings reveal a psychosocial paradox at the heart of clinical work under crisis conditions: maintaining reliability and composure while risking emotional detachment and exhaustion. As a theoretically informed implication of these findings, we propose the potential value of "spaces of non-functioning"-temporary contexts that allow relief from performance demands without destabilising professional identity. Such protected spaces may provide a more sustainable balance between care for others and self-care within the culture of contemporary healthcare.

The young women’s organization “X” focuses on issues of gender equality, religion, society, and culture. Leadership plays a crucial role in ensuring the organization’s sustainability amid various internal and external challenges. This study aims to explore the practice of ethical leadership within Organization X in Jember Regency. A mixed-methods approach with a sequential explanatory design was employed. Quantitative data were collected through questionnaires containing open-ended questions to obtain an initial overview of the phenomenon, followed by qualitative data collection through in-depth interviews to deepen and clarify the findings. The participants in this study were branch-level leaders of Organization X. The findings indicate that leaders in Organization X are expected to consistently serve as moral role models, demonstrating alignment between their words and actions as representatives of the organization’s core values. In the dimension of care for others, leadership is perceived as a participatory process that actively involves members in decision-making and the implementation of organizational programs, reflecting principles of deliberation and empowerment. Meanwhile, in the dimension of accountability and compliance, leaders are required to adhere not only to organizational regulations but also to prevailing social norms within the broader community. These findings suggest that despite its strong and firm ideological foundation, Organization X demonstrates contextual flexibility in social engagement as part of its da‘wah strategy.

While engagement with social media audiences has become an increasingly central part of contemporary journalism, this labour can impact on journalists’ personal and professional wellbeing. Recent research has outlined the detrimental impacts of social media work on journalists and other online media producers, including online harassment, unmanageable workloads and burnout. Both journalists and online content creators have also reported lack of support from platforms and news organisations to foster better professional wellbeing online. This article explores how professional wellbeing for social media journalism can be supported through some of the social infrastructures of online labour – in particular, frameworks of enacting “care” online. Journalists and content producers care for themselves online using practices such as curating social media consumption and time online. However, we argue that practices prioritising both individual and community care are key to fostering improved professional wellbeing in online labour. Using interviews with both journalists and online content creators, we conceptualise how social media practices centred on “care for self” and “care for others” support professional wellbeing on social media. Perspectives on different modes of care indicate how journalism’s professional logics are being negotiated on social media and developing into practices that prioritise improving wellbeing in online labour.

Abstract This research seeks to develop pedagogical approaches that shift away from “deficit” approaches to broadening participation in Ecology and Environmental Science (E&ES) higher education. Rather than emphasizing what underrepresented populations lack in E&ES awareness and experience, this “anti‐deficit” approach focuses on institutional barriers and student strengths. To inform strategies to broaden participation, we conducted focus groups to assess individual sense of belonging in E&ES fields. The focus groups were designed to investigate personal stories, shared experiences, and narratives of how individuals became practitioners in E&ES fields or not. Our 10 focus groups totaled 36 participants and included individuals typically represented and those underrepresented in E&ES based on ethnicity or race. Although outdoor experiences are frequently acknowledged as formative for developing an ecological identity, our analysis revealed additional pathways through which underrepresented students cultivated ecological identity. The less acknowledged pathways we highlight in this paper are subsistence/rural upbringing, personal experience with environmental change and disasters, and shifts in the generational zeitgeist around environmental care. In addition to identifying overlooked pathways for developing a connection with nature, we found that students' decisions about whether to choose ecology as a career pathway or not are influenced by their perceptions of whether ecological sciences embrace human–nature interactions, attend to issues of representation and identity, and put communities and care for others at their center. We conclude with implications for recruitment and retention in ecology and environmental fields.

Injuries involving members of the nursing team are not uncommon, with sharps-related incidents being among the most frequent. Previous studies have focused on quantitative outcomes or on healthcare professionals in general, leaving a gap in understanding the subjective experiences and perspectives of nursing staff. This study aimed to explore the opinions and experiences of nursing staff regarding sharps injuries, with the goal of identifying contributing factors, gaps in current prevention strategies, and opportunities to improve occupational safety and injury-prevention practices within healthcare settings. This qualitative study used a descriptive phenomenological approach and included 38 nursing staff from various regions of Brazil. Participants responded to open-ended online questions between July 26 and September 11, 2025. Themes emerged: (1) the moment when the injuries occur, (2) factors that trigger the injuries, (3) the period following the injuries, and (4) strategies adopted to prevent new injuries. Twelve subthemes were identified.Conclusions/Applications to Practice:The study addresses a highly relevant issue in healthcare, as nursing staff need to prioritize their own health while caring for others. Although it does not present findings different from previous research regarding the occurrence of such injuries, its importance may lie precisely in highlighting results that remain unchanged. The study also shows that nurses often internalize blame for occupational injuries, viewing them as personal failures rather than system issues. It highlights the need for rigorous monitoring, ongoing training, consistent safety materials, and encouragement of incident reporting to strengthen collective safety and promote a positive safety culture.

ABSTRACT Research on the ‘good death’ has largely focused on palliative and end-of-life care, emphasising pain management and autonomy. While death studies have long examined funerary and post-mortem practices as sites of meaning-making, their relationship to ideas of the good death has received comparatively little analytical attention. This article addresses that gap by exploring notions of a ‘good death’ from the perspective of post-mortem funerary choices, using natural burial as a case study. Drawing on qualitative interviews with individuals who pre-purchased a grave or buried a significant other at a nature burial ground, the article develops an analytical framework that situates motivations for natural burial within broader cultural values and worldviews. It identifies three interrelated worldview dimensions: an aesthetic dimension, emphasising sensory and environmental qualities; an ethical dimension, foregrounding care for others alongside autonomy; and an ontological dimension, reflecting ongoing relationality with space, time, personhood, and spirituality. Together, these dimensions provide a lens for understanding contemporary funerary choices and extend the concept of the good death beyond its dominant association with medicalised end-of-life care.

Sustainable behaviours, in particular environmental sustainability, are a key theme across the healthcare landscape and are increasingly discussed in the field of music therapy. This article is a position piece exploring different perspectives in the area, aiming to raise the profile of the topic for Music Therapists. Three areas of sustainable behaviour are used as a framework for the article, first through the presentation of a literature review and then examples of music therapy practice. The three areas are: work with people with climate anxiety (care for others), reflective practice and sustainable careers (self-care), and prevention in work with service users and the practicalities of environmental sustainability (caring for the environment).

ABSTRACT This study is grounded in the existential framework of Viktor Frankl, particularly his theory emphasizing the pursuit of meaning in life as a fundamental human drive, even in the face of adversity and catastrophic circumstances. The research examines the relationship between psychological coping mechanisms—specifically regarding caring for others: problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, and mindfulness—and their role in fostering a sense of meaning in life. The research is based on primary sources, including autobiographies, memoirs, personal letters, testimonies, and archival documents. These materials are drawn from the life writings of fourteen educators, spanning three key periods: the Holocaust, the postwar transition and immigration to Israel, and the first decade after Israel’s establishment (1948 to mid-1960s). The findings indicate that over the course of these three time periods, problem solving was the primary strategy for aiding others, with less reliance on emotion-focused strategies. Mindfulness, especially in the context of helping others, was mostly reported during the Holocaust. As hypothesized, these coping strategies were linked to finding meaning in life. We identified two key conclusions. Professionally, the study revealed that educators employed coping mechanisms to aid others, going beyond simple empathy. Regarding the nature of the events during and after the Holocaust, these coping strategies played a crucial role in enabling individuals to find meaning in their lived experiences.

Superwoman schema, motherhood status, and subclinical atherosclerosis among African American women.

President's Pen-Tending the Flame: Caring for Ourselves While Caring for Others.

Protocol for a single-arm, multi-component behavior change technique (BCT) intervention to develop a walking habit among caregivers for persons with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD)

David Headley Green AM, FAA, FRS was an outstanding Australian geologist and world leader in experimental petrology and geochemistry. His research, initially at the Australian National University with A. E. Ringwood, and later at the University of Tasmania, shaped our understanding of the composition of the Earth’s mantle and the origin of the wide spectrum of volcanic rocks erupted in different global tectonic settings. David also had a significant impact on Antarctic science through studies of high-grade metamorphic rocks, but more broadly in fostering marine and climate science by championing the establishment at the University of Tasmania of a multidisciplinary research centre (now the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies). His achievements and scientific leadership were recognized with many international and national awards, including membership of the Order of Australia. A considerate and compassionate man, David is also remembered for his interest in and care for others. Note: This memoir is re-published from Historical Records of Australian Science (HRAS) with permission (Jaques et al. 2025). Minor adaptations have been made.

Abstract: While the effectiveness of health-oriented leadership (HoL) – consisting of SelfCare (caring for one’s health) and StaffCare (leaders supporting employees’ health) – is well established, less is known about antecedents and contextual conditions. In particular, it remains unclear how leaders in “sandwich positions” – those reporting to a supervisor while leading their own team – are influenced by their supervisor’s HoL. Drawing on the job demands–resources model and social information processing theory, this study examines how the perceived HoL of higher-level leaders affects lower-level leaders’ HoL. We also consider perceived stigmatizing attitudes toward workplace health promotion as a boundary condition. Two-wave survey data from lower-level leaders show that higher-level leaders’ SelfCare indirectly influences lower-level leaders’ StaffCare via higher-level leaders’ StaffCare and lower-level leaders’ SelfCare. Stigmatizing attitudes had a moderating influence on some transmission effects. These findings extend the HoL model, reveal mechanisms beyond simple trickle-down assumptions, and underscore the importance of contextual factors.

Platforms mediating care services are increasingly reshaping the geographies of social reproduction, offering care fixes to some, while exacerbating the crisis of care for others. In this paper, we draw on research on healthcare, deliveries and cleaning platforms in Sweden to argue that platforms reinforce and redistribute flows of care privilege and care poverty between the Global North and the Global South, between urban and rural locations, and within cities, thus deepening the uneven geographies of care. These uneven geographies apply to those performing social reproductive work as well. While the working conditions of migrant platform cleaners have clear repercussions for their own social reproduction, other segments, such as healthcare professionals, may experience platform work as a fix to both working conditions and work–life balance. Ultimately, we propose that the political economy of social reproduction unfolds as a spatially uneven process, making life easier for some and harder for others.

Abstract How do entrepreneurs embody and enact hope as a motor for ethical agency—agency that builds one’s own and others’ capacities and capabilities to overcome a painful present? This study puts hope at the center of theorizing around the activities of entrepreneurs who leverage it both as a way to sketch a new life for themselves and to sell it to others. Through the case of illness entrepreneurs—recovery coaches for those suffering from chronic illnesses—we observe the moral struggles involved when hope becomes framed within the logic of the market. Recovery coaches at once embody hope (as formerly sick people who have recovered), neatly package and sell it (as entrepreneurs), and manifest it (opening up new spaces of possibility for themselves). The work involved in balancing these threads requires constant realignment of the entrepreneurs’ own hopes for a new life and their care for others. We show how, through these moral struggles, hope opens up new spaces of possibility and imbues people—both entrepreneurs and their clients—with the agency to move toward those new horizons. Conceptualizing the complex entanglements of hope, care, and ethical agency, our study represents a foray into recent calls for assembling and theorizing the ‘architecture of hope’ in organization and entrepreneurship studies. We also discuss whether this entrepreneurship, balancing hope and care to enable ethical agency, opens up new ways of understanding morality and agency in market contexts.