As the adoption of intelligent machines (e.g. artificial intelligence, algorithms, and robots) accelerates in organizations, how to promote employees’ creative behavior to facilitate human-intelligent machine collaboration has become an important topic of concern for human resource management scholars. Drawing on social cognitive theory and a work design perspective, we propose that employees’ trust in intelligent machines, as a positive perception of intelligent machines, may influence creative behavior through job crafting in intelligent machine contexts from both positive and negative sides, and that this indirect effect is moderated by job autonomy. Specifically, the positive indirect effect is stronger when job autonomy is higher, whereas it becomes weaker or negative when job autonomy is lower. Results from two studies, a field survey study (N = 247) and a scenario-based experimental study (N = 320), support our hypotheses. We discuss the implications of these findings for digital human resource management literature and practice.

Time is not a neutral container within which clinical experience unfolds. It is itself constitutive of suffering, identity, and healing. This essay argues that the therapeutic relationship is, at its deepest level, a temporal intervention — a site in which fractured, collapsed, or petrified time is reconstructed into something livable. I have proposed elsewhere that the clinical encounter functions as a form of sacred space in which the patient is received as a sacred messenger rather than a diagnostic object, and that the physician’s vocation requires what I have called therapeutic tzimtzum: a disciplined self-withdrawal that creates room for the other (Ungar-Sargon, 2025; Ungar-Sargon, 2025). The present essay extends that argument into the dimension of time specifically, drawing on four traditions that have grappled most seriously with temporal experience: Western biblical linearity and sacred interruption, Eastern cyclicality and transcendence, the existential pragmatism of the Twelve-Step movement, and the Kabbalistic theology of rupture and repair as elaborated by Elliot R. Wolfson. The synthesis offered here proposes a theory of therapeutic temporality in which the clinician functions as a temporal witness — one who holds time open for the patient long enough for healing to become possible. Drawing on my sustained engagement with these themes across more than a decade of clinical practice and medical humanities scholarship, I argue that healing, understood at its deepest level, is not primarily a biological event but a temporal one.

Through a perspectival inversion, we explore what artificial intelligence—reconceived as a “superscholar” operating as a scholarly collective unconscious—reveals about limitations in human authorship. AI exposes three interconnected crises: of credit, of verification, of comprehensive knowledge—each compounded by the responsibility gap endemic to learning automata. Our proposal frames AI as interventive epistemic instrument under the stewardship of librarians, one capable of transcending the norms that human scholarship has failed to honor. Drawing on Borges’s Library of Babel and apophatic theology, we demonstrate that librarians already inhabit via negativa logics, stewarding collections defined by absences no less than holdings. The superscholar functions as regulative ideal, but we imagine AIs and AI+human systems that approximate aspects of a superscholar. We attend to implications for collection development, cataloging, and information literacy, proposing “epistemic reparation” by surfacing marginalized contributions occluded by citational regimes—liberatory of colonial erasures yet wary of extractive tokenism.

Human rights and social justice remain central issues in contemporary global discourse, often perceived as products of Western modernity. This perception has contributed to ongoing debates regarding their compatibility with religious traditions, particularly Islam. This study examines the Qur’anic foundations of human rights and social justice through a thematic and hermeneutical analysis of classical and contemporary tafsir literature. Employing qualitative library-based research and a tafs?r mawd?‘? approach, the study analyzes key Qur’anic concepts such as the right to life, human dignity, equality, freedom, justice, distributive responsibility, and ecological balance. The findings demonstrate that the Qur’an articulates a comprehensive ethical framework for human rights grounded in divine authority and universal human dignity. Classical exegetes emphasize the normative and legal dimensions of justice, while modern interpreters expand Qur’anic ethics to address pluralism, constitutionalism, welfare state principles, religious moderation, sustainability, and education. Rather than contradicting universal human rights, the Qur’anic worldview provides a moral and spiritual foundation that reinforces justice, inclusivity, and social responsibility. This study contributes to Qur’anic studies and human rights scholarship by highlighting the relevance of Islamic ethical principles in contemporary legal, social, and global sustainability debates. It affirms that Qur’anic interpretation can serve as a constructive partner in advancing an inclusive and equitable human rights discourse.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to review the literature on neurodiversity within the context of both human resource management and development, summarize the key findings and suggest a future research agenda in human resource scholarship. Design/methodology/approach By reviewing 88 selected articles, this study provides a comprehensive overview of neurodiversity research, including publication years, outlets, study locations and an overview of the selected articles. This study also explored neurodiversity topics in human resource contexts. Findings Based on Doyle’s (2020) taxonomy, this study identified four types of neurodivergent conditions and outlined the challenges neurodiverse employees face across six human resource areas: 1) HR practice; 2) professional development; 3) employment experiences; 4) organization development; 5) performance and 6) ethics and social responsibility. Originality/value This study underscores the importance of neurodiversity, a topic that has been largely overlooked in the field. It provides a comprehensive overview of neurodiversity research trends, expands the perspectives of researchers and practitioners by offering both theoretical and practical insights and identifies key areas for future research to advance understanding and application in the field.

This conceptual analysis proposes a triadic sonic pedagogy for relational ocean engagement, developed for educational and community-based ocean literacy and stewardship initiatives. Grounded in Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening and Steven Feld's Sonic Relationality, it challenges extractivist imaginaries framing the ocean as passive, and builds on humanities scholarship recognizing oceanic dynamism, by emphasizing the ocean's acoustic agency in coastal and nearshore sonic practice. It develops three interconnected practices -the established practice of soundwalking, the emerging practice of soundsitting, and the novel pedagogical practice of soundweaving-that transform abstract marine concepts into lived multisensory encounters, strengthening empathy, communal bonds, and ethical stewardship. These scalable practices can be used sequentially within a single session or adapted flexibly to different contexts, drawing on multiple cultures and traditions to support careful, attuned engagement with ocean soundscapes. By centering the ocean's acoustic agency, this model challenges anthropocentric paradigms, positions sound as a portal for collective care, and contributes to ocean literacy, geocentric ethical awareness, and relational forms of ocean citizenship in a climate-challenged world.

This study examined whether leadership, organizational culture, and career development influence police work ethics in a public-service security institution. The empirical design was a quantitative correlational survey using simple random sampling, with 76 respondents drawn from an accessible population of 312 brigadier-level personnel in operational units. Leadership, organizational culture, and career development were treated as independent variables, and work ethic was the dependent variable. The findings show that all three predictors significantly affect work ethic, both individually and jointly. Leadership explained 46.4% of the variance in work ethic, organizational culture 47.4%, and career development 44.2%. Simultaneously, the three variables produced a strong positive relationship (R = .750) and explained 56.2% of the variance in the dependent variable. Among the three predictors, organizational culture made the largest individual contribution. These results indicate that police work ethics are shaped not only by formal rules but also by leadership quality, shared organizational norms, and the credibility of career opportunities. The updated discussion situates the original findings within 2021 organizational and human resource scholarship, which highlights the importance of leadership, culture, and development systems for employee behavior and performance.

The article focuses on the study of the activities of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) during the Russo-Japanese War (1904—1905) in organizing and directly providing medical and humanitarian aid to wounded and sick Russian prisoners of war and internees. It was found that, since Japan’s accession to the International Red Cross Movement in 1886, humanitarian activities within this organization were based on Western values and practices of that time, involving both full-time employees and volunteers. The authors display the overall volume and scale of rescue operations carried out by the Japanese Red Cross, both in the theater of military operations and in the rear during the war with Russia. Striving to match the ideals of Western humanism and emphasizing its neutral status, the JRCS tried to enhance the international status of Japan as a “civilized” country, not just by adhering to the already established international principles of warfare, but creating new humanitarian practices during military operations. Using the example of wellknown historical events of the Russo-Japanese War, using materials of Japanese origin, the authors reconstruct the complete picture of the society's activities, focusing on the accumulation of forces and resources, conduct of rescue and humanitarian operations, organization of evacuation, sanitary, medical, and everyday support work. It also seems possible to presents the work of ordinary members of the society and volunteers to carry out qualified nursing care, solve economic issues, and arrange the daily life of the sick and wounded Russian soldiers in Japanese captivity. The article provides assessment of this activity by people who received direct assistance from the Japanese side. The authors draw a conclusion that, during the studied period, the JRCS, while actually being a part of the Japanese armed forces, played a significant role in implementing the new humanitarian policy of the Japanese leadership. The JRCS was also the organizer of nursing in Japan according to American and European models. However, Western humanities scholars continued to view Japan as a “secondtier” country in need of mentoring from “Western teachers.”

Modern humanities scholarship offers a wide range of approaches to the periodization and interpretation of the historical development of humankind. These approaches can generally be divided into two main directions. The first includes theories based on the idea of linear and progressive historical development, reflected in the works of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, and Karl Marx. The second direction consists of non-linear interpretations of the historical process, presented in the works of Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky, Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, and Oswald Spengler. These scholars interpret the development of civilizations as a complex, multi-variant, and often cyclical process. Both approaches possess considerable explanatory potential, yet each also has certain limitations. This article proposes an alternative approach to understanding the historical process based on the theory of human cultural evolution. The proposed framework does not reject earlier theoretical models but rather seeks to integrate and expand upon their key ideas. Within this concept, three successive stages of historical development are identified. The first stage — the two-wave stage — is associated with the formation of oral speech and the dominance of visual perception in the transmission of information. The second stage—the two-dimensional stage—is connected with the emergence of writing and the spread of textual communication. The third stage—the binary-machine stage is characterized by the development of digital technologies and the emergence of various digital assistants. The article analyzes the key features of each of these stages and compares them according to several criteria, including the political and legal structure of society, the socio-economic system, the sphere of culture and art, and the development of science, education, and enlightenment.

This paper explores the intersection of graphic novels and spatial humanities by applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map migratory routes and urban imaginaries in contemporary graphic narratives. While graphic novels have long served as powerful vehicles for depicting displacement, exile, and the lived experience of cities, traditional literary analysis often overlooks the precise spatial dynamics embedded in their panel sequences, gutters, and visual layouts. Drawing on tools from the spatial humanities, I georeference key locations, trace character journeys, and reconstruct imagined urban environments in selected works, including Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Shaun Tan's The Arrival, and Art Spiegelman's Maus. By converting narrative panels into layered GIS datasets incorporating base maps, migration trajectories, and qualitative annotations of space, I reveal how these texts construct "migratory cartographies" that blend real-world geography with subjective, affective urban imaginaries. The analysis demonstrates that graphic novels do not merely represent migration; they actively perform spatial storytelling through sequential art, where the movement between panels mirrors the fragmented, non-linear nature of displaced lives. Interactive StoryMaps created for this project further allow readers to engage with these routes dynamically, bridging the gap between close reading and geospatial visualization. Ultimately, this study argues that GIS-based methods enrich our understanding of graphic novels as multimodal spatial texts and offer new possibilities for digital humanities scholarship in literature and cultural geography. By treating comics panels as geospatial data, we can uncover patterns of belonging, alienation, and mobility that remain hidden in conventional textual analysis.

Large language models have fundamentally challenged traditional methods of verifying doctoral competency as AI-generated text becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from human scholarship. This paper argues that thesis committees and doctoral supervisors must reclaim the oral defence as a critical checkpoint for assessing authentic threshold crossing rather than a ceremonial rite of passage. Drawing on historical examples from medieval oral disputations through to the rise of written theses, this paper asserts the necessity of returning to rigorous oral assessment. Given the limitations of detection technologies and the growing use of AI in thesis writing, oral defences must move from confirmatory questions that permit regurgitated responses to exploratory inquiry that demonstrates genuine conceptual transformation. This requires developing assessment literacy among examiners to distinguish candidates who have achieved deep disciplinary understanding from those who have merely assembled AI-generated text, thereby revealing human capacities for critical thinking, spontaneous reasoning, and scholarly judgment.

The paper explores the political discourse of the Federal Republic of Germany during the period from 1991 to 2005 as a reflection of sociopolitical transformations associated with national reunification, economic modernization, and the redefinition of national identity. The relevance of the present study is determined by the growing interest of contemporary humanities scholarship in language as a key mechanism for the formation and transmission of political meanings under conditions of large-scale socio-political transformations. Special attention is given to the role of language as a tool of political integration, legitimation, and ideological representation. The aim of the study is to identify and describe the linguistic strategies employed by leading German politicians (H. Kohl, G. Schröder, J. Fischer, among others) to influence public consciousness under conditions of institutional and value shifts. The scientific relevance of the research lies in uncovering the structural and pragmatic features of German political discourse in the era of the “Berlin Republic.” Its practical significance lies in the applicability of the findings to contemporary political communication and language policy development. The study is based on discourse analysis, pragmalinguistics, content analysis, and frame analysis. The corpus includes parliamentary speeches, interviews, and official statements. The research identifies key metaphorical models (“blossoming landscapes,” “push forward,” “never again Auschwitz”), strategic narratives (unity, reform, global responsibility), value frames, and rhetorical techniques. The results demonstrate that political language served integrative, legitimizing, and normative functions within the German public sphere. The study contributes to political linguistics by revealing the mechanisms through which language articulated post-socialist and post-national dynamics in German society. Its findings are relevant to experts in political communication, sociolinguistics, and discourse studies.

Food studies recognizes that food cultures are dynamic. Yet a surprising lack of food culture research on innovation as such, combined with our experiences when presenting our culinary innovation research to fellow social scientists and humanities scholars, suggest to us that a general skepticism of innovation may be common in food studies. We wonder why this might be. We propose that, among other reasons, it may be because innovation is typically thought of only in its dominant modernist mode. Yet it can be more than that: what we call amodern innovation, that is, innovation agnostic to modernism. We suggest that categorically rejecting innovation by conflating it with its dominant mode limits possible futures available to society. We illustrate this idea with the examples of plant cheese and agroecology, both of which we believe to be potentially valuable for future food systems and cultures, but which are often erroneously understood as categorically modernist and anti-modernist, respectively. Reclaiming innovation can help us cultivate desirable futures by providing eaters with tools that empower them and their communities to continue to adapt, persist and thrive in an ever-changing world in their own preferred ways—in short, an innovation that supports food sovereignty. We conclude with recommendations for an amodern food culture scholarship and some directions for future research.

Abstract This article critically examines the efficacy of ratifying International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) within the complex relationship between a State’s sovereignty and its pre-existing, non-derogable obligations under international law. Many States may use reservations, understandings, and declarations (RUDs) to ratify treaties like ICERD while managing substantive obligations. This article analyze ICERD’s the challenges of domestic enforcement, scrutinizing how ratification by States, could be diluted by extensive RUDs, thereby analysing whether formal ratification translates to meaningful compliance. This analysis further interprets enforcement lacunae, including the jurisdictional barriers facing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in adjudicating human rights violations. By contrast, this article uses Malaysia as a critical case study to examine the legal implications of the persistent non-ratification of ICERD, a dimension of the international human rights scholarship that remains insufficiently examined. This article critically examine and analyse the domestic legal context to demonstrate that the State remains legally bound by the international principle of equality and non-discrimination through multiple legal nexus, the UN Charter membership, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as Customary International Law, and the ASEAN Human Rights Framework, which cumulatively reinforce the jus cogens character of racial equality. This analysis advances a novel legal argument by applying the framework of jus cogens norms and constitutional equality principles under Malaysian law, suggesting that non-ratification of ICERD may have implications beyond a neutral exercise of sovereignty. The non-ratification of ICERD constrains the efficacy of the international human rights machinery, avoiding the full scope of external monitoring and legal accountability, and raising questions regarding the alignment of its domestic constitutional integrity. It is submitted that the States that ratify ICERD even with RUDs, demonstrate a foundational commitment to human rights norms despite enforcement complexities. Non-ratification perpetuates structural inequality and directly challenges international mechanisms designed to uphold universal human rights.

Abstract This article deals with the experience of members of the Habsburg delegations to Istanbul who traveled to the Ottoman capital in the 16 th century and contributed to the study of the Byzantine background of Constantinople. Several of these visitors from the Holy Roman Empire exhibited the typical characteristics of humanist scholars and were thus attracted primarily to classical antiquities and texts. However, the rivalry between the Holy Roman and the Ottoman empires and the religious dialogue between the Protestants of Tübingen and the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople motivated these travelers to discover and study medieval monuments and manuscripts as well. This activity was an important link in the early stages of the study of Byzantium and its material culture; thus, scholars such as Hans Dernschwam, Ogier de Busbecq, and Stephan Gerlach and artists such as Melchior Lorck are key figures in the establishment of a version of Byzantine antiquarianism.

The research analysed how Green Human Resource Management practices influenced tourism sector organizations in Jordan concerning social responsibility and environmental performance while filling a crucial gap in service industry studies of emerging market economies. From a target sample of 297, a total of 190 usable responses from Jordanian tourism companies were obtained and analyzed using PLS-SEM techniques. Green recruitment and selection together with green performance and green compensation, green innovation demonstrated strong positive effects on social responsibility and environmental performance, but green training and Green motivation produced minimal success. The research results confirm constructive implications of stakeholder theory and resource-based view through showing that well-adapted Green Human Resource Management practices promote sustainability in local labor markets. Tourism managers can use this study to develop sustainable practices through environmental recruitment, performance monitoring, and sustainable innovation implementation. This research offers original value through applied examples of Green Human Resource Management in a high-turnover service industry while disputing general universal approaches and presenting observable evidence to support workplace practice and policy. The research adds to sustainable Human Resource Management scholarship through its theoretical and practical integration of studies in under-researched regions.

ABSTRACT Internal labor migration is a defining feature of contemporary China, where hukou-based local – migrant divides shape migrants’ employment experience. Our study examines how these divides hinder internal migrant workers’ workplace integration and how employers respond through inclusive management practices. We identify two major sources of divides: socioeconomic and cultural. In response, we conceptualize employers’ inclusive management practices as ‘structural inclusion work’, which manifests through migrant-inclusive decision-making, equity-based employment practices, and initiatives that integrate cultural differences. We contribute to the Asian migration research and human resource management scholarship with a multilevel understanding of workplace integration.

(Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance.

Communication and interaction with public authorities and healthcare professionals in Denmark primarily go through digital self-service platforms, requiring diverse skills and device access. In this article, we describe how senior citizens in Denmark handle and make sense of public digitalization through different forms of digital support. Through an ethnographic study of community-led initiatives of digital support, we highlight how senior citizens find socio-technical ways of managing digital obligations and argue that citizens' digital agency in day-to-day interactions with public digitalization relies heavily on distributed socio-material relations. We suggest that the ways of engaging with healthcare through digital means should be of increasing concern to medical humanities scholars, as digital literacies and technologies have become gatekeepers to welfare and healthcare. Drawing on Donna Haraway's reconceptualization of responsibility as response-ability, and Jane Bennett's notion of distributed agency, we argue that the ability of digital citizens to respond is a result of a distributed and combined responsiveness of human, technological, and digital actants. We point to two opposite but interrelated assemblages: public digital as distributed intervening mediated through computers, smartphones, tablets, public digital mail platforms, et cetera, and digital support as distributed response, which serves to mitigate and translate demands and obligations of the digitalized welfare state. Consequently, as digital developments tend to generate an increasingly individualizing gaze, medical humanities must be critically concerned with the manifold, subtle actants that co-constitute accessibility and responsiveness of patients and citizens.

Globalization has significantly reshaped cultural values and identities through the expansion of digital media, migration, transnational markets, and global consumer culture. These transformations influence everyday practices, social norms, and symbolic systems, generating both opportunities for intercultural exchange and tensions related to homogenization and cultural erosion. This study aims to analyze how globalization transforms cultural values and identities and how the humanities interpret and critically respond to these changes. This research employed a qualitative systematic literature review approach, examining peer-reviewed articles published between 2023 and 2025. Data were collected through database searches, screening, and thematic categorization. The analysis was conducted using qualitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis to identify patterns of hybridization, identity negotiation, cultural tension, and ethical reflection within humanities scholarship. The findings indicate that globalization produces hybrid and multilayered identities through selective cultural adaptation rather than simple cultural replacement. While consumer capitalism and Western cultural dominance generate homogenizing pressures, communities actively negotiate global influences within local frameworks. Humanities scholarship provides theoretical models, critical perspectives on power structures, and ethical guidance for cultural sustainability. The study concludes that understanding cultural transformation under globalization requires humanistic reflection capable of interpreting symbolic meaning, identity dynamics, and ethical implications in an interconnected world