This study explores how teachers’ work sustainability is shaped through everyday governance practices within private higher education institutions in China. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, the analysis draws on long-term fieldwork and in-depth interviews with teachers, administrators, leaders, and students from two private colleges. The findings suggest that teachers’ difficulties do not stem from isolated adverse incidents, but rather from an ongoing organizational process embedded in routine management practices. Evaluation-centered promotion systems, relationship-based governance, and data-driven oversight interact to restructure how teaching work is organized, recognized, and assessed. Professional contributions are frequently treated as negotiable outcomes subject to managerial discretion, while informal alignment practices and selective monitoring gradually narrow teachers’ space for professional judgment and initiative. Despite accumulating dissatisfaction, most teachers remain in their positions. Occupational identity, social expectations, and constrained labor mobility limit realistic exit options, transforming short-term accommodation into prolonged endurance. In this context, teacher retention reflects not organizational stability, but the persistence of governance conditions that challenge the long-term sustainability of teachers’ work. By examining how routine management practices gradually reshape teachers’ work, this study highlights an overlooked dimension of sustainability in higher education: the long-term viability of teachers’ professional lives within existing governance arrangements. Unlike studies that conceptualize teachers’ difficulties through the lens of workplace bullying or interpersonal conflict, this study focuses on how ordinary governance practices shape long-term work sustainability without overt confrontation.

This qualitative study examined the practices of teachers on the integration of values in the Philippine curriculum in the Eastern Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (ERKSA), providing the narrative of the lived experiences of the participants in the (place) intercultural school environment, sociality (teacher-student- parent relationships), and temporality (before, during, and after) instruction. It investigated how ordinary teaching practices make values learnable, enduring, and visible to the community, filling a long-standing vacuum in the literature where values education is frequently viewed as an add-on with little practical depth. Using the narrative inquiry and thematic analysis, the purposive interviews with the twelve (12) teachers under pseudonyms were coded throughout the before, during, and after phases, which revealed a logical prime, enact, and transfer cycle. These results support a Schoolwide Values Integration Plan that codifies teaching repertoires, monitors transfer markers using data-light techniques, standardizes the plan-protected minutes for priming and closure, and promotes fidelity through coordination of coaching and assistance. The study connects narrative accounts and system-level implementation by defining values as coached procedures integrated in disciplinary tasks and validated through behavior-visible indicators, which provide a viable, inclusive approach for whole-school development in the Eastern Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

ABSTRACT This article explores the links between the management of an organization's ordinary activities and the management of crisis situations. It starts from the observation that crises, whether brutal, prolonged, or insidious, do not arise in an organizational vacuum: they mobilize the same actors, structures, and practices as day‐to‐day operations. The study adopts both a processual and organizational approach, considering that the ability to cope with a crisis is built and maintained in ordinary operations. Through a thematic analysis anchored in real‐world cases, the article identifies five key variables linking the ordinary to the crisis: Organizational slack, the social dynamics of collective action (cooperation and trust), relational power relations, reflexivity, and abductive reasoning. We show that these collective skills, developed on a day‐to‐day basis, are essential for developing effective crisis management capabilities. The article concludes that crisis preparedness does not rely solely on specific plans or exercises, but on investment in ordinary practices, which shape the capacity for collective action in critical situations.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is usually framed as a technical problem of drug-resistant pathogens, yet for those living with it, AMR is an everyday condition of uncertainty that reshapes what it means to remain alive, treatable, and connected to health systems. This article develops a fluid onto-epistemology of human existence in the presence of AMR, asking how existence, risk and knowledge are co-produced across Thailand’s AMR landscape. First, it traces how AMR emerges from ordinary practices and infrastructures – from prescribing, dispensing and surveillance to water, sanitation and food systems – to conceptualise AMR as a slow-onset, super-wicked disaster nested within human lives rather than external to human existence. Second, it examines how human lives are valued, protected or left at risk within Thailand’s evolving AMR governance, including tensions between national indicators, everyday therapeutic practices and the position of refugees and migrants at the margins of entitlement. Third, it proposes a communicative-ecology lens for mapping how knowledge of AMR moves between actors, institutions and environments, and how these flows shape possibilities for anticipation, care and accountability. The resulting framework is designed to be transferable and empirically usable: it can be populated with quantitative and qualitative data, scaled between national profiles and local settings, and adapted as stakeholder configurations change. In the Thai context, this means reading AMR as part of the country’s disaster risk profile, especially in refugee- and migrant-affected settings where surveillance is challenging. Future research on AMR in Thailand – including along the Thai-Myanmar border and in refugee- and migrant-affected settings will collect and interpret data through this framework in order to better align everyday experiences of risk with policy, surveillance and intervention.

ABSTRACT This article examines the entanglement of gender, sexuality, and national identity in the French counter-radicalisation framework. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted between 2016 and 2019, including 78 interviews with prefectural officials and social workers, it analyses how state-led prevention operates through the regulation of gendered behaviours and personal relationships. Since 2015, the fight against radicalisation has increasingly been framed not as a matter of political violence but as a moral and civilisational issue requiring the reform of cultural norms, especially those relating to gender and sexuality. Gender equality, secularism, and republican values are mobilised to justify targeted interventions in working-class, postcolonial neighbourhoods, where women are portrayed as needing protection and men's attitudes toward women become central indicators in radicalisation assessments. By foregrounding everyday gestures and intimate behaviours as “low-level indicators,” the preventive apparatus shifts from identifying ideological positions to scrutinising private life, reinforcing racialised readings of ordinary practices.

Abstract Wittgenstein's naturalism illuminates our ordinary normative practices of giving and asking for reasons and also related ‘philosophical’ conceptions of knowledge inspired by, for example, Sellars's image of the ‘space of reasons’. Some propose that the relevant naturalism motivates scepticism about the ‘space of reasons’ insofar as it allegedly renders inexplicable how the space of reasons, intentionality and normativity quite generally, can be reconciled with the space of causation or the ‘space of nature’. Sellars insists that the normativity of knowledge is constitutively tied to our capacities of providing justifications. Arguably, Wittgenstein's insights into the limits of our capacity to give reasons and provide justifications show how normativity is both pervasive and more extensive than the practices of justification as actions or occurrences in the ‘space of reasons’. I situate those insights with respect to competing accounts of Wittgenstein's naturalism and recommend a more ‘liberal’ interpretation.

Abstract There is a general agreement in the contemporary discussion on practical reasons that the reasons for which we act are able to explain our actions. These first‐person explanatory reasons, closely connected to motivating reasons, can be called, for ease of exposition, “agential reasons.” The acceptance of agential reasons largely relies on our ordinary practices of giving explanations. Based on some standard considerations about the notion of explanation and central cases of explanatory relationships already developed in the literature, I will cast some doubts on the idea that there are agential reasons as a subcategory of explanatory reasons for actions. I will then suggest that this skeptical suggestion on agential reasons need not embrace either an error theory of our explanatory practices or a psychological reading of them. Rather, I will propose an alternative normative account that I believe fits better with the explanatory interest underlying them.

ABSTRACTThis paper examines how secondary victimization is interactionally produced during courtroom cross‐examinations of women who have experienced sexual violence. Drawing on Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis, the study investigates how defense attorneys invoke rape myths and gendered stereotypes to challenge victims' credibility and moral character. Using the extracts of two cross‐examinations from the celebrity trial CA v. Winslow II (2019), the results highlight how interactional features of questioning reproduce cultural assumptions that legitimate secondary victimization, constructing victims as unreliable or complicit. The findings highlight the “double bind” faced by women in sexual assault trials: they must appear both emotionally credible and rationally composed to be believed, yet any deviation from this ideal invites disbelief. Methodologically, the paper underscores the underutilized potential of EMCA in legal‐linguistic research to reveal how institutional talk reproduces gendered injustice through ordinary conversational practices.

ABSTRACT A number of studies, both in science education and in the humanities and social sciences, have shown that active learning has a more positive effect on student performance than direct instruction. As these studies were experimental or quasi-experimental, they compared ideal interventions designed and controlled by researchers. The present study aimed to measure the effects of active learning on student success under authentic conditions, by examining ordinary teaching practices that take place in real-life situations and are subject to various material, time-related and human constraints, which can affect teaching preparation and implementation. The study also investigated whether these effects depend on students’ psycho-cognitive profiles. Data were collected from 356 teachers and 2168 students across various science and humanities programmes. The findings show that active learning under authentic conditions has a more positive effect on students’ success in the first year of university than direct instruction. More specifically, they show that success is fostered when teachers adapt content to students’ difficulties, use different active learning methods and in particular flipped classrooms, and use digital tools to engage students in activities. The results also show that active learning is equally beneficial for all students, regardless of their psycho-cognitive profile.

The policy mobilities framework aims to understand the things, spaces, moments and people that contribute to the diffuse, non-linear and power-laden processes involved in the circulation and mobilization of ideas in cities. Recent contributions work to strengthen the framework’s ability to capture the role of social movements and civil society members therein, notably when it comes to the mobilities of counterhegemonic ideas. Here, we investigate the circulation of agroecology in Madrid, Spain, using a combination of participatory and non-participatory observations, semi-directed interviews and documentary research. Our results highlight a dual role played by movement actors in the circulation of the agroecological framework: on the one hand, they disseminate the project while, on the other, they protect its transformational imaginary by limiting its circulation. These results attest to the contribution of ordinary practices and spaces in the dissemination and infiltration of counterhegemonic ideas, as well as to a wide range of new ideas and practices arising from a social movement’s interactions with local administrations.

Mobilities intertwine with heritage in multifarious ways: from the movement of heritage objects in space and time to mobilities as heritage themselves, from mobilities as tools to create, discover, promote and reconnect heritage sites or landscapes to mobilities as a threat to the conservation of biocultural heritage sites. Although the heritage discourse often thrives on disconnection from ordinary or contemporary practices, we argue that slow mobilities may foster the reconnection of people with heritage, in its natural and cultural, local and intercultural hybridity. Heritage, indeed, is not just a representation of the past; it is also a connection or a reconnection with the past that is active and alive in the present. Our contribution will focus on the illustration and discussion of walking itineraries as tools to activate the connection with heritage in contexts such as protected areas and UNESCO Biosphere reserves. In these areas, the proximity (and hybridity) between natural and cultural heritage, conservation and socio-economic activities, as well as between the various gazes of residents and visitors, poses several challenges to the recognition, the appropriation and the active conservation of heritage as a source of current and future wellbeing. In particular, in the frame of a broader research project devoted to the exploration of formal and informal heritagization processes, we will present the initiatives proposed in the Ledro Alps and Judicaria Biosphere Reserve. Here, the local Ecomuseum, an institution inspired by the European Landscape Convention and by the Faro Convention on Cultural Heritage, is in fact adopting slow mobilities as tools to promote sensitisation and landscape-as-heritage awareness among residents and visitors of the area. In particular, we will describe three trekking itineraries dedicated each one to a keyword (“gazes”, “limits” and “slowness”) conceived as a guide for the elicitation of the local heritage’s values in connection with contemporary and global dynamics.

The clients sustainability chain (CSC) topic is found to be interesting. Weakness of the CSC only occurs when there are several bottlenecks across the CSC. CSC mapping compared against routine client’s operations has become essential. The construction industries (CIs) are huge in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and dedicated to focusing on ordinary practices, except for key practices such as strategic costing quality and its corresponding metrics on a routine basis to build the CSC mapping module. Therefore, there is a necessity to develop an advanced CSC sustainability assessment module to map the future CSC of CIs in the UAE; this is respected as the first research gap (RG). Furthermore, to simulate the CSC mapping module, CIs are initiated to search the variant grey approach; this is respected as the second RG. To compensate for both RGs, the authors propose the grey performance importance index (GPII)-based variant approach with CSC mapping module to assess and map the CSC. An empirical research study is illustrated. The results reveal that the evaluated performance index (PI) is 65.80% and the CI is supposed to improve the performance up to 34.20% to target an ideal grey performance index. A constructed module is simulated by a grey set excluding a fuzzy set and can be changed for future challenging CSC practices–metrics; this is the novelty of the work.

This essay focuses on the place of Soviet-built mass-housing microdistricts and ordinary practices of maintenance in urban politics. The housing maintenance sector in Kazakhstan has undergone major changes following a reform implemented in 2020. The Aktau case helps to unpack how this reform has triggered a renegotiation of Soviet maintenance practices, revealing the underlying dissonance between the government-led approach and the discourse of ‘responsibilisation’ that arose after independence, when public housing was privatised. The line between supporters and critics of the reform is the border between Soviet-built housing and new estates, whose different materialities require, it is argued, different approaches.

Advocates of tiny housing associate small living spaces with more sustainable consumption practices. This may be true for voluntary minimalists, but may not be true for those who reluctantly live in micro-apartments out of financial constraints. Yet, the impacts of small living spaces on everyday consumption practices in unaffordable cities are not well-understood. To fill this gap, this study focused on micro-apartment residents in Hong Kong with less than 20 square metres per capita. Through qualitative interviews, the study investigated how small living spaces influence residents’ acquisition, storage and decluttering practices. The study uncovered distinctive forms of taste-space trade-offs, and accelerated passage of usable goods from clutter to waste. Shared consumption of bulky goods in communal spaces can reduce storage needs, although not all forms of sharing are culturally acceptable. These findings extend the theoretical literature on ordinary consumption practices, while offering practical insights for waste management strategies in cities with rapid growth of micro-homes.

Abstract Reconciling across the social and relational divisions which persist in everyday life is a vital component of building sustained peace after armed conflict and mass violence. While everyday peace has received considerable attention within existing scholarship, everyday reconciliation has not been developed as a concept in its own right. In this paper I develop the idea of everyday reconciliation, which involves ordinary and routine practices that build positive, mutually respectful relations across conflict divisions at multiple levels. I propose a novel framework to study everyday reconciliation, which captures variation across two key dimensions of relational repair: the social position of the actors engaged in reconciling (elites/ordinary people) and the axis along which reconciliation takes place (horizontal/vertical). The framework differentiates between three distinct types of everyday reconciliation: (1) elite everyday reconciliation, building horizontal relationships between elite actors; (2) grassroots everyday reconciliation, building horizontal relationships between ordinary people; and (3) vertical everyday reconciliation, building relationships across divisions between elites and ordinary people. The framework allows observers to disaggregate between whom and how everyday reconciliation varies, and highlights new dimensions of everyday reconciliation. Developing a more robust conceptualization of everyday reconciliation sheds light on previously overlooked ways in which societies navigate relational divisions arising from a violent past.

Abstract If reductionism about personal identity is true, “no one ever deserves to be punished for anything they did.” I call this the Responsible Agency Challenge. This paper addresses the question: How should we respond to this challenge? My response is inspired by the famous fifth century Buddhist Abhidharma philosopher, Vasubandhu, and the historical roots of the denial of personal identity in Buddhist philosophy, which points towards a new impersonalist account of agency and responsibility. This impersonalism opens up the space for a far‐reaching and comprehensive revision of our ordinary responsibility practices and reactive attitudes.

Through the analytical lenses of ‘practice of planning action’, this study examines the ordinary planning practices of land-use management and containment performed by local and supra-local spatial planning actors (e.g. regional governments and provincial authorities) in Catalonia (Spain) and Lombardy (Italy). By re-elaborating on communicative planning, the micro-level practices of land containment are analytically classified into four types of communicative modes: 1) monologic, 2) argumentative, 3) propositional and 4) intermediating ‘planning dialogues’. The analysis shows that, in both case studies, changes in spatial planning instruments are associated with different communicative modes. In the performed analysis, intermediating planning appears to be the communication mode between local and supra-local spatial planning actors that is most associated with practices of land containment. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ .

Abstract The Bible sometimes presents divine covenants as involving a promise. This gives us reasons to study promises as a way of generating a clearer understanding of these sorts of divine covenants. This paper argues for a set of features an ideal promise must have and argues that only something like a divine covenant could have all such features. Understanding some divine covenants as involving a promise helps explain how the human partners in the divine covenant can be entitled to demand and expect God to be faithful to his covenants. It also rules out certain models for divine covenants. This paper’s method suggests avenues for analyzing different types of divine speech as idealized versions of ordinary social practices.

ABSTRACT What I am illustrating and discuss in this brief essay is an organizational paradox, that of the ethical censorship of the aesthetic dimension, raised during ordinary practices of organizational communication and related to my recent photographic book Riviera Mediterranea. This paradox stimulated reflections on the intimate link between the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of organizational life. My argument is that we can critically explore the paradox of the supremacy of the ethical dimension over the aesthetic one in organizing by moving away from treating it as a ‘grand theme’ and focusing, instead, on the subtle connections between aesthetics and ethics in the daily practices of artistic creation.

ABSTRACTSkeptics about moral responsibility are skeptical about “basic desert moral responsibility.” They claim that “we” are committed to basic desert moral responsibility in a wide range of ordinary practices; accordingly, if skeptics are right, “our” practices rest on a widespread mistake. In turn, the (purported) fact that “we” are systematically in error motivates the skeptic's revisionary proposals for alternative social practices. I aim to head off this line of thought at the first step: we do not have sufficient reason to think that we are committed to basic desert moral responsibility as pervasively as the skeptic contends. The significance of skepticism is proportional to how widespread commitment to basic desert moral responsibility is; accordingly, the less confident we should be that such a commitment is widespread, the less confident we should be that skepticism poses a significant challenge.