How do emotional responses associate with urban behavior amid ecological and political disruption? This study explores the emotional, cognitive, and institutional factors associated with urban reactive behavioral intentions during escalating human–wildlife encounters, focusing on wild boars in Haifa, Israel. Using a large-scale survey with visual stimuli designed to evoke emotional responses, we elicited emotions—fear versus empathy and indifference versus curiosity—and measured two outcomes: immediate spatial response and civic reporting (calls to the municipal 106 hotline). Findings show that fear mediates the link between perceived harm and urban reactions, while curiosity and perceived good local governance moderate this relationship. Curiosity, unexpectedly, amplified both fear and behavioral intentions response. Perceived good governance mitigated physical expressions of fear in public space but had limited impact on civic reporting. Emotional responses also shifted depending on visual framing, emphasizing the role of public communication. This research advances understanding of emotional infrastructure in cities and informs adaptive urban governance by linking environmental risk, emotion, and institutional trust.

The natural resources and local communities of Madre de Dios, Peru, face severe environmental degradation due to illegal mining, deforestation, and the expansion of agricultural activities, threatening one of the most ecologically sensitive regions of the Amazon. This research proposes a low-carbon and bioclimatic architectural design for a Sustainable Interpretation and Research Center dedicated to the conservation of the ecosystems of Manu National Park. The study is based on an analysis of the surrounding environment in terms of flora, fauna, and climate, applying bioclimatic strategies focused on sustainability and supported by specialized digital tools (Revit 2024, Canva, Global Mapper 2024, SketchUp 2024, Photoshop 2022, and Illustrator 2022). The project presents a bioclimatic architectural design that integrates constructive techniques ensuring thermal comfort in a warm-humid climate, while promoting the use of clean technologies such as photovoltaic solar systems generating 15,571.8 kWh per year and a rainwater harvesting system collecting 70,675 L annually. The infrastructure is built with bamboo and locally sourced wood, renewable materials that ensure durability and low environmental impact. In addition, the design includes the reforestation of 17.92% of the total area and 3.46% of public spaces, incorporating native species such as Brazil nut, rosewood, and capirona to reinforce local biodiversity. Overall, this research demonstrates how low-carbon construction, renewable materials, and bioclimatic design can contribute to sustainable development, environmental awareness, and the preservation of natural ecosystems in tropical regions.

Information globalization has fundamentally transformed the structure and practice of political communication in contemporary democracies. Rapid, cross-border digital information flows mediated by global media platforms have weakened the capacity of states and political parties to control public narratives. Political communication no longer operates within centralized and hierarchical spaces, but rather within fragmented and competitive digital public spheres. This study aims to analyze how the Golkar Party, as an established political party, conducts political communication in the context of information globalization and the weakening role of the state. This research employs a qualitative approach within a constructivist paradigm using a case study design. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with local Golkar Party elites and document analysis, and analyzed using critical discourse analysis. The findings indicate that Golkar’s political communication functions as a process of mediated meaning negotiation within digital media environments. Political power is no longer derived solely from formal institutional structures, but increasingly depends on media visibility and public trust. The Golkar Party adopts a hybrid political communication strategy by combining organizational structures with adaptive digital communication practices. This study concludes that political communication of established parties in the era of information globalization should be understood as a dynamic and relational arena of mediated power, where political legitimacy is continuously negotiated within digital public spaces.

Relationship and sexuality education research has largely centred on adult perspectives, particularly in exploring home-based sexuality education. This study shifts the lens to youth voices by examining how adolescents from LGBTQ+ families in South Africa experience and actively participate in home-based sexuality conversations. Using arts-based collage-creating methods with the adolescent participants, youth interpretations of sexuality learning in LGBTQ+ family homes were explored. The findings reveal that youth are not passive recipients but active co-creators of family sexuality knowledge, developing critical literacies about heteronormativity through ongoing and responsive home-based conversations. Youth identified home as a distinct pedagogical space characterised by safety, personalisation, ongoing responsive dialogue, inclusivity of diverse sexual and gender identities, and responsiveness to their developmental needs. However, youth also navigate tensions between LGBTQ+-affirming home environments and heteronormative public spaces, developing sophisticated strategies for managing these boundaries. This study contributes empirical evidence for valuing informal sexuality education spaces and positions youth from LGBTQ+ families as knowledge producers whose experiences can inform more inclusive, dialogue-based approaches. The findings have implications for supporting family-based sexuality education and challenging adult-centric assumptions about youth capacities in sexuality learning.

ABSTRACT The implementation of Islamic Sharia in Aceh creates unique dynamics for non-Muslim minorities as they navigate dominant cultural norms that regulate behaviour, and appearance in public spaces. This study analyses the practical everyday cultural adaptation strategies employed by minority groups to manage social pressure and stigma. Utilising cultural adaptation theory and hegemony theory, the research demonstrates that under a robust religious legal structure, social stability is maintained through strategic identity negotiations in the public sphere. These findings offer a significant contribution to understanding how individual agency interacts with structural dominance to foster interreligious coexistence within a legally regulated environment.

Over the last 30 years, the diversity of male representation in heist films has exploded, encompassing racial diversity, class distinctions, and the binary choice of being a willing participant or coerced in their respective heists. However, women’s representation in heist films remains limited, with a growing gap in representation, especially for Black women within these narratives. Currently, scholars have not yet adequately theorized or engaged with the significance of Black women's representations in the heist film genre. To address this literature gap, this paper critically analyzes representation in heist films that center on Black women like Jackie Brown (Tarantino 1997) and Widows (McQueen 2018). Two major theoretical perspectives inform this filmic analysis. The first is Julian Hanich’s critical study of heist film conventions. Hanich examines key themes of the heist genre, including freedom, social mobility, and spatial access, along with exclusion. Employing Hanich’s scholarship as a framework, my paper reveals that Black women characters transform thematic meanings of the heist film as Hanich’s scholarship starts and ends with male-centric narratives. The second is Katherine McKittrick’s work on Black women and social geography. Considering the geographic nature of the heist film, McKittrick’s study of Black women’s geography—which she defines as the interplay of domination and concealment underscored by the social production of space— illuminates Hanich’s thematic examination of the genre. By using both Hanich’s and McKittrick’s framework, this article focuses on how heist films that center Black women operate as filmic examples of Black women’s geography as these characters transgress the most social boundaries like racialize doubt, get shown more of their characterization to better identify with them, and have an innate knowledge of their social geography by utilizing public space.

In early modern London, violence against religious dissenters took various forms: the pillory, flogging, branding, ear cropping, and executions. These punishments served as a warning not only to the victim but also to the crowds that often gathered in various spaces in London to witness them. Growing opposition to this violence, often ordered by the monarchy, was one of the factors that led to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. When parliament returned in 1640, control of London was progressively wrested away from those who supported Charles I. Such forms of violence subsequently disappeared from London. Public displays of violence remained, however, in symbolic form, as the executioner’s presence became common in various public spaces. Previously under the monarch’s control, parliament regularly ordered the hangman to publicise its orthodox ‘brand’ by publicly burning the doctrines of various religious and political sects, as part of London’s ‘Further Reformation’.

This article explores three applied anthropology interventions conducted in Italy, aiming to understand and value youth experiences in non-formal educational settings. Using a participatory methodological approach, the projects examine young people’s relationships with public space, food culture as an identity element, and psychological challenges in the post-pandemic context. The interventions (“Bang! Immagini da Valenza!”, “Il Cibo a 4 Occhi,” and “Pazzesk@”) focus on fostering youth identity co-construction and facilitating intergenerational dialogue. The findings demonstrate how an interdisciplinary, multimodal approach can provide a safe expressive space for youth, strengthening their role as active agents within communities. Finally, the article discusses the potential of applied anthropology to address educational and social issues and suggests ways to expand these practices into new territorial and institutional contexts to support the growth and social participation of future generations.

ABSTRACT This article explores early twentieth-century personal advertisements in Copenhagen as a rich archive of female same-sex desire and agency between 1900 and 1910. At the heart of the analysis is the ambiguous term ‘girlfriend’, which invites a reconsideration of women’s relationships, encompassing platonic companionship, romantic intimacy and sexual pleasure. In a society that predominantly restricted legitimate intimacy to the institution of marriage, the personal advertisements are understood to have constituted a public queer space wherein women from diverse social backgrounds negotiated desire, financial exchange and social respectability. Drawing together the voices of both upper- and working-class women, the study reveals a nuanced interclass dynamic involving intimacy, flirtation and economic interaction. It offers new insights into the public articulation of female same-sex desire and sexual agency, and foregrounds the complex intersections of gender, class and modernity in early twentieth-century Scandinavian society.

Abstract This paper examines the participation of Algerian women in the 2019 Hirak protests and their efforts to claim gendered and economic recognition within a society shaped by authoritarian and patriarchal structures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and forty-three interviews conducted in 2019 and 2023, the study explores how women navigate both public protest spaces and more intimate “sociospaces”—such as markets, schools, homes, and informal gatherings within the Hirak—to assert claims for autonomy and recognition. The article introduces the concept of a “gendered moral contract,” showing how Algerian women across social classes mobilize moral, religious, and familial frameworks to demand state-backed compensation for unpaid domestic labor by positioning themselves as essential contributors to family and society. By linking these claims to broader economic resources, including oil wealth, women negotiate recognition within culturally intelligible forms. This study contributes to understanding agency and strategies within social movements, highlighting how women employ culturally grounded, morally framed approaches to frame and share their demands under restrictive political and social conditions.

Against the strategic backdrop of comprehensively advancing rural revitalization, the revitalization of rural culture is in urgent need of a paradigm shift from external "blood transfusion-style" supply to internal "hematopoiesis-style" development. The current practical model dominated by one-way "cultural delivery" often leads to the disconnection between the inheritance of red culture and the fabric of rural life, making it difficult to effectively stimulate endogenous motivation. This study aims to propose and demonstrate "red aesthetic education" as a key enabling path to achieve this transformation. It is argued that red aesthetic education is not a simple artistic education activity, but a comprehensive social practice integrating value guidance, emotional activation and subject creation. Through theoretical deduction, this paper constructs a trinity theoretical analysis framework of "Value Identity-Subject Empowerment-Space Production", and systematically explains how red aesthetic education drives the endogenous development of rural culture through three practical mechanisms: emotional activation and memory reconstruction, knowledge production and skill inheritance, and social connection and capital appreciation. The results show that red aesthetic education can effectively promote the in-depth integration of red genes and local values, reshape the subjectivity of rural culture, and activate rural public cultural spaces. Thus, it provides a solution with both theoretical depth and practical operability for breaking the predicament of "cultural alienation" and cultivating sustainable endogenous development capacity. This study offers a new theoretical perspective and practical path for the creative transformation of red cultural resources and the revitalization of rural culture in the new era.

Delivery from the sky: investigating visual cues to communicate robot intentions in simulated public spaces.

Summary: From being sexually/criminally exploited by adults in public spaces, to being sexually or physically harmed by peers in their schools, young people are significantly harmed beyond their families. Historically, many of these children have been criminalised rather than protected, and despite mounting concern from governments, and efforts at structural reform, many countries still struggle to offer welfare-orientated responses that effectively target the contexts where such harm occurs. In this paper we use cumulative evidence from four projects within a multiyear research programme to surface cultural factors that hinder or facilitate the development of welfare-orientated and contextual responses to extra-familial harm. Findings: We analyse nine published outputs from these four projects using a synthesis of Schein's theory of organisational culture and the ‘cultural rules’ of Contextual Safeguarding, developed through an application of Bourdieu's social theory. The results of our analysis locate cultural misalignment not solely within the social work and wider child welfare organisations that participated in the project, but in the underlying assumptions of the systems in which those organisations are based. Consequently, we illustrate why seemingly ‘common-sense’ responses to young people in need of protection are complicated to enact. Application: To resolve such complications, we argue that victim-offender binaries, individualised outcome measures, and the relationship between state and parental responsibility, require reconceptualization in the design of child protection systems and research; and in the interim, offer four questions organisations can ask themselves to test, for the first time, their cultural readiness for adopting a contextual approach to extra-familial harms.

Abstract This article examines how arts-based, rights-oriented social work can foster voice, dignity, and inclusion with migrants in Spain. Drawing on decolonial theory and an a/r/tographic approach, we designed a collaborative program in reception settings with 57 adult migrants. Visual and performative artifacts—self-portraits, cultural “subway-map” cartographies, photo-narratives, a red-threads performance, and a floor installation—were treated as primary data. A constructivist grounded-theory strategy guided analysis using a formal–symbolic–contextual matrix (composition/color/materiality; metaphors and chronotopes; production/audience). Findings show measurable learning in visual literacy and creative–expressive and social competences, alongside increased agency in public spaces. Participants co-curated what to share, reframing dominant narratives of mobility through collective meaning-making and community pedagogy. The study details a practical rights-based toolkit for social work: layered, accessible consent; anonymity and takedown options for images/QR content; safety briefings for public actions; member checking across stages; and co-curation to prevent aesthetic paternalism. We argue that arts-based practice, read through a decolonial lens, moves beyond using art as a mere method and functions as education within the arts that advances human rights in research, practice, and social work education. Implications are offered for curriculum, frontline practice, and community advocacy.

Against the background of new-type urbanization and high-quality development, waterfront areas have become crucial in en-hancing urban spatial quality, overall competitiveness, and functional integration [1,2]. As a national-level new area, the Haihe River estuary in the Tianjin Binhai New Area holds strategic significance for regional coordination, ecological restoration, and urban transformation. This study conducts a systematic evaluation of the waterfront value of the Haihe River and identifies key challenges related to development stages, spatial configuration, and waterfront utilization in Tanggu Bay New Town. Drawing on the planning experience of Boston’s Back Bay, this research proposes the concept of a “Back Bay High-Quality Living District,” which integrates New Urbanism–inspired spatial organization, ecological landscape systems, networked public spaces, enhanced transportation connectivity, and optimized public service provision [3]. The proposed planning framework provides a replicable model for the development of livable, ecologically resilient, and culturally integrated waterfront new towns, offering both theoretical insights and practical guidance for similar urban transformations aimed at achieving high-quality development and improved livability.

Although care and gender mainstreaming are increasingly recognized as key dimensions of sustainable urban planning, an analysis of their implementation in Mexico reveals the conceptual and material limitations of anthropocentric approaches to care within public space projects. In this article, we argue that ecofeminist and posthumanist perspectives on care help foreground the spatial and environmental dimensions of Everyday Care Environments (ECEs), highlighting ecosystemic interdependencies that remain largely overlooked in research focused on domestic, feminized, and family-based aspects of care work. Through qualitative research based on documentary analysis of local urban planning instruments and gender initiatives in Mexico City (CDMX) in the last 25 years, this article identifies persistent gaps in the integration of care work, safety, mobility, and intersectional perspectives into sustainable urban policy and practice. The findings offer insights for developing planning strategies capable of creating ECE that foster More-than-Human socio-environmental understandings of care, while advancing nature-based and ecosystem-oriented approaches to spatial justice.

This study aims to develop an effective real-time model for detecting violence in public spaces, focusing on achieving a balance between accuracy and computational efficiency. We evaluate various model architectures, with the main comparison between the ConvLSTM2D and Conv3D models commonly used in video analysis to capture spatial and temporal features. The ConvLSTM2D model, combined with preprocessing layers such as change detection and motion blur, showed optimal performance, achieving 86% accuracy after Bayesian optimization. With a low parameter count of 25,137, this model enables fast inference in just 0.010 seconds, making it suitable for real-time applications that require efficient computation. In contrast, the Conv3D model, which is also combined with preprocessing layers such as change detection and motion blur and has more than nine million parameters, shows a lower accuracy of 77.5% as well as a slower inference time of 0.025 seconds, making it unsuitable for real-time applications. The results of this study show that the ConvLSTM2D model is promising for real-time violence detection systems in public spaces, where a fast and accurate response is essential to prevent further acts of violence.

From informality to insight: Measuring inclusivity gaps in neighbourhood public space design through Informal Public Space Activity Diversity (IPSAD) in dense urban contexts

Recruitment strategies for the racial disparities in Parkinson's disease study: Partnering with patients from the Black community.

Concerns have emerged regarding the potential of zero alcohol products (ZAP) to increase youth exposure to alcohol branding and normalise consumption of alcohol-flavoured/branded beverages. To inform future policies, this study aimed to explore attitudes to restrictions on ZAPs advertising in public spaces and parental provision of ZAPs to teenagers. The study sample comprised 3310 Australian adults who completed an online panel survey. Respondents reported level of agreement with statements about: (i) banning ZAPs advertising on public transport; (ii) banning ZAPs advertising on billboards near schools; (iii) removing ZAPs advertising from professional sport; and (iv) the acceptability of parents providing ZAPs to teenagers. Responses were analysed descriptively and via linear regression to identify demographic correlates of agreement. Support for advertising restrictions was modest, with 47% of respondents agreeing with banning ZAPs advertising near schools, 33% with removing ZAPs advertising from professional sport and 31% with banning ZAPs advertising on public transport. Nearly half (45%) disagreed with parental provision of ZAPs to teenagers. Overall, older age and lower socioeconomic status were associated with small increases in support for advertising restrictions and opposition to parental supply. Support for ZAPs-related restrictions is lower than for comparable alcohol advertising policies, potentially reflecting limited awareness of ZAPs' role in promoting alcohol brands. These findings underscore the need for public education on ZAPs-related risks and suggest that specific messaging may be necessary to build support for regulatory interventions aimed at protecting youth.