International adoptees share the experience of unwanted separations as well as exposure to racism. Previous research has a general focus on adoptees’ infancy, childhood, and adolescence rather than adoptees in adulthood, which makes their own contributions and voice in research insufficient. The purpose of this study is to address the gap in research around sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHRs) for adoptees in adulthood. By interviewing 35 international adoptees in Sweden and with the use of semi-structured interviews, the connection between Sexual Health and being adopted was explored. Anchored in a decolonial approach, this study draws on Hooks’ Critical Race Theory and Simon and Gagnon’s script theory when analysing the informants’ answers. Findings show that adoptees’ sexual health is partly shaped by structural racism, internalised norms, and the tension between expectations and adoption narratives. The knowledge gained from this study is expected to be of importance to people in the care sector as well as people working with adoptees because of its importance in understanding and exploring the lived experience of adoptees. Although the study is conducted in a Swedish context, it is relevant in a wider environment as it contributes to how colonial and historical contexts may inform and continue to impact adult adoptees’ sexual health, reflecting the complex interplay between societal expectations, personal identity, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
In the adoptive family, discourses of love have been mobilized to attach the adoptee to the intimate space of the nuclear family, thereby detaching them from other spaces and meaningful others. In this article, I engage with the question of what kinds of love have been erased in the adoptive family, how understandings of love impact upon adoptees’ subjectivity and which ways of imagining the self, in its connection to present and absent others, thereby become disabled. In order to assess whether alternative understandings of love, self and kinship can be imaginable within the adoptive family, I turn towards two works of autofiction written by adoptees: <i>Shâb ou la nuit</i> by the French author Cécile Ladjali and <i>The girl I am, was and never will be</i> by US author Shannon Gibney. In examining their articulations of love and the difficulties of finding words for that which might exist outside of dominant, quasi-hegemonic discourses, I draw on Maria Lugones’ articulation of love as connected to her theory of world-traveling. This enables us to understand adoption narratives and searches as attempts to reconnect with pre-existing worlds and meaningful others, made inaccessible by the Euromodern institution of adoption.
This article develops the concept of digital genealogy as a critical lens for understanding contemporary subjectivity in environments structured by platforms and algorithms. Building on Benjamin’s aura, Bauman’s liquidity, and Han’s burnout, the analysis traces how digital selfhood is produced through practices of performative presence, memory curation, and visibility. Empirical studies of selfies, ephemeral stories, and Bitmojis illustrate how authenticity is negotiated through fragments that are at once intimate and replicable, while van Dijck’s work shows how digital memory shifts from archiving the past to continuously fabricating the self. The paradox that emerges—identities are performed as fleeting yet archived permanently by infrastructures—reveals the coexistence of ephemerality and machinic inscription. Read through Benjamin’s concept of aura, reinterpreted by contemporary authors such as Mirzoeff, Groys, and Hansen, this transformation situates singularity not only in artworks but in the self, which must be ceaselessly enacted and recomposed in algorithmic environments. The framework also connects to critiques of precarity and exploitation: Marcuse, Fuchs, and Varoufakis highlight how self-expression doubles as unpaid digital labor within platform capitalism. Digital genealogy thus provides both a theoretical and normative contribution: it discloses the paradox of visibility and exhaustion as the price of belonging, and it points toward future empirical research—such as ethnographies of adolescents and creators—that can test how individuals negotiate the tension between platform imperatives and the desire for rooted self-narratives.
The Capitol Hill riots on 6 January 2021 were an event of great importance not only because of their political and legal impact, but also because they allowed everyone to observe the symbols, images, masks, and other signs that were displayed in front of the cameras of many journalists and eyewitnesses. The iconography displayed on that occasion should not be dealt with as an extemporary invention but considered the result of a process of semantic and narrative accumulation produced in online and offline interactions. This article seeks to outline a theoretical–methodological framework of contemporary conspiracy images as multimodal forms of communication. Starting with images collected on Capitol Hill along with a corpus of online conversations that occurred on platforms such as Gab, in particular, between 2016 and 2021, examples of the dynamics of constitution of conspiracy images and their genealogy will be provided.
"Body management" is one of the common concepts in Western sociology, which examines the excessive monitoring and manipulation of physical appearance, especially among women, identifying its causes within societal constructs. Michel Foucault, emphasizing a post-structuralist approach, sought to demonstrate that given the relationship between corporeality and knowledge, any form of body management negates the possibility of understanding certain dimensions of knowledge and truth. Foucault highlights the influence of power relations on the body and, consequently, on knowledge and truth. The primary issue of this study is to explore the fundamental differences between Foucault's theory and the Islamic perspective regarding the rejection of body management in women and Islam's approaches in addressing it. This research, referring to Foucault’s theories related to body management and Quranic verses and Islamic narratives on the subject, uses an analytical-descriptive method to critique Foucault’s perspective. It demonstrates that, contrary to Foucault's view—which posits gender as a restrictive and determinative factor in human identity—the Islamic perspective considers human identity to be rooted in the soul, with the physical attributes of men and women subordinate to their essential identity. Furthermore, through the specific understanding of the relationship between body, soul, and society in Islamic philosophy, first, body management, as conceptualized in Western sociology, is not accepted. Second, body management, as adherence to religious boundaries and ensuring health and security, not only does not hinder access to knowledge and truth but also facilitates it. The results of this comparison lead to a threefold approach to body management for women, encompassing "maintaining physical health," "protecting the body from inappropriate exposure to non-mahrams," and "regulated self-presentation."
The article is devoted to the consideration of the ancestral legends of the Russian nobility contained in the genealogy record collections of the second half of the 19th century. An
attempt was made to identify noble families, the origin of which is associated with the era of Dmitry Donskoy and the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380. The most famous genealogy record collections compiled by A. Bobrinskii, V. Arsen'ev, P. Dolgorukov, A. Lobanov-Rostovskii, V. Rummel', M. Yablochkov, and V. Chernopyatov are used as sources for the analysis. Ancestral legends of Russian noble families are considered as part of family memory. Special attention is paid to the reflections of famous historical figures of the Battle of Kulikovo era, such as Metropolitan Cyprian, Prince Dmitry Olgerdovich, Prince Andrei Olgerdovich, and Sergius of Radonezh, in the family legends of the Russian nobility. The introduction presents the characteristics of ancestral memory and analyzes the approaches to it by individual researchers. The main part of the article deals with ancestral legends preserved in genealogy record collections of the second half of the 19th century, with special emphasis on the historical figures of the 12th – 15th centuries, mentioned therein. In the final part of the article, a conclusion is made about the great popularity of the name of Prince Dmitry and his associates, participants in the Battle of
Kulikovo, among the Russian nobility of the 18th – 19th centuries. The preferences of the people of the 19th century could not but tell on the legends that existed in the second half of the 19th century, which is also reflected in the diversity of legends about the origin of one and the same noble family. The analysis of the ancestral legends of the Russian nobility presented in the genealogy record collections makes it possible to understand the mechanisms of formation and transformation of the ancestral memory of Russian nobles over several centuries and also gives a vivid description of the worldview of the Russian nobility in the second half of the 19th century.
History of Civilization, History (General) and history of Europe
This essay historicizes the concept of nature in French anarchist pedagogy around 1900. I argue that anarchist cosmology was not dualist in the sense that it did not neatly separate the natural from the cultural or social. Nature was rather understood as an ever-evolving realm that encompassed nonhuman and human entities. This example should encourage historical scholarship to look more deeply into what anthropologists sometimes call “naturalist ontology”. Instead of conceiving it as a fixed worldview, we should investigate its genealogy, transformations, and contestations.
History (General) and history of Europe, History of Civilization
In a comparison of bibliographical approaches to Francysk Skaryna’s The Little Traveller’s Book (1522) and Erik Pontoppidan’s Natural History of Norway (1752) this article argues that attempts to write a book biography can benefit from extensive archival research as well as close physical examination of surviving copies, using new forensic technologies as well as adapting more traditional modes of investigation. Ultimately, however, the concept of ‘biography’ or ‘life cycle’ is questioned. The article examines the intellectual genesis, writing, translation, critical review, reception and collection of the Natural History as well as its extraordinary legacy – a legacy that is helpfully comparable to and distinctive from that of Skaryna’s work. Both writers moved in a world of circuits, of typographical and bibliographical innovation and comment, of travel and translation, of new and emergent accessibility to language and books – all, from their perspective, from the beneficence of God and to His glorification. Skaryna’s journey took him from Polatsk and Vilnius to Kraków and Padua, to his first Psalter and other biblical publishing in Prague and his The Little Traveller’s Book in Vilnius, to travels to Moscow, Poznan, Königsberg and back to Vilnius and Prague. As with Skaryna, Pontoppidan engaged in wide travel, also establishing far flung contacts and correspondence. Both faced constraints, and most notably the impact of war, disease, political and religious intervention and fires that destroyed cities and printing houses. Both writers were determined to write in the vernacular, Skaryna working to translate and create new type, all to make books of the Bible available in an accessible language. Skaryna contributed to the development of the Belarusian literary language just as Pontoppidan’s writing and interest in dialect contributed both to the standardization of Danish and the distinctive linguistic origins of Norwegian. Both composed prefaces to their editions, in which they emphasized that the purpose of their publishing activities was to help ordinary people, in Skaryna’s words to “become acquainted with wisdom and science.” The legacies of both diverged from literary references and directly derivative sightings of sea monsters in the case of Pontoppidan, to numerous statues and other material commemorations in the case of Skaryna who remains embroiled symbolically in different claims over national identities.
The concluding assessment of whether such study can contribute to a ‘book biography’ or ‘life cycle’ is guarded, suggesting alternative concepts that might be tested. This includes the idea of a ‘book biology’ whereby, in such study of a ‘life’, a book is conceived by its intellectual creator with very specific intentions and is then transmuted by other actors and agencies into different material, visual and linguistic forms. In the case of Skaryna, the creations amounted to numerous unstable texts, variously arranged, with uncertain survival rates and relatively poor evidence of use. In the case of Pontoppidan, three more stable editions, Danish, German and English, were all also materially different and each copy reproduced in separate operations of printing and collation. Each copy pursued thereafter its own life – no more reproduction and so no book genealogy – but hugely diverse and differently influential lives. In such ways the biosphere might be renamed the bibliosphere. Some book lives were terminated in relative infancy, some moved around the world and through many hands, some mutilated, others preserved in situ and symbolically represented at anniversaries or for political and cultural ends.
Bibliography. Library science. Information resources
Federica Barca, Stefano Dalle Palle, Luca Schiavon
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Since 1996, the Adriatic sturgeon (<i>Acipenser naccarii</i>) has been inscribed on the IUCN Red List as “Critically Endangered and possibly extinct in the wild”. Nowadays, its survival totally depends on restocking programs conducted by releasing juveniles generated from adult breeders reared in aquaculture. Conducting accurate genetic characterizations of all individuals potentially involved in reproduction activities is therefore of primary importance to avoid inbreeding and to maximize the genetic diversity transmitted to following generations. Since all animals reared in captivity descend from a single stock of wild origin, this offers the ideal condition for carrying out relatedness analysis based on parentage allocations. In this study, we provided the most complete characterization of about 500 individuals representing the most diverse extant stock of Adriatic sturgeon. Through the analyses of mitochondrial d-loop and 15 microsatellite loci selected from 24 genotyped loci, we identified about 30 different familiar groups, updating data on breeding stocks, increasing the genetic information already available, and extending the analyses to animals never genotyped before. Given its completeness, it will represent a reference database for any future parental allocation of recaptured animals for the inclusion of all other stocks present, as well as for the development of a long-term breeding plan. The approach used has also been proven useful on individuals of unknown genealogy, allowing for the identification of family groups and thus being proven to be promising for the analysis of stocks of other tetraploid sturgeon species.
Синика Виталий Степанович, Разумов Сергей Николаевич, Лысенко Сергей Дмитриевич
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В статье впервые публикуются и анализируются материалы, полученные при исследовании венгерского погребения 3 кургана 7 группы «ДОТ» у с.Глиное Слободзейского района на левобережье Нижнего Днестра. Захоронение было совершено в прямоугольной яме возле юго-восточной полы насыпи. Костяк лежал в вытянутом положении на спине, головой на запад-юго-запад. У левого плеча находилась левая плечевая кость овцы. Подобный обряд зафиксирован не только в венгерских могилах Северного Причерноморья, но и восточнее – в Подонье, в Поволжье и на Урале. В качестве жертвенных животных венгры использовали не только овец, но и лошадей, а также крупный рогатый скот. В ногах была поставлена деревянная колода. У левого колена был найден железный нож, у левой стопы – железная пластина. Поверх левого крыла таза лежали две серединные костяные накладки от лука. На правой лучевой кости располагались остатки колчана в виде пяти железных наконечников стрел и железного шила. Под правым запястьем, у крыла таза, зафиксированы фрагменты железного кресала и кресальный кремень. Аналогии наконечникам стрел, а также радиоуглеродные даты позволяют датировать захоронение концом IX – первой половиной Xвв. Это погребение, вместе с ранее исследованными на левобережье Нижнего Днестра венгерскими могилами, позволяет фиксировать пребывание венгров в регионе с середины IX по середину Xвв.
Nietzsche’s sparse remarks on genealogy have left open significant questions as to what it is and where it stands in relation to philology, history, critique, and philosophy. By tracing Nietzsche’s associated conceptions of philology; critical, monumental, and antiquarian history; genesis; and Entstehungsgeschichte; as well as his genealogical practices, I show that, with certain key limitations, Nietzschean genealogy emerges from out of the synthesis of critical, monumental, and antiquarian history for the purposes of life that Nietzsche develops in On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life. The importance of this practice lies in the fact that, at various times, it appears to be a part, a precondition, or even the totality of philosophy.
Christi J. Guerrini, J. Robinson, Devan Petersen
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On April 24, 2018, a suspect in California’s notorious Golden State Killer cases was arrested after decades of eluding the police. Using a novel forensic approach, investigators identified the suspect by first identifying his relatives using a free, online genetic database populated by individuals researching their family trees. In the wake of the case, media outlets reported privacy concerns with police access to personal genetic data generated by or shared with genealogy services. Recent data from 1,587 survey respondents, however, provide preliminary reason to question whether such concerns have been overstated. Still, limitations on police access to genetic genealogy databases in particular may be desirable for reasons other than current public demand for them.
This article offers a critical genealogy of the dominant imaginaries through which social reproduction, particularly in relation to capitalist production, has been examined in key feminist literatures since the 1960s. Feminist scholars have long observed that the distinction between production and social reproduction in capitalist societies manifests as an opposition between ‘work’ and ‘home,’ but they have implicitly envisioned and interpreted that opposition in diverse ways that crucially connect with geography. We offer this analysis in order to clarify how different imaginaries embedded in and shaping approaches to social reproduction both illuminate and occlude the social reproduction-production nexus. Although this critical genealogy leaves us better prepared to address conceptual shortcomings within different understandings of this nexus, we still lack an approach that grasps the complex workings of this interface in a moment of rising precarité across the globe.
Forensic genetic genealogy, a technique leveraging new DNA capabilities and public genetic databases to identify suspects, raises specific considerations in a law enforcement context. Use of this technique requires consideration of its scientific and technical limitations, including the composition of current online datasets, and consideration of its scientific validity. Additionally, forensic genetic genealogy needs to be considered in the relevant legal context to determine the best way in which to make use of its potential to generate investigative leads while minimising its impact on individual privacy. This article presents these issues from an Australian perspective, with the observations and conclusions likely to be applicable to other jurisdictions.
Genealogical research often focuses to varying degrees on the family tree and the ancestors that inhabit it, often ignoring, or at least downplaying, broader issues. There is, however, much scope for broadening the research by adding leaves and flowers to the fruit (the people) on the tree. The broader context to a person’s ancestry is often intriguing and enlightening, providing background information that places the people in their environments, perhaps explaining their actions and lifestyles in the process. Two aspects of this context are dealt with here. The first aspect relates to the place in which each person lives, in other words, to their geographical environment, both natural and social or human made. Secondly, their personal heritage is considered: this includes the most important items in their lives, perhaps inconsequential to others but with long-term meaning for them and quite possibly for their descendants. Other broader aspects of heritage may well be relevant, too.
A case study will be used to examine specific issues of bioethics and forensic science that occur in forensic investigative genealogical searching, which include genetic privacy, discrimination and public safety concerns. The forensic investigative process and various investigative DNA tools will also be described. The Golden State Killer Case (1) will be examined to highlight and discuss forensic ethical issues to develop an ethical framework, as well as provide recommended solutions to pressing public safety and privacy issues facing crime laboratories and criminal investigators. Use of the ethical concept of proportionality (2) will be utilized to contrast and balance competing ethical concerns.