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{"title":"Expanding the discourse: a critical analysis of hip-hop feminism in the era of globalization.","authors":"Xi Ling, Yuanyuan Chen, Xuanmin Zhu","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1525981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1525981","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The emergence of hip-hop feminism as a cultural, intellectual, and political movement has captured global attention in recent years, highlighting its significance in contemporary discourse. This review aims to re-examine the definition of hip-hop feminism, particularly in the context of globalization and digital media, and to explore its impact on challenging gender stereotypes and enhancing women's discursive power. Through a critical review and analysis of existing literature, this review reveals the deficiencies in the definition of hip-hop feminism and proposes updated and expanded definitions that more comprehensively reflect its global and cross-cultural dimensions. The findings suggest that hip-hop feminism encompasses a broader spectrum of activities and influences. It not only addresses the lives and perceptions of black women but also extends to performative and ethnographic studies, engages actively in digital platforms such as blogs and online communities, and facilitates new avenues for women's political engagement and social activism on a global scale. This review poses critical questions to address potential gaps in the existing literature, thereby mitigating the risk of incomplete or biased definitions of hip-hop feminism. It further proposes three robust theoretical frameworks to comprehensively define hip-hop feminism.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1525981"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11977125/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143812688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Citizens here and there against the crisis: immigrant organizations' transnational solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Maurizio Artero","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1519301","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1519301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the solidarity initiatives undertaken by immigrant organizations in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the significance of a transnational perspective in understanding these efforts. Drawing on two qualitative studies, particularly the analysis of 19 interviews with leaders of Italian immigrant organizations involved in solidarity work during the pandemic, the findings highlight that solidarity extends beyond co-ethnic support to encompass broader community engagement, especially in times of crisis. Indeed, the study reveals how immigrant organizations mobilized resources for both their home countries and the host society, demonstrating a commitment to collective wellbeing that transcends national boundaries. This article contributes to the discourse on transnational citizenship, revealing how immigrants enact substantive citizenship through participation in social initiatives that address urgent needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1519301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11969405/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of public lighting improvement on crimes and incivilities reduction in Chile.","authors":"Pablo Cadena-Urzúa, Javier Guardiola, Francisco Montes","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1541359","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1541359","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of the Public Lighting Replacement Programme on crimes and incivilities reduction in various municipalities in Chile. A quantitative approach was employed, using stratification and matching techniques to simulate randomized trials based on observational data. Data were extracted from governmental sources and statistics for the period 2015-2019, covering 101 municipalities where lighting improvements were implemented and 244 municipalities that were not treated. The main results suggest that improvements in public lighting could be associated with a reduction in certain crimes, such as surprise robbery, and various incivilities, such as street vending and alcohol consumption in public spaces. However, some crimes, such as violent robberies, did not show significant decreases following the intervention. In conclusion, modernizing public lighting can contribute to the prevention of both crime and incivilities, but its impact is heterogeneous. Unobserved factors, underreporting, and implementation variations may influence results. Complementary measures, such as targeted patrolling, are essential to address violent crime and persistent incivilities. This study underscores the need for integrated urban security strategies to enhance public safety in Chile.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1541359"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11966243/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Mobility, power and the (re)production of inequality and injustice.","authors":"Minoo Alinia, Claudia Tazreiter, Vanessa Barker","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1577768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1577768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1577768"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11966242/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The need for assisted reproductive technology regulations: a case for women in the Philippines.","authors":"Hazel T Biana","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1429980","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1429980","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>No laws regulate Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in the Philippines. Because of this, women who suffer from infertility must settle with specific guidelines crafted by medical and fertility specialists and professional organizations. As a result, women have limited access to ART and rely on scarce healthcare services and facilities, which may be at the mercy of several guidelines influenced by personal and religious beliefs. In this essay, I examine these regulations (or lack thereof), their socio-cultural motivations, and their dire implications on women and their reproductive rights. I show that Philippine ART regulations lag compared to some developing countries; women have limited choices to address their fertility and reproductive health issues, and they lack the support that they need in dealing with infertility. Thus, regulations need to be crafted to make ART practices more inclusive and less inhibiting for women in the Philippines.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1429980"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11966037/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward a politics of shame: cripping understandings of affect in disabled people's encounters with unsolicited advice.","authors":"Megan Ingram","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1401812","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1401812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prevalence of unsolicited advice in the lives of disabled people is well-catalogued in the mass of articles and social media posts dedicated to the issue. However, less is known about the affective impacts of this advice on disabled people and the potential resistance that may be enacted, such as shame, toward affects labelled negative. The present manuscript builds from original qualitative research to explore the links between emotion, mind, and body that occur in interactions involving unsolicited advice between disabled and non-disabled individuals. Non-probability convenience sampling was used to recruit 15 disabled individuals in Ontario, Canada for participation in semi-structured qualitative interviews that were inductively coded and narratively restoried. Building from these narrative accounts, the research addresses (1) the affective impacts of unsolicited advice on disabled people and (2) how disabled people negotiate the emotional impact resulting from unsolicited advice and <i>blame culture</i> individually and collectively. Ultimately, this research argues that, while unsolicited advice acts as a method of blaming and shaming that has the potential to structure disabled peoples' lives, disabled people resist feeling <i>ashamed</i> and instead bridge from initial responses of fear and shame toward other emotions such as apathy and sadness in resistant and potentially empowering ways.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1401812"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11961899/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Gender, sexuality, and well-being: impact on well-being due to gender and sexual orientation-based discrimination.","authors":"Ana Álvarez-Muelas, Marta Badenes-Sastre, Patricia Flor-Arasil, Mayra Gomez-Lugo, Martin Sanchez-Gomez","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1584881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1584881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1584881"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11962657/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143774457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum: Breaking the chains: exploring gender inequality in Türkiye through the eyes of women NGO members.","authors":"Gokhan Savas, Dilek Çakır","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1575969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1575969","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1491058.].</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1575969"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11959420/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unfolding the layers of LGBTQ+ identity, resilience, and multicultural perspectives in Vietnam.","authors":"Huy Lam-Nguyen","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1536046","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1536046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>My personal narrative, intertwined with the theoretical acumen of Queer Theory and intersectionality framework, is used within this article as one way of underlining the critical role of lived experiences in forming an insight into LGBTQ+ identity and informing the strategies necessary to support this community. Drawing on Queer Theory, particularly the work of scholars like Jagose, which highlights the fluidity and complexity of identity, this research will analyze the intersectional challenges faced by individuals in specific non-Western regions, particularly in Southeast Asia. These experiences are examined through the employment of a reflexive thematic analysis approach, identifying recurring themes such as (1) gender nonconformity in childhood, (2) the pain of bullying and social pressures, (3) cultural transition and self-acceptance, (4) family support and unspoken understanding, and (5) interaction with LGBTQ+ Communities in Africa and the MENA Region.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1536046"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11959380/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paid care worker organizing in England: priorities and progress?","authors":"Duncan Uist Fisher, Liam Foster","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1548473","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1548473","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Despite its growth and ubiquity, paid adult social care (ASC) work in England persists as a site of very low pay, insecurity, and exploitation, where 'decent work' remains elusive. Promoted by a neoliberal agenda focusing on competition and choice, social care provision has developed a quasi-market model. This involves local authorities assessing and commissioning predominantly independent sector providers to deliver care, which relies on outsourcing and contributes to workforce fragmentation. This atomisation, with thousands of providers and many workers employed to support people in their own homes, contrasts with the terrain of more established trade unionism and impedes organizing. Thus far in the English context, however, this phenomenon has received only limited attention in academic research. These challenges within the sector and limited organizing mean that it is important to understand priorities and progress in relation to ASC organizing.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Thirty-five semi-structured interviews were conducted with key actors (organizers, administrators, founders) and paid direct care workers involved in organizing in the ASC context in England. Data were examined using thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results identify four groupings where paid ASC workers and their representatives seek change: Pay and conditions; Systemic/structural change; Awareness-raising and being heard; and Environment and practices.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The discussion assesses the implications of these findings for ASC worker organizing and prospects for change. It contends that there remain significant barriers both to meaningful change in the situation of paid care workers, and to care worker organizing playing a greater or more prominent role in driving change. Concluding reflections consider what the issues identified in care worker organizing reveal about the relative status of care work and the circumstances of care workers, and paid care work's position in contemporary neoliberal capitalism.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1548473"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11951113/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}