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AbstractThis essay focuses on queer Indigenous life in the early twentieth century through an analysis of the archive of Nabor Feliz, an Indigenous sculptor who toured with major circuses. In the essay, the author employs queer critique and Indigenous theory to contend that the circus offered Feliz opportunities for Indigenous expressions of sexuality that might not have been otherwise afforded them in this period. The essay is based on an examination of the photographs, letters, and newspaper articles in the archive, which is housed at the Southwest Museum. To the author's knowledge, this is the first article-length piece on the complexities of queer Indigenous life in the first half of the twentieth century and the first study of Feliz's life and work.

Mortgage lending is accompanied not only by the risk of default but also by the risk of deterioration, loss of value or reduction in the value of immovable property collateral. One of the main internationally recommended methods to determine whether the parameters of the mortgaged object, the value, the conditions of its maintenance and operation, the operating requirements are in line with the conditions originally laid down in the mortgage contract is Monitoring. The author, analysing the practices of commercial banks, proposes concrete tools to improve the Monitoring mechanism of mortgaged real estate in the conditions of Moldova. This mechanism is recognized as an important tool for credit risk management but is currently not well defined in the national regulations and mortgage policies of credit institutions.

China is known as the cradle of human civilization. Since ancient times, this place has achieved many brilliant development achievements in all fields of social life, especially philosophy. During the process of formation and development, Chinese philosophy has taken people and human-related issues as the object of study. Theories on people are very rich and diverse in order to clarify human issues in many different aspects. Chinese philosophic viewpoints on people are widespread, affecting and influencing many other countries in the region, including Vietnam. Within the scope of the article, the author focuses on analyzing the content of Chinese philosophical thought on people; thereby drawing its historical significance for the cause of educational innovation in Vietnam today.

Moderation, Community and Non-Human Perspective as Ecological Strategies of (Post-)Art Towards Climate Crisis

The foundations of the culture as well as of the current climate and ecological crisis rely on two paradigms that require deconstruction in context of the anthropocene, namely the capitalistic and anthropocentric paradigms. The author not only criticizes them, but also looks for alternatives among the post-humanistic philosophies and post-artistic practises that exceed modernistic traditions as well as autonomous and representative art. New tools for describing and changing reality can be provided by post-artistic practices which focus on action, social use, communities and immaterial benefits. This situates post-art in contraposition to institutionalized overproduction, anthropocentric individualism and market-based rules.

Forms of non-institutionalized religiosity, as a rule, are at the crossroads of research. The study of such a phenomenon in the field of the sociology of religion began in the thirties of the last century. Colin Campbell, developing Trolch's concept of mystical religion, introduces the new term "mystical community" and analyzes its characteristics: individualism, syncretism, tolerance, relativism and monism. The official culture and sphere of the occult are not isolated from each other, but are found in constant interaction – the hypothesis of K. Campbell, which he confirms by analyzing the conceptual field of terms "intuitialized knowledge" and "common sense". The author determines the sources of appearance and support of the occult in disagreements between science, religion, culture and common sense.

The article discusses the main idea of the concept, which is to reveal a number of problems generated by social stratification in modern sociology. Using the methodological potential of sociology, the author tries to demonstrate the essence and logic of social stratification as a metaphor for the development of modern society. While classical sociology pays more attention to the «master-dependent» relationship, in «modern» sociology, more attention is paid to the middle class, which contributes to ensuring a balance between the two poles of the social hierarchy. If until the 20th century the main attribute of the ruling class was economic opportunity, today the markers of social stratification have changed, and the most important are culture and cultural values.

In their minds, subjects of democratic politics constantly form and optimize images of future changes in functioning of the state and society, use them as a tool in the struggle for political influence and leadership. The article provides a comparative analysis of how this creative process is going on within Russian civil society today, in the minds of ordinary citizens and party elites committed to left-wing political values. The author focuses on identifying differences in the results to which the work of party elites and ordinary citizens' consciousness on the specific contours of the non-liberal (socialist) future of Russia leads. The article contains a forecast of risks for the further development of the democratic process in our country, arising from these differences.

This article reviews literature on survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) who were preschool-aged when the abuse occurred, and applies critical discourse analysis to reveal power relations within this field of research. Utilizing themes of narrative theory, this article demonstrates how the current discourse has promoted a single story of developmental trajectories marred by entrenched deficits. The reviewed literature often utilized definitive language in describing a narrative of damage that not all survivors identify with. We critically examine this narrative as an expression of power that risks misrepresenting a large group of people. Additionally, we recommend that future research promote a discourse of multiple stories in which survivors have agency to author their own stories.

In the article, through the prism of the analysis of the founding documents, policies and practices of the EU for the development of higher education, formulates and argues the author's position regarding the strategic perspectives and prerequisites for internalization of higher education against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some major challenges have been formulated that hinder the natural connections between universities around the world. Some expected long-term benefits from the development of full internalization in the conditions of digitalization of higher education are substantiated on the example of the activity of Sofia University and the conducted research. In conclusion, the author argues that the mission of universities to stay connected is a priority, even in the pandemic situation.

Although the dangers of climate change and ecological collapse are often described as existential or catastrophic threats, in practice they are approached as scientific policy and governance issues. "Securitizing" the issue has long been regarded as problematic, with an assumption that it will lead to draconian top-down solutions. PLAN E presents an alternate approach. In this article, traditional military threat analytical methods are fused with emerging ecophilosophical concepts to produce a prototype concept of operations for how humanity could respond to the hyperthreat of climate and environmental change. The author argues that the nature of threat has changed, which requires a new threat posture. Further, the nature of the threat demands a shift toward greater bottom-up and localized response.

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This article explores the concept of a 'fool's errand' in relation to the specialist role of the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP). An AMHP has a duty to make an application following a Mental Health Act assessment to detain and admit an individual to a psychiatric hospital. Findings from a qualitative study of ten multiprofessional AMHPs in England suggested AMHPs were subjected to a 'fool's errand', when they were asked by psychiatrists and bed managers to practice in a way, they, themselves, considered unwise or foolish and that did not make sense in the context of their role. The author will illuminate how false starts and delays in securing treatment and care outcomes for mentally unwell individuals compromised AMHP practice.

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The term shushu 數術 is commonly accepted to describe and include a wide range of diviners in China. But can we use the same group identifier to classify both a clairvoyant master, who is highly skilled and accurate in prognostication, and a purely technical user of shushu, who may often fail in his interpretations? The goal of this article is therefore to nuance this classification by finding other ways of categorization through close examination of the mantic specialists encountered in Hong Mai's Yijian zhi. This examination focuses on three groups: the clairvoyants, the technicians, and the perspicacious characters. All three of these groups make use of what the author identifies as transcendent divination and immanent divination.

The rise of mobile communication applications and technologies presents promising therapeutic and accessibility-related interventions for neurodivergent users. However, top-down approaches in human-computer interaction (HCI) research often prioritize the needs and goals of allistic and neurotypical researchers and secondary stakeholders in media creation. Furthermore, media technologies are created with a one-size-fits-all approach, with the intent of rehabilitating or curing neurodivergent ways of being. This article imagines neuroqueer technoscience as an extension of crip technoscience that amplifies new styles of relationality, self-expression, and communication practices within the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Using an interdisciplinary framework informed by crip technoscience and human-computer interaction research, the author presents three tenets for mediating neuroqueer subjectivities.

Social and professional success are key values for today's young generation. Is it so? Is additional education today becoming a springboard for the realization of the life meanings of the millennial generation? Is it a sought-after educational environment, a «valuable habitat» for students today? And what do the students themselves think about this? The author made an attempt to analyze the contexts of students' opinions and value orientations in terms of their coverage by the system of out-of-school education. Conclusions are drawn regarding the place of additional education in the hierarchy of key values of schoolchildren, as well as the potential of additional education as a trend in building successful life strategies for Russian youth.

The article highlights the role of educational and scientific diplomacy as important dimensions of public diplomacy and promotion of Russian "soft power". The author considers cultural enlightenment as one of the semantic platforms for increasing the productivity of the internal and external cultural policy of the state; as one of the examples of building up the potential of the Russian "soft power" in the positioned "focus" of analysis, the experience of the staff of the Taganrog (Pedagogical) Institute named after A.P. Chekhov (branch) of the Rostov State University of Economics (RSUE) in the context of active development and enrichment of the educational content of educational and scientific diplomacy in the framework of a wide range of international cooperation programs.