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Societies, Volume 3, Issue 2

2013 June - 7 articles

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Articles (7)

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,910 Views
18 Pages

The Meaning of Health, Well-Being, and Quality of Life Perceived by Roma People in West Sweden

  • Leena Eklund Karlsson,
  • Kristine Crondahl,
  • Fredrik Sunnemark and
  • Åsa Andersson

10 June 2013

Many Roma people in Sweden are on the margins of society and face problems of social exclusion, institutional discrimination, low education, unemployment, and poor health. The aim is to describe how a group of Roma people, in West Sweden, understand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,114 Views
19 Pages

29 May 2013

Leaf instruments have occupied a post-European contact role in constituting Australian societal networks, and their epistemologies reflect native/exotic binaries in the species selected by Indigenous and non-Indigenous musicians respectively. Accordi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,494 Views
7 Pages

Knowing Apples

  • Lorraine Shannon

24 May 2013

This essay employs a first-person fictional narrator to explore the nature of human-plant relations through the example of Thoreau’s Wild Apples and enacts the transformational process necessary to write in conjunction with non-conscious vegetal life...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,318 Views
13 Pages

8 May 2013

Twenty-three of 26 participants, mainly women from six local agencies involved in the reception of refugees, completed a university course titled “Refugee-related stress and mental health—local cooperation”, which was spread over seven days in 2011....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,830 Views
18 Pages

29 April 2013

Research highlights how usage and claims of Islamophobia tend to be simplistic and without nuance. Using a case study approach, this article considers the claims of Islamophobia made in relation to the proposed Dudley ‘super-mosque’. Setting out a na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,062 Views
16 Pages

15 April 2013

Deaf people negotiate their embodiment through corporeal experiences to provide a perception of what it means to be human. Some deaf people search for a framework where being deaf is human, not a disability. Other deaf people experience their deafnes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,561 Views
12 Pages

26 March 2013

Woody plants have increased in density and extent in rangelands worldwide since the 1800s, and land managers increasingly remove woodland plants in hopes of restoring pre-settlement conditions and/or improved forage for grazing livestock. Because suc...

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Societies - ISSN 2075-4698