This article reexamines the foundations of policing by advancing homo curans—the caring human—not as a normative ideal, but as an emergent institutional rationality and governance disposition. Positioned as a counter‐logic to the long‐dominant homo economicus model of instrumental rationality, the study analyzes how security is increasingly reframed as a mechanism of collective care, structured by interdependen...
This article presents the outcome of an interdisciplinary co‐creative research‐policy dialogue between senior policymakers in education and scholars in transformative research about what it means to create a caring society in the face of persistent inequalities. The article is based on an innovative collaboration between policymakers in the Department of Education and Youth in Ireland and researchers working on...
The reintegration of formerly incarcerated veterans poses significant challenges, including housing instability, employment barriers, health concerns, and systemic stigma. Digital tools can support an individual in overcoming these challenges; however, lack of digital skills may exacerbate barriers and hinder their participation in daily life. This secondary qualitative study examined how digital technologies s...
The concept of “fieldwork” has been subject to longstanding critique, particularly regarding unequal researcher–participant dynamics, and the extractive colonial legacies that shape knowledge produced in the “field.” Early‐career fieldworkers often operate within neoliberal, productivity‐driven norms that reproduce unequal researcher–participant dynamics in the field and leave little room for researcher care. T...
This study examines the process of self‐inclusion among migrating populations in two cities in Northern Mexico when enforcement policies at the border generate involuntary immobility—the entrapment of asylum seekers in a prolonged socio‐legal limbo. It demonstrates that despite conditions that result in border stranding and migrant “stuckness” (Carling, 2002), asylum seekers who face structural exclusion, such ...
Many adolescents in Colombia grow up in contexts of socioeconomic vulnerability, in a society marked by profound and painful experiences resulting from political violence, and with a fast‐paced daily life that places them in the paradoxical situation of being forgotten and neglected. In other words, the pace of contemporary life and the expectations of their social environment regarding how they should behave a...