FRELIP Weekly Research Digest — Social Sciences (week of 03 July 2026)

FRELIP · Open Access Research Digest
Social Sciences
Week ending 03 July 2026
10 new OA papers🌍 6 African-led🔬 4 global
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new OA papers
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African-led
4
global
10
journals
Featured open-access journals: Ethology · Contemporary Security Policy · Environment and Planning C Politics and Space · Healthcare · Transfer European Review of Labour and Research · International Journal of Advertising · International Economic Review

📊 This week at a glance

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1Leadership Under Risk: Male Vervet Monkeys’ ( <i>Chlorocebus pygerythrus</i> ) Roles in Group PEthologyTankink🌍 African
2Ordering outside an order: Africa beyond the menuContemporary Security PolicyCarvalho🌍 African
3Made in bureaucracy: The geographies and politics of a territory yet to landEnvironment and Planning C Politics and SpaceQuemin🌍 African
4Probable Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Associated Factors Among Children Exposed to the 20HealthcareHannoun🌍 African
5Just transitions in global economies? Union and worker understandings of justice in Germany andTransfer European Review of Labour and ResearchTrappmann🌍 African
6How corporate sociopolitical activism in brand communication shapes brand engagement and consumInternational Journal of AdvertisingDas🌍 African
7A Demand Theory of the Price LevelInternational Economic ReviewHagedorn🔬 Global
8The Role of Emotion in ForgivenessReview of Philosophy and PsychologyBennett🔬 Global
9Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender IdentActa PaediatricaRuuska🔬 Global
10Abuse of rights and instrumental nationality: from <i>Nottebohm</i> to citizenship by investmenJournal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesOlmedo🔬 Global

🌍 African-led research

Leadership Under Risk: Male Vervet Monkeys’ ( <i>Chlorocebus pygerythrus</i> ) Roles in Group Progression Across Potentially High‐Risk Terrain

ABSTRACT The evolution of cooperative behaviour among unrelated individuals is still incompletely understood. One example is the provision of costly services by males in primate societies, which is difficult to explain by traditional recipr

Josefien A. Tankink et al. · Ethology

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Ordering outside an order: Africa beyond the menu

Prevailing multi-order frameworks treat orders as bounded units clustered around a hegemonic or institutional core, leaving regions that are institutionally sophisticated but materially constrained inadequately theorized. This article intro

Gustavo De Carvalho et al. · Contemporary Security Policy

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Made in bureaucracy: The geographies and politics of a territory yet to land

Territories often serve functions beyond their immediate spatial boundaries, yet their production increasingly takes place in distant, disembodied sites—offices and administrative institutions. This article investigates the creation of a UN

Hugo Quemin et al. · Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

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Probable Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Associated Factors Among Children Exposed to the 2023 Al Haouz Earthquake in Morocco

Background/Objectives: The Al Haouz earthquake that struck Morocco on 8 September 2023, resulted in substantial material, human, and psychological impacts. Children are at increased risk of psychological disorders, notably post-traumatic st

Meriyam Hannoun et al. · Healthcare

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Just transitions in global economies? Union and worker understandings of justice in Germany and South Africa compared

This article draws on fieldwork in Germany and South Africa, including interviews with unionists, environmental activists, and policy-makers, to compare experiences and perspectives of workers and communities affected by climate policies an

Vera Trappmann et al. · Transfer European Review of Labour and Research

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How corporate sociopolitical activism in brand communication shapes brand engagement and consumer-based brand equity: the roles of moral intensity, business relatedness, and need for cognition

While studies have examined corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA) from multiple perspectives, research has not yet examined how different CSA types shape consumer-level brand outcomes or when those effects strengthen or weaken. Addressing

Manish Das et al. · International Journal of Advertising

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🔬 Global breakthroughs

A Demand Theory of the Price Level

ABSTRACT Heterogeneous agent incomplete markets models offer a new perspective on price and inflation determination. In contrast to complete markets, the price level is determined from the asset‐market clearing condition. Fiscal and monetar

Marcus Hagedorn et al. · International Economic Review

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The Role of Emotion in Forgiveness

Abstract In this paper I defend the normative power account of forgiveness against the charge that it cannot accommodate the intimate connection between forgiveness and emotion. I look at the grounds for thinking that emotion is central to

Christopher Bennett et al. · Review of Philosophy and Psychology

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Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study

AIM: To examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender-referred adolescents, focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical gender reassignment. METHODS: statistics and Cox regression were used to analys

Sami-Matti Ruuska et al. · Acta Paediatrica

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Abuse of rights and instrumental nationality: from <i>Nottebohm</i> to citizenship by investment

Building on Erpelding’s historical account of the instrumentalisation of nationality and its effects on inter-state relations, this paper examines the continued relevance of the principles underlying the ICJ’s Nottebohm judgment in contempo

Javier García Olmedo et al. · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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