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Spotlight on AI, Education and Ethics
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1156

Spotlight on AI, Education and Ethics

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, María Belén Moyano, Felicitas Holzer, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

JOSHA curates this collection around a shared tension: how artificial intelligence, shifting institutions, and individual practice are reshaping what it means to learn, work, and produce knowledge responsibly.

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Every Woman Matters
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1155

Every Woman Matters

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Julianna Kupcsok

Emma Association

Since 2020, EMMA Association’s Community Doula Service has supported marginalized Roma women facing discrimination and mistrust in healthcare. Local Roma community doulas provide emotional and practical support related to pregnancy, childbirth, contraception, and abortion, bridging gaps between women and health services. Grounded in reproductive justice, the model promotes dignity, agency, and solidarity. The "Our Choice!" project tested the adaptation of this model in a new location.

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Spotlight on Democratic Erosion and Political Estrangement
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1152

Spotlight on Democratic Erosion and Political Estrangement

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, María Belén Moyano, Felicitas Holzer, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

This collection examines the structural forces undermining democratic accountability across different national contexts. From informal elite networks that bypass institutional norms, to the estrangement of traditional parties from the citizens they represent, the articles trace how democratic erosion unfolds through a slow drift.

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Spotlight on Ethics, Governance and Scientific Responsibility
Spotlights
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1150

Spotlight on Ethics, Governance and Scientific Responsibility

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, María Belén Moyano, Felicitas Holzer, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

Consequential decisions, such as those about how children learn, how institutions govern, how technology evolves, and how disease is predicted, share a common ethical weight: they determine who benefits, who is left behind, and who bears responsibility. These four reads probe this weight from distinct angles.

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Ditadura militar e destruição: dimensões socioambientais no romance Verde Vagomundo – Military Dictatorship and Destruction: Socioenvironmental Dimensions in Verde Vagomundo
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1149

Ditadura militar e destruição: dimensões socioambientais no romance Verde Vagomundo – Military Dictatorship and Destruction: Socioenvironmental Dimensions in Verde Vagomundo

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Paulo Roberto Vieira, Rosângela Araújo Darwich

Federal University of Pará (UFPA)

This article explores the socio-environmental dimensions of the novel Verde Vagomundo by Benedito Monteiro (1972), highlighting the relationship between the military dictatorship and life in the Amazonia.

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Spotlight on Technopolitics and Ideologies
Spotlights
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1148

Spotlight on Technopolitics and Ideologies

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, María Belén Moyano, Felicitas Holzer, Gerhard G. Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

Technology and ideology are jointly reshaping the foundations of democratic governance: this Spotlight's five curated reads trace how. From the erosion of civic participation through AI-driven power concentration and the unfulfilled promise of technological efficiency, to the dismantling of constitutional checks through unchecked executive authority, the specter of Orwellian geopolitical realignment between major powers, and the fracturing of coalition politics in Germany.

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Fish and Chips: Opportunistic Carnivory and Geophagy in Parrots
Life Sciences
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1147

Fish and Chips: Opportunistic Carnivory and Geophagy in Parrots

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Ushma Patel, Akanksha Mukherjee, Soham Mukherjee

Sardar Patel Zoological Park

Psittacine birds (Psittaciformes) are typically regarded as frugivorous or granivorous, yet some species exhibit opportunistic feeding behaviours. The aim was to describe opportunistic carnivory and geophagy in parrots housed at Sardar Patel Zoological Park (SPZP), India. The findings highlights a dietary flexibility and exploratory foraging in parrots, emphasising implications for husbandry and understanding psittacine ecology.

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Spotlight on AI and the Arts: Language, Fiction and Identity
Spotlights
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1146

Spotlight on AI and the Arts: Language, Fiction and Identity

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, María Belén Moyano, Felicitas Holzer, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

This Spotlight examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the boundaries of language, artistic creation, and human identity. From hidden communicative signals transmitted between AI systems beyond human perception, to the emergence of the first fully AI-generated actor and the ensuing legal battles over authorship and likeness, the collection interrogates what it means to create, perform, and express in an age of machine intelligence.

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Editorial Volume 13 Issue 3
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.3.1145

Editorial Volume 13 Issue 3

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Stephan Seiler

International Academy of Sciences, Humanities, and Arts (IASHA e.V.)

Dear josha-journal readers, we’ve already announced it, but now the time has come! After more than ten years of josha-journal, we’re proud to present our new website! We’ve been working on the layout, readability, and settings. As usual, you’ll find the latest posts sorted chronologically in the right column. It’s now even easier to search for different topics and volumes in the left column. You will also find keywords and the josha library there.

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Spotlight on Nationalism, Security, and Scientific Autonomy
News and Views
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.13.2.1144

Spotlight on Nationalism, Security, and Scientific Autonomy

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Rohita Biswas, Cinthya Souza Simas, Sara Tóth Martínez, María Belén Moyano, Felicitas Holzer, Gerhard Steinmann, Roland Mertelsmann

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts (JOSHA)

This Spotlight examines how state power increasingly shapes digital security, public health, journalism, scientific publishing, and global economic strategy. The contributions reveal a shared tension between state control and institutional independence, showing that security, governance, and knowledge production are now deeply entangled. In doing so, this collection reflects JOSHA’s editorial curation of timely debates at the intersection of politics, science, and public trust.

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