Huntingdon College

This essay introduces the concept of queer anatopism to analyze disruptions of place in Call Me by Your Name (2017). Queer anatopism involves the rhetorical dislocation of objects into places where they "do not belong" as a means of questioning binaristic logics that normatively define and divide places. We explore anatopism by examining how Call Me by Your Name merges outside and indoor place. While much queer scholarship celebrates outdoor nature as a queer refuge, we argue that the film troubles the outdoor/indoor binary and portrays the outdoors not only as a site of queer expression but also as an invasive force that enters into, meets, and queers interior place. Through this framework, we show how queer worldmaking emerges by collapsing placial boundaries.

IntroductionThis investigation sought to develop a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation by considering the links between childhood background, trafficking experiences, and outcomes.MethodsTo that end, 350 survivors of commercial sexual exploitation living in the US were surveyed. Guided by ecological and life course frameworks, variables included adverse childhood experiences, socioeconomic disadvantage, educational achievement, trafficking experiences, and several outcomes, including income, employment status, posttraumatic stress symptoms, dignity, and sobriety.ResultsResults suggested that adverse childhood experiences were strongly linked to more severe exploitation and poorer outcomes. Educational achievement improved income and employment without reducing trafficking severity. Socioeconomic disadvantage showed no significant risk, contradicting prior research. Further, more severe trafficking experiences were significantly linked to poorer economic stability. Findings went on to suggest that trafficking-related experiences may play a mediating role in the negative effects of early adversity on income, employment, and sobriety.DiscussionThis investigation highlights the diverse and individualized needs of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, indicating that tailored interventions are essential for addressing the complex interplay of childhood adversity, trafficking experiences, and recovery trajectories.

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) does not provoke uniform public resistance in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. Instead, security and economic threat narratives selectively reshape support, leading publics to distinguish between investors and investment modes rather than react unthinkingly to China’s presence. This study joins strategic narrative theory with the political economy literature to examine how threat narratives may alter public attitudes toward foreign investors. We develop an audience–cue–context (ACC) framework that treats narratives as cue-level inputs whose effects depend on who is listening (the audience) and what the investment signals (the context). We test these expectations through a survey experiment in Kyrgyzstan (n = 1,548), an independent, BRI investment recipient country neighbouring China, where Chinese investment is both visible and contested. Respondents were randomly exposed to security-threat, economic-threat, or neutral vignettes, and asked to evaluate Chinese FDI projects that varied by ownership (state-owned vs. private) and entry mode (greenfield vs. acquisition). Our findings show that security narratives significantly depress support for Chinese FDI, whereas economic threat narratives have weaker, more heterogeneous effects. Responses are structured rather than uniform: state-owned enterprises and greenfield investments attract heightened scrutiny under security framings, while economic frames interact more strongly with specific audience predispositions and contextual cues. Open-ended responses confirm that public reactions are structured and cue-sensitive, not uniformly sceptical. This study contributes to the literature on political communication, Chinese foreign policy, and FDI by operationalising narrative reception as a function of contextually embedded cues and audience filters in our ACC framework. Jessica E. Neafie is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan). Her research focuses on China’s foreign policy in emerging economies, on multipolarity, on middle-power strategy, and on energy and environmental governance in Central Asia. She leads and co-leads several international research projects on public opinion toward China, foreign policy, and environmental policy.

Occasion setting occurs when a stimulus effectively modulates the relationship between a conditioned stimulus and reinforcement-specifically, when behavior is elicited in response to a conditioned stimulus when an occasion setter is present but not in its absence. In the target article "Are You Studying testing procedures in which occasion setters are present to highlight the importance of their presence and impact on performance. In this commentary, we broaden this discussion by revisiting a suboptimal choice procedure and reframing it using the lens of occasion setting. We propose that there are stimuli within this choice task that serve as occasion setters for behavior. Using this interpretation of the suboptimal choice procedure illuminates a potential explanation for why a suboptimal preference has been observed by pigeons but not by human participants.

In Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars (1900), the residents of Clarence, South Carolina take part in a ring tournament, which allows them to engage affectively and materially with an imagined chivalric past through which they can indulge in a collective fantasy of race-making and nation-building. Time resists linearity throughout the novel, just as race and citizenship resist being read as static categories. The layered nature of time maps onto the unstable categories of race and citizenship in the post–Civil War South of Chesnutt’s novel and provides new ways for conceptualizing the relatedness of race and citizenship.