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Despite the increasing challenges twenty-first-century societies face in accommodating older adults, many misconceptions about old age before modernity continue to exist. These are rarely expressed in 'formal theory' produced by academics, but rather persist in 'lay theory' which is anchored in collective memory and popular culture. Such taken-for-granted beliefs are nevertheless influential, first because they determine which questions academics do and do not ask about old age in history, and second because they present society with a grand narrative about ageing in the past, present, and future. We provide researchers with a research agenda. We do so by identifying three myths about old age: 1) people usually lived short lives and continued in their line of work until they dropped dead without having 'retired' from work; 2) men and women who did grow old simply moved in with their next of kin; 3) pensions played no role during old age. We debunk these based on a case study of the Nordic Countries before c. 1850 and hope to encourage research into myths about old age before modernity in other European regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article delves into the exploration of negative myths, examining their prevalence in both ancient and modern times. I focus on the psychoanalytic understanding of collective and group narratives, particularly within the context of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Drawing from Levine's two-track model of psychoanalysis, this study investigates how negative myths function as containers for processing unrepresented unconscious content. Through case vignettes, the characteristics of negative myths are illuminated, revealing them as distorted and dysfunctional containers of psychic material. I argue that negative myths emerge in response to dread and fear, serving as reflections of societal anxieties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Though often under-represented in the official and national narratives and in Canadian military historiography more broadly, the intimate and personal lived experiences of Canadian prisoners of war (POW) during the Second World War can be found in archives, photography collections, and collections of war art. In an attempt to see past the mythologised versions of POWs that appear in Hollywood films, best-selling monographs, and other forms of popular culture, it is through bits of ephemera—including wartime log books and the drawings carefully kept and sent home to loved ones along with handwritten letters—that the stories of non-combatant men and women who spent their war as POWs, can be told. Together, Canadian POWs created and curated community and fostered unconventional family ties, sometimes called "emotional communities", through the collection and accumulation of drawings, illustrations, paintings, and other examples of war art on the pages of their wartime log books while living behind barbed wire. This article uncovers some of these stories, buried in the thousands of boxes in the George Metcalf Archival Collection—the textual archives—at the Canadian War Museum (CWM) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Religious rituals are historical events performed in certain forms at certain times. There is a distinction between religious rituals guiding practice with their event character and religious and philosophical meta-narratives positioning rituals mentally/ideologically. This distinction also leads to some ambiguities regarding the meaning of rituals. Since Ancient/primitive thought considered human existence within the whole (cosmos), it interpreted the ritual as a representation of cosmology. This wholeness has made the experience of boundaries, both within and beyond human limits, visible at its most fundamental level. From this perspective, ritual has dimensions such as formation, deformation, and transformation as a process of delineating boundaries and then transcending them. In this article, we will emphasize that ritual, in its event form, provides an opportunity for individuals to understand and transform themselves by considering various dimensions of human existence. In this context, we will discuss different aspects of the Mawlid, Alawi samah rituals, and the Mawlawi sama ceremony in Turkish-Islamic culture. We will explain how participants in the Mawlid ritual undergo a transformation process through the narrative of supernatural. In Alawi samah, we will focus on the ritual as a spatial representation of bodily formation. In comparison to the local-universal dichotomy of Alawi samah, we will draw attention to the symbolic formation of the city concept in the Mawlawi samah ceremony. In the Mawlawi ceremony, we will attempt to analyze the mutual interaction between the city and the ritual as a symbolic manifestation of cosmic unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay offers an interpretation of Plato's Phaedo, which proceeds in two parts: (1) methodological interpretation of myth and (2) application of the method to the analysis of the soul. The paper claims that the myths in this dialogue are not limited to the explicitly mythical sections but that the entirety of the Phaedo—including the arguments that it presents—is saturated with myth. Through this interpretive lens, the soul, as it appears in the Phaedo, ceases to be characterized as a mere thing and gains an ontological dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text compares four essays dealing with war, state terror in dictatorships, social violence such as racism, mourning and the avoidance of mourning. It shows that dictatorships share similarities in their techniques of manipulation, linguistic style and reference to history. They seek to exploit national myths through manipulative alienation. Myths are a central element of cultural memory, and their effect can be understood through a model of internal dialogue. This dialogue determines whether the regime's attempts at manipulation are successful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the history of humankind, lunar eclipse has always captured attention and imagination of human beings. This study is an anthropological attempt to describe prevailing perceptions and myths about lunar eclipse and resultant religious and cultural practices in some of the rural areas of Central Punjab, Pakistan. For this purpose, qualitative research techniques of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions have been used to understand and untangle the strings of indigenous perpetuations about a celestial phenomenon. The research findings showed multiple sets of socio-cultural and religious beliefs and practices which have been followed through generations that demonstrate the richness of culture and mythological value of local verbal tales. Perceptions include fear of God, remembering the day of judgment, good or bad luck, and occurrence of disease. Practices include praying, charity, taking certain precautions to avoid the disease, and doing some religious and cultural rituals. Some unique folktales are also narrated by the respondents of the locale which have specific socio-cultural meanings for them. The paper describes all these perceptions and practices in two main parts: socio-cultural perceptions and practices and religious perceptions and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concepts of "D-value," "thermal death time" and "commercial sterility," innovative and useful at their inception, are based on untenable assumptions, notably that the log-linear isothermal inactivation model has universal applicability, that extrapolation over several orders of magnitude below the detection level is permissible, and that total microbial inactivation is theoretically impossible. Almost all commonly observed inactivation patterns, the log-linear is just a special case, can be described by both deterministic and fully stochastic models, examples of which are given. Unlike the deterministic, the stochastic models predict either complete elimination of the targeted cells or spores in realistic finite time, or residual survival. In most cases, the published survival data do not contain enough information to establish which actually happens. The microbial safety of thermally processed foods can be compromised not only by under-processing but also by a variety of mishaps whose occurrence probabilities are unrelated to the inactivation kinetics. Moreover, the available sampling plans to detect microbial contamination in sterilized containers through incubation alone are insensitive to levels of potential safety concerns. In principle, many of these issues could be resolved by developing new dramatically improved detection methods and/or verifiable methods to predict very low levels of microbial survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the concept of enchantment and disenchantment in various cultures and time periods. It questions the idea of a disenchanted present and an enchanted past, arguing that enchantment has always existed in individual experiences. The article discusses different forms of enchantment, such as belief in magic, mythical consciousness, and a connection with nature. It also examines the concepts of enchantment and reenchantment in relation to human nature, emphasizing the importance of a stable sense of self and the integration of enchantment into one's life narrative. The article concludes that reenchantment is a personal journey that cannot be achieved collectively. [Extracted from the article]

It has long been recognized that conspiracy narratives may be seen as a special kind of myth. In most cases, however, this is taken as a sign of their irrational and unsubstantiated nature. I argue that mythical modes of reasoning are actually far more pervasive in modern political and cultural discourse than we commonly admit and that the difference between mainstream discourse and conspiracy narratives is not one between "rational" and "mythical" thought but rather one between different types of mythical thinking. The specific nature of conspiracy myths is best understood in relation to two other types of social myths: political myths and fictional myths. Conspiracy myths are a hybrid of these two genres: like fictional myths, they make use of imaginative elements, but like political myths, they are understood as having a relatively straightforward relation to reality and not just a metaphorical one. They are essentially anti-systemic, and their chief ethos is that of distrust. Nevertheless, the degree to which they reject the system varies, and it is thus useful to distinguish between weaker and stronger conspiracy myths. While the latter reject the system altogether and are incompatible with political myths, the former are capable of co-operating with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution considers a monthly seminar, Literature and Psychoanalysis, that has been taking place at Sofia University (Sofia, Bulgaria) since 2017. Three of the seminar's founders reflect on the transferences between literature and psychoanalysis, and on the ways in which literature and psychoanalysis can meaningfully converse. The exchange also touches on the fate of Freud's textual legacy in communist and post-communist Bulgaria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Multicultural communities in Indonesia produce mythologies related to disease outbreaks. This study aims to map such myths and their impact on trust in COVID-19 information, assuming that trust in the myths influences trust in COVID-19 information. This research is descriptive and qualitative in nature. Data consist of big data and the results of focus group discussions (FGDs) involving participants from three generations, i.e., baby boomers, millennials, and Gen Z, in three regions. Cross-analyses were performed to examine the data. The results of the big data analysis uncover the myths about the spread, detection, prevention, and treatment of COVID-19. Likewise, the FGD analysis shows myths and superstitions around the COVID-19 pandemic, which could be prevented through religious and cultural rituals. The firm belief in the myths and poor public communication by the authorities created ambiguity. The public believes more in myths than the official information. The findings of this study can inform the formulation of culture-based health communication strategies and the optimization of public communications in a health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The unequal distribution of economic rewards under capitalism requires institutions that perpetuate "enabling myths" which justify the distribution as fair or natural. In this article, we argue that the rise in popularity of sports betting in the United States reflects an increasing reliance of neoliberal capitalism on one particular enabling myth: the belief in luck. Thorstein Veblen's writing in The Theory of the Leisure Class suggests the belief in luck as a "minor myth" that helps sustain the grand marginalist myth at the heart of neoliberal capitalism: the myth of meritocracy. The belief in luck provides an alternative rationalization for unfavorable economic outcomes when meritocracy breaks down. Rather than resulting from systemic or individual failures incompatible with meritocratic logic, the belief in luck ascribes negative economic outcomes to an otherwise teleological or supernatural force. Gambling in general—and sports betting in particular—constitutes a Veblenian social practice that serves to inculcate the belief in luck, thereby aiding in the naturalization and justification of economic inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the musical context of the works of James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov. Joyce's Ulysses, one of the most important literary texts of the twentieth century, is filled with musical allusions and various musical techniques. The chapter "Sirens" is the most interesting in this context as it features a "musical" form and contains a large number of musical quotations. The myth of the singing sirens, recreated by Joyce in images and characters from the modern world, encapsulates the idea of erotic seduction, bringing threat and doom to the seduced. Joyce offers a new version of the sea world filled with music, creating a system of musical leitmotifs and lexical patterns within the text. Developing the themes of temptation, the danger that temptation entails, doom, uniting with the vital forces of the world, and loneliness, Joyce in "Sirens" reveals the semantics of music, showing the specific nature of its effect on listeners. Vladimir Nabokov, who praised Ulysses and devoted a lecture to "Sirens", is much less musical than Joyce. However, he, like Joyce, also refers to the images of singing sirens and the accompanying images of the aquatic world. One of the central, meaning-making signs in his work is the "Sirin complex", his pseudonym. This sign, which refers to a large number of pretexts, refers in particular to the lilac (siren') and to the mythological "musical" sirens. As in Joyce's work, sirens are present in his texts as mermaids and naiads, or as figures of seducers who fulfil their function and bring doom. Joyce and Nabokov are also united by the presence of recurrent leitmotifs, lexical patterns, and the presence of auditory impressions in their text that are evoked by the sound of the everyday world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Government expenditures may tend to defray to increasing social needs with economic growth and development. This study focused on the effects of government expenditure on unemployment and conducted empirical research on the possible positive or negative effects of government expenditure on unemployment. This study employed the asymmetric causality and Kernel-based Regulated least squares (KRLS) method with machine learning to examine the effect of government expenditure on the unemployment rate for two Baltic countries (Estonia and Latvia) for annual time frequency data from 1995 to 2019. Asymmetric causality findings show that increase government final government consumption has a decreasing impact on unemployment in the Estonia. In addition to this, no enough evidence for Abrams Curve from Estonia and Latvia. Additionally, the government's final consumption and expenditure effects have different signs at different quantiles. KRLS quantile coefficient findings point out that V-shape and inverse V-shape curve instead of the Abrams Curve for our sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This 2022 article explores how and why philanthropy has largely rejected the rigorous examination of cause-and-effect relationships in social change strategies. It outlines the myths that, the authors argue, stood in the way of this practice and calls for increased causal analysis in the sector and the use of new ways for doing it, particularly for strategies rooted in complex systems. In the 2024 prologue, the authors describe how they launched Causal Pathways, a collaborative field-building initiative that is responding to the demand for more learning and practice on this topic. They identify two new myths about why more causal analysis is not happening: Evaluations are already causal and there is nothing that needs to change, and causality is not important in evaluations. The authors also encountered practical barriers to applying causal approaches. Funders and evaluators need in-depth and real-life opportunities to try and learn causal approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay reviews Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. This elegantly written book, whih is a must-read for anyone interested in the topic of immigration, walks the reader through a history of US immigration, examining patterns of immigrant assimilation from the mid-nineteenth century to today. The book challenges two myths about US immigration. First, it shows that historical European immigrants did not always arrive poor and quickly climb the economic and social ladder. Second, it documents that the pace of immigrant assimilation today resembles that prevailing at the turn of the twentieth century. (JEL J15, J18, K37, N31, N32, Z13) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The struggle with becoming a tree in Sylvia Plath’s poems reveals her struggle to create a subjectivity for herself as a female poet in a patriarchal world. Becoming a tree epitomizes the tradition in which Plath strives to create her poetic subjectivity: the opposition between the male Romantic poet and the feminine nature that inspires him, the prototype of which is Ovid’s myth of Daphne becoming the tree muse for Apollo. Plath internalizes the death of the body imposed on the woman in the formula and creates out of the negativity within her. Instead of treating nature as an object in order to become a poet, she accepts that she is both the articulate poet and the nature that can never be fully expressed. Torn between the one who expresses and the one who is expressed, the bodies of trees in her poems painfully shine with layers of darkness. The trees represent a female subjectivity that closely communicates with the darkness, which is fairly dangerous for a formed subjectivity. This paper analyzes the complex layers of the question of becoming a tree imposed on the female body. It then discusses how Plath responds to this burden by creating a subjectivity expressed by black trees that intimately identify with the flourishing death and articulate the darkness within themselves as a landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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В статье рассматривается медицинский термин в трех основных аспектах, необходимых для терминологического исследования: словарном переводе, в культурно-историческом аспекте и в специальной (профессиональной) коммуникации. Подобное рассмотрение термина (с выделением в медицинском термине историко-культурного и профессионального аспектов) становится возможным только с привлечением когнитивных механизмов, напрямую связанных с мыслительной и дискурсивной деятельностью человека при формировании научной концептосферы медицины. Перевод термина на разные языки, взятый в историческом аспекте, обогащает концепт культурными особенностями, с одной стороны, и высвечивает определенную часть его медицинского понятия, с другой. Предметом исследования является термин «лихорадка» в его историко-культурной соотнесенности с репрезентацией мифологических концептов в трех языках: «Пиретос» в греческом языке, «Фебрис» в латинском языке, «Лихорадка» в (старо)русском языке. Отмечается, что включение мифологических и культурологических концептов в научную концептосферу медицины способствует более полному раскрытию семантического содержания медицинского термина. Такой подход к формированию терминологического знания является актуальным в образовательной среде, где культурологические концепты призваны выполнять мнемоническую и культурно-просветительскую функции. С когнитивной точки зрения, пересечение семантических пространств культурологических концептов и специального термина можно рассматривать как базис для формирования универсального метазнания «лихорадка».

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In recent years, new research has emerged that support Emile Durkheim's claim about the existence of collective consciousness and effervescence from different angles. This applies firstly to the research field of social ontology, secondly to a series of biological and endocrinological studies of the human hormone system and thirdly to the emergence of the field of neurosociology. In this contribution, I would like to propose that collective intentionality as well as the hormone system should be included as a new part of the foundation under sociology of religion. That the human hormone system is important is further emphasized by the fact that the human oxytocin-system seems to be able to unite classical sociology's two opposing perspectives on social formation, namely the fusion and fission perspective. The first part of this contribution will be about celebration and ritual as collective actions in human groups and its absence in chimpanzee groups, the second part about the hormone oxytocin as a link between collective actions and the body in humans and chimpanzees, and the third part about the hormone oxytocin's potential to unite the two fundamental perspectives on human social formation, namely the fusion and fission perspective. DANSK RESUMÉ: Inden for de senere år er der fremkommet forskningslitteratur, der fra forskellige vinkler kan underbygge Emile Durkheims påstand om eksistensen af kollektiv bevidsthed og kollektiv begejstring (effervescens). Det gælder for det første forskningsfeltet social ontologi, for det andet en længere række biologiske og endokrinologiske studier af menneskets hormonsystem og for det tredje forskningsfeltet neurosociologi. I dette bidrag vil jeg foreslå, at menneskets kollektive intentionalitet og hormonsystem fremover i højere grad bør inddrages som en del af (religions)sociologiens fundament. At menneskets hormonsystem er vigtigt skærpes af, at særligt oxytocinsystemet ser ud til at kunne forene sociologiens to modsatrettede perspektiver på samfundsdannelse, nemlig fusions- og fissionsperspektivet. Første del af dette bidrag vil handle om fest, ritual og myte som kollektive handlinger i menneskegrupper og fraværet heraf hos chimpanser, anden del om hormonet oxytocin som forbindelsesled mellem kollektive handlinger og krop hos mennesker og chimpanser og tredje del om hormonet oxytocins potentiale til at forene de to grundlæggende perspektiver på menneskets samfundsdannelse, nemlig fusions- og fissionsperspektivet.

According to the philosophy of religion proposed by Ernst Cassirer, myth and religion are two symbolic forms whose goal of representation is the idea of the sacred; to achieve this, both use different aesthetic representations such as totem, ritual, or art to configure their own idea of the divine. Through a critical examination of the author’s work, both the structure and the form of mythical and religious thought are analyzed to describe the aesthetic function fulfilled in each form. To illustrate the contribution that art offers in the contemplation of the divine in both modalities, we will use Ratzinger’s sermon “The Feeling of Things, the Contemplation of Beauty.”

“Goodbye, Americana, Hello Real Time”: The Death of Idealism in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral is a textbook illustration of failed cultural transmission: the transference and transformation of values, idea(l)s and information in the lives of Seymour Levov, his family, his community prove to be governed by loss, misrepresentation and gradual decline into disorder. Far from delivering the romanticized version of life in the Jewish neighborhood that the title implies, the novel captures a disenchanted Americana, wherein idealism and radicalism clash against the background of the ideologically fractured 1960s. While ‘the Swede’ apparently initially embodies the (super)hero, middle-class American Dream, American Pastoral chronicles America’s evolution after World War II, which is captured as a mixture of convention and rebellion, both stemming from clashing political ideologies. This paper examines the book’s polarizing discourses, keeping an emblematic passage in mind: “Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride.” “Goodbye, Americana, Hello Real Time”: moartea idealismului în Pastorala americană de Philip Roth. Pastorala americană a lui Philip Roth (1997) constituie un exemplu tipic de transmitere culturală eșuată. Transferul și transformarea valorilor, ide(alur)ilor și informației în viețile lui Seymour Levov, familiei și comunității sale se dovedesc guvernate de pierderi, reprezentări eronate și, în cele din urmă, entropie. Departe de a oferi o versiune romanțată asupra vieții în vecinătatea evreiască, așa cum sugerează titlul, romanul surprinde o imagine dezvrăjită a Americii, unde idealismul și radicalismul se ciocnesc pe fundalul unor ani 1960 scindați ideologic. În timp ce „Suedezul” pare că întruchipează inițial (super)eroul Visului American al clasei de mijloc, Pastorala americană înregistrează evoluția Americii după cel de Al Doilea Război Mondial, redată drept un amestec de convenționalism și rebeliune, ambele rezultate din diferite tipuri de îndoctrinare. Lucrarea examinează discursurile polarizante ale cărții, luând în considerare un pasaj emblematic: „Poate cel mai bine ar fi să uităm de a avea sau nu dreptate despre oameni și să ne bucurăm doar de călătorie”. Cuvinte-cheie: Americana, comunitate, discurs, ideologie, identitate, mit, traumă Article history: Received 15 March 2024; Revised 27 August 2024; Accepted 01 September 2024; Available online 30 September 2024; Available print 30 September 2024.

The rapid dissemination of misinformation on the internet complicates the decision-making process for individuals seeking reliable information, particularly parents researching child development topics. This misinformation can lead to adverse consequences, such as inappropriate treatment of children based on myths. While previous research has utilized text-mining techniques to predict child abuse cases, there has been a gap in the analysis of child development myths and facts. This study addresses this gap by applying text mining techniques and classification models to distinguish between myths and facts about child development, leveraging newly gathered data from publicly available websites. The research methodology involved several stages. First, text mining techniques were employed to pre-process the data, ensuring enhanced accuracy. Subsequently, the structured data was analysed using six robust Machine Learning (ML) classifiers and one Deep Learning (DL) model, with two feature extraction techniques applied to assess their performance across three different training-testing splits. To ensure the reliability of the results, cross-validation was performed using both k-fold and leave-one-out methods. Among the classification models tested, Logistic Regression (LR) demonstrated the highest accuracy, achieving a 90 % accuracy with the Bag-of-Words (BoW) feature extraction technique. LR stands out for its exceptional speed and efficiency, maintaining low testing time per statement (0.97 μs). These findings suggest that LR, when combined with BoW, is effective in accurately classifying child development information, thus providing a valuable tool for combating misinformation and assisting parents in making informed decisions.

We argue that Büntgen's (2024) claim that climate science must be separated from activism is fundamentally flawed. Activism does not inherently lead to biased science and striving for value-free science is both unattainable and undesirable. Instead, we advocate for redefining the boundaries of acceptable influence of values in scientific communication and offer practical strategies to move beyond the misleading myth of neutrality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article, titled "True West: Myths and Mending on the Far Side of America," is a review of Betsy Gaines Quammen's book. Quammen explores the political trends affecting the Intermountain states and argues that many contemporary issues in the West have their roots in toxic myths. The book discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, floods, fires, and political polarization on rural and urban communities. Quammen's work is praised for its thematic organization, neighborly tone, and journalistic approach. However, some critics note that the book's definition of the West is limited and that it perpetuates certain historical tropes. Overall, the book is seen as an engaging and reflective exploration of Western history and a call for open dialogue. [Extracted from the article]

We situate the race-based division of Manitoba's Keystone Junior Hockey League as a case study to reveal the ongoing processes of settler colonialism. We argue that this split is an example of "White settler possessive logics," whereby settler belonging is naturalized through reiterative embodied acts of occupation. That this split happened in hockey, which is colloquially referred to as "Canada's game," is perhaps unsurprising given that hockey is a significant cultural site where Canadian nationhood is produced. However, we also contend that settler entitlement and belonging are never fully secure, but rather always in the process of (un)becoming. Settler belonging is thus threatened by Indigenous embodied sovereignties, which we argue can be found in the game of hockey generally, and in the Keystone Junior Hockey League specifically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses a feminist cultural studies of sport framework to explore dominant storytelling about sleep in the Women's National Basketball Association. In a historical moment when rest is understood as a vital component in athlete performance, being denied full access to the conditions and resources that are imagined to be conducive to sleep is problematic. However, the Women's National Basketball Association's embrace of a commercial, technoscientific promotional sleep culture often comes at the expense of understanding the impact of structural forces on recovery. By exploring a variety of stories about sleep and performance, it is possible to understand the limitations and possibilities of using sleep enhancement frameworks to foster healthier and more humane sport settings and societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]