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Working at Boimondau: A Community Experience

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 66-74, March 2025.
Abstract In the 1940s and 1950s, France witnessed the emergence of labor communities whose ambition was to escape capitalism and abolish wage labor. This article focuses on Boimondau, the best‐known community at the time. In terms of work, the central activity in the life of the community, two main tensions lastingly structured the collective and ...
Michel Lallement
wiley   +1 more source

Prisoner Rights: Time for a Rethink?

open access: yes
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
Gregory Davies, Robert Jones
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From agnosis to accidental activism: Infinite regress and the Post Office Scandal

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the lived experiences of victims/survivors affected by the UK Post Office Scandal, drawing on 28 in‐depth interviews and critical legal analysis. It uses the concept of ‘accidental activism’ to explore how victims, initially isolated and disempowered, became central agents of justice reform.
SALLY DAY   +3 more
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Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry.
JAMIE M. JOHNSON   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The fluoridation of public water supplies to improve dental health is often cited as an example of an ‘intractable controversy’ in public health, reflecting deeply held principles about rights and the public sphere. This article examines legal mobilization to prevent fluoridation in Britain, from the first pilot studies in the mid‐1950s ...
JANET WESTON
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