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Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
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Transformation Using Telepresence in the Classroom. [PDF]

open access: yesComput Support Coop Work
Rode JA   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mediated Aspirations and Structural Walls: Daily Media Practices Among a Peripheral Roma Community in Türkiye

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ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
wiley   +1 more source

Against All Odds: How Rituals Sustain Engagement with Intractable Social Problems

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Being confronted with seemingly intractable problems such as refugee crises, climate change, or poverty is daunting and can risk a sense of meaninglessness for organizational actors working on these issues. We focus on the pervasive use of representations, including assessments and evaluations, to deal with intractable problems, even though ...
Corinna Frey‐Heger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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