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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Cellulose Ionogels: Unraveling Structure-Property Relationships Through Multiscale In-Situ Characterization and Theoretical Modeling. [PDF]

Gels
Wei J, He Z, Ruan J, Ou J, Zhang W, Tan B, He X, Wang Z, Tang Y.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ACCOUNTING FOR BIODIVERSITY: Periphery Urbanization, Environmental Conflict, and Spatial Inequality in Monetizing the Value of Nature

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In terms of mainstream sustainability economics, market‐led initiatives aimed at biodiversity restoration represent a productive, morally conscientious choice. Under this view, efforts in areas such as biodiversity offsetting, net gain, or finance are considered effective tools for preventing or managing environmental degradation.
Ihnji Jon
wiley   +1 more source

Al-Ca co-doped ZnO nanostructures for enhanced electrical and dielectric properties. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Althumairi NA, Hammami I, Soltani S, Marzougui H, El-Kasaby RA, Hjiri M, Benamara M, Teixeira SS, Graça MPF, Valente MA.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum coherent Chladni-like resonance: Programming ions as matter waves for subpicosecond conduction. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Sezen Y, Çiftçi NO, Sarsıl MA, Czelej K, Ergen O.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Virtual reality experience in physical education and sports lessons: An investigation into its effect on the balance and coordination skills of middle school students. [PDF]

PLoS One
Yanar Tunçel N, Avşar Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Jonathan Òlal Ogwang, Natalie Boyd Williams, Elizabeth Tilley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ultrafast bimolecular reaction catalysis via engineered nuclear quantum effects in helium nanodroplets. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Chen J, Zhao L, Huang H, Ye Z, Hu Y, Shi M, Long X, Sanz-Sanz C, Roncero O, Liu L, Li X, Ni H, Li Z, Zhang W, Wu J.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source