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Motherhood Biographies and Health over the Life Course. [PDF]

open access: yesSociol Compass
Thomeer MB   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Cholera: The Biography

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
Kimberly Sessions Hagen
doaj   +1 more source

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
wiley   +1 more source

How Class Influences the Ethnic Identity of Chinese Immigrants in the UK: Citizenship, Work, and Solidarity

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT One of the current focal points of ethnicity research is the relationship between ethnic identity and social inequality. This paper examines how immigrants' understandings of ethnicity are influenced by class. Through life‐history interviews with 28 Chinese immigrants in the UK, I focus on the experiences and feelings of immigrants from ...
Zhaowei Yin
wiley   +1 more source

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