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Public Administration and Development, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 77-92, February 2026.ABSTRACT Using public ethnography anchored in the post‐development theory and interpretivist epistemological paradigm, this study examines what we term the ‘socio‐cultural milieus dynamics’ (SCMD) of the Solomon Islands (SI) and how these shape meaning, discourse, and practice in ways that influence Australia's aid localisation efforts and aid outcomes.
Mark Opoku Amankwa +5 more
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„Public Sociology“ – Burawoy-Hype und linkes Projekt [PDF]
Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 2017 Review essay: 1) Burawoy, Michael: Public Sociology - Öffentliche Soziologie gegen Marktfundamentalismus und globale Ungleichheit. Herausgegeben von Brigitte Aulenbacher und Klaus Dörre mit einem Nachwort von Hans-Jürgen Urban. Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa 2015.
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Communicating the social sciences [PDF]
, 2008 This chapter reviews the sparse and somewhat scattered research literature that has specifically addressed the public communication of the social sciences (PCSS).
Cassidy, A
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Who Feels Looked Down Upon? Sources of “Symbolic Violence” in the United States
Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 87-108, February 2026.This paper explores the factors increasing the chances of thinking one's cultural tastes and interests would be looked down upon by others, a sentiment put under the label of “symbolic violence” by Pierre Bourdieu. Using data from a survey fielded in the US in 2017–18 (n = 2,514), it examines the role of social position, lifestyle, family status and ...
Will Atkinson
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Heterogeneity and Drivers of Chinese Manufacturing FDI in Africa: Evidence From Angola and Ethiopia
Journal of International Development, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 174-191, January 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the heterogeneity and drivers of Chinese manufacturing foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa through a comparative analysis of Angola and Ethiopia. Drawing on 8 years of fieldwork (2015–2023), it develops a typology distinguishing market‐embedded firms from global production network (GPN)‐integrated firms, linking ...
Weiwei Chen
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Sociologica, 2019 In this conversation, Michael Burawoy discusses how he discovered the sociology of Gramsci in radically diverse contexts — from a vibrant post-colonial Zambia to Analytical Marxism in Chicago.
Riccardo Emilio Chesta, Michael Burawoy
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Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology [PDF]
Proclamations of \'current crisis\' in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in British and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived \'current crisis\'. It then discusses some of
Liz Stanley, Robert Hollands
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Sisyphus & the Labor of Imagination: Autonomy, Cultural Production and the Antinomies of Worker Self-Management [PDF]
, 2010 Is there any radical potential left in the notion and practices of worker self-management? What I want do in this essay is to try and see if it is possible to distill something of a radical kernel from the many difficulties and complications that ...
Shukaitis, S
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, 2016 The starting point of our considerations is the two books published in 2010: “Ill Fares the Land” by the late Tony Judt and “Not for Profit” by Martha Nussbaum. The authors of both books share the conviction that neoliberal changes in the world of global
Misztal, Dawid, Sieczkowski, Tomasz
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Space Matters: Marketplace and Interactional Order in the Nepalese “Manpower Bazaar”
Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Spatial dynamics of market interactions are underexplored in the sociological study of markets. This ethnographically informed study dives into the intricate workings of a marketplace of migrant recruiters in Nepal, colloquially known as Manpower Bazaar.
Sandhya A. S.
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