THE POWER OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: What Does it Mean to do Critical Urban Scholarship from the South?
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 265-270, January 2026.Abstract In this essay I reflect upon the challenges of conducting critical urban research from the global South, where profound inequalities and limited resources shape our work and where, at the same time, academics are often called upon for help by communities, social movements and governments alike.
María José Álvarez‐Rivadulla
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Uniwersytet w kryzysie. Z Michaelem Burawoyem rozmawia Anna Szołucha
Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2013 Wychodząc od rozważań nad genezą i losami socjologii publicznej, Anna Szołucha dyskutuje z Michaelem Burawoyem o kryzysie uniwersytetu, jego komercjalizacji iregulacji oraz roli ruchów społecznych (Occupy czy Indignados) i studenckich (z Chille czy ...
Michael Burawoy, Anna Szołucha
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Por una sociología pública Por una sociología pública
Política y Sociedad, 2005 Responding to the growing gap between the sociological ethos and the world we study, the challenge of public sociology is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways.
Michael Burawoy
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The sociological imagination and its promise fifty years later: Is there a future for the social sciences as a free form of enquiry? [PDF]
, 2009 This paper offers a restatement of Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination and tries to judge whether its promise can be credibly renewed today by addressing the question about the present and future possibilities of the social sciences as free forms ...
Frade, C
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Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2012 Resenha da obra: BURAWOY, Michael. O Marxismo encontra Bourdieu Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 2010.
Leda Maria de Oliveira Rodrigues
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The Governance Grenade: Mass Privatization, State Capacity and Economic Development in Postcommunist and Reforming Communist Societies. [PDF]
This article critiques neoliberal transition theory from a state-centered perspective. Neoliberal scholars have used cross-national regression analysis to argue that postcommunist economic failure is the result of inadequate adherence to neoliberal ...
Lawrence King, Patrick Hamm
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The yellow brick road: total quality management and the restructuring of organizational culture [PDF]
, 2007 The paper offers a critique of Total Quality Management . It is essentially in three parts: the first examines the rise of TQM through the western experience of Japanese development, second it examine the nature of TQM's promised cultural change and ...
Tuckman, A
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Ambivalent elites and conservative modernizers : studying sideways in transnational contexts ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main [PDF]
, 2003 Spacially dispersed transnational professional communities can be perceived of as cultural formations living in a global frame of reference, transgressing existing political and cultural boundaries.
Ilyes, Petra
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A SOCIOLOGIA PÚBLICA NO ÂMBITO DA PRODUÇÃO E INTERVENÇÃO EM ESPORTE E LAZER NO BRASIL
Movimento, 2014 En este artículo se trató de investigar la configuración de una sociología pública, en los términos de Michael Burawoy, en el campo de los estudios sobre políticas públicas para el deporte y el ocio en Brasil. Para lograr este objetivo, se analizaron los
Otavio Guimarães Tavares da Silva +2 more
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Sociology and Classical Liberalism [PDF]
We advocate the development of a classical-liberal character within professional sociology. The American Sociological Association (ASA) is taken as representative of professional sociology in the United States.
Klein, Daniel, Stern, Lotta
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