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The Visible ‘Caste Gaps’ amid an ‘Invisible’ Caste System in West Bengal, India: A Study of Discrimination in Bengali Society

Caste
The invisibility of the caste system in Bengal is so firmly ingrained in the psyche of the upper-caste Bengali Hindu population that any acknowledgement of the same by the bhadralok class appears to be a pipe dream.
Manas Patra
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Die Schwelle überschreiten: Kontrolle supramolekularer Polymerisation durch photostationäre Zustände

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Intermediäre photostationäre Zustände regulieren die Konzentration eines polymerisationsaktiven Monomers. Sobald die Keimbildungsschwelle überschritten wird, werden geringfügige wellenlängenabhängige Änderungen der Isomerenverteilung zu einer nichtlinearen supramolekularen Assemblierungsantwort verstärkt.
Deepu George, Jiarong Wu, Leo Greb, Vladimir Stepanenko, Aidan Izuagbe, Lutz Nuhn, Frank Würthner, Jake L. Greenfield   +7 more
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A High Soldier Proportion Encouraged the Greater Antifungal Immunity in a Subterranean Termite

Frontiers in Physiology, 2022
Termites possess a mighty social immune system, serving as one of the key obstacles to controlling them biologically. However, the dynamic mechanism coordinating the social immunologic defense and caste distribution of the termites remains elusive.
Wenhui Zeng, Danni Shen, Yong Chen, Shijun Zhang, Wenjing Wu, Zhiqiang Li   +5 more
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Caste, race, and slavery

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023
While diving into the background ideas about caste and race as legal categories, a researcher will discover an important disagreement between scholars: For some, caste is certainly connected with race, whereas for others, caste and race are separate ...
Martin Farek
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Conceptualizing algorithmic inequality and future agenda. An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a lack of comprehensive understanding of its nature, drivers, and impact ...
Shiwei Jia, Jia Tina Du, Hui Yan
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Towards a Multispecies Approach to Caste in Sinhala Society: Interspecies Dynamics between Cinnamon and the Salagama People

Caste
This article deploys a multispecies perspective to understand the role of human and non-human actors shaping the Sinhala caste system in Sri Lanka. Apart from human interlocutors, certain animal species (e.g.
Kalinga Tudor Silva
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Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao, Roger Leonard Burritt, Katherine Leanne Christ   +2 more
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On the Difficulty of Refuting or Confirming the Arguments about the Caste System

Theatrum Historiae, 2016
Any attempt to understand Indian society through the scholarship on caste confronts us with a large number of problems. Scholars of the last 150 years have routinely observed and even criticised writings on caste for these problems.
Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan
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Should multinationals care about development? Rethinking global strategy in an unequal world

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary While multinational corporations (MNCs) can profoundly shape global development trajectories, global strategy research has largely treated development as peripheral to core strategic concerns. This Perspective paper examines the contested relationship between global strategy and development, arguing that MNCs are neither ...
Marcus M. Larsen, Rajneesh Narula, Thomas DeBerge   +2 more
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