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

open access: yesInternational 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

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

open access: yesThe 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

Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
wiley   +1 more source

Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study of <i>Burkholderia pseudomallei</i> Seroreactivity Among Febrile Patients in Northernmost Vietnam: Near-Neighbor Bloodstream Isolates, Environmental Correlates, and Spatial Clustering. [PDF]

open access: yesGeohealth
Metrailer MC   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Government Policy, Low‐ and High‐Skilled Labour, and Technical Inefficiency in Chinese Agriculture, 1952–2008

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We utilize Chinese provincial data to explore how government policies affected grain production between 1952 and 2008. We adapt the Caselli‐Coleman framework to allow multiple inputs including fertilizer, land and capital as well as skilled and unskilled labour.
Yulong Chen, Peter F. Orazem
wiley   +1 more source

Including AKIS in the 2023 CAP Strategic Plans: What Difference has it Made? Intégration des systèmes de connaissances et d’innovation agricoles (SCIA) dans les plans stratégiques de la PAC pour 2023 : Qu’est‐ce que ça a changé ? Die Einbeziehung von AKIS in die strategischen Pläne der GAP für 2023: Was hat sich dadurch verändert?

open access: yesEuroChoices, EarlyView.
Summary In 2021, for the first time, the EU Member States were required to include Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) in their Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Strategic Plans (2023–2027). We present the findings of empirical research into how this requirement has influenced the development of national AKIS.
Lee‐Ann Sutherland, Katrin Prager
wiley   +1 more source

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