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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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

Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
wiley   +1 more source

THE POLITICAL EXILE OF ROMANIAN SCHOLARS IN ITALY

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2016
The existentialism of the other Romania, or of the alternative Romania, as the Romanian scholars themselves named it, is shaped around three main markers: the political, the cultural or the spiritual resistance towards the communist regime of the native
Anca STÂNGACIU
doaj  

Towards the Democratisation of Care? Insights From Co‐Governance in Local Welfare in Spain and Italy

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The organisation and distribution of care responsibilities represent a central issue in contemporary welfare debates. Although welfare systems have progressively sought to socialise care related risks tackling distribution's inequality, the organisation of care services received less attention.
Francesca Donati   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Change the Regime – Change the Money: Bulgarian Banknotes, 1885-2001 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The money we use has symbols and images on it that communicate information. One part of this are pictorial and symbolic elements that draw attention to aspects of the country that issuer is proud of and that convey the message that it wishes to convey.
Tschoegl, Adrian E.
core  

Reallocation Effects of Internalizing Externalities: Evidence From China's Straw Burning Ban

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the reallocation effects of a typical environmental policy aiming to internalize externalities: the straw burning ban across China. The ban prohibited the traditional farming practice of burning straw while compelling the labour‐intensive practice of straw utilization.
Wenyuan Hua
wiley   +1 more source

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