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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen, Kiira Parikka, Herman Stål, Teemu Vaarakallio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing “Korean” Kimchi: Speculative Configuration of Distance and Commodity Value in the Chinese Kimchi Industry

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
wiley   +1 more source

The Legacies of Lockdown: Moral Logics of Exchange and Mistrust in Postpandemic China

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions
Erika Kuever
wiley   +1 more source

A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Coase Conjecture predicts that a durable‐goods monopolist without commitment will rapidly cut price toward marginal cost. We test this prediction in the electronic‐book market using release‐day prices. To proxy for marginal cost, we use competitive prices of public‐domain electronic books on the same platforms.
Tim Groseclose, Alex Tabarrok
wiley   +1 more source

Simulation Analysis of Influencing Factors Assessment for Emergency Materials Supply Chain Resilience Based on System Dynamics

Safety Science and Technology, EarlyView.
By integrating game theory‐based combined weighting with a system dynamics model, this study systematically reveals the dominant role of agility and adaptability in the resilience of post‐disaster emergency material supply chains. ABSTRACT In light of the intricate dynamics and uncertain risk parameters inherent in the emergency materials supply chains,
Hao Sun, Longxiang Ma, Fuyu Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Zdzieranie masek. Sposoby pisania o żydowskich komunistach

Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2014
Tearing Off the Masks: Narratives on Jewish Communists The paper presents an analysis of the contemporary Polish debate on Jewish communists. The analysis was performed in the framework of colonialist theories.
Anna Zawadzka
doaj   +1 more source

How National Security Drives the Coevolution of International Relations and International Business Policy: Evidence From the Belt and Road Initiative

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study investigates how national security drives the coevolution of China's political risk management support for multinationals and competing countries' reactions. A competing country is a nation‐state that is neither the home nor host country of a multinational but perceives the ...
Shuang Li, Xueli Huang, Fuming Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

Integrity Ministry: Watchdog, lapdog, or dead dog?

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrity is central to public trust and good governance. Drawing on Queensland's recently established Minister for Integrity as a rare contemporary example, this article examines the concept, function, and practicalities of an integrity minister within a modern accountability framework.
Saxon McGregor, Jacob Deem
wiley   +1 more source

The prison – space of opression and survie in the work Robinson Island of Ion Eremia

Astra Salvensis, 2019
In this article, the author analyses the work of captain Ion Eremia, imprisoned by the communists, who discover there the Good and a lot of reasons for survive.
Adrian-Cosmin Iuşan
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