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Small Community Businesses in Slums: A Perspective on Kenyan Slum Networks

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on networks, the relational dimensions and structures cocreated by small community businesses and cooperative societies through everyday entrepreneurship in slum neighborhoods remain undertheorized. Drawing upon 1166 small community businesses, we conceptualize the relational dimensions and structures underlying ...
Amon Simba, Yun He, Preethi Misha, Yan Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The interacting effects of precipitation and microhabitat on non‐native seed predation are contingent on temporal dynamics

Oikos, EarlyView.
Understanding how different drivers of global change interact to shape ecological processes remains a major challenge in ecology. Climate change is reshuffling the interactions that structure communities, with major implications for biological invasions.
Mariana C. Chiuffo, Agostina Torres, Mauro N. Tammone, Martin A. Nuñez, Mariano A. Rodriguez‐Cabal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Eye in the Triangle and the Thing Itself. A Phenomenology of Conspiracy Theories [PDF]

Phainomena
Conspiracy theories are frequently researched while trying to figure out, which conspiracy theories are false, and which might be possibly true, which means the concept of conspiracy theory itself gets lost and muddled.
Alfredas Buiko
doaj   +1 more source

Climate‐smart land management: Greenhouse gas outcomes and social and economic pathways to adoption

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Climate change poses one of the greatest threats to natural and working lands, reducing the resilience of agricultural and forest productivity. Because land management is a leading source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, climate‐smart management practices are being implemented to reduce net emissions while sustaining yields.
Kristina Bartowitz, Janice Parks, Danielle Berardi, Julia Smith, Kristin Haltinner, Alexander Maas, Ashley Ballantyne, Laura Laumatia, Dewan Al Rafi, Eric Walsh, Dianne Baumann, Nick Koenig, Laurel Lynch, Tara Hudiburg   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ages of Conspiracy

, 2014
This chapter surveys the overall levels of conspiracy theories in American history from 1890 to 2010 based on data from letters to the editor of major U.S. dailies.
Uscinski, Joseph E, Joseph M. Parent, Joseph E. Uscinski, Parent, Joseph M   +3 more
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From Proxies to System State: Defining Sustainability Management Against Symbolic Progress

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability in management is often measured through scores, ratings, and disclosure narratives that can reward symbolic progress while leaving underlying social‐ecological conditions unchanged. This perspective paper offers a definition of Sustainability Management as how organizations plan, organize, lead, and control (four management ...
Zhang Yiping, Olaf Weber
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Research Ethics: Examining Institutional Consent as an Extractivist Practice within Research in Rural Northern Communities

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
University Research Ethics Boards (REBs) in Canada are intended to protect research participants, but standardized ethics procedures can be poorly suited to relational, community‐led, action‐oriented, and Indigenous research. This article examines how institutional consent practices can reproduce extractive paradigms when they are applied to research ...
Chris Sanders, Kristin Burnett, Lana Ray, Lesly Gunasekara   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical Overview of Basic Theoretical Perspectives on Some Historical Examples of Conspiracy Theories

Etnoantropološki Problemi
The paper is an attempt to summarize and critically assess the main threads of research on conspiracy theories. The first part of the paper offers an analysis of theoretical frameworks developed within philosophy, political theory, sociology, the theory ...
Nina Kulenović, Miroslav M. Popović
doaj   +1 more source

Leadership Development Through Exploring Critical Perspectives and Storytelling in Pop Culture: Toward Leadership for Liberation Values

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 107-113, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Popular culture exists as an expression of cultural history. It speaks to who we are, what we aspire toward, and where our generation stands in relation to the major issues of the day. This article is a conversation about the myriad perspectives offered in this issue of New Directions for Student Leadership, exploring the contributions each ...
Kathleen Callahan, Sean Connable
wiley   +1 more source

The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 180-188, January/March 2025.
Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
wiley   +1 more source