The Cruel Optimism of Plastics: Promissory Technologies and the Temporalities of Inaction. [PDF]
Pathak G +2 more
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
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Revolutions of Rice - Agrarian Acceleration and Modernist Metanarratives among 'Indigenous' Peasants in Laos. [PDF]
Lutz PD.
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ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics. [PDF]
Laruffa F.
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Migrant Motherhood and Child Protection: The Ecuador–Genoa Case
ABSTRACT Migrant motherhood is often accompanied by a dual stigma, both in the country of origin and that of migration, where migrant mothers are frequently associated with a failure to parent adequately. Drawing on a case study of Latin migration in Genoa (Italy), this article examines the phenomenon in relation to the dynamics of the globalised ...
Francesca Lagomarsino, Chiara Lanini
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Exporting Socialist Health Care: Soviet Humanitarianism in the Global South. [PDF]
Hearne S.
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Late-Stage Capitalism and the Canadian Polycrisis in Living and Working Conditions: Implications for Health and Means of Responding. [PDF]
Amin R, Raphael D.
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Making economic citizens beyond neoliberalism: Historical trajectories of a banker association's efforts in economic education. [PDF]
Ruoss T.
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The decline of 'Deaths of Despair' in Italy: unveiling this phenomenon in a new context. [PDF]
Lanfiuti Baldi G +3 more
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