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International Comparison in Historical Perspective: Reconstructing the 1934-36 Benchmark Purchasing Power Parity for Japan, Korea and Taiwan [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper provides the first estimate of consumption purchasing power parity (PPP) converters for 1934-36 Japan, Korea and Taiwan by matching prices of more than 50 types of goods and services with consumption weights derived from household expenditure ...
Fukao, Kyoji, Ma, Debin, Yuan, Tangjun
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What is social science if not critical?

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
wiley   +1 more source

Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
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

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
wiley   +1 more source

The Hour that Never Comes and the Time that Remains

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay proposes a symbolic and clinical investigation of psychic temporality through two archetypal experiences of time: the hour that never comes and the time that remains. Drawing on analytical psychology, trauma theory and aesthetic philosophy, text explores how certain forms of suffering resist chronological resolution and persist as ...
Daniel Françoli Yago
wiley   +1 more source

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