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The hedgerow: industrial farming's "useful idiot"?: The contributions and limitations of radical criticism in sociological analysis. [PDF]

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud, 2023
Magnin L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Towards a Consultative Union? Unpacking Parliamentary Stances on Citizen Participation in EU Policy‐Making

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent developments within the European Union (EU) reveal a notable ‘citizen turn’ marked by initiatives aimed at enhancing citizen engagement with EU institutions through deliberative mechanisms. Whilst existing scholarship has extensively examined political elites' perceptions of these participatory tools at the national level, the policy ...
Karolina Borońska‐Hryniewiecka, Jan Kotýnek Krotký   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation newspeak

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Vincent Devictor, Laurent Godet
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric Regulatory Embeddedness and Post‐Brexit Governance: Explaining Adaptive Convergence in the United Kingdom

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Why has the United Kingdom repeatedly restored substantive compatibility with European Union (EU) regulatory norms despite formal withdrawal? This article introduces the concept of asymmetric regulatory embeddedness (ARE) to explain post‐membership governance in highly integrated sectors. ARE captures the structural condition in which a former
George Asiamah
wiley   +1 more source

Protecting While Promoting? The Limits of Agroindustry‐Driven Pesticide Safety in Ugandan Smallholder Agriculture

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pesticide use is expanding rapidly across sub‐Saharan Africa, while regulatory oversight and public protection structures remain weak, leaving smallholder farmers exposed to mounting health and environmental risks. In response, agrochemical industry actors have launched ‘safe use’ initiatives that emphasize training and personal protective ...
Elina Andersson, Ellinor Isgren, Aggrey Atuhaire   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local Solutions to Structural Issues: The Fetishization of Custom in Rural Development Interventions in Côte d'Ivoire

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the paradox of seeking local solutions in rural development when conflicts result from structural transformations of the agrarian economy driven by national political choices. Since the 1990s, participatory approaches inspired by neo‐institutionalist theories of local governance have encouraged development actors to view ...
Toni‐Giovanni Pegurri
wiley   +1 more source

How Violence Shapes Place: The Rise of Neo‐Authoritarianism in the Global Value Chain and the Emergence of an ‘Infernal Place’ in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
wiley   +1 more source

Technocratic economic governance and the politics of UK fiscal rules. [PDF]

Br Politics, 2023
Clift B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Five Epistemic Arguments for Workplace Democracy Over Workplace Republicanism

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in the debate between workplace democracy and workplace republicanism by examining their relative capacities to protect workers' epistemic agency and epistemic capacities, an angle that remains underexplored in the workplace justice literature.
Chi Kwok
wiley   +1 more source

Depoliticised urban commons

This chapter explores the ongoing depoliticisation of housing “politics” in Romania’s impoverished neighbourhoods. Provision of housing in Romania has been understood as a privatised matter, whilst the lack of access to it prompts (racialised) accusations of personal failure.
openaire   +2 more sources