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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris +2 more
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals
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
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Sino-noir of Serial Killers and Dismemberments
In a Chinese society with low crime rates, why do TV series savor the genre of Sino-noir of serial killers and dismemberments? Ritualized bloodletting during nightly bingeing signals a psychological displacement from one’s terminal condition, cowering ...
Sheng-mei Ma
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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
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Mao's Cultural War: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution Revisited. [PDF]
Wu Y.
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FROM THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT, TO THE MARKET DICTATORSHIP? CRISIS AND CAPITALISM
El mercado no es propio del capitalismo, los intercambios entre ofertantes y demandantes existen mucho antes de que este sistema económico se asentara. Sin embargo, el capitalismo ha requerido ampliar y expandir el mercado a escala global para consolidar su proceso de acumulación, sin que ello implique la desaparición del estado, pues en realidad ...
Rea Becerra, Rutilo Tomás +1 more
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ABSTRACT This piece examines the systematic erosion of academic freedom and the institutionalized censorship and repression of academics in Iran following the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, where universities have been reshaped into extensions of the security state through ideological vetting, pervasive surveillance, and the purging of dissenting ...
Arash Beidollahkhani
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