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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The 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

Play on Twitter During Health Crisis in Non-Democratic Context: Gratification or Dissent?

Social Media + Society
There is scholarly debate on whether digital political participation influence decision-making or merely make citizens feel good. Using digital public sphere theory and play, this article explores political participation on Twitter during the COVID-19 ...
Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe
doaj   +1 more source

Playing the Game: Illusio and the Cultural Normalisation of Shadow Education in Greece and Beyond

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling systems, yet dominant explanations continue to emphasise access, market expansion, and examination pressure. This article advances a sociological account of how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational ...
Alexandros Kamplitsis
wiley   +1 more source

Internet blackouts and digital authoritarianism: Dissolving and reclaiming protest time and space

Dialogues on Digital Society
Drawing on qualitative research on internet shutdown during Bangladesh's July uprising, this paper introduces orchestrated digital dissolution—a form of digital authoritarianism that suppresses dissent by strategically withdrawing infrastructures. A layered shutdown dismantled the communicative terrain of protest (infrastructural subtraction) and ...
openaire   +1 more source

Is There a ‘Cancel Culture’, and if so, for Whom? Rank‐Based Differences in Restrictions on Academic Freedom

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the relationship between academic career ranks and restrictions on academic freedom. Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full‐time academics at German higher education institutions, we examine how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research.
Julian Hamann, Gregor Fabian, Christiane Thompson, Paula‐Irene Villa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing Public Attitudes Toward the Employment of Formerly Incarcerated People: The Role of “Human Resources Social Advocacy”

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This registered report aims to evaluate the extent to which the human resources function can change public attitudes toward a controversial social issue. Focusing on the employment of formerly incarcerated people, we explore the novel concept of “human resources social advocacy” (HRSA), an interventionist approach through which HR might pro ...
Prue Burns, Marco De Sisto, Andrew Timming, Jun Gu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution of Authoritarianism and Contentious Action in Russia

This Element examines the evolution of authoritarianism in Russia from 2011 to 2023, focusing on its impact on contentious action. It argues that the primary determinant of contention, at both federal and regional levels, is authoritarian innovation ...
Mamaev, Bogdan
core   +1 more source

The Rise of Sophisticated Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia

, 2020
This Element offers a way to understand the evolution of authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia. The theoretical framework is based on a set of indicators (judged for their known advantages and mimicry of democratic attributes) as well as a typology ...
Morgenbesser, Lee
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