Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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La situation actuelle de la sociologie
Although worldwide we can account for more and more sociologists, sociology is revealing in fact to be more and more uncertain of its identity, meaning and legitimacy.
Alain Caillé
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British Labour Movement Responses to Strikes and Riots in the English-speaking West Indies 1934-1939
This project traces the reaction of the British labour movement (pressure groups; political parties; and trade unions) to the strikes, riots, and 'disturbances' in St Lucia, St Vincent, British Honduras, Trinidad, Barbados, British Guiana, St Kitts, and
Roger Seifert
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Disciplinary emotions in imperialistic interdisciplinarity [PDF]
Emotions are an important yet largely neglected aspect of scientific work. Little is known about their role in the constitution and maintenance of disciplines and disciplinary identities in spite of the earlier work of Fleck (1935) and Collins (1998). We
Mäki, Ismo Uskali +1 more
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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc +2 more
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Economic Imperialism in Education Research: A Conceptual Review. [PDF]
Jabbar H, Menashy F.
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
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English linguistic neo-imperialism in the era of globalization: A conceptual viewpoint. [PDF]
Zeng J, Ponce AR, Li Y.
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“Even the Culture Day is in English”: Teachers' Critical EMI Awareness in Hong Kong
Abstract With the massive expansion of English medium instruction (EMI) in universities, EMI is now seeking a standing in schools of non‐Anglophone countries. While the history of K–12 EMI in postcolonial settings can bear important lessons for other contexts, school‐level EMI research focuses on instructional challenges, and critical insights about ...
Seyyed‐Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
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