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Law as a technology of exclusion: the legal construction of racialized and gendered work relations through the case study of international labour law in the first half of the twentieth century

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the role of labour law in processes of racialization and gendering of work. It argues that labour law not only protects certain forms of work (law as a protective mechanism), but also systematically excludes other forms of work, especially those performed by racialized and gendered individuals (law as a technology of ...
JULIETA LOBATO
wiley   +1 more source

La comprensión europea del mundo: Eurocentrismo y ciencia ibérica en el Atlántico del siglo XVI

open access: yesL'Atelier du CRH, 2017
This article deals with the history of scientific practices in the 16th century Iberian Atlantic and explains the relation of such practices with the emergence of a Eurocentric world order.
Mauricio Nieto
doaj   +1 more source

Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Expertise stemming from the psy disciplines is increasingly and explicitly shaping international development policy and practice. Whilst some policy makers see the use of psy expertise as a new way to reduce poverty, increase economic efficiency, and ...
Klein, E., Mills, C.
core   +2 more sources

Whose Nation Is It Anyway? Towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Studies of Nationalism and Nation‐Building in Kazakhstan

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on nationalism and nation‐building in Kazakhstan has been dominated by a social constructivist approach that privileges the civic–ethnic dichotomy. Even when critiques of this binary have emerged, they have often substituted proxy categories that reproduce the same dualism.
Rico Isaacs
wiley   +1 more source

Eurocentrism

open access: yes, 2012
This chapter concentrates on the use (and sometimes abuse) of the concept of Eurocentrism in the discipline of translation studies. It relates it to other types of continentalizing discourse and discusses the criticisms.
openaire   +4 more sources

LIFE CHANCES AND STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY

open access: yesGlocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation
The article delves into the historical trajectory of global inequality, tracing the transition from an era of relative equality to the emergence of profound disparities following the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.
HANS-PETER MÜLLER
doaj   +1 more source

Simmering in the Corridors: An Ethnographic Novella

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The ethnographic novella “Simmering in the Corridors” blends fiction and ethnography to reflect on academic life within a Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. It addresses institutional racism, colonial legacies, and power dynamics in academia.
Mara Belacchi Livi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
wiley   +1 more source

Controversy of late industrialization: the land-based empires argument for East Central Europe

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2020
The article ponders upon the social science controversy of late industrialization and therefore modernization with concern to imperial nations between the 18th and 20th centuries in an attempt to look for the explanations of why they didn’t fit into both
Mykhaylenko Maksym Valeriyovych
doaj  

Anti-Eurocentric Eurocentrism?

open access: yesINTER- The Journal for Global Thought
This essay by guest author Ben Brent investigates the subtle ways in which Eurocentrism can be reproduced in what otherwise appear to be anti-Eurocentric, decolonial theory. Distinguishing between “shallow” and “foundational” anti-Eurocentrism, the decentering approach pursued by some anti-Eurocentric authors is analysed in juxtaposition with the ...
openaire   +1 more source

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