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Late-Stage Capitalism and the Canadian Polycrisis in Living and Working Conditions: Implications for Health and Means of Responding. [PDF]

Int J Soc Determinants Health Health Serv
Amin R, Raphael D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
wiley   +1 more source

Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance. [PDF]

Environ Plan A
Hilbrandt H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Territory, values, and health law in a devolved United Kingdom: examining the role of the gift in opt‐out organ donation

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Devolution since 1998 has seen administrations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales gain distinct powers over a range of policy fields, with health prominent among them. This poses two pressing questions for socio‐legal scholarship that we address in this article: to what extent are changing territorial arrangements significant ...
MATTHEW WATKINS, JOHN HARRINGTON, RUBY REED‐BERENDT, ANNE‐MAREE FARRELL   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Public inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense‐making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the truth of the fire in which seventy‐two people died. This article interrogates the truth‐seeking and truth‐producing practices of the Inquiry.
JAMIE M. JOHNSON, VICTORIA M. BASHAM, OWEN D. THOMAS   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vaccination systems under pressure: what the UK COVID-19 Inquiry teaches us about preparedness. [PDF]

J R Soc Med
Kasstan-Dabush B, Parker EP, Bell S, Abdi R, Bedford H, Chantler T.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The housing crisis goes to law

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper considers how constructions of a ‘housing crisis’ have impacted on judicial consideration of the rights of applicants for social housing and homelessness assistance. Drawing on Bacchi's framework for appreciating problematisations (What's the problem represented to be?) and understandings of housing crisis, we examine how crisis is ...
DAVE COWAN, ALEX MARSH
wiley   +1 more source

Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The fluoridation of public water supplies to improve dental health is often cited as an example of an ‘intractable controversy’ in public health, reflecting deeply held principles about rights and the public sphere. This article examines legal mobilization to prevent fluoridation in Britain, from the first pilot studies in the mid‐1950s ...
JANET WESTON
wiley   +1 more source

Left behind places, neoliberalism and systemic violence in the UK. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Telford L.
europepmc   +1 more source

“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
wiley   +1 more source