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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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Bhangra: Mystics, music and migration [PDF]
, 2014 Bhangra: Mystics, Music and Migration explores the origins of this folk song and dance from the Panjab in South Asia and its development into part of modern British culture in the hybrid soundscape of British Bhangra and beyond.
Sahota, Hardeep Singh
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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The Political Economy of Emergency: Postcolonialism, Crisis Governance and Decolonial Alternatives
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract The political rhetoric surrounding the Horn of Africa is perpetually framed through narratives of crisis, tragedy and emergency. These labels, rather than simply being used to describe instability, function as tools of governance to normalise dysfunction and entrench cycles of dependency.
HOPE JOHNSON
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Critical Management Studies: From One‐Dimensional Critique to Three‐Dimensional Scepticism
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Critical Management Studies (CMS) has largely relied on one‐dimensional critique which focus on the negation of a dominant social order. This strong focus has made the field increasingly stale and preoccupied with standard objects for critique.
Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Humanity – the virtue enabling meaningful human connection – is vital to the leadership we need to survive our polycrisis context. As a prerequisite to sustainable human community, the virtue of humanity is considered universal. It has been claimed as a ‘higher‐order virtue’, comprised of and enacted by – but irreducible to – a suite of ‘lower‐
Toby Newstead +3 more
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Social and historical aspects of the assimilation of Christianity in Southeast Asia from 1500-1900 with reference to Thailand and the Philippines [PDF]
, 2009 Though many have attempted to address the complexities of the encounter between Christianity and non-western societies, the literature has not dealt much with Southeast Asia.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Does virtue benefit its possessor, or is it beneficial for others but not the self? We tested two highly influential theories that offer contradictory answers. In particular, we focused on three “hard cases” for the theory that virtue promotes well‐being—that is, three virtues that aren't obviously enjoyable (compassion, patience,
Michael M. Prinzing +3 more
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Shin, Cin, and Jinn in far east Asian, central east Asian, and middle eastern cultures : case studies in transethnic communication by exchange of terminology for elementary spiritual concepts of ethic groups [PDF]
, 2008 Methodology and Objects: Methodologically, from a diachronic linguistics perspective regarding the concept of the shin, spirits in folk belief in China and neighbouring cultures, we compare texts that comprise meanings a) historically in the local ...
Haase, Fee-Alexandra
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