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Managing Risk, Reinforcing Environmental Racism: The Biopolitics of Pesticide Regulation in California Agriculture

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides a retrospective on California's oversight of 1,3‐dichloropropene (1,3‐D). It utilizes archival documents, including internal memos, emails, and risk assessments, to demonstrate how the state's Department of Pesticide Regulation consistently expanded allowable 1,3‐D use while presenting each policy change as scientifically ...
Kaitlyn Alvarez Noli
wiley   +1 more source

Putinism and the End of the Taboo on Land Grabs in Russian Politics: An Insight into the Territorial Aspect of the Ideology

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Putinist ideology is not merely a project of a narrow political elite, but rather a set of ideas that hold domestic appeal. The ideologized vision of Russia fighting for its rightful place in the international arena has resonated with mass social grievances created by the fall of the USSR.
Alicja Curanović
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming ‘more like a Finn’: In‐visibility and the struggle for belonging in Finland

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Abstract Nationalist practices and visionaries have a profound influence on those who are categorized as ‘foreign’ or ‘non‐belonging’ to the nation. Based on ethnographic explorations among Russian‐speakers and people with diverse Middle Eastern backgrounds in Finland, this article revisits the concept of in‐visibility as one possible avenue to expose ...
Bruno Lefort, Vadim Romashov
wiley   +1 more source

Biopolitical Borders and the Political Economy of Migration Flows to and From Türkiye

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the biopolitical borders of Türkiye. On the one hand, Türkiye deserves attention as a destination country that received millions of Syrian asylum seekers after the outbreak of the war in Syria and hundreds of thousands of migrants from other surrounding countries since the early 2010s.
Mehmet Özyürek
wiley   +1 more source

Turkishness and Social Boundaries: Navigating Identity and Exclusion in the Social Relations Between the Local Community and Syrian Refugees in Ankara, Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the widespread impact of Turkishness, a concept ingrained since the establishment of the Republic, on political and daily interactions, and how it cultivates persistent discrimination against Syrian refugees. This study conceptualizes Turkishness not as an ideology but as a construct influenced by national identity and ...
Haci Cevik
wiley   +1 more source

Precarious agency: The role of uptake

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
wiley   +1 more source

Nietzsche as Optimistic Nutritionist: Reading Ecce Homo as a Practical Guide to a Spinozistic Ethics of Self‐Preservation

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his From Bondage to Freedom, Michael LeBuffe argues that Spinoza's theory of ethics hinges on a figure that he calls the optimistic nutritionist. LeBuffe sets up the optimistic nutritionist as a thought experiment useful for illustrating how Spinoza's ethical theory can be put into practice.
Johan Dahlbeck
wiley   +1 more source

On Not Becoming a Woman

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Beauvoir's argument “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient” supports the possibilities outlined in The Second Sex of no longer becoming a woman. Of deepening, for oneself, a form of singularity that escapes patriarchal gendered polarisation.
Mickaëlle Provost
wiley   +1 more source

Henri Lefebvre and the spatial revolution that never ends: Towards the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography?

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract It is widely accepted that Henri Lefebvre's Marxism had anarchistic traits, but few have tried to specify what these traits are, or what they mean. This paper argues that Lefebvre's work should be seen as first and foremost an anti‐authoritarian theory that uses space, rather than a spatial theory.
Hamish Kallin
wiley   +1 more source

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