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Two Pathways to Proletarianization: Understanding Professionals' Adaptation to the “Corporatization” of Chinese Law Firms

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how lawyers in China adapt to the “corporatization” of law firms, which limits their professional autonomy within bureaucratic structures. “Proletarianization” theory, which emerged in the 1970s, effectively explains employment relations and internal stratification within the legal profession, but it has been underestimated
Xinyi Shen
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

Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Taboo: A Qualitative Study on Pacific Male Experiences of and Attitudes to Pornography in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 1, March 2026.
Pornography use among young Pacific males in New Zealand remains an under‐explored and culturally sensitive issue. This qualitative article explores how Pacific men view and experience porn use, with a focus on how their cultural values and spiritual beliefs influence those experiences. Employing the Talanoa research method, we conducted six kava‐based
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wiley   +1 more source

The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Body, Mind, and Emotion: Multi‐Sited Labour of Social Reproduction and Gendered Experiences of Rural Migrants from the Mekong Delta

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract In the context of global market integration, capital accumulation relies on social reproduction; yet unlimited accumulation disrupts the reproductive processes that sustain it. Vietnam is pursuing economic growth in the same fashion, relying on cheap migrant labour in urban areas that are stabilising rural areas through remittances and care ...
Thuy Ho
wiley   +1 more source

Working‐in‐Commons in the Middle of Precarity: The Legacy of the Urban Commons Movement of South Korea in the 1970s

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capitalist transformation, rural migrants became the urban poor, occupying the lowest position in urban labour hierarchies.
Didi Kyoung‐ae Han, Hyun Bang Shin
wiley   +1 more source

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