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FROM SECRECY TO THE PUBLIC SPHERE: TRANSLATING CHINESE SWORN BROTHERHOOD PRACTICES FOR WESTERN AUDIENCES

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 387-395, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay reflects on how changing practices and knowledge repertoires of Chinese migrant associations in the Americas shaped translocal collective spheres in the asymmetric setting known as the Exclusion Era. In order to achieve this, we highlight certain aspects and layers of what Homi K.
Albert Manke, Fredy González
wiley   +1 more source

Means‐Tested Welfare Benefits and Subjective Well‐Being Through Time: Does Clients' Life Satisfaction Recover?

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 59, Issue 5, Page 705-716, September 2025.
ABSTRACT We study the process of subjective well‐being adaptation to receiving welfare benefits. Using 15 waves of the German Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security and fixed‐effects regression models, we find that welfare benefit receipt decreases life satisfaction. Furthermore, on average, the results speak against the hypothesis of adaptation
Anton Nivorozhkin, Markus Promberger
wiley   +1 more source

Graduate employability and the principle of potentiality: an aspect of the ethics of HRM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The recruitment of the next generation of workers is of central concern to contemporary HRM. This paper focuses on university campuses as a major site of this process, and particularly as a new domain in which HRM‟s ethical claims are configured, in ...
Amiridis, Kostas   +2 more
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CARING FOR CATS IN CAIRO: Urban Grammars of Compassion

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 991-999, July 2025.
Abstract At first sight, Cairo is a cruel and harsh city, marked by extreme inequality and offering few resources for the poor. Like other metropolises, Cairo can easily numb its residents to the suffering of others. But it is also a city in which quiet, barely noticeable acts of compassion occur every day.
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

Power and the History of Peace and Conflict Studies: Disremembering Gladdys Muir and the First Peace Studies Program

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 259-268, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines a silence in the histories of the formation of peace and conflict studies as an academic field, focusing on the elision of a female‐identified academic: Gladdys Esther Muir. Muir occasionally appears in histories as a datapoint in peace education chronologies where she is listed as the director of the first peace studies ...
Reina C. Neufeldt
wiley   +1 more source

A percepção da grande cidade na obra de Georg Heym e Mário de Andrade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The object of this paper is to attempt a comparison between the perception of the big city by an author of German expressionism, Georg Heym, and the Brazilian modernist Mario de Andrade.
Jaeckel, Volker
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Networks, Urban

open access: yes, 2009
For much of the twentieth century, urban networks was a term used by sociologists and others to describe social networks, their importance for bonding within communities and bridging between communities, and their relationship to the geographical ...
Amin   +16 more
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How can economic sociology help business relationship management? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Purpose – By analyzing organizations as social actors and business relationships as social relationships, sociology can improve business relationship management. This paper aims to explore the issues involved.
Mike Rich   +2 more
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THE DANGERS OF FIGHTING TERRORISM WITH TECHNOCOMMUNITARIANISM: CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS OF FREE EXPRESSION, EXPLORATION, AND UNMONITORED ACTIVITY IN URBAN SPACES [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Part I of this article examines how some commentators can plausibly argue that constitutional liberty and privacy protections do not protect the individual liberty and privacy that modern individuals have come to expect in many public spaces ...
Blitz, Marc Jonathan
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