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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of "Hot Politics". [PDF]

Br J Sociol
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Westheuser L, Lux T, Mau S.
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The Body in Extremist White Supremacism. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
ABSTRACT This article advances the study of racial extremism by analyzing how its practices of violence and sexuality are marked on the bodies of participants in the form of scars, physical stances, abuse, tattoos, pregnancy, injury, strength and size, using an extraordinarily rich and extensive set of narratives collected from lengthy in‐person ...
Latif M, Blee K, DeMichele M, Simi P.
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Securonormatividad. La sociabilidad urbana vista a través de las prácticas de la vigilancia cotidiana

Urvio, 2016
En ciudades con diversas fuentes de inseguridad y miedo se han establecido múltiples reglas informales destinadas a la protección y la vigilancia. Se trata de regulaciones que configuran prácticas espaciales cotidianas, posturas corporales, expresiones ...
Luis Berneth Peña Reyes
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From the "Anamnesis of the Visible" to "Cartographic Anamnesis"

Technophany
The starting point of the article is that cartography can be used as an epistemological and relational device to visualize and rethink relations between human beings and the world in the contemporary era.
Anna De Martino
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Defender la capital: el aseguramiento de espacio de dependencia de Bogotá durante el gobierno de Uribe Vélez

Cuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía, 2016
Con el desarrollo de enormes operaciones militares durante los gobiernos de Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), destinadas a expulsar a las organizaciones guerrilleras de las áreas metropolitanas, se puso de presente que la defensa y securización de los espacios ...
Luis Berneth Peña
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Estilos de vida e individualidade

Horizontes Antropológicos, 2010
Este artigo apresenta e discute a questão dos estilos e modos de vida na contemporaneidade. Tem como ponto de partida o conceito de liberdade individual na relação entre a cultura subjetiva e a cultura objetiva de Georg Simmel, para pensar os processos ...
Mauro Guilherme Pinheiro Koury
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Equal before time: on the sensory suspension of accumulated time in Sichuan, China Égaux devant le temps : suspension sensorielle du temps accumulé au Sichuan (Chine)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Histoire d'une rencontre manquée. Walter Benjamin et le Collège de sociologie [PDF]

Synergies Pays Germanophones, 2017
Les liens qui unirent Walter Benjamin aux membres du Collège de Sociologie, le collectif créé en 1937 et auquel participèrent entre autres Georges Bataille et Roger Caillois, restent aujourd’hui encore très peu connus.
Veronica Ciantelli
doaj  

Facilitating Marketization à contrecœur: Why Stakeholders May Continue to Support Organizations that Introduce Market Practices Violating their Values

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Research on institutional logics provides ample evidence that market logic and its associated practices have spread across fields within capitalist societies – a phenomenon commonly called ‘marketization’. However, logics research has paid little attention to the individual‐level mental processes that facilitate marketization.
Moritz Gruban, Aurélien Feix
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