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The german Regiogeld system and its handling in everyday life [PDF]
, 2011 This paper introduces a special form of a community currency, the German Regiogeld System. Firstly it describes what it is, its origin and current status.
Thiel, Christian
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-47, February 2026.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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In Defence of Epistemic Relativism: The Concept of Truth in Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money [PDF]
, 2015 As one of the first modern philosophers, Georg Simmel systematically developed a “relativistic world view” (Simmel 2004, VI). In this paper I attempt to examine Simmel’s relativistic answer to the question of truth.
Steizinger, Johannes
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Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City
Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off‐grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the broader US economic system, Slab City residents have developed alternative forms of exchange, using cigarettes and cannabis alongside US dollars.
Bailey C. Hauswurz
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Architects of time: Labouring on digital futures [PDF]
, 2013 Drawing on critical analyses of the internet inspired by Gilles Deleuze and the Marxist autonomia movement, this paper suggests a way of understanding the impact of the internet and digital culture on identity and social forms through a consideration of ...
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THE POWER OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: What Does it Mean to do Critical Urban Scholarship from the South?
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 265-270, January 2026.Abstract In this essay I reflect upon the challenges of conducting critical urban research from the global South, where profound inequalities and limited resources shape our work and where, at the same time, academics are often called upon for help by communities, social movements and governments alike.
María José Álvarez‐Rivadulla
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A vida e as formas da sociologia de Simmel
Tempo Social, 2014 O artigo propõe apreender e analisar o programa sociológico do pensador alemão Georg Simmel (1858-1918), considerado um dos fundadores da sociologia. A análise é orientada por uma leitura atenta das principais analogias de método de que Simmel se serviu ...
Lenin Bicudo Bárbara
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EtnoAntropologia, 2023 In the context of the pandemic, the absence of a concert serves as a heuristic tool to see what migrant musicians of the orchestra Orpheus XXI (Jordi Savall) in France and Germany do during this time.
Alicia Vogt
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Moral Money – The action guiding Impact of Complementary Currencies [PDF]
, 2012 This paper investigates a special form of a community currency, the German Regiogeld System, which is a private monetary system with a regional validity and a non-profit-agenda.
Thiel, Christian
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1079-1097, December 2025.Liberal public reason seeks to provide a neutral platform for political engagement. Yet, its conditions, notably the rules of engagement and the demand for consensus, effectively exclude many populations with non‐liberal subjectivities from public participation.
Erica Weiss
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