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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Professional stigmatizations. [PDF]

CMAJ
Neilson S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite rising socioeconomic inequalities most people see individualised merit as crucial for social success. Drawing on surveys such as the ISSP a wealth of research examines trends in subjective perceptions, the relative importance accorded to merit and non‐merit factors for getting ahead in life and factors which influence lay perceptions ...
Sarah Irwin
wiley   +1 more source

A balancing act: Navigating the advantages and challenges of pioneering mycetoma treatment in Sudan-A landmark trial by the Mycetoma Research Center. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis
Fahal AH, Ahmed ES, Saeed AA, Fahal LA, Hussein SME, Nakano K, Hata K, Alves F, Nyaoke BA.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Killing and letting die: consequence responsibility in guidance control. [PDF]

Theor Med Bioeth
Zhao M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Is There a ‘Cancel Culture’, and if so, for Whom? Rank‐Based Differences in Restrictions on Academic Freedom

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the relationship between academic career ranks and restrictions on academic freedom. Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full‐time academics at German higher education institutions, we examine how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research.
Julian Hamann, Gregor Fabian, Christiane Thompson, Paula‐Irene Villa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The biopsychosocial materno-semiotics framework: A holistic analytical tool for film studies. [PDF]

MethodsX
Priyadharshini J, Karthiga RKJ.
europepmc   +1 more source