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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Of Numbers and Frogs: Wending One's Way through the Mind Fields of Symbolic Interaction Identity
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Gary T. Marx
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
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L’umorismo nero di Alberto Savinio [PDF]
, 2016 The black humour – privileged by surrealists for its capacity to bring to the surface those psychic contents regarded as taboo, especially those related to death, disease, violence and sexuality (it was Breton himself who coined the expression humour ...
Bulumete, Miruna
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Advertising and the Organizational Production of Humour [PDF]
, 2014 This chapter discusses humour as it is deliberately produced by organizations through advertising. Using beer advertisements as an example, our aim is to explain the increasing prevalence of advertising-based organizational humour during the period that ...
O'Sullivan, Don, Kavanagh, Donncha
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The Electoral Class Gap: Working‐Class Non‐Voting on the Rise in Twenty‐First Century Norway
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing working‐class disengagement from politics witnessed in Western democracies in recent decades poses a serious threat to democratic legitimacy. Crucial in meeting this challenge is scrutinising arenas that connect disadvantaged groups of the electorate to politics.
Vebjørn Nordhagen
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Research on how delinquent peer associations affect individuals’ life courses is limited. This paper addresses this gap by examining delinquent peer network characteristics and their impact on offending trajectories through social network analysis (SNA) and group‐based trajectory modeling (GBTM).
Daniel Trovato
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Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
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Now You See Them, Now You Don't: Understanding New Hire Ghosting and Its Antecedents
Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New hire ghosting, in which applicants accept an offer and then quit before their first day without notice, is an emerging and consequential staffing phenomenon. Drawing on job embeddedness theory, we conceptualize new hire ghosting as a form of pre‐entry withdrawal influenced by dispositional risk and the fragile fit, links, and sacrifice ...
Andrew B. Speer +4 more
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