CONTESTED METABOLIC NODES: Shareholding Cooperatives and Planetary Ruralization in China
Abstract China's recent shareholding cooperative (SC) reform heralds a shift from expropriation‐led rural change to a post‐expropriation regime in which the countryside is reconstituted through circulation, capitalization, and new forms of collective governance. Existing interpretations, whether framed as market‐driven de‐collectivization, state‐led re‐
Yong Zhang
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Work as a crime, a resource and a relationship: the confiscation of wages as proceeds of crime. [PDF]
Niezna M.
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ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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The market for human smuggling: Structure, mechanisms, and paradoxes. [PDF]
Campana P.
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Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico [PDF]
International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed lower the costs for
Hillel Rapoport, David Mckenzie
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Illegal markets: An important domain for applied science. [PDF]
Caulkins JP, Kilmer B, Reuter P.
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
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Attitudes, perceived knowledge, and experiences regarding condom use, STIs, transactional sex, and healthcare utilization among young male forced migrants in Stockholm, Sweden: a qualitative study. [PDF]
Tewelde McDonald J +4 more
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Collateral labor: Male partner reentry and women's economic lives
Abstract Reentry scholarship frequently assumes that a partner's return stabilizes households and eases the burdens women absorbed during incarceration, yet the economic consequences of reentry for female partners remain empirically understudied. We conceptualize reentry as an economic reconfiguration that may operate as reprieve, disruption, or both ...
Holly Nguyen +2 more
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