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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

PUTTING SOCIAL FINANCE IN PLACE: Geographies and Strategies of Philanthropic Impact Investment in Housing

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the rise of impact investment in social housing in an age of entrenched financialization and enduring public underinvestment through the case of philanthropic investors in Southern Ontario, Canada. Social finance scholarship has highlighted tensions between financial and social returns, while overlooking the role of place
Yinnon Geva, Matti Siemiatycki
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the social networks of key actors in the development of health technology assessment in Iran. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Prev Med Hyg
Behzadifar M   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

open access: yesThe 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

Theorising Indo‐Caribbean Identities Beyond the Homeland/Hostland Binary: Indo‐Guadeloupeans’ ‘Archipelagic Brown Consciousness’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
wiley   +1 more source

Parenting as Civic Action: A Relational Framework for Citizenship

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, we propose an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts. Foregrounding the intersubjective and intergenerational nature of state–citizen relations, the framework expands existing theories ...
Lauren Erdreich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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