Results 41 to 50 of about 405 (151)

The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
wiley   +1 more source

Enlightened False Consciousness: Why Climate Consciousness Is Not Followed by Action

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article discusses enlightened false consciousness by focusing on the denial of the climate crisis. It approaches this idea by first emphasizing the role of emotions in connection with actions, arguing that a classical rationalist perspective falls short of grasping this. The article is divided into four parts.
Bülent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen
wiley   +1 more source

Desired and Feared Identities and Their Role in Occupational Identity Regulation

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper extends theory by showing how occupational identity regulation operates jointly through both desired and feared identities which, in combination, enforce normative control. Taking a narrative identity perspective and drawing on an ethnographic and interview‐based study of veterinarians, we make three principal contributions to our ...
Sarah Page‐Jones, Andrew D. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying and Mapping Industrial Districts Through a Spatially Constrained Cluster‐Wise Regression Approach

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 403-428, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to exploit an innovative spatial econometric approach to map and study the evolving patterns of industrial districts (IDs). The procedure can be classified as a k‐means cluster‐wise regression procedure and is designed to detect homogeneous areas of subcontracting activity.
Jacopo Canello   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drug use: limits and possibilities of the instructions Communitarian Health Agents give to families

open access: yesO Mundo da Saúde, 2013
The present study aims to know the limits and possibilities on the instructions given by Community Health Agents – ACS on the use of drugs by families assisted by the Family Health Strategy – ESF. This is a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory and field work.
Greice Peplau Kauling   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Why Do Voters Vote for ‘the Other Side’? Instrumental and Expressive Motives for Cross‐Ethnolinguistic Voting in Brussels

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

RE-CONCEPTUALISING A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT IN POST-COLONIAL NIGERIA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social and Educational Innovation
In post-colonial Nigeria, civil society actors occupy a paradoxical space. Hailed as agents of democratization, due to their involvement in the fight in the nation's pursuit of democracy, socio-economic development, and human rights campaigns pre and ...
Oluwole Kazeem SANNI   +1 more
doaj  

The Pictures and the Frame: Banknote Iconography and Bottom‐Up Nationalism in Pre‐ and Post‐Revolutionary Tunisia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
wiley   +1 more source

Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy