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Community organizing during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How should we act when it comes to minority communities?

American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 71, Issue 3-4, Page 423-436, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Minority communities have borne a disproportionate burden of adverse health outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Notwithstanding, there is a lack of empirical evidence regarding efforts to reduce health inequalities through community organizing.
Hani Nouman
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Populist Citizens in four European Countries: Widespread Dissatisfaction goes with Contradictory but Pro‐democratic Regime Preferences

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 246-257, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Are populist citizens a threat to democracy? Some philosophers view populism and democracy as irreconcilable conceptions of governing. Another line of thought describes populism as useful democratic corrective. Drawing on nationally representative surveys from four European countries, this study investigates how European populist citizens ...
Alexander Wuttke, Christian Schimpf, Harald Schoen   +2 more
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Routine failure in Macedonia: a critique of the Global Financial Crisis from the periphery

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue S1, Page 79-94, April 2023., 2023
Abstract In most Western analyses, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) constituted a systemic failure that spread across the entire capitalist system from the United States. That was not, however, the discourse that circulated in (and about) Macedonia – a peripheral country that had been mired in economic disasters since its transition from socialism ...
Fabio Mattioli
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The Making(s) of an Alternative Urban Policy: What Happens When Free Fares Come to Town?

Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 180-199, January 2023., 2023
Abstract While many urban policies and practices claim to offer an “alternative” to the “mainstream” of urban entrepreneurialism, they remain under‐theorised and prone to alignment with entrepreneurial agendas. In this paper I examine fare‐free public transport (FFPT) as a salient example of an alternative urban policy.
Wojciech Kębłowski
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Linguistic Tensions in a Professional Accounting Field: English Linguistic Capital, Hierarchy, Prestige, and Distinction Among Accountants†

Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 1120-1149, Summer 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT This study examines the processes by which English linguistic capital is legitimized as integral to professional accountants' distinction, prestige, and status in Jordan. Drawing on 27 interviews, the study reveals the dynamic and mutual interdependency of social hierarchies and Jordanian accountants' agency in embedding the English language ...
Dina Aburous, Rania Kamla
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La sélectivité spatiale de l’élite politique locale: Une analyse exploratoire du lieu de résidence des élus communaux de Zurich et Lausanne (1980‐2016)

Swiss Political Science Review, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 81-104, March 2022., 2022
Abstract This article studies the spatial dimension of the social selection of local elected officials that takes shape through the geographical selectivity of the elected officials’ places of residence. Based on data on the places of residence of local elected officials in Zurich and Lausanne (1980‐2016), we show that the residential dispersion of ...
Roberto Di Capua
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Respectable conviviality: Orthodox Christianity as a solution to value conflicts in southern Ethiopia

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 780-797, December 2021., 2021
Abstract This article explains the recent emergence of Orthodox Christianity in a majoritarian Evangelical Protestant community in southern Ethiopia. Examining conversion motives and forms of religious engagement, I show that Orthodoxy is attractive to erstwhile followers of traditional practice because it affords them the solution to a value conflict.
Julian Sommerschuh
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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