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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 75-86, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
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Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between cancer and capitalism from the perspective of political economy. It argues that this perspective is crucial for producing a critical agenda in the sociological study of cancer, which has otherwise and traditionally neglected the question of capital as social totality.
Faisal Al‐Asaad
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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Masters and Slaves in Empty Spain: A Philosophical–Political Reading of Rural Depopulation

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural depopulation in Spain reveals not only demographic decline but also the persistence of unequal power structures. Drawing on the classical elite theories of Pareto, Mosca, and Michels, alongside Hegel's master–slave dialectic, this article offers a socio‐philosophical and political interpretation of the phenomenon.
Leandro Sebastián Fervier   +1 more
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