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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

Family Work Among the Astors

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy?

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent research has underlined the growing importance of sustainability in HRM policy and practice, taking into account long‐term multi‐stakeholder goals. However, few studies have specified the drivers and outcomes of sustainable HRM practices, nor the contradictions that arise when managers attempt to satisfy the demands of both internal and
Mathew Johnson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonising “Modern Slavery”

open access: yes
Book Review Essay. Siobhán McGrath (Clark University) and Ayushman Bhagat (Brunel University of London) on Kamala Kempadoo and Elena Shih’s White Supremacy, Racism, and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking, Lyndsey P. Beutin’s Trafficking in Antiblackness: Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice, and Elena Shih’s Manufacturing Freedom ...
McGrath, S, Bhagat, A
openaire   +1 more source

Climate change, modern slavery, and its impact on health - A youth perspective and global call to action. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Clim Chang Health
Srihari G   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source

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