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Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
wiley   +1 more source

“I Know I Am Not Supposed to, but I Just Want Them to Feel Cozy”: Dissonance Between the Co‐Production Myth and Persistence of the Care Paradigm in Public Service Encounters

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Co‐production, which is spreading to countless organisations, predicts that involving service users more directly in decision‐making and service provision will have beneficial outcomes. However, integrating co‐production logics into daily practices, especially in care services, presents challenges. This study examines how co‐production efforts
Nanna Møller Mortensen
wiley   +1 more source

A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
wiley   +1 more source

State Capture—Institutionalized Corruption of the South African Revenue Service

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 123-135, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study provides valuable insight for scholars, practitioners, and government officials on how a local office of a respected international consulting firm became associated with allegations of illicit influence and state capture. The article presents how political and business leaders used a government agency, the South African Revenue ...
Jennifer H. Heckel, Prescott C. Ensign
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating and Surviving States of Calm, Threat, and Attack—A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of Social Care Workers in Secure Residential Care

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Social care workers play a central role in supporting young people with early life trauma in secure residential care. While research has explored the experiences of young people in secure care and heightened emotional states common to these environments, the experiences of the social care workers themselves have received little attention. This
Alana Carmen Attard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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