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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

The English model of creativity : cultural politics of an idea [PDF]

, 2010
The paper presents a socio-political analysis of New Labour’s rhetorical uses of the idea and values of creativity to shape cultural policy in England.
Choe, Boyun, Neelands, Jonothan
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million, Jeremy York, Sara Lafia, Libby Hemphill   +3 more
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Bourdieu e a nova sociologia econômica Pierre Bourdieu's contribution to the new economic sociology

Tempo Social, 2007
Este artigo objetiva analisar a sociologia do mercado de Pierre Bourdieu, a fim de avaliar os alcances e os limites do pensamento de um dos autores mais representativos da Nova Sociologia Econômica francesa Com base na leitura crítica de alguns textos ...
Cécile Raud
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The sociological contributions of Youzhakov /Transl. by K.K.Oganyan [PDF]

Социологический журнал, 2014
The article examines the sociological contribution of S.N. Yuzhakov in the sociology of his country presented in: Hecker J.F. Russian sociology. A contribution to the history of sociological thought and theory. New York, 1915 (p. 156–172).
Ju. Hecker
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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
wiley   +1 more source

New economic sociology and new institutional economics [PDF]

: This paper deals with similarities and differences between new economic sociology (NES) and new institu-tional economics (NIE). We start with brief reports on the basic ideas of NES and NIE.
Richter, Rudolf
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