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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In South Africa, citizens in both low‐ and high‐income areas are increasingly providing their own services to mitigate the unreliability, unaffordability and inaccessibility of state services. This article examines diverse case studies across socio‐economic and residential typologies to explore shifts in service provision responsibilities from
Fiona Anciano +3 more
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Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities [PDF]
, 2006 This article is a contribution to a symposium that focuses on the ideas of Margaret Jane Radin as a point of departure, and particularly on her analyses of propertization and commodification.
Madison, Michael J, Taylor, George H
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we apply Wacquant's conceptualization of the ghetto to an analysis of interviews conducted with Roma people living in the state‐enforced camps of Turin, Italy. We illustrate how the elements characterizing a ghetto according to Wacquant (i.e.
Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
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Cogent Business & ManagementThis research examines the influence of perceived greenwashing on employee non-green behavior, highlighting the key mediating roles of both prevention-focused green crafting and work alienation.
Ibrahim A. Elshaer +3 more
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RIGHT TO THE CAMPSITE: How Dutch Caravan Dwellers Continue their Struggle for Inclusion
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past decade, a growing housing and urban studies literature has engaged with the Lefebvrian concept of the ‘right to the city’. Central to this are rights, laws and grassroots demands. Emerging literature has also focused on the practical side of the right to the city as a set of actions to undo exclusion and dispossession.
Dominic Teodorescu
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A Study of Job Satisfaction in Relation to Participation and Alienation
جامعه شناسی کاربردی, 2013 Introduction With increasing social activities of organizations and their role in development of societies, the studies about organization function are expanded in behavioral and social sciences.
Hossein Afrasiab +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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A Needs-Based Partial Theory of Human Injustice: Oppression, Dehumanization, Exploitation, and Systematic Inequality in Opportunities to Address Human Needs [PDF]
, 2019 The article presents an original needs-based partial theory of human injustice and shows its relationship to existing theories of human need and human liberation.
Dover, Michael Alan
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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