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Fleshing out Law: Embodied Encounters and the Material Geographies of Legal Space

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract This article explores how legality is produced, negotiated and contested through embodied encounters in urban courtrooms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts, it develops the modalities of appearing, suspending and filtering to analyse how bodies are made to perform, endure and navigate legal processes.
Sarah Klosterkamp
wiley   +1 more source

Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 271-281, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

What they have and what they do: social security and regulatory accountability

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 315-334, June 2026.
Abstract Social security claimants in the United Kingdom are drawn into a climate of accountability. The blend of law and administration means that they can be required to explain actions and expose choices to judgement. Claimants can be held accountable for ensuring not only that their possession‐ and labour‐based resources are factored into claim ...
GARY LYNCH‐WOOD, DAVID P. HORTON
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive Curation: Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and Lesbian Motherhood‐Making

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 629-642, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This paper introduces reproductive curation, the deliberate coordination of reproductive arrangements, as a theoretical framework for examining how legal, institutional, and interpersonal factors interact with technology in shaping reproductive decision‐making, based on interviews with 32 lesbian mothers and mothers‐to‐be in China ...
Xiaomin Cai, Susanne Y. P. Choi
wiley   +1 more source

Single Parenthood and the Poverty Debate: How Pathways and Policies Explain Cross‐National Differences

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 743-759, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aims to reveal the heterogeneity of single parents by focusing on the variation in poverty risks across countries and across pathways into single parenthood. It also adjudicates between two contrasting explanations for cross‐national variation in single parent poverty. Background Single parenthood's strong association with
Roxana‐Diana Burciu
wiley   +1 more source

‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1837-1873, June 2026.
Abstract Existing scholarship documents how, in becoming a professional, such as a partner in a professional services firm (PSF), one's habitus comes into alignment with field expectations. Less understood, however, is what happens to habitus and, relatedly, to professionals' accumulated cultural, social, and economic capitals, as individuals ‘unbecome’
Ricardo Azambuja   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Multidimensional Poverty in the European Union: Insights From SDG 1 and the Benefit of the Doubt Approach

open access: yesThe Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 3, Page 296-308, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The eradication of poverty remains one of the greatest economic challenges of the 21st century, particularly in light of transformations in labour markets, demographic shifts, and recent crises such as the COVID‐19 pandemic. Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1) acknowledges the need for broader approaches to measuring and addressing poverty,
Fernando Henrique Taques   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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