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Fleshing out Law: Embodied Encounters and the Material Geographies of Legal Space
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
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What determines investment in the Nippon Individual Savings Account? an investigation of Japan's tax-exempt investment account. [PDF]
Katauke T, Khan MSR, Kadoya Y.
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Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms
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
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What they have and what they do: social security and regulatory accountability
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
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Reproductive Curation: Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and Lesbian Motherhood‐Making
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
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The Contours of Post-COVID Sustainable Development in Azerbaijan
Eyvaz-zada E.
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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
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‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA
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
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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
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Risk prediction model of frailty and its associated factors in older adults: a cross-sectional study in Anhui Province, China. [PDF]
Qin X +6 more
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