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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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The social life of money for children
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Sinophobia in the Post-Soviet Space
Russia in Global Affairs, 2020 Yuri V. Kulintsev +3 more
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Soviet Space Archive: Configuration II
Soviet Space Archive: Configuration II, a muliti-modal exhibition curated by Ella McCartney and Rory McCartney comprised of archive material including photography and ephemera dedicated to key moments surrounding Soviet space exploration between 1957 ...
McCartney, Ella
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Color Revolutions: Export of the Post-Soviet Space
Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017 The new phenomenon of the beginning of XXI century in the political transformations became the «color revolutions» that have a significant force in the fight against the enemy and geopolitical engendered under the pretext of spreading the ideas of ...
O. E. Grishin, E. M. Samsonova
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Exploring hidden narratives: Conscript graffiti at the former military base of Kummersdorf
, 2013 This article explores the cultural significance and interpretative potential of graffiti left by Soviet conscripts at Kummersdorf, a former military base in the German federal state of Brandenburg.
Merrill, Samuel, +3 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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Different paths of the second transition in the post-Soviet world: a political-economic analysis
The first generation of economic reforms in the post-Soviet countries mostly resulted in formation of sustainable inefficient institutional equilibria, what may be described as the transition from “plan” to “clan”.
Libman, Alexander
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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