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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contemporary cities in the global South are being reshaped through the intersecting logics of burgeoning real estate sectors and diasporic investment. This article examines the case of Pakistan to explore how emigration trajectories and remittance practices contribute to the transformation of urban landscapes in countries of origin through ...
Fatima Tassadiq
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What is social science if not critical?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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The production of the sacred in postcolonial Africa [PDF]
, 2006 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-185).This study seeks to discuss the persistence of religion in colonial and postcolonial narratives of confinement and exclusion.
Settler, Federico
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides the first systematic mapping of wealth elites on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), using original data on individuals linked to significant shareholding entities rather than corporate executives. Through Multiple Correspondence Analysis and cluster analysis, we identify four elite formations shaped by race, gender ...
Aroop Chatterjee, Comfort Molefinyana
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Post-Colonial Issues of Modern Russian Literature
Respectus Philologicus, 2015 The article discusses the controversial reception of the terms “colonial” and “post-colonial”, used in the modern studies of postcolonial discourse. The author provides the analysis of the works of the modern Russian literature that focus on the post ...
Eleonora Shafranskaya
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Interpreting Global Women, Peace, and Security Norms: Institutional Dynamics in the European Union
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda has spread widely across international institutions, yet it has been interpreted and operationalized in markedly different ways.
Stéfanie von Hlatky, Owen Wong
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Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures
, 2016 postcolonial. literatures. While Europe looked for utopias located in the shimmering distance the distinctive feature of postcolonial utopias was the dominance of utopianism over utopia, because while utopias provided particular models of.
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