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From the manager's point of view: work intensification, posthuman ethnography, and healthcare in England Du point de vue des managers : intensification du travail, ethnographie post‐humaine et soins de santé en Angleterre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a hospital in Greater Manchester, England in 2016–17, we describe how a set of national health priorities were translated into work for hospital managers and clinicians during a period of significant organizational pressure.
Adam Brisley, Simon Bailey, Thomas Blakeman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Black Praxis: The Trace of Jamesian Pragmatism in DuBoisian Scholar Activism

, 2016
Philosophy and activism formed a mutualist relationship in regards to 20th-century Black American politics. Emancipatory theories undergirded the civil disobedience and reformist action of the entire century. W.E.B.
Clarke, Jerome D.
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Beyond foreign language writing instruction: The need for literacy pedagogy [PDF]

, 2011
The situation we have found ourselves in after 1989 has all the signs of a literacy crisis. As academic teachers, we find the academic literacy skills of many our students below our expectations. Yet, we must not exclude such students, but admit them and
Zalewski, Jan
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Coming of age in‐ and out‐of‐place: frictions of adolescent mobility in island Southeast Asia Devenir adulte, à sa place ou non : frictions de la mobilité adolescente dans les îles d'Asie du Sud‐Est

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Through a comparison of adolescent experience in Manggarai, eastern Indonesia, and amongst children of migrants in Sabah, Malaysia, this article argues for the value of attending to the spatiality of adolescence as a period of transition. Biocultural development expands both adolescents’ concrete experiences of mobility and their sense of the ...
Catherine Allerton
wiley   +1 more source

Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
wiley   +1 more source

‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
wiley   +1 more source

Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
wiley   +1 more source

L’emprise comme expérience

Sociologies, 2015
Pragmatic sociology long considered that it had nothing to say about power games. One of its rules of method required focusing on the actors themselves when undertaking to reveal, through work on controversies and trials, the figures of power and ...
Francis Chateauraynaud
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Emerging resource flows for social entrepreneurship; theorizing social investment

, 2009
In the UK and elsewhere, a ‘market’ in social investment has been developing rapidly over the last 10-15 years, yet there has not been an academic study of the phenomenon to date.
Nicholls, Alex, Paton, Rob
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