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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel +6 more
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Bearing the Unbearable: Double Controls and Disguised Precarity on China-Based Platforms
Social Media + SocietyThis article examines controls over platform laborers by platforms and states as well as the precarity of platform laborers. Adopting a multi-level approach, we put the spotlight on how states, platforms and laborers interact with each other when states ...
Le Lin, Grace Chun Guo
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“The Brains Are Frozen”: Precarious Subjectivities in the Humanitarian Aid Sector in Jordan
Social InclusionUnder the influence of neoliberal policies and marketisation dynamics, the humanitarian sector’s labour conditions become increasingly insecure. Based on one year of fieldwork in Amman, Jordan, and interviews with 39 aid professionals, this article ...
Brigit Ronde
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Trumpism and being in worlds that fall between worlds [PDF]
, 2017 In response to Kyle McGee’s Heathen Earth, this paper says something about the place of toxic legacies in the rise and sustenance of ‘Trumpism’. It takes an interest in rusting factories, melting ice, etc., but as assemblages that are tricky because they
Moncrieff, Lilian
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The Gerontologist, 2019 The concept of precarity holds the potential to understand insecurities and risks experienced by older people in contemporary social, cultural and economic contexts.
Phillipson, Christopher; id_orcid 0000-0001-6220-2722 +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Waste management remains a critical grand challenge in African countries. While entrepreneurship has been a viable strategy for addressing this challenge, it is fraught with constraints. This study investigates the strategies orchestrated by entrepreneurs to navigate adversity in Waste management and ensure the social and economic viability of
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong +3 more
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Comparative Migration StudiesThis article seeks to position Istanbul through the practices of everyday life of middle-class, skilled migrants from both the Global North and South and their perceptions of urban safety and precarity.
Ezgi Tuncer
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The changing effects of social protection on poverty [PDF]
, 2010 This paper fits within a broader research programme concerned with the processes that link labour market precarity and social exclusion. Labour market insecurity manifests itself most directly in the form of unemployment, and other elements in the ...
Hauser, Richard +2 more
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The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
, 2022 Since the 1990s, an increasing number of young men in Cameroon have aspired to play football as a career and a strategy to migrate abroad. Migration through the sport promises fulfillment of masculine dreams of sports stardom, as well as opportunities to earn a living that have been hollowed out by the country’s long economic stalemate.
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Supporting the Shift: Professional Development for Alternative Grading Practices
New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alternative grading (e.g., contract grading, ungrading, specifications grading) practices have emerged as a promising approach to enhance student success, improve students’ sense of belonging, and make higher education more accessible. This study explores the challenges faced by community college faculty when implementing alternative grading ...
Breana Bayraktar, J. Indigo Eriksen
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