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Tracing the Socioeconomic, the Cultural and the Political in Latin American Postcolonial Theory [PDF]
, 2013 It is far from obvious which theories are the most promising ones for the task of critically addressing interdependent inequalities in Latin America as well as global forms of inequality that affect Latin American countries. In this working paper, I look
Kerner, Ina
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Global Networks, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2024.Abstract Sociological research on cross‐border class‐making often centres on contemporary dynamics of social inequality in the context of migration and mobility. Relying on the cultural–sociological and processual understanding of 'class', the article integrates three bodies of literature to study complexities of global and transnational class‐making ...
Anna Amelina, Jana Schäfer
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Reproductive binds: The gendered economy of debt in a Syrian refugee farmworker camp
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2024.Abstract Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork at the Lebanese‐Syrian border, this article analyses the gendered economy of debt among Syrian farmworkers in shawish camps, which have for decades supplied the largest and lowest paid seasonal labour force within Lebanon's food system.
China Sajadian
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The Role of Territoriality and Coloniality [PDF]
, 2015 The concept of “enclosures” provides useful perspectives for thinking about social inequalities. In this paper, we overcome the conceptual limits posed by Polanyi’s focus on the particular history of England as the trigger of the global transformation of
Baquero-Melo, Jairo +3 more
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Contesting Housing Inequality: Housing Rights and Social Movements
The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 1, Page 52-79, January 2024.This article engages with a leading contemporary criticism of social and economic human rights, namely that because such rights are organised around sufficiency norms, they are ill‐equipped to challenge and overturn forms of material inequality. The sufficiency thesis raises issues around the nature of social rights and their capacity to deliver ...
Mark Jordan
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Refusing ‘bare life‘ – Belo Monte, the riverine population and their struggle for epistemic justice [PDF]
, 2020 Durch die Installation des Wasserkraftwerks Belo Monte im brasilianischen Amazonasgebiet wurden mehr als 40.000 Menschen vertrieben, darunter zahlreiche Flussbewohner*innen, die als solche nicht anerkannt wurden. Ihre Vertreibung führte zum Verlust ihrer
Chaves, Kena Azevedo, Weißermel, Sören
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Anthropologists in/of the neoliberal academy [PDF]
, 2016 This special Forum brings together short commentaries from anthropologists working in a variety of university settings and roles, to reflect on our immediate recent experiences with the imposition of public sector educational reforms.
Tracey Heatherington, Filippo M. Zerilli +1 more
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From politics to democracy? Bernard Williams’ basic legitimation demand in a radical realist lens
Constellations, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 338-353, September 2024.
Janosch Prinz, Andy Scerri
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Cognitive Capitalism as a Financial Economy of Production [PDF]
The structural changes that occurred in the last 30 years have substantially modified the capitalistic organization of society, both at national and international level.
Andrea Fumagalli, Stefano Lucarelli
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Contours of a Research Program [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper I sketch the contours of a research program which draws on the insights of both institutionalist theories of long term economic change and world system analysis in order to analyze the many ways in which national and global inequalities ...
Panther, Stephan
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