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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

Land and Law in Marijuana Country: Clean Capital, Dirty Money, and the Drug War's Rentier Nexus. [PDF]

Polit Leg Anthropol Rev, 2013
Polson M.
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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
wiley   +1 more source

Prohibitionist drug policy [PDF]

, 2002
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The Old Regime (of Mutualisation) and the Revolution (of Big Data)

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his classic work L'ancien régime et la révolution, Alexis de Tocqueville proposes a reinterpretation of the French Revolution: behind the spectacular ruptures associated with the event, profound continuities are at play. Beyond the specific case of the French Revolution, Tocqueville calls for vigilance in mobilizing the notion of revolution
Pierre Francois
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“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
wiley   +1 more source

Philip Morris's Project Sunrise: weakening tobacco control by working with it. [PDF]

Tob Control, 2006
McDaniel PA, Smith EA, Malone RE.
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POLICY PHARMACOPEIA: an ethnography of anti-prohibitionism and the struggle for the liberation of marijuana in Colombia

, 2017
Resumen: El artículo sintetiza los resultados del trabajo etnográfico desarrollado con el movimiento cannabico de Colombia entre los años 2013 y 2017. En la primera parte, se muestra como la prohibición de las drogas en el país surgió como un arreglo sanitario, moral y económico para monopolizar la producción de medicamentos y venenos. Se argumenta que
openaire   +1 more source

Market orientation and national homicide rates

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We studied the influence of market orientation on national homicide rates. Multiple theoretical traditions equate the development and dominance of markets with higher crime rates. Some traditional sociological theoretical claims, however, suggest market expansion should reduce violence.
William Alex Pridemore, Meghan L. Rogers
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Socio-spatial stigmatization and the contested space of addiction treatment: remapping strategies of opposition to the disorder of drugs. [PDF]

Soc Sci Med, 2010
Smith CB.
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