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Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

¿Can we talk in Colombia about punitive populism?

open access: yes, 2012
This paper explores the possibility of using the concept of penal populism to catalog the relationship between the punitive attitudes of citizens and the harsher criminal policy in Colombia.
openaire   +1 more source

A Right‐Wing Populist Turn in the Conservative Party of Canada? Continuities and Ruptures Under the Leadership of Pierre Poilievre (2022–2025)

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Since his election as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in 2022, Pierre Poilievre has been associated with populism in media and political discourse, with implicit and explicit comparisons to Donald Trump. This article investigates the validity of such assessments by applying “complex” theories of populism, which conceptualize ...
Efe Peker, Emily Laxer, Rémi Vivès
wiley   +1 more source

Stemming the Tide of Aboriginal Incarceration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Western Australia’s prison population has the highest rate of Aboriginal over-representation in Australia. Research on the criminogenic effect of imprisonment suggests that the use of imprisonment as a deterrent to future offending is not empirically ...
Kelly, Miriam, Tubex, Hilde
core   +1 more source

Know Your Lanes: Unpacking Theoretical Plurality Across Studies of Professions

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 1604-1636, May 2026.
Abstract Professions continue to be central to understanding organizing in the 21st century. The literature on professions is segmented into theoretical conversations that offer different conceptualizations of professions and theoretical concerns. Through an analysis of the literature, we unpack four lanes – teleological, institutional, ecological, and
Ruthanne Huising, Pauli Pakarinen
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom vs. punitive populism: should Human Rights be respected in criminal proceedings?

open access: yesVia Inveniendi Et Iudicandi, 2017
Esta investigación muestra cómo la necesidad de disminuir los índices delincuenciales en el país ha venido justificando de manera soterrada la “relativización de los derechos humanos”. Para esto, se parte de la hipótesis de que el hacinamiento carcelario obedece a la adopción de medidas penales que buscan impresionar a la sociedad, pero que carecen de ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Los medios de comunicación como herramienta de populismo punitivo en Ecuador [The media as a tool for punitive populism in Ecuador]

open access: yesVerdad y Derecho. Revista Arbitrada de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales
En el Ecuador, el populismo punitivo se ha consolidado como una estrategia política que busca responder a las demandas sociales de seguridad mediante el endurecimiento de las políticas penales. Se argumenta como objetivo de investigación analizar el uso de los medios de comunicación como herramienta de populismo punitivo en Ecuador. Se adoptó un diseño
Vanessa Katherine Guano-Guambo   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Cuba's Three Autocratic Transitions: From Revolutionary Regime to (Post)Totalitarianism and New Authoritarianism?

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single‐party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio‐economic decline are bringing about some ...
Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius
wiley   +1 more source

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