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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 801-819, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Employee monitoring apps (i.e., 'bossware') have become increasingly affordable and accessible on the open market. Apps such as Interguard and Teramind provide companies with a powerful degree of surveillance about workers, including keystroke logging, location and browser monitoring, and even webcam usage.
Danielle E. Thompson, Adam Molnar
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 708-740, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Faced with the alarming rates of disappearances and murders of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Canada and in response to the demands of victims' families and Indigenous women's associations, the Canadian government set up the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2016–2019).
Audrey Rousseau, Louis Chartrand
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The supply of information and price formation: Evidence from Google's search engine
Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 1999-2031, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract This study develops several Google search‐based measures to test the relation between earnings‐week online search results and the speed of price discovery. These measures are based on searches using only a firm's ticker symbol in the search string.
Han Stice
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TO FLY THE PLANE: LANGUAGE GAMES, HISTORICAL NARRATIVES, AND EMOTIONS
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 30-61, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The common Western distinction between reason and emotion (which is not found outside Western‐influenced traditions) tends to obscure an important distinction between two kinds of thinking: logical and mathematical reasoning, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, what is sometimes called “situational awareness,” a kind of thinking that ...
William M. Reddy
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EuroChoices, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 21-26, December 2022., 2022 Summary Ecological farming, such as organic and low‐input farming, is gaining popularity in the public discourse. One question is how this type of farming may impact farm labour from a socio‐economic point of view. The article first discusses how low‐input farming practices (i.e.
Sophia Davidova +20 more
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L’inférence dans les romans judiciaires d’Émile Gaboriau
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 6, Page 386-404, December 2022., 2022 Résumé L’injection de l’heuristique dans le romanesque est loin d’être un recours littéraire nouveau. Un certain nombre de romanciers (tels Voltaire, Balzac, Bernanos, Robbe‐Grillet ou Butor) ne se sont pas privés d’y toucher. Ceci dit, ce sont notamment les écrivains attitrés du genre policier qui s’y sont spécialisés.
Daniela Ventura
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Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 92-113, March 2022., 2022 Abstract Infrastructural systems have emerged as productive ethnographic sites for analysing political subjectivities and rationalities. Through the case of shared electricity and prepaid meters in the compound housing system of Accra, Ghana, I suggest that infrastructures’ political potential lies in their imaginative and hermeneutic abilities to ...
Pauline Destrée
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Fear and fainting in Luanda: paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 222-239, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This article unpacks the events and reactions surrounding a mysterious ‘fainting wave’ that swept through Angolan middle and high schools from early 2011 on. By attending to the historicity and materiality of the fainting wave, the article investigates why the strong conviction took root of a dark political intentionality behind this ...
Jon Schubert
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‘It's scientific!’ Play, parody, and the para‐ethnographic in Southwest China
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 559-578, September 2021., 2021 Abstract Play and games encourage persons to hold the world at a distance, while occasionally challenging its norms through parody, mimicry, and clowning, too. In this article, I offer new ethnography on drinking games among the Nuosu of Southwest China, who distribute penalty shots by injecting them directly into glasses with a syringe.
Katherine Swancutt
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La démocratisation de la gestion des risques
Lien Social et Politiques, 2003 La gestion des risques liés aux biotechnologies a traditionnellement été accomplie en conformité aux principes de la rationalité managériale, qui confinent à l’intérieur de rôles très précis les scientifiques, les managers et les politiciens. Les récents
Éric Montpetit
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