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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, EarlyView.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
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Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas +6 more
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Shield Maidens, Fashy Femmes, and TradWives: Feminism, Patriarchy, and Right-Wing Populism. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2020 Love NS.
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social inequality shapes society and influences how children grow up. This study explores how wealthy young individuals in Germany perceive social inequality, focusing on their awareness of both wealth and poverty. In‐depth interviews revealed that their understanding of poverty is relatively simplified, shaped largely by a lack of direct ...
Johanna Wilmes, Sonja A. Gossenauer
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Two Regimes of Waste and Value: ‘Post‐Disaster’ Landscapes in a New India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in
Vasudha Chhotray, David Singh
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Education for Civil Disobedience in the Context of Democratic Decline
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I discuss the educational relevance of civil disobedience as a form of political dissent in contemporary democracies demonstrating signs of significant democratic decline. The article challenges the plausibility of the impactful Rawlsian understanding of civil disobedience in societies in a state of democratic backsliding.
Anniina Leiviskä
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Understanding the 2024 UK riots
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Abstract To introduce this Special Section, we reflect on the riots that took place in the United Kingdom in late July and early August 2024 and the questions, issues and challenges that this raises for geography as a discipline and for our practice as geographers.
Alastair Bonnett, Peter Hopkins
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article is an extended review of Jeffrey Ian Ross's student textbook, ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’. The review tackles critical issues emerging in convict criminology and the wider lived experience movement. The review engages with various approaches taken by Ross, in particular the book's focus on his own contributions to ...
Rod Earle
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