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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
wiley   +1 more source

Microlevel Judgments of Organizational Legitimacy: How Validity Cues and Categorical Fit Shape Evaluators' Propriety Beliefs

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study advances research on organizational legitimacy by examining the microlevel mechanisms through which evaluators form propriety beliefs. Building on legitimacy‐as‐perception research, which posits that evaluators rely on validity cues to make judgments, we argue that individual evaluators draw on broader, more nuanced sets of ...
Julia Thaler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The (Simp)le Truth About Excessive and Obsessive Romantic Behaviors in Men

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective “Simps” are individuals (primarily men) who engage in costly or extravagant gestures toward a romantic interest without receiving reciprocation. As its first empirical validation, the current study newly operationalizes simping behaviors as well as the motivating factors predicting simping.
Daniel Ho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Not Lower Class, Lazy Class”: Food Loathing as Class Abjection and Distinction via Instagram Comments on Mama J. Rae's Lunchbox‐Packing Video

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines 4206 Instagram comments on a lunchbox‐packing video posted by Mama J. Rae, who self‐identifies as a “lower middle class wife.” Her excessive use of processed foods and sugary beverages provokes negative responses, many of which explicitly connect her lunchbox‐packing practices to class identity.
Hanwool Choe
wiley   +1 more source

Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

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