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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
wiley   +1 more source

Combined Approach to Locate Medieval Fortified Manor Houses in Central Moravia (the Czech Republic)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A systematic prospection of medieval fortified manor houses (FMHs) in Central Moravia (Czech Republic) was conducted with the aim of mapping their distribution and facilitating both further scholarly research and more effective heritage protection by responsible institutions.
Martin Moník   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
wiley   +1 more source

From Assemblies to Institutions and Back Again? Cycles of Democracy and Representation in the Spanish Labour Movement

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in union renewal, worker voice and new forms of labour organisation, industrial relations scholarship has paid limited attention to assemblies as an organisational form in their own right. This article argues that assemblies constitute a historically recurring democratic repertoire through which workers negotiate the ...
Martí López‐Andreu
wiley   +1 more source

Follow the Money: The State and the Architecture of Union Funding

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trade unions need money to sustain the staff, infrastructure and activities on which all forms of union power depend, yet the financial dimensions of unions and their power have been largely overlooked in the comparative study of industrial relations.
Assaf S. Bondy
wiley   +1 more source

With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

open access: yesCommunity 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
wiley   +1 more source

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