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Periods, Pains, Pills, and Performance—Fighting Blood, Bodies and Biology

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on various data from long‐term immersion in combat sports to explore the period experiences of cis women fighters. We blend theoretical ideas from the social scientific literature on menstruation and the sociology of medicalization, pain and injury.
Reem AlHashmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Turkish Welfare State: A Multidimensional Approach

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a multidimensional approach to capture the multiple dimensions of welfare states around the world. We know a lot about why we need to take the multidimensional character of welfare states seriously. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on which dimensions to focus on.
H. Tolga Bolukbasi, Kerem Gabriel Öktem
wiley   +1 more source

“It Has Always Known And We Have Always Been ‘Other’: Knowing Capitalism And The ‘Coming Crisis’ Of Sociology Confront The Concentration System and Mass-Observation,” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Abrams Mark   +42 more
core   +1 more source

Suspicion: The politics of knowledge production when fieldwork and writing are uneasy

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract How might fieldwork anxieties serve as a productive site to revisit the theoretical presumptions that guide research practices? This article explores moments of suspicion and scepticism during fieldwork to reflect on the tensions of fixing anthropological lines of inquiry and conceptual lineages.
Randi L. Irwin
wiley   +1 more source

Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

Chikungunya virus: Current situation and future challenges. [PDF]

open access: yesBiosaf Health
Zhao T, Chen T, Zhang J, Li C, Qin C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
wiley   +1 more source

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