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The Legal Limits of Racism

open access: yes, 2013
When I heard the news that the Food Network decided not to renew Paula Deen’s contract after she admitted to making racist comments, I was happy. Not because she used racial slurs, of course, but because she was punished for it.
Broe, Chelsea E.
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On Medical Domination

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I propose and define the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnographic study of abortion services in France, I analyse how a set of legitimised and institutionalised power practices shape ...
Raphaël Perrin
wiley   +1 more source

Prophets With Enchantment: Framing Christian Climate Activism

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues for a re‐enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism. It focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities.
Gemma Edwards, Finlay Malcolm
wiley   +1 more source

The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most research on the radical right attempts to identify the one central voting motive among its supporters, few studies have sought to differentiate between different types of voters. Given this research gap, we assume that there are multiple paths to the radical right and that different groups have different motives for their support ...
Florian Buchmayr
wiley   +1 more source

The cultural biases of green criminology

open access: yesTijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, 2022
Zaitch, Damian, van Swaaningen, R.
openaire   +4 more sources

“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
wiley   +1 more source

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
wiley   +1 more source

The Cost of Love: Emotional Labour and Moral Tensions in the Lives of Chinese Young Carers

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Like adults, children also provide care. This article explores the emotional labour of young carers who care for ill or disabled family members in China, a context where children's caregiving remains largely invisible in both policy and scholarship.
Kefan Xue, Kaidong Guo
wiley   +1 more source

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