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Access to Healthcare in Brazilian Prisons: Why is it Important to Look at the Bureaucracy and Policy Implementation? [PDF]
Int J Public Health, 2023 Bartos MSH.
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Local Passion, National Indifference: Implementing Community Cohesion policies in Northern England [PDF]
The emergence of Community Cohesion (Cantle, 2001) as national policy from 2001 was portrayed as the ‘death of multiculturalism’ in Britain (Kundnani, 2002).
Thomas, Paul
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Talking Emotional Safety: School Leaders and Language in a Chicago School Safety Reform
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the ways that school leaders used buzzwords when speaking about youth “emotional safety,” in a Chicago Public Schools safety reform aimed at reexamining the role of school policing. Drawing on observations from pandemic‐era virtual school council meetings, we suggest a recognizable register of speech developed around the ...
Uma Blanchard +2 more
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At street-level: bureaucrats and the spaces of regulation
, 2006 The ways in which state institutions regulate society and space have significant consequences for contemporary urban life. Regulations such as building, health and liquor codes order social practices in cities according to the political objectives of government, policy makers and local elites.
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This Intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics. The paper highlights three key features of AI that inflect the workings and logics of authoritarianism: (selective) inhumanisation, the cult of intelligence and scaling. We argue that AI is not simply extending,
Thomas Dekeyser +2 more
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Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by advancing the concept of state entrepreneurialism through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. We define strategic embeddedness as the institutional integration of market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals and tactical ...
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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E-public services: the case of e-taxation in Slovenia [PDF]
The paper discuses e-taxation, one of the services offered by many governments in the world today. It argues that although this service can be developed well, according to the many benchmarking models in the world and become very familiar to members of ...
Maja Klun
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Slow Death and Key Workers: The Ordinary Crisis of Waste Work During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This article examines the experiences of waste workers in Glasgow during the COVID‐19 pandemic to show how the everyday operations of the UK waste industry push bodies and infrastructures towards collapse. Drawing on interviews with waste workers, and Lauren Berlant's concepts of ‘slow death’ and the ‘crisis ordinary’, it argues that ...
Thom Davies +5 more
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