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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

Mocking the “Military Parrot”: Digital Feminist Practices, Militarized Masculinity, and Feminist Knowledge Production in South Korean Cyberspace

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In South Korean digital spaces, antifeminist discourse frequently weaponises compulsory military service to assert male victimhood and exclude feminist perspectives from public debate, particularly when military‐related issues trigger misogynistic backlash.
Euisol Jeong
wiley   +1 more source

Driven by risk: Understanding reference‐dependent preferences using simulated auto racing

open access: yesJournal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Using data from over 56,000 simulated auto races worldwide, we analyze risk‐taking at the margins, consistent with reference‐dependent preferences. We show that participants' risk‐taking changes when a desired intermittent outcome is presented, sometimes at the expense of a more favorable expected end state.
James Hilliard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Pursuing patents for their own sake: How the investment discourse shapes patent quality and quantity

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Patent systems worldwide face criticisms over declining patent quality and increasing patent quantity. While most research focuses on strengthening examination rigour, this article turns attention to relatively underexplored patenting incentives.
Li Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Preserving balance in the EU digital single market: How Like Company could reframe copyright and innovation in the generative AI era

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the Court of Justice of the European Union's first referral on generative AI and copyright, i.e., Case C‐250/25 Like Company v. Google, which interrogates whether the generation of chatbot summaries of press articles infringes the press publishers' right under Article 15 CDSM Directive and the reproduction and ...
Enrico Bonadio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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