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Knowledge Work as a Condition of Accumulation in the Pesticide Industry: Syngenta's Defence of Paraquat

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
wiley   +1 more source

The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
wiley   +1 more source

“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
wiley   +1 more source

Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
wiley   +1 more source

When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

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