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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Platformed Atmospheres: How Digital Platforms Reshape the Felt Experience of Family Life
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of platformed atmospheres to address how digital platforms reshape domestic life. Platformed atmospheres are defined as the multisensory and affective environments that emerge when platforms become infrastructural to family life, shaping not only what families communicate but the felt, sensory, and temporal ...
Iulia Clara Cirdan +2 more
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Research on how delinquent peer associations affect individuals’ life courses is limited. This paper addresses this gap by examining delinquent peer network characteristics and their impact on offending trajectories through social network analysis (SNA) and group‐based trajectory modeling (GBTM).
Daniel Trovato
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The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Prior research has focused on marriage as a key relationship associated with crime cessation. Yet particularly within the contemporary context, relationships with parents, peers, and other family members may also foster or inhibit progress toward desistance.
Peggy C. Giordano +4 more
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
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Infant gut microbiomes contribute to metabolic states that impact brain function
Midani FS +28 more
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent AICPA surveys indicate disproportionate attrition among Black professionals attaining partnership in US public accounting firms, underscoring the need to better understand their experiences. Despite repeated calls for examination, understanding of these experiences remains limited, partly due to the difficulty in accessing the few Black
Jennifer Joe +2 more
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study replicates van der Kolk et al. (2019). “The Impact of Management Control on Employee Motivation and Performance in the Public Sector.”European Accounting Review 28, no. 5: 901–928 to explore the impact of four types of management control (MC) on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation across Japanese local governments and for‐profit ...
Hikaru Goto, Makoto Kuroki
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