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Bridging the Gap - On Easing the Transition from Arab Secondary to Western Third Level Learning. [PDF]
, 2011 Learning and achievement issues among Foundation Year (FY) students at the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) Bahrain have been responded to by the Language and Culture Unit to address the educational problems that have arisen as a direct consequence of ...
Hayes, Aneta +3 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
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Modes of Distinction: Home and Avant Garde Modalities [PDF]
, 2010 Study of the relationships between home movies, amateur filmmaking and avant-garde cinema. Published in Spanish in Cuevas, Efrén (ed.), "La casa abierta. El cine doméstico y sus reciclajes contemporáneos", pp.
Moran, J.M. (James M.)
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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The 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
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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.Abstract Although the community of tax professionals is a key actor in the tax realm, its nature continues to remain elusive in many countries. Using a qualitatively driven mixed‐methods approach that integrates the insights obtained from in‐depth interviews and the results of a survey of practitioners, we examine the Canadian tax field.
Till‐Arne Hahn, Darlene Himick
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Instituted or Embedded? Legal, Fiscal and Economic Institutionalisation of Markets [PDF]
, 2009 Recent debates in economic sociology have raised questions about the significance of law in the economy, and specifically the role of law in the operation of markets.
Harvey, M
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Losing Control: The Erosion of Disciplinary and Pastoral Power in Accounting Firms
Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Accounting firms have traditionally operated as both elite and reinventive institutions that offer a structured and prestigious career path and enforce a deeply transformative socialization process for auditors. However, recent labor market shifts and evolving work preferences are challenging this regime of power, with significant implications
Oriane Couchoux +2 more
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Differential Accumulation: Toward a New Political Economy of Capital [PDF]
, 1998 Existing theories of capital, neo-classical as well as Marxist, are anchored in the material sphere of production and consumption. This article offers a new analytical framework for capital as a crystallization of power.
Nitzan, Jonathan
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