Rebranding the Nation: Migrant Fashion Production and the Contested Politics of ‘Made in Italy’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Prato engage with the contested meaning of the Made in Italy production label. As Chinese‐run fashion firms have become central to Italy’s fast fashion sector, their growing visibility has raised public concerns about authenticity, national identity, and the perceived erosion of ...
Yintan Fan
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Detecting heavy trucks from mobile phone trajectories using image-based behavioral representations and deep learning models. [PDF]
Sci RepBasso F +4 more
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Worrying Expertise: Representation and Expert Knowledge in Trade Unions
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studies of professionalisation, oligarchy and expertise have asked how expertise affects democratic representation in professionalised membership organisations. This article approaches that problem from the other direction by examining the role of representation in the production of expert knowledge.
Staffan Edling
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Design and implementation of a data sharing API for supporting urban governance schemes in environmental and traffic monitoring. [PDF]
MethodsXNiroshan L, Moslem S, Pilla F.
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Temporal Structuration: Negotiating Reproductive Timing in Urban China
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of temporal structuration to explain how actors engage temporal norms as social structures. Based on 64 life story interviews in Shenzhen and analysed through constructivist grounded theory, it examines reproductive timing in urban China, where marriage and childbearing are organised by a dense timetable ...
Xijia You
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Dynamics of carbon balance and its influencing factors in the Yangtze River Delta: a spatial network perspective. [PDF]
Carbon Balance ManagYi'na H +5 more
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Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
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Research on the impact of transportation infrastructure construction on urban sustainable development. [PDF]
Sci RepYang T +5 more
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