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Feminist networks of care in Greece. Practices of resistance from the streets to the screens
Digital Geography and SocietyAmid Greece's extended economic and socio-political crisis, feminist movements have evolved dynamically to confront the deeply ingrained structures of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism that adversely affect women and marginalised communities.
Christina Grammatikopoulou
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Personhood, agency and suicide in a neo-liberalising South India. [PDF]
, 2015 Explanations for increased rates of youth suicide in the South Indian leprosy colony where I conducted research were reduced, in popular discourse about causality, to the categories of debt, unfulfilled aspiration and desires, and romantic failures ...
Staples, J
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Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
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Teaching Space Syntax Through Reflective Practice [PDF]
, 2007 12-15 June ...
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Exploding iconography: The Mindbomb Project [PDF]
, 2006 The Mindbomb project was started by a group of young artists, journalists and writers, rich in creative resources. Together they created the social poster.
Mercea, D.
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Theorica et Practica: Historical Epistemology and the Re-Visioning of Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Medicine [PDF]
, 2011 Positivist medical historians, guided by the savoir of modern western biomedicine, have long depicted medieval medicine as an aberration along the continuum of scientific and medical progress.
Gardenour, Brenda S.
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
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Cyberspace Versus Citizenship: IT and emerging non space communities
Российские биомедицинские исследования, 2016 In 1964 Melvin Webber challenged the notions of community and centrality used in urban studies by demonstrating that "community without propinquity" was emerging within certain social networks.
Narciso Pierson
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Black Mobility Matters: An Exploratory Study of Uber, Hacking, and the Commons in Baltimore
Architecture_MPS, 2016 Questions about the city – its boundaries, fabric, size, scale, culture, economy, historical and political contributions – populate the expansive horizon of architectural theory.
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