Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off‐grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the broader US economic system, Slab City residents have developed alternative forms of exchange, using cigarettes and cannabis alongside US dollars.
Bailey C. Hauswurz
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Democracy and social utopias : a study about Albrecht Wellmer and Axel Honneth [PDF]
, 2012 This work intends to analysis the philosophy of history and to discuss the consequences of this death to the Critical Theory. The concept of reason and the devices of democracy and human rights are discussed in a revision of the historical debate about ...
Bittar, Eduardo C. B.
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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The Presence of Political and Educational Utopias on PhD Thesis about History Teacher’s Education (Barcelona, 1991-2008) [PDF]
, 2013 O artigo analisa a presença de utopias político-educacionais em oito teses de doutorado sobre formação de professores de Historia/Ciencias Sociales defendidas em universidades de Barcelona (Catalunha – Espanha).
Pacievitch, Caroline +1 more
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The Chemical Record, EarlyView.The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Transformation in a changing climate: a research agenda [PDF]
, 2016 The concept of transformation in relation to climate and other global change is increasingly receiving attention. The concept provides important opportunities to help examine how rapid and fundamental change to address contemporary global challenges can ...
Allen, Simon +23 more
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Computer Mediated Communication and the Connection between Virtual Utopias and Actual Realities [PDF]
, 1998 People have generally been very ambivalent about the potential future roles of new technologies (and the internet specifically) and their possible effects on human society.
Richards, Cameron
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Educational Studies and the Domestication of Utopia [PDF]
, 2016 This paper offers a critique of educational real utopias. Real Utopias are experimental forms of thought and practice intended to harness the transgressive force of traditional utopianism while avoiding its associated dangers.
Albert M. +50 more
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Ideal Theory after Auschwitz? The Practical Uses and Ideological Abuses of Political Theory as Reconciliation [PDF]
, 2017 Contemporary debates about ideal and nonideal theory rest on an underlying consensus that the primary practical task of political theory is directing action.
McKean, Benjamin
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Socialist Utopian Communities in the U.S. and Reasons for their Failures [PDF]
, 2012 The focus of my research is on why socialist utopian communities could not last in capitalist America. Even though people lived in these isolated communities, they still relied too much on the outside world.
Nako, Elizabeth
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