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2023 Presidential Address: Dignity and Denigration in Economic Life
Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 42-51, March 2026.ABSTRACT Sociologists have long addressed the puzzles posed by dignity. In The Polish Peasant, families went out of their way to provide a decent burial for their loved ones, even when social workers and others schooled in financial literacy advised against it. In some communities suffering from fracking, those who arrived to advocate for environmental
Frederick F. Wherry
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Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City
Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.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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The Coin's Third Side: Illiberal Money and the Sociality of a Community Currency
Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Classic work in the analysis of money has emphasized the role of the state and the market in giving money its value. This article seeks to build on work that has emphasized the coin's “third side,” in which society serves as a source of monetary value.
Daromir Rudnyckyj
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Is Crowdfunding Charity? Exploring Contemporary Meanings of “Philanthropy”
Journal of Philanthropy, Volume 30, Issue S1, November 2025.ABSTRACT Over the course of nearly a decade, a strong body of academic research has emerged showing that the benefits of personal crowdfunding via GoFundMe and similar platforms are neither as easily attained nor as evenly distributed among users as many would hope. In this response to Lukk et al.'s (2025) article “Disrupting Philanthropy?
Vincci Li
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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores how the cost of harm and suffering are measured and monetized in contemporary compensation claims for postcolonial child removals from Greenland to Denmark. I ask how painful past experiences can be translated into legal compensation claims and which forms of harm remain uncounted and, therefore, economically worthless. I
Saana Hansen
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For Both Love and Money: Viviana Zelizer's The Purchase of Intimacy
Law & Social Inquiry, 2009 Viviana Zelizer's recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005), presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate rights and obligations when money changes hands in intimate relationships—a perspective that could change how we understand many things, from valuations of homemaking labor to the 9/11 Victim ...
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The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 667-683, July 2025.Abstract During 1925–26 and 1928, debates about birth control took place in the readers' column of North Star (Gwiazda Polarna), a US Polish language weekly. These discussions provide a rare insight into how ideas spread by the US birth control movement were received by an immigrant and ethnic working‐class Catholic community.
Sylwia Kuźma‐Markowska
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Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change
Regulation &Governance, Volume 19, Issue 2, Page 287-302, April 2025.ABSTRACT Although political economy (PE) has long engaged with environmental issues, climate change has remained at the margins of the field until very recently. This article argues that fully addressing the transformative challenges brought up by climate change requires a fundamental rethinking of core PE concepts related to the state, distributional ...
Basak Kus, Gregory Jackson
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Meaning and the Commodity Form
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 537-555, December 2024.Abstract Social scientists often treat the commodity form and commodity fetishism as concepts that reduce meaning to an economic base. The paper claims that this view is misguided and, furthermore, that these concepts enable us to formulate a dynamic approach to meaning in economic life.
Tad Skotnicki
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