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The chains that bind?
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The Clash Of Cosmopolitanisms The European Union from Cosmopolitization to Neo-Liberalization
(Coordinamento SIBA / Università del Salento, 2015-11-15)It is clear that the European Union (EU) is currently in the worst crisis situation it has ever been in. The forms of social solidarity, inter-national cooperation, and trans-national structures and processes that many ... -
Classificatory Theory in Biology
(2012-08-22)Scientific classification has long been recognized as involving a specific style of reasoning and doing research, and as occasionally affecting the development of scientific theories. However, the role played by classificatory ... -
Classificatory Theory in Data-Intensive Science: The Case of Open Biomedical Ontologies
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-05-12)Knowledge-making practices in biology are being strongly affected by the availability of data on an unprecedented scale, the insistence on systemic approaches and growing reliance on bioinformatics and digital infrastructures. ... -
'Clearly Necessary', 'Wonderful' and 'Engrossing'? Mass observation correspondents discuss forensic technologies
(SAGE, 2014-08-15)This article explores the perspectives of Mass Observation (MO) correspondents on crime investigation and application of forensic technologies in police work. Using the Panel's replies to two distinct, independently ... -
The clinician-scientist: professional dynamics in clinical stem cell research
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Clinical applications of biomedical research rely on specialist knowledge provided by professionals who straddle research and therapy, and possess both medical and scientific expertise. To date, this professional group ... -
Clipping the Angel's Wings: Why the Medicalization of Love May Still Be Worrying
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Close Quarters Battle: urban combat and 'special forcification'
(Sage, 2015)Many scholars have recognized the growing likelihood of urban military operations in the future. Understandably, given the seriousness of this prospect, most commentators have focused on the operational and political ... -
Codes of conduct and biological weapons: an in-process assessment
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2007-06)Codes of conduct have received a significant amount of attention in recent years as a policy option to address concerns about the relation between life science research and the deliberate spread of disease through biological ... -
Combat effectiveness in the infantry platoon: beyond the primary group thesis
(Routledge (Taylor and Francis), 2016-09-21)Since 2001, western troops have been heavily engaged in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan raising once again the long-standing question of why small groups of soldiers are willing and able to fight together. Drawing on evidence ... -
Comments on Terry Eagleton's "Base and Superstructure Revisited"
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The Commodification of Knowledge Exchange: Governing the Circulation of Biological Data.
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The concealed middle? An exploration of ordinary young people and school GCSE subject area attainment
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-07-20)© 2015 Taylor & Francis.The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is the standard qualification undertaken by pupils in England and Wales at the end of year 11 (age 15–16). GCSEs continue to play an important ... -
The concealed middle? An exploration of ordinary young people and school GCSE subject area attainment
(ESRC Centre for Population Change, 2014)In Britain school examination results are now an annual newsworthy item. This recurrent event illustrates, and reinforces, the importance of school level qualifications. The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) ... -
Consumerism as Folk Religion?
(N/A, 2014)"I will argue that consumerism can be understood as a contemporary folk religion as it shares a number of traits with most religions. In this talk I will focus on two: the thematic of transcendence and the dynamics of ... -
Consuming the campesino - Fair trade marketing between recognition and romantic commodification
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008)This paper aims to reconstruct the everyday moral plausibility of fair trade consumerism by linking it back to an analysis of the moral grammar of capitalist consumer culture and understanding it as both an actualization ... -
Continuities of Culture in the Cosmopolitan City: Accessing London/Turkish Spiritualities in Commercial Cultures through Accidental Clues
(N/A, 2013-07)In this paper I will present preliminaries for a study on the intricacies of London/Turkish life, developing from material clues gathered on a single day of preliminary ethnographic research on Kingsland Road and Stoke ... -
A convention beyond the Convention: stigma, humanitarian standards and the Oslo Process
(Landmine Action, 2008-05)The history of attempts to limit the methods and means of warfare illustrates that agreed conventions can have a wide-ranging standard setting function that goes far beyond their terms and signatories. The stigmatization ... -
Cosmopolitanism’s Multiple Histories: Going Beyond Conventional Understandings of the Genesis of Cosmopolitan Thought
(Morlacchi Editore, 2014-09-08)Like other intellectual fields, cosmopolitan thought today is partly constructed through narrations of its history, which debate what is living and dead in previous forms of cosmopolitical thinking. A standard narration ... -
The cosmopolitics of situated care
(Wiley, 2017-09-01)The everyday experiences of illness draw our attention to the importance of the cosmopolitics of care in which ‘normal/ized’ practices of care can neither be taking for granted nor be expected. Drawing on ethnograp ...