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One dimensional man
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State Socialism and the Industrial Divide in the World-Economy: A Comparative Essay on the Rebellions in Poland and China:
Terry Boswell,Ralph Peters +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used a world-economy approach to explain the historical context and background causes of revolts in the socialist states, focusing on Poland and China, and found that low-skill mass production has been moving out of the core and into the periphery of the world economy.
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Globalisation and the role of Citizen-Consumers in Environmental Politics
Gert Spaargaren,Susan Martens +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the changing roles of citizenconsumers in globalizing environmental politics, and it looks in detail at the potential impacts of globalization on national environmental politics that aim to address the consumption patterns and lifestyles of “their” citizen-consumers.
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Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education: Framing Issues
Bob Jickling,Stephen Sterling +1 more
TL;DR: The authors provides a critique of more than two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development, sustainability education, and, for longer still, environmental education, taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a prelude to reconstruction.
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Rethinking Veblen’s contribution to Consumer Research: a phenomenological enquiry into the perception of ‘status consumption’ by middle-income British consumers
TL;DR: The authors argued that negative connotations associated with ostentatious economic display necessitate the reappraisal of Veblen's accounts about consumer's rising expectations and desires together with further research as regards the "taboo" and sensitive issue of upward social mobility via consumption.
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Aid effectiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa : an analysis of mismatches between donors and recipients
TL;DR: A conceptual framework was designed to capture and investigate various contextual factors that would contribute or initiate particular characteristics of the donor-recipient relationship and showed that these mismatches affected to a very large extent the effective management of foreign aid.
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
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Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism
TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
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What is critical urban theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
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Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.