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This paper focuses on seasonal labour migration in rural India to examine how migrant returnees sought to reconstitute historical and hierarchical social relations in their home villages. I use qualitative research conducted in Maharashtra state in western India from 2014–15 among landowning farmers, landless returnees, and nonmigrant laborers. I demonstrate that for the returnees, an important element of social and cultural change in their home communities was their ability to upend and replace 'residual culture,' based on expectations of continued exploitation and performative hierarchy, with an 'emergent' one. I claim that the mechanics of counter-hegemony in rural Maharashtra includes a struggle for vernacular equality to eliminate caste-based practices of humiliation, including labour exploitation. I show that the attempts by returnees to reconstitute social relations in their home communities were undercut by the limits of cultural politics, in its inability to usher in the change that entails the redistribution of resources and substantive political power. This research contributes to theoretically textured scholarship in cultural geography on contestations between elite and subordinate cultures, particularly on the question of efforts to erase unjust historical practices of humiliation and how spatial, social, and economic mobility of the returnees, in part, enables this effort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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While being 'old-established' is usually seen as a product of the social negotiation of migration, there is little empirical research on how this category evolves and changes over time. To unravel this process, we focus in this article on the group formation processes which contribute to the making and unmaking of being 'old-established' as a pattern of interpretation, a we-image and a potential power chance in various figurations. A combination of figurational and biographical approaches with an extended chronological horizon provides a theoretical and methodological framework to focus on when, and in what circumstances, residents distinguish between 'old-established' and 'newcomers' in their we- and they-images. Attention is paid to the socio-historical transformations which increase or reduce material and immaterial power chances (such as ownership of land, length of association and internal cohesion) within dynamic processes of group formation in migration societies. A multigenerational case study of an extended family in Jordan shows the complex processuality of how long-time residents become 'old-established' as a group, which expands their power chances, and under what circumstances this status can become eroded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this interview, Arrington discusses her research for an upcoming book. This work examines the methods used by activists and legal professionals to advocate for rights in South Korea and Japan. During the discussion, Arrington details how social actors utilize legal mechanisms and strategies to influence government actions. She concludes by highlighting the emergence of governance approaches rooted in legalism within the two societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strongly felt grievances are the first, necessary condition for collective action to occur. While social movement studies have explored how activists frame grievances to attract recruits, this study assesses whether the pervasiveness of economic grievances in society affects individual decisions to join protests. Using data from nine rounds of the European Social Survey across 33 countries (2002-2019), multilevel models reveal that the population’s average sense of economic difficulty significantly predicts individuals’ willingness to participate in protests. The relationship holds when controlling for other objective economic indicators frequently used as substitutes for economic grievances in previous research, such as unemployment and GDP growth. Protesters also tend to be wealthier and financially comfortable when there is intense economic distress across society, while protest rates decline among the most aggrieved people. The findings suggest the importance of economic grievances lies on the contextual rather than the individual level: people are influenced to mobilize based on social assessments of others’ economic suffering but are less responsive to their own economic problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé : La rencontre entre l’Afrique et les étrangers continue de constituer la trame de nombreux textes africains. Ces derniers, de manière subtile, montrent les influences de ce contact sur les mentalités africaines, socles de tout développement. Cet article postule que le modèle de développement africain d’aujourd’hui, tel que présenté dans le corpus, repose inéluctablement sur la construction des mentalités rhizomiques ou composites. En nous appuyant donc sur une approche qui considère l’œuvre, au sens de Ngetcham, au-delà de sa dimension esthétique, comme un champ potentiel de vestiges d’un monde réel dans l’univers de l’écriture, il ressort de cette étude que la nouvelle société hétérogène ou hybride, faite de mentalités endogènes, issues du passé des ancêtres, et exogènes, nées de la rencontre avec l’Autre, constitue le modèle de développement africain proposé par les auteurs, susceptible d’éclairer et d’orienter les sociétés africaines, notamment les Beti-Bulu-Fang du Cameroun, dans ce monde en perpétuel changement.

La question traitée dans cet article porte sur le monde d’après la pandémie… Représente-t-elle un moment décisif qui va nous faire basculer vers une société plus responsable sur les plans sociaux et environnementaux ? De nouvelles habitudes et de nouveaux comportements responsables vont-ils se mettre en place de manière durable ? Pour répondre à ces enjeux, cet article mobilise des théories plurielles associées aux changements d’habitudes. Des préconisations s’adressant autant aux entreprises, qu’aux décideurs publics ou citoyens sont proposées pour dessiner les contours d’un après-Covid-19 socialement et écologiquement plus acceptable.

En Chine, le mouvement de lecture des classiques (dujing yundong) a connu une croissance significative depuis son émergence dans les années 2000. Jusqu'à présent considéré comme un simple renouveau populaire du confucianisme, il reste cependant peu étudié. Cette étude, fondée sur une recherche ethnographique de terrain dans dix villes chinoises, examine les caractéristiques du mouvement à l'aune de la théorie des mouvements utopiques ancrés (grounded utopian movement) et de la théorie de la sphère civile pour montrer le potentiel de changement social du mouvement dans les conditions sociopolitiques spécifiques de la Chine. Les militants placent leurs espoirs dans la récitation et la mémorisation des classiques confucéens par les élèves pour former des individus vertueux (junzi) qui changeront la société chinoise de fond en comble. Cette étude montre que ce sont surtout les parents, les enseignants et les directeurs d'école impliqués dans le mouvement qui portent le plus grand potentiel de changement social. L'espace pour induire ce changement est toutefois fragile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Se fondant sur des entretiens menés auprès de 120 adultes - enfants uniques - et de leurs parents dans la municipalité de Tianjin, cet article montre de quelle façon la grand-parentalité devient un lieu clé dans la négociation intergénérationnelle autour de la garde des enfants, des obligations familiales, et des aspirations d'individualisation insatisfaites. Alors que les couples formés d'enfants uniques sont fortement tributaires de leurs parents pour la garde des enfants, de nombreuses tensions se font jour à cette occasion. Si les grands-parents n'acceptent pas toujours volontiers le lourd fardeau que représente la garde des enfants dans ce contexte intergénérationnel, leur préoccupation liée à la prise en charge des personnes âgées les contraint parfois néanmoins à assumer cette tâche. En brossant un tableau nuancé de la grand-parentalité en Chine urbaine, cet article vise à illustrer l'évolution des idées en matière d'obligation et de responsabilité familiales, ainsi que la transformation sociale en Chine qui sous-tend ce changement. Il soutient que le processus d'individualisation est loin d'être achevé, la confrontation avec la réalité incitant les individus à résoudre les problèmes au sein de la famille. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La numérisation de l’agriculture renvoie au développement d’une diversité d’outils mobilisés dans le cadre des activités agricoles et agroalimentaires. Si, comme différentes contributions le suggèrent, ces outils promettent de répondre à des enjeux techniques multiples, ils transforment également les métiers, les filières, les formes de coordination entre acteurs. L’ambition de cet article est de proposer une grille de questionnement de ce processus de numérisation du point de vue de l’économie et de la sociologie.

Medical marijuana users represent many people with disabilities in Canada. Recent legislative attempts have allowed people with disabilities to access cannabis as medicine, however the landscape is ever changing. The Cannabis Act was recently introduced, legalizing marijuana for all; however, people with disabilities have not been accounted for when it comes to the issue of access to medicine. Those who rely on cannabis as medicine and those who enjoy it recreationally are now part of the same system, for better or worse. The new medical marijuana regime, under the new Cannabis Act, boasts a "two-stream" process, and it claims that it will be maintaining and improving the old medical regime alongside the new recreational regime. The applicable taxes tell a different story. Medical marijuana has always been subject to sales tax despite being effectively prescribed by doctors to manage and treat many disabilities and illnesses. Now, with the enactment of the Cannabis Act, medical marijuana is subject to an excise tax too—colloquially known as the "sin tax." Recreational and medical marijuana are subject to the same taxation scheme, making any notion of a "two-stream" process nonsensical and blatantly unfair. The purpose of this article is to provide insight into the varying faults concerning the medical marijuana regime in Canada, with specific emphasis on the issue of taxation. In the simplest terms, taxing medical marijuana is taxing medicine and effectively taxing people with disabilities. Broken down into five parts, this article discusses the underlying reasons for the taxes surrounding medical marijuana, provides a case study of the most important tax case for medical marijuana users, scrutinizes the lack of recognition of medical marijuana as a proper prescription, outlines the ways to improve legislation, and, finally, explores a potential Charter challenge that can be effectively brought against this taxation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a tribute to the thinking of Jean-Claude Gillet, this article aims to make accessible in the English language some of the notions of sociocultural community development and its function developed by this author in relation to their testing during a recent training course on the theme of Social action in times of crises: sociocultural community development as a lever of social change in the Middle East and North Africa region. Based on the knowledge of the participants and faculty members, this paper proposes a broad reflection on sociocultural community development as it is currently experienced and desired in various countries (Yemen, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine). This reflection, co-constructed from contexts experienced by the participants and selected contributions in reference to inspiring authors such as Gillet, seems necessary today for the potential development of intervention and investigation tools supporting social change in the English-speaking Arab countries.

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This paper studies three sites or 'landscapes of care' in Leeds, Bristol and London where water and associated built and natural environments are used to co-construct and facilitate forms of social and environmental care. Our research narrates the ways in which blue spaces are cultivated for the production of particular forms of caring bodies and sensibilities. Interpreting care as both a doing (caring for) and emotion (caring about), we draw attention to the diverse practices and distributed nature of care in these environments. Our paper has three main insights. First, we draw attention to the role of water as both a material and site of care. Second, we identify a range of more-than-human benefits associated with blue spaces and how these emerge via collaborative, non-linear and reciprocal forms of care. Third, we argue that by understanding how care works in everyday social practice, new forms of ecological care and pro-environmental ways of living with the world can emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The iCreate Cape Breton pilot project sought to cultivate intergenerational networks of community artists and practitioners, with the long-term goal of empowering youth who face challenging economic or environmental circumstances. The three-year project began with recruitment of youth through established community organizations, followed by an initial phase of multidisciplinary creative exploration, during which youth worked closely with Cape Breton University faculty, as well as elders from their own communities. Phase One culminated in a public showcase of youth-led artistic projects, including theatre, music, film, and visual art, centred around the theme of slow violence. During Phase Two, young artists worked more independently, creating one feature film and two short documentaries. While the second-phase partnership model illuminated challenges around power dynamics, responsibilities, and expectations, it was more effective than the first-phase mentorship model with respect to empowering youth as research partners and facilitating long-term resiliency and social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Post-essentialist and poststructuralist conceptualizations of identities and social structures offer the theoretical potential for social change to emerge from actions and interactions among socially located actors. This 'micro-emancipation' approach suggests that changes negotiated in relations among actors can be scaled up or expanded beyond individual interactions to effect change in macro structures that sustain inequality. This micro approach contrasts sharply with binary, essentialist and structuralist approaches that implicitly suggest that hegemonic structures will undermine any incipient changes in social relations that emerge in interactions. What has been called 'entryism', i.e. the entry of marginalized actors into organizations, has often been viewed in an ambivalent light particularly by critical theorists who have questioned whether marginalized actors who join organizations can do so without becoming coopted. Does the entry of some actors from marginalized groups into organizations advance the opportunities for others or, as some have argued, do actors who succeed become coopted or even participants in the legitimization and reproduction of systems of exclusion? This article theorizes the role organizations play in contributing to the reproduction or disruption and transformation of regimes of inequality. Scholarship regarding the potential for micro-emancipatory actions to generate more substantial social change is at a crossroads. While research findings illustrate the binary of outsider/insider is transgressed and there is a sense that larger scale change is occurring as a result, existing theories have not enabled us to account for how this change is occurring – if it is. This article illustrates how postcolonial and new materialist theories offer distinctive conceptual insights that enable us to advance our understanding of how the entry of marginalized actors into organizations may contribute to destabilization and transformation of regimes of inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2018, a wave of climate change activism emerged in response to calls from scientists for urgent, unprecedented, and far-reaching changes to address the climate crisis. Three social movements, Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, and the Sunrise Movement, have received the most attention and continue to grow. Synthesizing and integrating Erik Olin Wright's theories of social transformation, the authors apply Wright's work to analyze these movements and identify barriers and opportunities moving forward. While significant forces of social reproduction continue to shape politics and constrain climate action, unintended social consequences combined with new social movements are ripening conditions for transformation. The authors identify non-reformist reforms, a forceful form of symbiotic transformation pushed forward by social movements, as the most likely strategy to address the climate crisis and catalyze broader emancipatory transformation. While climate movements face significant opposition, they continue to grow and create a stronger trajectory for deep social change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Through the analysis of the musical panorama of Ribeira Peixe, located in the south of the island of São Tomé, one can observe the changes in boundaries, territorial and social ones, visible and invisible. The transformations in the political and social situation of the archipelago, during the period of modern colonialism and in the first years of the country's independence, were reflected in the music interpreted and created by several socio-cultural groups that inhabited the same space. The increase in boundary porosity resulted in the emergence of borderlands, notable in music and leisure activities after independence. However, while social integration processes were taking place in the area, its marginalization became more acute. This may have been related to the distancing of the other islanders from the community of that place, made up of Angolares and ex-indentured laborers. The testimonies of people involved in musical creation and of the other inhabitants convey the feeling of being marginalized by the authorities and the rest of the island's population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There has been global growth in the number of social innovation initiatives launched in the university sector over the last decade. These initiatives aim to address complex social problems and to promote institutional change. This surge is occurring without a well-developed empirical knowledge base. This article provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the landscape of social innovation initiatives in the Canadian university sector. Findings show that nearly half of Canada’s 96 universities are associated with at least one initiative; many are interdisciplinary and emphasize collaborative problem-solving with sectors outside the university; and government agencies and charitable foundations are the most common funding sources. Findings suggest there is room for growth and for linking and clustering initiatives. The article concludes with directions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]