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The construction of migrant population across India–Bangladesh borders is premised on cultural affiliation, religious sentiments and the contingent political economy. With a history of partition in different phases, the subjective conceptions of identity of migrants are layered and complex. The article unravels how identities of migrants are shaped in everyday life through the frame of legality–illegality, religious–political and economic–social aspects. Drawing on previous research and empirical engagement, the article engages with the questions on citizenship, residency, identity, belonging, exclusion and inclusion. The field work in the borderland district of North 24 Parganas provides rich description about the life and circumstances of migrants at the threshold of security and insecurity, belonging and unbelonging around layers of caste and communal tangle. The article presents a grounded understanding on the politics of documenting and phenomenon of maintaining undocumentedness. To explain the social construction of identity, the article explores the role of Hindu nationalist ideas that influences the negotiation of migrant populations around religious lines; either accepted, ignored, patronized or kept insecure, susceptible to fear and exclusion.

"From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization ... The book explores how eleven post-socialist countries address the very idea of FDI as an integral part of their market transition. The inflows of foreign capital after the collapse of Communism resulted not from the withdrawal of states from the economy, as is commonly expected, but rather from the active involvement of post-socialist states in institutionalizing and legitimizing FDI. Using a wide array of data sources, and combining a macro-level account of national variation in the liberalization to foreign capital with a micro-level account of FDI transactions in the decade following the collapse of Communism in 1989, the book reveals how social forces not only constrain economic transformations but also make them possible."--Jacket

Preliminary Material -- The Structure of the Social -- Identity -- Beliefs, Attitudes, Interests, Motivations -- Knowledge, Knowing, Situated Cognition -- Toward an Anthropology of Inscriptions -- Participating and Interacting -- Institutional Relations -- Interacting with Technology -- Discursive Psychology and Ethnomethodology -- How Experts Analyze Data -- Transcription Conventions -- References -- Index.

What are reviews? -- Toward a theory of credible rating systems -- Connoisseurial reviews: restaurants -- Procedural reviews: statistical software -- The production of reviews -- Audiences, credibility, and the social construction of reviews -- "Dining is my sport": reception and hierarchies -- Reviews and the status culture

"Cyberactivism already has a rich history, but over the past decade the participatory web--with its de-centralized information/media sharing, portability, storage capacity, and user-generated content--has reshaped political and social change. Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web examines the impact of these new technologies on political organizing and protest across the political spectrum, from the Arab Spring to artists to far-right groups. Linking new information and communication technologies to possibilities for solidarity and action--as well as surveillance and control--in a context of global capital flow, war, and environmental crisis, the contributors to this volume provide nuanced analyses of the dramatic transformations in media, citizenship, and social movements taking place today. "--

What are the origins of the digital device controversies? -- How are digital devices impacting privacy and social interaction? -- How do digital devices affect the brain and thought processes? -- How do digital devices affect physical and mental health? -- Do digital devices promote crime?.

"Could Wal-Mart offer a better solution to healthcare than Medicaid? Could GE help reduce global warming faster than the Kyoto protocol? Social Innovation, Inc. declares a new era where companies profit from social change. Leading corporations like GE, Wellpoint, Travelers and Wal-Mart are transforming social responsibility into social innovation and revolutionizing the way we think about the role of business in society. Based on four years of measuring the social strategies of America's leading corporations, Jason Saul lays out the five strategies for social innovation and offers a practical roadmap for how to get started. Explains the fundamental shift in the role of business in society, from social contract to social capital market. Identifies the 5 social innovation strategies: submarket products and services, social points of entry, pipeline talent, reverse lobbying, and emotive customer bonding. Offers step-by-step guidance for creating economic value through positive social change. Social Innovation, Inc. is about making social change work for the business, and in turn staying relevant in the new economy."--

Foreword to the First Edition /Adeline Gordon Levine --1.Toxic Exposure: The Plague of Our Time --The Plague as a Metaphor for Toxic Exposure --Contaminated Communities --Contamination as a Widespread Event --Defining a Contaminated Community --The Stages of Toxic Disaster --Collateral Damage in the Risk Society --The Theory of Environmental Turbulence --2.Legler: The Story of a Contaminated Community --A Methodological Note --Groundwater Contamination in Legler --Period of Incubation --Discovery and Announcement --Disruption of Lifestyle: Water Delivery --The Hookup of City Water --Lingering Concerns --Afterword About the Landfill's Afterlife --3.Lifescape Change: Cognitive Adjustment to Toxic Exposure --Defending Our Prior Assumptions --Perceiving a Changed Status --Perceptions of Health --Inherent Uncertainty --Confirmed Exposures --Environment --Loss of Personal Control --The Inversion of Home --Loss of Social Trust --Conclusion: The Lifescape Impacts of Toxic Exposure --4.Individual and Family Impacts --Coping with Exposure: Individuals --Outcomes: Positive and Negative --Coping with Exposure: Couples --Coping with Exposure: Children --Case Studies of Family Dynamics --Stigmatized Relationships: Outsiders Just Don't Understand --Neighbors: Proximate Support --Summary: Individual and Family Impacts --5.Disabling Citizens: The Governmental Response to Toxic Exposure --A Dialectic of Double Binds --Communicational Distortion in the Institutional Context --Distortion and the Communication of Bad News --Differing Paradigms of Risk Between Citizens and Regulators --Institutional Contexts --6.The Enabling Response: Community Development and Toxic Exposure --Enablement Through Community Development --Keys to Enablement: Leadership and Activism --Key Benefits of Community Development --The Consensus/Dissensus Continuum --Consensus and Dissensus in Legler --Consensus and Dissensus Elsewhere --Toxic Victims: A New Social Movement? --Sustainability as a Metaenvironmental Justice Issue --Conclusion: A Radical Environmental Populism --7.The Societal Meaning of Pollution --Denial and the Culture of Contamination --Rejecting a Contaminating Culture: Local Environmental Resistance --Changing the Culture of Contamination --Cultural Immunity: Last Defense of the Contaminating Culture --Sustainability as the Third Stage of Modernity.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives implemented by large coffee corporations and determine whether their practices could be applied to Oaxaca, Mexico's coffee growing region to improve that region's coffee sector. While Oaxaca has the topographic propensity to grow quality coffee, its success as a reputable coffee growing region has been stagnated. This project indicated that Oaxaca is not prospering in high quality or niche coffee markets due to interrelated issues of inefficiency in the sector, high levels of poverty in coffee growing regions, lack of business training and agronomy education, and inconsistent aid from both state and federal governments. To make up for the region's shortcomings, it is recommended that Oaxaca look to CSR, which in part has been applied through nonprofit organizations' certification schemes such as Fair Trade USA, Rainforest Alliance or UTZ CERTIFIED. This study recommends that Oaxacan farmers first look to systems that focus on farmer training and improving the quality and consistency of their coffee beans. It is then recommended that farmers seek out niche markets and certification schemes that reward farmers with price premiums. By distinguishing their coffee from the conventional coffee market, farmers may "de-commodify" their coffee, making it more valuable and less susceptible to the volatile coffee commodity market. The study also concludes that there is a need for a reform in the sector's auditing practices, and that civil society is a vital component for stimulating increased sales of ethically sourced coffee

Defence date: 14 June 2016 ; Examining Board: Professor Pepper D. Culpepper, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Sven H. Steinmo, European University Institute (Co-Supervisor); Professor Ben W. Ansell, University of Oxford; Professor Marius R. Busemeyer, University of Konstanz. ; Awarded the Linz-Rokkan Thesis Prize in Political Sociology at the European University Institute conferring ceremony on 9 June 2017 ; In this thesis, I ask about the political determinants of educational inequalities, and posit that as school quality differs, the competition for school places poses a problem to the social right of equal educational opportunities at the compulsory education level. What are the policy options to equalise access to quality education? When are these reformed? These questions motivated the design of a typology of Student Sorting Institutions with which we can meaningfully compare formal institutional arrangements that interfere in the competition for quality school places. A critical review of sociology of stratification and economics of education literature suggests classifying Student Sorting Institutions along two dimensions: whether they grant school choice to parents, and whether the allocation process permits academic selection. Building on recent insights of the field of political economy of education, the thesis explains institutional reform with an interest-based approach. Policymakers encounter a trilemma between high choice, low selection and enhancing school quality in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: the high choice/low selection option of regulating school choice particularly benefits students that want to opt out of disadvantaged neighbourhood schools, hence risking increasing segregation of such schools. The winners of each institutional arrangement vary according to income and education. How the trilemma is solved depends on parties in government who cater to their electorates' interests. These then change with educational expansion. The high political cost and uncertain benefit structure of such institutions favour the status quo. With the use of new insights in the methodology of process tracing, I show that the theory empirically accounts for variation of reform trajectories in France, Sweden, and the UK (England for school policy) from the 1980s to the 2000s. In contrast, I argue that my findings shed doubt on the explanatory role of neoliberal ideas and path-dependent feedback effects to account for these reform trajectories.

"Der Beitrag beabsichtigt, die politische Dimension von CSR zu beleuchten, indem der Wandel der Position der Europäischen Kommission hinsichtlich CSR zwischen 2001 und 2006 als Ergebnis politischer Prozesse innerhalb einer 'issue arena' analysiert und interpretiert wird. Dabei wird auf schriftliche Dokumente der wichtigsten Akteure (EU-Kommission, EU-Parlament, EU-Rat, Interessensverbände der Wirtschaft und zivilgesellschaftliche CSR-Plattformen) sowie auf Interviews mit hochrangigen VertreterInnen dieser Institutionen (durchgeführt im Frühling 2008) zurückgegriffen." (Autorenreferat)