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Insurgent Citizenship and Sustained Resistance of a Local Taxi Association
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
A growing body of literature on urban and grassroots social movements is replete with case studies of citizens mobilizing against infrastructural development projects. These mobilizations, known as insurgent citizenship—the ...
Book Review. Griffin, Nathan Stephens. 2017. Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Confronting Institutional Discrimination in a Color-Blind World
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
This article builds on the scholarship on color-blind ideology by examining discourse challenging two cases of institutional discrimination (the criminalization of unauthorized immigrants and sports teams’ use of Native ...
Masculinity and Immigrant Health Practices: How Male Kurdish Immigrants to the United States Think about and Practice Health
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Researchers have identified a host of factors that influence immigrant men’s understanding of and commitment to health, but overall the scholarship is still unsettled, in large part because the experiences of immigrant ...
“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
The reading practices of women, mediated by a prison library in Portugal, constituted an interesting case study. In Santa Cruz do Bispo prison, female prisoners were increasingly aged and excluded from social groups, less ...
The Timing of Pregnancy: Women’s Interpretations of Planned and Unplanned Pregnancy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
In this paper, we apply the concept of timing to explore the meaning that women attach towards planned and unplanned pregnancy. We conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with 42 Canadian women who were pregnant ...
Intervention Tales: Talk, Documents, and “Engagement” on a Wage Subsidy Project
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork on a wage subsidy project for NEETs in London, this article examines how talk and documents are used to make sense of caseloads and clients. The article draws attention to the way that ...
Community Immersion, Trust-Building, and Recruitment among Hard to Reach Populations: A Case Study of Muslim Women in Detroit Metro Area
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
Scholars have identified a range of factors that influence the ability of researchers to access hard-toreach groups and the willingness of their members to participate in research. In this paper, we draw on insights from ...
A Big Win in Smalltown: Demanding Dignity in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
This article explores the concepts of dignity at work and worker voice in the public workplace during a period of surging neoliberal austerity intended to reduce taxes, government regulations, and public services. I ask ...