The sociology of Southeast Asia : transformations in a developing region
Anthropology ; Asia ; Ethnic community ; Geopolitics ; Modernization ; Political economy ; Social change ; Society ; Sociology ; South-Eastern Asia ; Tradition ; Underdevelopment
and economic players. The work is divided in 11 chapters : 1 - The Sociology of a Diverse Region, 2 - The Sociological Context, 3 - Modernization and Post-War Social Change, 4 - Underdevelopment and Dependency, 5 - Social Class, the State and Political Economy
The book aims to provide to students a general view on the sociological aspects of Southeast Asian countries. Over the last thirty years many and rapid changes took place in the area. Traditional societies followed the pace of modernization. While
facing serious military conflicts and widespread political instability, Southeast Asian countries were also the focus of superpower engagement following decolonization. Since then ASEAN has expanded and enter into dialogue with global political
The Problems of Mexico: An Analysis of a Sociological Discourse
Discourse ; Mexico ; Research ; Scientific publication ; Social geography ; Sociology ; discourse analysis ; journals ; social problems ; sociology
Based on an empirical analysis of articles published between 1987 and 2006 in three major Mexican sociological journals, this article traces the continuities and discontinuities in the study of the alleged malfunctioning of Mexican society
. The study of how sociologists represented Mexican society has revealed several discursive dynamics. The traditional economic and political perspectives blaming social problems on elites predominate. Studies of electoral system flaws, political contention
Modes of domination and everyday life: Some notes on recent research in City, class and capital. New developments in the political economy of cities and regions.
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Urban policy and local power: some aspects of recent research in Lille in City, class and capital. New developments in the political economy of cities and regions.
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Gender and organisational restructuring in the national health service : performance, identity and politics
Gender ; Identity ; Labour ; Medical services ; Sociology ; United Kingdom ; Woman ; Work organization ; Workplace
to trace the place and articulations of organisation, profession and gender in the construction and presentation of self. This emphasis on agency, resistance and personal politics has important implications for thinking about the nature and form
Daily life ; Theory ; Urban area ; Urban life ; Urban sociology
The A. wants to explore more closely Lefebvre's injunction for a careful examination of the relationship between space, language and politics. He wants to examine the metaphors used by scholars theorizing urban space and everyday urban life
. Conceptual and political problems are associated with the adoption of various metaphors about urban space.
Behaviour ; Cultural geography ; Employment ; Labour ; Political geography ; Politics;Policy ; Religion ; Religious practice ; Sex discrimination ; Social anthropology ; Social change ; Society ; Sociology ; Spain
Love thy neighbourhood - rethinking the politics of scale and Walsall's struggle for neighbourhood democracy
Birmingham ; Concept ; Democracy ; Local policy ; Neighbourhood ; Place ; Production of space ; United Kingdom ; Urban area ; Urban district ; Urban sociology ; West Midlands
In light of its contemporary political popularity, the paper presents a critical reanalysis of the concept of neighbourhood. It explores the ideological and political uses of the ideal of neighbourhood, and how these processes relate to a particular
politics of scale. It combines theories of scale with Lefebvre's work on the production of space. The A. explores the political narratives and practices through which the neighbourhood scale is produced and contested, and question the ability
of neighbourhoods to offer locally empowering scales of political and social organisation.
Introduction. The new school of urban and regional research: into the second decade in City, class and capital. New developments in the political economy of cities and regions.
Evolution des recherches urbaines depuis 1977 (cf. Harloe, M., ed.: Captive Cities: Studies in the political economy of city and regions, London: John Wiley, 1977) la tension entre les approches marxistes et webériennes s'atténue, les recherches sur
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Mapping politics: how context counts in electoral geography
Choice ; Electoral behaviour ; Electoral geography ; Italy ; Neighbourhood ; Place ; Political geography ; Spatial analysis
which abandons the identification of context with a single geographical scale and provides a way of bridging the gap between abstract sociological and concrete geographical analysis. The Italian electoral geography is explored over the period 1947-94
Social structure, spatial structure and problems of ecological analysis: the example of Prague in City, class and capital. New developments in the political economy of cities and regions.
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The production of the general conditions of social production and the role of the state in City, class and capital. New developments in the political economy of cities and regions.
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Collective consumption, the state and the crisis of capitalist society in City, class and capital. New developments in the political economy of cities and regions.
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