Int Jrnl Pol,Cul&Soc

My @IJPCS article "Does Phenomenology (Still) Matter? Three Phenomenological Traditions and Sociological Theory" has been awarded Honorable Mention for Best Article Award from the Section on the History of Sociology and Social Thought of the @ASAnews 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10.100

Introduction to a new special issue on Informal Participation by Laurence Bherer, Pascale Dufour and Françoise Montambeault - 'What Is Informal Participation?' link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New research article by @J_Koscinska develops Bourdieu's theory of social class to investigate urban social movements in #Warsaw #Poland link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Research article: Junrong Sheng investigates how women's organisations navigated state patriarchy under Maoist #China link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The reply David Lehmann can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New review exchange: @MaxwellACameron reviews @davidlehma After the Decolonial: Ethnicity, Gender and Social Justice in Latin America (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

How do activists encourage ethical eating? Political Energy and Political Evaporation: Evaluating the Practice of Shopping for Food System Change investigates strategies used by 'eat local' activists link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper: Discreet Mobilizations Against Discrimination: Informal Participation in the French Suburbs by Marion Carrel reveals how young people mobilise informally to resist stigmatization. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New paper: Regional Think Tanks in Japan: Place Priority Through Infrastructural Consulting, Information Generation, and Leadership Development by Anthony Rausch examines smaller think tanks around Japan #Bib1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Raphael Cohen-Almagor's (@almagor35) reply can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New book review exchange: Thomas Sealy reviews Raphael Cohen-Almagor (@almagor35)'s book 'Just Reasonable Multiculturalism' link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New research article: Mehr Latif explores a case of dispute resolution from Pakistan where kinship leaders play a key role in resolving local disputes. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

link.springer.com/article/10.100… New research article: "Agricultural Liberalization and Diverging Modes of Farm Mobilization in Japan and Korea" by Jennifer S. Oh investigates why voter mobilization of farmers has diverged between Japan and Korea

link.springer.com/article/10.100… New research article: 'Neoliberal Malaise, 2013 “June Journeys” and the Criminalization of the Protests in Brazil: a Re-reading Through Louis Althusser' by Guilherme Leite Gonçalves provides an analysis of how the Brazilian state has responded to protests

link.springer.com/article/10.100… Lyn Spillman's reply can be found here:

link.springer.com/article/10.100… New book review exchange: Anne Taylor reviews Lyn Spillman's "What is Cultural Sociology?"

link.springer.com/article/10.100… New research article: 'The So-called Failure of the State: Rethinking the State, Civil Society, and Criminal Organizations' by Lynn Holland reframes the relation between transnational criminal organisations and states as a partnership, not opposition

New pub on place and community among unhoused Oaklanders. Especially pleased with the quality color images @IJPCS was able to run. Free access or dm me for a pdf: rdcu.be/cObXT #housing #homelessness #placemaking #urbanplanning #grassrootsorganizing

link.springer.com/article/10.100… In 'Reclaiming Placemaking for an Alternative Politics of Legitimacy and Community in Homelessness', Gordon Douglas @Neighborhoodist shows how placemaking becomes part of a subtle politics of visibility, being, and legitimacy for unhoused people

link.springer.com/article/10.100… In '‘Dubai’ as a Place of Memory in Malayalam Cinema' (Open Access), @ShafeeqVly investigates cinematic memory as a resource for remembering large-scale Keralan migration to the Gulf since the late 1960s

Four new research articles published in May (so far) on a range of topics: