A popular explanation for the recent success of right-wing populist candidates, parties and movements is that this “revenge places don't matter”. Under meso-level account, as economic development focuses on increasingly prosperous cities, voters in less dynamic rural areas feel neglected by political establishment, back radical change. However, premise typically tested through analysis voting b...

We describe a non-Arrhenius mechanism for slowing down of dynamics that is inherent to the high dimensionality of the phase space. We show that such a mechanism is at work both in a family of mean-field spin-glass models without any domain structure and in the case of ferromagnetic domain growth. The marginality of spin-glass dynamics, as well as the existence of a ‘quasi equilibrium regime’ ca...

Second-generation youth in Toronto, growing up in low-income neighbourhoods, interact primarily with other racialized and ethnicized people. Within this environment they do not experience racial prejudice or discrimination, appreciate the cultural diversity around them, and attribute it to Canada's ideology of multiculturalism. However, they are beginning to realize their own subjectivity in re...

Ethiopian immigrants in South Africa are increasingly occupying informal trading space townships, rural areas and select central business districts across the country. This article documents experiences of migrants sector Africa. Theoretically, rests on concept everyday life. It draws data from interviews, focus group discussions observations carried out between October 2020 September 2021. sig...