The media imperialism thesis is the most widespread systemic account of cultural globalization. In this paper, I argue that the media imperialism approach, as a global version of mass culture theory, shares with it many of its analytical and empirical limitations. While ethnographic approaches in global media studies provide a useful perspective from which to correct some of the empirical flaws...

This article offers a critique and reformulation of the concept of empathy as it is currently used in the context of medicine and medical care. My argument is three pronged. First, that the instrumentalised notion of empathy that has been common within medicine erases the term's rich epistemological history as a special form of understanding, even a vehicle of social inquiry, and has instead su...

In this commentary on the exercise of Lehoux et al (this volume) I argue that in discussions on the current challenges of health systems, a better diagnosis of the health system is required. The cause of responsible innovation in health (RIH) requires a better understanding of the dynamics of health systems, in particular how innovation, demand, and responsibility are m...

T he motion picture medium during its first few decades offers a vivid instance of a nineteenth-century technology which simultaneously gave form to and was shaped by the conceptions of space, time and event which defined the culture of modernity. Whether we invoke modernity in Baudelaire’s sense of the transitory, the fugitive and the contingent, or the sense of the mass reproduction attendant...

The discipline is at a crossroads. Will sociology answer ASA past president Aldon Morris' call for an emancipatory sociology? Or will sociology, as Morris puts it, “continue pretending to be aloof, objective, detached science”? Recently, Hirschman and Garbes issued economic of race, wherein they contend that race racism are not central sociologists don't engage with contemporary scholarship. In...

The concept of the Anthropocene has reintroduced politics denial at centre critical studies international relations. This article interrogates Bruno Latour’s explanation climate change with reference to an ontological difference between Modernity and Anthropocene, together his advocacy for a new language beyond Modern gaze. Our aims are twofold: disclose how posthuman critique risk reproducing ...

one of the most important necessities that victimology requires at least within criminal sciences is to create a general theory describing and explaining all concepts, theories and hypotheses which may be used in this scientific sphere. the present article seeks to introduce such a theory, using key terminologies formed the literature and content of victimology from beginning of its emergence s...

A number of individuals and organizations have considerable influence over the selection of global health priorities and strategies. For some that influence derives from control over financial resources. For others it comes from expertise and claims to moral authority—what can be termed, respectively, epistemic and normative power. In contrast to financial power, we commonly take for granted th...