Abstract Research shows that ethnic identification increases on the eve of competitive elections in Africa, but does it do so at expense national solidarities? Do exacerbate negative expressions strong attachments-coethnic favoritism, relative status concerns, and social distance to other groups? These questions are important because latter attitudes perceptions linked a host ills democracies. ...

In this article, I discuss the peculiar ‘agencies' attributed to child/childhood under neoliberalism as a symptom of its crises and antagonisms, with focus also on practical struggles solidarities such analyses might promote/afford. Specifically, theme Special Issue aligns an approach have named ‘Child method', which geopolitical dynamics intersections performed resisted by practices around chi...

Body mapping is an intimate cartographic process that involves tracing the body and exploring one’s embodied experience. This visual, arts-based highly reflective, designed to empower communities express share stories – often those difficult utter. Steeped in various activist feminist traditions, also a practice of care. It not just about producing map but coming together tend build solidaritie...

Abstract This article addresses contradictions in the 'pluriverse' of radical alternatives to maldevelopment, and proposes an integrative framework for fostering productive convergences among its forces. It argues that 2020s 2030s will be pivotal decades, which current global conjuncture, characterized by intensifying economic turmoil, climate change, ecological crises, translate into increased...

This paper addresses the theoretical question of how competing models social and economic solidarity shape patterns governance in periods crisis. Using COVID-19 pandemic as a signal case, we seek to understand changes public opinion response similar shocks are informed by deeper ideational structures among citizens relating their capacity for empathy, mutual support, willingness support trust p...

Abstract Family solidarities remain strong in African societies. In Ouagadougou, transfers within extended family networks provide an omnipresent means for coping with life's difficulties, and the desired number of children remains relatively high. The role maintaining high fertility is rarely studied however lack data conventional demographic surveys. This study uses original retrospective log...

Researchers in development studies have expressed discomfort at the hierarchy inherent use of ‘North’ and ‘South’, cognate concepts like ‘First’ ‘Third World’, or ‘emerging economies’. Instead setting aside terminology, this article delves into layered meaning-making around notion South. Drawing on multi- inter-disciplinary perspectives, it maps out South as (1) territory constructed through hi...

This study investigates how social media creators navigate and respond to severe cases of ongoing, networked harassment. Drawing on 19 in-depth interviews with Twitch streamers who experienced a form harassment known as “hate raids” the platform, including three built shared tools combat these attacks, this analysis pays particular attention nature coordination responses extent which creators’ ...

This paper fills a gap in the literature of platform economy relation to consumers’ perceptions and actions regarding labour justice. It coins term ‘platformised consumer activism’ explores #cancel_efood appraise how activism is expressed through against platforms. In September 2021, one most popular delivery service apps Greece suddenly requested its workers who were on short-term expiring con...

In the last generation, social scientists have made great advances in understanding the forces behind the welfare state-or public social spending and provision. Scholars have asked why those aided by the state get what they do in the ways that they do for a number of circumstances affecting income and life chances. Typically, the object of study has been the state's efforts through spending or ...