An emergent polar futurism characterizes the contemporary built space of climate science in Antarctica, inaugurated large part by British Antarctic Survey's cutting-edge Halley VI research base. This article analyzes spatial form, design, and use as well rhetoric surrounding it, seeing an expression a particular “socio-technical imaginary” that implicitly gestures toward tendential integration ...

Globalization is certainly a source of anxiety in the U.S. academic world. And the sources of this anxiety are many: Social scientists (especially economists) worry about whether markets and deregulation produce greater wealth at the price of increased inequality. Political scientists worry that their field might vanish along with their favourite object, the nation-state, if globalization truly...

There was a significant crime growth in the Russian Empire In 1880s general and particular on Ukrainian territory that part of at time. It influenced by set reasons political, social, organizational, economic psychological nature, including disintegration peasant community, proletarianization peasants their influx into cities. The authors this topic have considered two aspects problem: history ...

Family planning (FP) in rural China, particularly the ramifications of the 1-child policy, has profound implications and ramifications for family-centered social and economic life in addition to demographic control. Under a constitutionally endorsed policy of strict birth control, favorable economic opportunities coexisted with the problem of familial labor shortages. Recent reform policies h...

But Parke, as medical officer, was fighting a losing battle. Attention to hygiene and the distribution of quinine tablets did nothing to prevent most members of the expedition-including Parke and Stanley-falling ill on several occasions. Stanley was close to death at one stage, while Parke's companion, Major Jameson, died of blackwater fever. Deaths were even more frequent among the African bea...

But Parke, as medical officer, was fighting a losing battle. Attention to hygiene and the distribution of quinine tablets did nothing to prevent most members of the expedition-including Parke and Stanley-falling ill on several occasions. Stanley was close to death at one stage, while Parke's companion, Major Jameson, died of blackwater fever. Deaths were even more frequent among the African bea...

Focusing on dams and sand quarries, I discuss extractivism’s racialised workings along the uppermost stretch of Tigris river in Turkey’s Kurdistan. In conversation with decolonial scholarship “the Anthropocene”, theorise through aesthetics symbolic, epistemic, corporeal violence reducing value human nonhuman life agency to that an extractable resource. My contribution this involves a twofold ar...

Marx’s methodology is indispensable for identifying a) the capitalist structural conditions and macro-level processes that are the foundations of the inequality between men and women in capitalist societies; and b) the limits of political and legal changes to end gender inequality. The oppression of women is the visible, observable effect (e.g., in the labor market, in socioeconomic stratificat...

Using the world-systems perspective, this essay discusses the trajectories of several types of globalization over the last 100 years and the recent surge in public cognizance of global processes. It is found that different types of globalization have different temporal characteristics. Some are long-term upward trends, while others display large cyclical oscillations. The factors that explain t...