This article analyses a campaign urging British university to re-establish in-house cleaning services after years of outsourcing. The small independent union leading the began from an extremely low level power resources and managed build enough associational societal win dispute on cleaners’ working conditions. study is based participant observation union’s activities, document analysis intervi...

Abstract The current rise of populism is often associated with affects. However, the exact relationship between and affects unclear. This article addresses question what distinctive about populist (appeals to) It does so against backdrop a Laclauian conception as political logic that appeals to morally laden frontier two homogenous groups, ‘the people’ ‘those in power’, order establish new hege...

Abstract We seek to understand collective third-party intervention in violent incidents. Based on analyses of 131 video clips captured mobile phones, we argue that bodily alignment between bystanders creates situational groups encourage de-escalatory action. Qualitative analysis reveals third parties generate when they create circular formations, providing greater opportunities notice each othe...

The principal objective of this investigation was to explore the impact philosophy transcendentalism on Henry David Thoreau’s perspectives consumerist principles as described in a Life without Principle. In study, examined through lenses industrialization, consumerism, and capitalism. transcendentalist elements individualism, denouncing large institutions, refuge nature, rejection conformity, f...

Although researchers have focused on different aspects to explain the success of populist movements, perceptions unfairness continue highly overlooked. Despite difficulty in finding evidence, I intend elucidate growing unfairness, anger it causes, and its impact electoral radical left right movements by investigating spread meritocracy discourse ideological repositioning political parties. argu...

Beginning in 1990, Mongolia, a former client state of what was then the Soviet Union, undertook liberal economic reforms. These came as a great shock to Mongolia and Mongolians, and resulted in food shortages, reports of famine, widespread unemployment, and a collapse of public health and health care. Although economic conditions have stabilized in recent years, unemployment and poverty are sti...

The influence of a dense plasma environment on electron tunnelling between two ion potential wells in collectivized states and in charge-transfer collisions is studied. We show that the tunnelling probabilities in dilute plasma (in a close ion–ion collision) and in dense plasma differ strongly. The difference is due to the mixing between Stark components of donor-ion energy levels, caused by th...

Revolution and Family in Rural China: Influence of Family Background on Current Family Wealth This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring’s economic status in post reform rural China by concentrating on the father-son relationship. We focus on two indicators of family background: family class origin (jiating chengfen) and occupational experience. The results of a fami...