BACKGROUND Among all racial and ethnic groups in the USA, African Americans bear the greatest burden from tobacco related disease. The tobacco industry has been highly influential in the African American community for decades, providing funding and other resources to community leaders and emphasising publicly its support for civil rights causes and groups, while ignoring the negative health eff...

Abstract Modern agriculture is underpinned by a colonial, industrial and productivist discourse. Agricultural practices inspired this discourse have fed billions but degraded socio-ecological systems. Regenerative (RA) prominent alternative seeking to transform food production repair ecosystems. This paper proposes that RA supported shared storyline binding diverse actors discourses together—a ...

Abstract Understanding the dynamics of stability and change is key to accelerate sustainability transitions. This paper aims advance inspire transition research on this matter by collecting insights from interpretative environmental discourse literature. We develop a heuristic that identifies describes core discursive elements in socio-technical system. In doing so, we show how interplay meta-,...

This article contributes to ongoing discussions in the social sciences about how interpret incorporation of gender equality into integration policies – is it a form state feminism or femonationalism? Drawing upon intersectionality, we analyse presented, discussed and negotiated relation ethnicity nationality Sweden. Methodologically, employ bifocal lens that combines (1) quantitative investigat...

In 2018, the World Bank reported poor performance among counties in Kenya, citing low absorption rates and sluggish project delivery. This has been attributed to insufficient late disbursement of funding, but role change resistance management not examined. The approaches have addressed by scholars. However, there is limited evidence that county governments utilise these techniques. paper explor...

This paper explores how the concept of ‘community policing’ has been understood and implemented in Tanzania. Whilst community policing is locally considered to be a very effective means of preventing crime and improving neighbourhood safety, the extent to which it constitutes a more accountable, responsive or ‘democratic’ form of policing, as assumed by proponents, is questionable. Based on res...

Farming cooperatives are organisations fundamentally based on social capital. However, the neoliberal and globalisation turn in food system have led to economisation of agricultural as their main objective criteria for evaluating performance, a retreat from participation wider cooperative movement. Nevertheless, new models cooperation may provide method divert this neoliberalisation trend by pr...

While many aspects of state-diaspora relations have been explored, the role that youth play in state-led diaspora outreach remains under-researched literature. Democratic and non-democratic states alike, however, actively target for a variety reasons. In this article, we explore how why state like Turkey engages with its perceived by focusing on AKP regimes’ recent engagement within European di...

Participatory forms of governance are increasingly institutionalised in democracies around the world. Yet, we know little about how public officials work to embed participatory governance. This article draws on a decade mixed methods research with practitioners at frontlines democratic innovation. Scotland is undergoing renewal through interplay between state and civil society three agendas: se...

Great socio-economic transitions see the demise of certain industries and rise others. The losers transition tend to deploy a variety tactics obstruct change. We develop political-economy model interest group competition garner evidence deployed in global climate movement. From this we deduce set strategies for how movement competes against entrenched hydrocarbon interests. Five overcoming obst...