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... mortality quantification socioeconomics According to Public Health France, at the end of the first year of the pandemic in France, 5,921 nursing homes for the elderly (79.6 percent) had recorded at least one case of COVID-19. Some had to deal with an isolated case, others with veritable clusters...

...Philipp Scholz Rittermann; Carol McCusker In 2009 and 2010, photographer Philipp Scholz Rittermann followed China’s thousand-mile-long Grand Canal. His images reveal the layers of contemporary China’s socioeconomic strata and the collision of antiquity with modernity in urban, industrial, and rural...

... of thousands of avoidable deaths. The neoliberal wave of deregulation and privatization that swept across the US and UK in the late 1970s, and continues to wash over us today, has hollowed out the foundation of the global socioeconomic and ecological order. Historic levels of inequality, systemic racism...

... was compelled to recognize that the same demos not only valued the socioeconomic rights that underpin what Charles Taylor calls “affirmation of ordinary life”3 (i.e., the life of production and repro- duction) but also perceived a close link...

... commercialization, rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises, large- scale labor migration, and increased foreign investment. A popular saying captures the fundamentals of the socioeconomic transformations undergone since Mao’s policies were succeeded by those of Deng and Jiang: This essay draws...

... men and/or women, although rarely discussed are statistics showing that domestic violence takes place in all socioeconomic and ethnic groups. The new focus on masculine domination was both restricted in scope and tar- geted within noticeably geographic boundaries. The newly mainstream feminism...

... social inequali- ties because of how they use this classification. Given the rising prevalence of diabetes, a critical analysis of its socioeconomic contexts and the organization of medical knowledge about it is needed. This essay picks apart the “typing” of people entailed in diabetes...

... the supposedly recent emergence of what they described as wealth that escapes structures of authority. To them, unsanctioned wealth involves accu- mulation that is not authorized by the prevailing socioeconomic hierarchy, or both official and unofficial instances of regulation—be they at the state level...

... of socioeconomic initiatives. Not satisfied with the prospect of an empty or qualified liberty, Césaire saw departmentalization as a vehicle for integrated emancipa- tion wherein legal, political, and socioeconomic freedoms would reinforce one another. Rather than evaluate this program...

... attachments or socioeconomic position alone (Sassen 1999; cf. Rancière 1989; Calhoun 2012, chap. 5). One outcome of all of this attention is that Mumbai’s slums are often under- stood in terms of readily available narratives about the urban poor. Slums are ghettos that concentrate social dysfunction...

... position”—that is, the position from which the social contract is negotiated, in which citizens are supposed to be deprived of any knowledge of their con- crete socioeconomic circumstances; see Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), sec. 22. For a neo-Hobbist account...

... of the risk involved in such a philosophy. (Quoted in Caulfield 1990 : 67) Ultimately, in an effort to balance the contradictory demands of regulatory precision and socioeconomic reality, the federal government adopted the policy of ALARA in 1975. Still in practice today, ALARA requires that radiation...

...- linguistic identities being transformed for people increasingly experiencing not only socioeconomic globalization but globalization of consciousness? What space- time structuring principles are coming into play? What, more generally...

..., such as Bangalore computer specialists or Bombay call-­center operators. But the exis- tence of such disjunctive flows does not deny the push toward political agency that postcolonialism entails. Nor does the heterogeneity of socioeconomic phenomena resulting from colonial situations disqualify postcolonial...

.... : Harvard University Press . Kindleberger Charles P. Aliber Robert . 2005 [1975] . Manias, panics, and crashes: A history of financial crises . 5th ed. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley . Krippner Greta R. 2005 . The financialization of the American economy . SocioEconomic Review 3...

... and housing came tumbling down was whether the increased public recognition of mental health problems arising from fast-paced socioeconomic change and sociospatial dislocation in China ( Yang 2017a) , in the form of a rapidly expanding regime of therapeutic governance, was lending a hand in managing...

.... Particularly since the Second World War, with the political independence of colonial countries, the terms “modernization” and “modernity” have helped to incorporate into that story the role of the state in the planning of socioeconomic development...

... colleague recently asked me, “Is this author Black? Because if she is, then we should definitely put her picture on the jacket.” Although an essentialist notion of a monolithic Black readership is problematic, the fact remains that there is a socioeconomically and regionally diverse Black...

... races and ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and national origins. Uncovering everyday social dynamics of inequality in settings where established structures of inequality—segregation and the division of labor—are sidelined by explicit adoption of egalitarian principles, however, I find that even when...

... to Israel .” In Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration , edited by Levy Daniel Weiss Yfaat , 36 – 56 . New York : Berghahn Books . Cohen Yinon . 2015 . “ Spatial Politics and Socioeconomic Gaps between Jews and Palestinians in Israel...