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.... In this context, humanitarian actors, international organizations, and NGOs have enhanced their roles in the EU border regime and have become a substantive element of migration management to such an extent that we can speak of an NGOization of migration policies. The squatting of City Plaza Hotel in Athens...

...Jamie Woodcock Much of the existing research on platform work has focused on the role of data and algorithmic management. These new techniques of management need to be critically understood, but there is a risk of overemphasizing the importance and power of these techniques. The obscuring processes...

... in recognizing everyday hidden practices as not always hidden, but dispersed and inconsistent because of the mutual learning capabilities between platform drivers and algorithmic managers. The hidden transcripts of platform drivers delve into public realms and back following, enabling platform drivers to develop...

...” of electoral procedures under the conditions of the regime of managed democracy and as an expression of the limits of any “really existing democracy” in the age of biopolitical governmentality. This introduction also highlights the engaged positions of the authors, who have been active participants...

...Ilya Budraitskis In his essay “The Weakest Link of Managed Democracy: How the Parliament Gave Birth to Nonparliamentary Politics,” Ilya Budraitskis reflects on the model of “managed democracy” in Russian political culture and on the specific place of the Russian Parliament. In December 2011, many...

... of management. Beyond the formal sharing of an independent contractor status, nuanced by a variety of positions including salaried work, platform drivers are unified in practice by their common economic dependence on platforms. This situation gives them the role of an adjustment variable in platforms...

...Áine O’Brien Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Aine O Brien Marketing and Managing Colonial Spectacle as National History: In the Belly of the Archive Imagine you are a prisoner in this cell. Draw a picture of what you would see of the world outside. What does it mean to market...

...Dominique Colas Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Dominique Colas Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism ^^uring the 1993 electoral campaigns in Poland, Bronislaw Geremek, a famous medi­ eval historian and former advisor to Lech Wal§sa, the leader...

...Susan Yanow Current activism around self-managed abortion (SMA) in the United States is born out of innovation, resistance, resilience, and necessity. This article examines the historical origins of SMA in the United States from an activist perspective and outlines the opportunities and challenges...

...Stephen J. Whitfield Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Three Masters of Impression Management: Benjamin Franklin, Booker T. Washington, and Malcolm X as Autobiographers Stephen J. Whitfield During the year when a German journal was publishing in serial form The Protestant Ethic...

...Megan Brown This essay focuses on shifts in attitude toward risk management, which, following the work of Ulrich Beck, is loosely defined as a collection of preventive measures attempting to shield people from the widespread consequences of industrial development. Recent years have seen...

...Marie A. Updike White The Last Actor-Managers . By Pearson Hesketh . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1950 . Pp. 84 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 618 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Last Actor-Managers. By Hesketh Pearson. New York: Harper...

...Roland Hugins Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 The Effect of Scientific Management on Wages Roland Hugins Fellow in Economics in Cornell University Scientific management, like a handsome man, makes a good impression on first acquaintance. To the person who stands outside...

...S. Russell Bridges Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. L July, 1951 Number 3 I MANAGED PRESIDENTS S. RUSSELL BRIDGES, AS TOLD TO KURT SINGER FIFTY-FIVE YEARS ago, when the horseless vehicle was a rarity, a young, ambitious traveling salesman came...

...Scott Warren No More Deaths provides humanitarian aid across several different public land jurisdictions, from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to the National Park Service, to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Each of these public lands agencies partners with the US Border Patrol in doing...

... the privatization of the management of water and other local services of general interest. Ninety-five percent of those voting voted against allowing a profit to be made from managing a commons. This vote was against privatization but also against the old public model, which has at this time been completely...

... demands. Leaseholders continued to feel beholden to expectations that they distribute any resources to which they had access, such as shelter. At the same time, increased monitoring of dwindling resources resulted in gossip and suspicion that made such expectations difficult to manage. Drawing...

...Dinah Rajak This article focuses on HIV/AIDS management at Anglo American, the world's third-biggest mining company, the largest private-sector employer in South Africa and across the continent, and the first company to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) “free of charge” to its workforce...

...Devi Sacchetto; Rutvica Andrijasevic This article shows that global production networks rely on a specific combination of economic and political elements and that labor composition in each production node is specific to the location and contingent on state regulations. The assembly and management...

... Johnson, and academic books such as Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed , by William Connolly, argue that everyday thought or thinking includes animal behaviors and responses. These authors suggest that these behaviors and responses should become the object of managed self-awareness. Their broadened...