Tracking habitus across a transnational professional field

Racializing Culture and Class in a Transnational Field

Democracy, the Academic Field and the (New Zealand) Journalistic Habitus

The relationship between journalism and the academy is historically fraught. Any mention of the word ‘theory’ is only likely to exacerbate these tensions, since it perhaps signifies, most clearly, the division between both identities. Drawing on the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper considers, with particular empirical reference to the New Zealand context, the often antagonistic rela...

Trading up and governing across: transnational governance and environmental protection

This article explores the adequacy of international governance mechanisms to address environmental issues. It examines the impact of increased global economic integration on national and regional environmental standards, the role of market mechanisms in facilitating the dissemination of environmental standards from greener nations to less green ones and the impact of international agreements on...

Professional Gender Gaps Across US Cities

Gender imbalances in work environments have been a longstanding concern. Identifying the existence of such imbalances is key to designing policies to help overcome them. In this work, we study gender trends in employment across various dimensions in the United States. This is done by analyzing anonymous, aggregate statistics that were extracted from LinkedIn’s advertising platform. The data con...

Enabling Professional Communication for Practitioners across Europe

This paper describes the evaluation of an online course in Neonatal Medicine, which involved medical practitioners across Europe. It focuses on analysis of the discussion groups. The project aimed to develop an online course for practitioners and included the development of 4 modules. Delivery was achieved using hybrid technology via distribution of course materials on CD ROMs accompanied by an...