This study of domestic workers and employers in Kolkata (India) examines the significance workplace humiliation as an important yet neglected concept for organization studies. It identifies practices symbolic, sexual physical that shape corporeality subjectivity such a way feel inferior, fearful docile. Practices serve purpose social reproduction by stabilizing existing skewed power relations b...

Abstract Much scholarship has revealed the interrelationships of urbanization and financialization cities in past half century. However, these twin processes are modulating with advent application digital platforms towards production experience urban life. This paper demonstrates how datafication process platform urbanism smart city projects is deeply intertwined urbanization. Though materially...

This article attempts to examine the use of morphological deviation as a style foregrounding in Timothy Wangusa’s poetry collection -Africa’s New Brood. According Geoffrey Leech, “poetic language may violate or deviate from generally observed rules many ways, some obvious, subtle. Both means and motive for are worth careful study” (Leech, 1969, p. 5) It is this licentious that brings “…about an...

Employing an ethnographic approach, I analyse the agentive practices of a codevelopment project named Africoop, showing how it navigates migration-development field by blending egalitarianism rights-based concerns with hierarchical political authority, foregrounding economic neoliberalism and translating development. Africoop advocated for migrants rights opened up opportunities social mobility...

This article explores how scenography, specifically the visual-aural-spatial elements of a performance, shapes response an audience by acting as either guiding element to performance or its primary meaning. Through case study Pan Theatre’s All That Fall (2011) in Abbey Theatre, Dublin, this investigates sound, lighting and spatial designs exploit audience’s embodied responses. In conjunction wi...

The literature on later-life care is dominated by a focus women as carers and older people receivers, not providers, of care, well the analytical disembedding from wider social economic processes. We examine experiences caring former labour migrants who had migrated Lesotho to work in South Africa’s mines order how these have changed over their lives. latter demanded tying experience into socia...

Fluid intelligence has been associated with a distributed cognitive control or multiple-demand (MD) network, comprising regions of lateral frontal, insular, dorsomedial frontal, and parietal cortex. Human fluid intelligence is also intimately linked to task complexity, and the process of solving complex problems in a sequence of simpler, more focused parts. Here, a complex target detection task...

ABSTRACT Refusal of abject commodification undergirds contemporary international law definitions slavery and their growing linkage to economic agreements through injunctions against the use forced labor. Yet there are screaming silences in ongoing attempts grapple with prevalence significance global economy. This contribution special issue on racial capitalism calls for a reckoning past slavery...