This paper describes an ethnographic field study of the pricing process in a manufacturing firm selling products to its distributors. In the study, we address the social construction processes by which organizational members make meaning of prices and pricing. Following the logic of the social construction of reality, we treat price and pricing as a “sector of reality,” a specific part of every...

Abstract In this article, I am concerned with the ways different ethnic and religious groups in contemporary Sri Lanka use rhetorics of humanitarianism. Exploring a range examples drawn from an inner city community, humanitarian foundations national government, show how actors deploy cosmopolitan nationalist to obfuscate claims war crimes communal favouritism on one side, encourage allegiance L...

In 2011 the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) published the Regulations on Hyperandrogenism, a health policy banning female athletes from track and field competition if their natural levels of testosterone were found to be higher than those of most female athletes. In 2014, Dutee Chand, a sprinter from India, was banned from competition based on these regulations. She app...

Research Article| May 01 2022 Queering Performativity Zeynep Gambetti ZEYNEP GAMBETTI is an independent scholar who taught as Associate Professor of political theory at Boğaziçi University until 2019. Her theoretical work focuses on contemporary forms violence and resistance. Among her publications are Rhetorics Insecurity: Belonging Violence in the Neoliberal Era (coedited with Marcial Godoy-A...

This paper critically explores some of the key assertions of the green business literature. It draws upon the author's theoretical and empirical work on the politics and practice of green consultants, managers and environmental regulators to examine the way the natural environment is socially constructed and contested. The rhetorics and discourses of key players are examined and conclusions are...

Procurement is an important but neglected issue within the social science analysis of technology. Where studies have been conducted, they are typically marked by a schism between rationalist (e.g. economic) forms of analysis, where the assumption is that choice is the outcome of formal assessment, and cultural sociological approaches, which see choice as driven by the micropolitics of the organ...

This article addresses the main scholarly frames that supported the deservingness of unauthorized immigrants to health benefits in the United States (U.S.) following the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), known as the Welfare Reform bill, in 1996. Based on a critical literature review, conducted between January 1997 and March 2011, this article ...