We study the marketing of radioactive products in Sweden from 1910 to 1940, using a dataset newspaper and magazine advertisements. use multimodal critical discourse analysis show how marketers harnessed meaning potentials language semiotic resources embed radium discourses science technological development, thus convince consumers its health benefits. find that canny continuously colonized, sha...

Financialized urban governance means that local governments have been increasingly reliant on financial techniques and in some extreme cases, captured by shareholders’ interests. However, financialized mutates with various characteristics of governance. This paper unpacks China based the operation Shanghai Municipal Investment Corporation (SMI). The municipal government uses SMI as an intermedi...

This article focuses on young people who returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda, mostly as children, over ten years ago. They are, by definition, resilient, because they have survived, but there are important variations. For most part, those managed to gain status LRA, likely present themselves ‘resilient’ according notions of self-reliance and entrepreneurialism. The major...

Austerity measures in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in the global south have made it virtually impossible for national health systems to provide quality, comprehensive primary care services to the general population. However, recent scholarship has begun to challenge the suggestion that constrained resources have rendered African institutions powerless; rather, in the current landscape of cl...