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'Repertoires of contention': examining concept, method, context and practice
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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
Shaposhnikov S., Asia and Africa today 2025
Digital transformation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India is critical to enhancing competitiveness and improving economic performance. It also helps address unemployment and regional inequality. However, SMEs face financial constraints, a digital skills shortage, resistance to change, and cybersecurity challenges. The authors analyze the impact of government initiatives such as Digital India, CGTMSE, ...
Added: August 14, 2026
Mehrotra S. K., Singh A. P., IZA Discussion Paper, 2026.
Under what institutional conditions do qualifications frameworks become trusted mechanisms for progression, mobility, and labour-market signalling? This paper starts with this question, and then examines the evolution of India’s qualifications architecture through the trajectory of the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) and the emergence of the National Credit Framework (NCrF). More specifically, it addresses the ...
Added: August 10, 2026
Oulu: University of Oulu, 2015.
This book of abstracts contains all the abstracts of CIFU XII presentations that were accepted. Chapter 1 includes the abstracts of the plenary presentations, chapter 2 the abstracts of the general session papers and chapter 3 the abstracts of the papers submitted to the symposia. The abstracts are presented in alphabetical order by authors' last ...
Added: July 26, 2026
Poplavskaya A., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2026 Т. 29 № 2 С. 257–273
In the book "The End of Early Music," published by Oxford University Press in 2007, oboist and musicologist Bruce Haynes addresses questions about the evolution of music, its composition, performance, and listening. Drawing on his extensive practical and educational experience, he argues for the importance of engaging with the past. Particular attention is given to the ...
Added: July 7, 2026
Baysha O., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология 2026 Т. 12 № 1 С. 107–117
The article analyzes which of the fundamental postulates of the discourse theory by Ernes-to Laclau and Chantal Mouffe found their development in Laclau’s theory of populism and Mouffe’s theory of agonistic democracy. Three basis components of the discourse theory are considered. These are discursive mechanisms by which certain meanings are fixed; the theory of collective ...
Added: June 21, 2026
Singh A., , in: South Asia: History, Politics, International Relations: Proceedings of the International Online Conference: December 1, 2023.: M.: -, 2024. P. 25–28.
Post colonial states emerged as a result of rapid
decolonisation process that gained pace after the Second World War.
The process of decolonisation was not a smooth transition of power, it
was marked by complex processes where the new states tried to identify
themselves. The search for identity made the new states to look for valid
approvals in the system ...
Added: June 9, 2026
Грудников Н. С., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология 2025 № 88 С. 165–178
This article describes the Russian restorative justice movement using the sociological theory of intellectual movements by S. Frickel and N. Gross. By using the heuristic possibilities offered by this theory, it was possible to construct a historical and sociological reconstruction of the emergence, formation and institutionalization of the Russian restorative justice movement. This movement was ...
Added: May 7, 2026
Грудников Н. С., Социология науки и технологий 2026 Т. 17 № 1 С. 241–255
This article examines the key tenets of the theory of scientific/intellectual movements (SIMs) developed by Scott Frickel and Neil Gross, while demonstrating its connection to the recent interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Until recently, sociology lacked a theory with a universal explanatory power for analyzing intellectual movements. The Frickel — Gross framework ...
Added: May 7, 2026
Маленко Маро Янович, Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований 2025 Т. 7 № 2 С. 187–208
The article focuses on "ethnological video games", defined as video games which are developed on the basis of ethnographic and folkloric material. The particular focus is on the kind of ethnological games which contain representation or simulation of shamanistic practices. Among them are "Mooseman" based on Komi-Permyak and Finno-Ugric mythology, "Never Alone" based on Iñupiaq ...
Added: May 4, 2026
Di Puppo L., Roy Chowdhury A., Globalizations 2026 Vol. 23 No. 1 P. 1–9
In this special issue, we bring together the post-colonial and post-socialist conditions of the post-Soviet space and the Indian subcontinent through the study of human–nature relationships. Not only are these two regions entangled through the Eurasian geography, but they also both represent hybrid modernization trajectories characterized by varying socio-political responses to Western modernity and the ...
Added: March 27, 2026
Али Имран, Олалекан О. О., Джонас А., International Organisations Research Journal 2025 Vol. 20 No. 3 P. 147–170
This paper examines the long-term and short-term relationships between economic growth, trade, industrialization, renewable energy consumption, and environmental degradation (CO2 emissions) in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan from 1990 to 2022 using a panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. The study employs correlation analysis, panel cointegration tests, and pooled ARDL to capture the dynamic interactions among ...
Added: March 26, 2026
Klementev I., Вопросы российского и международного права 2024 Т. 14 № 8-1 С. 46–56
The paper examines the evolution of the Indian model of federal relations. The author shows that the highly centralized nature of the state-territorial structure that took place in British India was largely preserved after India gained independence in 1947. Despite the fact that a number of Acts of the British Parliament (Government of India Acts ...
Added: March 24, 2026
Malinov A. V., Философский журнал 2026 Т. 19 № 1 С. 63–80
The article examines the project of a new scientific discipline, ethnosophy, which was proposed by the Africanist V.R. Arseniev (1948–2010) and emerged at the intersection of ethnographic knowledge and philosophy. The features of V.R. Arseniev’s worldview that led him to the idea of a new science are noted: the study of archaic societies; anticolonialism; criticism ...
Added: March 23, 2026
Ssorin-Chaikov N., Venkatesan S., Scott M. W. et al., Critique of Anthropology 2013 Vol. 33 No. 3 P. 300–360
Does the concept of non-dualism have ethnographic purchase or is it mainly of philosophical interest? This article comprises the edited presentation and discussions of the 2011 GDAT debate on the motion ‘Non-dualism is Philosophy not Ethnography’. The debaters proposing the motion were Michael Scott and Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. They were opposed by Christopher Pinney and Joanna ...
Added: March 12, 2026
Ghosh S. C., Social Identities 2023 Vol. 29 No. 6 P. 534–554
Despite the presence of mass grievances and moral indignation
against the political elite and the monied class, the social
movements in Bangladesh in the last decade, albeit very few, have
failed to transform the increasingly authoritarian and
claustrophobic political milieu. In fact, the nation has not seen
that many movements, notwithstanding serious mass grievances
on social, political, and economic issues. This ...
Added: February 27, 2026
Agarwal V., Benmamoun Z., Anjum M. et al., Technology in Society 2026 Vol. 85 Article 103194
The pace at which cities are getting smart creates many dilemmas in trade-offs among technological advancement, sustainability and equity. As cities adopt artificial intelligence (AI), the Metaverse and other related technologies, they face persistent challenges of governance, infrastructure, digital equality, and environmental concerns. Although research is being done on the benefits of having smart cities, ...
Added: February 11, 2026
Strelnikova I., India Quarterly 2026 Vol. 82 No. 1 P. 45–63
The melting polar environment has amplified the strategic significance of the Arctic, transforming it into a theatre for both resource extraction and great power competition. Russia, India and China are increasingly seeking strategic partnerships and economic opportunities within this region. This article explores the evolving cooperation dynamics, opportunities and challenges for these three nations in ...
Added: February 7, 2026
Zaichenko L., Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 2026 Vol. 56 No. 1
This paper attempts to revisit the critical realist theory of reflexivity, derived from the pragmatist tradition of symbolic interactionism (SI). It discusses how interactionist sociology, with its emphasis on investigating microstructures through meaning‐making, has formed a critical realist theory of reflexivity that serves as a theoretical bridge between the micro and macro levels—specifically, between ‘subjective ...
Added: February 3, 2026
Алымов С. С., Новое литературное обозрение 2024 Т. 189 № 5 С. 45–60
The article examines the history of the edited volume
“Problems of the History of Pre-Capitalist Societies”,
which was conceived as a series, but only one issue
was published. The author shows that in connection
with the publication of this volume a circle around
its editor-in-chief, Luidmila V. Danilova, developed
a net work of informal contacts and correspondence
that brought together scholars of ...
Added: January 31, 2026
Абашин С. Н., Адельфинский А. С., Алексеевский М. Д. et al., Антропологический форум 2025 Т. 64 С. 13–196
This “Forum” considers attitudes towards theories and theoretical knowledge among ethnologists and anthropologists. Answering questions from the forum organisers, its participants discuss the need for a common “grand theory” that would unite the entire anthropological community, the tense relationship between theory and description, the causes, manifestations and effects of theory fatigue — and also the ...
Added: January 31, 2026
Abul Hasan M., Ferdos J., Habib M. A., THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL RESEARCH IN THE ECONOMIC FIELDS 2025 Vol. 16 No. 4 P. 959–971
This paper explores the multifaceted effects of Donald Trump administration’s imposition of tariff policies on India through the lenses of geoeconomics and geopolitics, specifically within the South Asian context. Employing mercantilism and realism theories and utilising qualitative research methods, this paper argues and analyses that the Trump administration has adopted a transactional approach to its bilateral ...
Added: December 28, 2025
Kurakin A. A., Крестьяноведение 2025 Т. 10 № 4 С. 260–270
Book review: Jena S. Agrarian Modernity and Development in India: Postcolonial Rurality. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024 ...
Added: November 27, 2025
Sorbale A., Mironova P., Melnikova E. et al., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2025 Т. 19 № 4 С. 74–91
This article presents the findings of a study examining the logic behind the development and implementation of climate resilience policies in two Indian states with different degrees of regional autonomy and status within the Indian federal architecture: Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. Using a principal-agent framework, we examine the impact of these differences in ...
Added: November 14, 2025
Mironova P., Меркулова А. А., Фольклор и антропология города, Российская Федерация 2025 Т. 7 № 3 С. 74–95
Traditionally, Delhi’s markets are oversaturated spaces for sensory perception: a cacophony of sounds, contrasting smells, and a vivid visual cascade. This study adopts a sensitive ethnographic lens to examine how bodily sensations relate to sociality, of- fering insight into the social order of the marketplace and an individual’s position within it. What markers evoke comfort ...
Added: November 9, 2025