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Des objets aux interactions, et retour
Mondada, Lorenza; Akrich, Madeleine; Hennion, Antoine; … - Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), MINES ParisTech - 2007
Transcribes a dialogue on the evolution of actor-network theory.
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Ethics and images of suffering bodies in humanitarian medicine
Calain, Philippe - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 278-285
Media representations of suffering bodies from medical humanitarian organisations raise ethical questions, which … an advertising poster from a medical humanitarian organisation, I observe that media representations of suffering bodies … representations of suffering bodies. Future pragmatic approaches to the issue should include: exploring ethical values endorsed by …
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Mining Surplus: Modeling James A. Schmitz's Link Between Competition and Productivity
Greenwood, Jeremy; Weiss, David - Economie d'Avant Garde - 2013
James A. Schmitz (2005) documents, in a well-known case study, a dramatic rise in productivity in the U.S. and Canadian iron-ore industry following an increase in competition from Brazil. Prior to the increased competition, the industry was not competitive. Surplus in profits was divided between...
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From The Culture of Matter to the Matter of Culture: Feminist Explorations of Nature and Science
Hird, Myra - In: Sociological Research Online 8 (2003) 1
'The body' has come to represent a key signifier both within, and beyond, cultural studies. Analyzing and challenging the underlying cultural assumptions of scientific discourses of nature have keenly involved feminist theory in the project of uncovering the culture of matter. The aim of this...
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'The Basic Stuff of Our Memories': Embodying and Embedding Discipline
Brownlie, Julie - In: Sociological Research Online 11 (2006) 4
had their bodies mapped in specific ways. This article compares these discourses with findings from a study of parents …
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“But Then I Learned…”: Weight loss surgery patients negotiate surgery discourses
Drew, Patricia - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 8, pp. 1230-1237
This research explores commonplace discursive depictions of obesity surgery and individual patients’ reactions to these depictions. Data come from a content analysis of weight loss surgery representations in periodical articles (n = 32) and open-ended surveys (n = 55) and interviews...
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Gender, irrigation, and environment: Arguing for agency
Jackson, Cecile - In: Agriculture and Human Values 15 (1998) 4, pp. 313-324
This paper is not a critique of waterpolicies, or an advocacy of alternatives, but rathersuggests a shift of emphasis in the ways in whichgender analysis is applied to water, development, andenvironmental issues. It argues that feministpolitical ecology provides a generally strongerframework for...
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Mobility, embodiment, and scales: Filipino immigrant perspectives on local food
Valiente-Neighbours, J. - In: Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2012) 4, pp. 531-541
Local foodshed proponents in the United States seek to change the food system through campaigns to “buy local” and to rediscover “good food” in the local foodshed. Presumably, common sense dictates that the word “local” signifies spatial proximity to the consumer. For some...
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Moving beyond walkability: On the potential of health geography
Andrews, Gavin J.; Hall, Edward; Evans, Bethan; Colls, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 11, pp. 1925-1932
contribution could be to pay attention to different forms of embodiment, movement activities, their relationships to health, and …
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Stigma and the perpetuation of obesity
Brewis, Alexandra A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 118 (2014) C, pp. 152-158
Even as obesity rates reach new highs, the social stigmatization of obesity seems to be strengthening and globalizing. This review identifies at least four mechanisms by which a pervasive environment of fat stigma could reinforce high body weights or promote weight gain, ultimately driving...
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