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Fox, Nick J. - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 2, pp. 2-2

/Deleuzian sense simply to describe a capacity to affect or be affected), within an Olympic assemblage of physical, biological …

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Anchor organisations in Auckland: Rolling constructively with neoliberalism?

Lewis, Nicolas; Murphy, Laurence - In: Local Economy 30 (2015) 1, pp. 98-118

The city of Auckland has recently been reconstituted through the amalgamation of eight territorial authorities and their constituencies. The new city was designed to provide coordinated economic, infrastructural and resource management for a territorial social economy given form and meaning by...

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Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism

Holliday, Ruth; Bell, David; Cheung, Olive; Jones, Meredith - In: Social Science & Medicine 124 (2015) C, pp. 298-304

theorisations of medical mobilities, globalisation and assemblage thinking. …

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Fear of crime and affective ambiguities in the night-time economy

Brands, Jelle; Schwanen, Tim; Aalst, Irina van - In: Urban Studies 52 (2015) 3, pp. 439-455

This article analyses fear of crime in the night-time economy as an event that emerges from, and unfolds as part of, the on-going encounters with human and non-human elements in particular places. A conceptual approach to understanding fear of crime is elaborated that highlights the role of...

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The selfie phenomenon – consumer identities in the social media marketplace

Kedzior, Richard; Allen, Douglas E.; Schroeder, Jonathan - In: European Journal of Marketing 50 (2016) 9/10, pp. 1767-1772

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the contributions presented in this special section on the selfie phenomenon and its significance for marketing practice and scholarship. Design/methodology/approach The significance of the topic is reviewed and themes related to the selfie...

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Assembling lines in research education

Angervall, Petra; Silfver, Eva - In: Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education 10 (2019) 2, pp. 142-154

Purpose The higher education sector in Sweden has, over decades, faced increasing demands in terms of efficiency rates in research, as well as increasing demands in the international competition for external revenue. These demands have influenced academic career trajectories and postdoctoral...

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Is a firm a firm? A Stackelberg experiment

Hildenbrand, Andreas - 2012

therefore faces a problem: How can firms be brought into the laboratory? The main approach relies on framing: Call individuals … answer the question whether framing individual decision making as organizational decision making or implementing an …

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Framing-based choice: A model of decision-making under risk

Kriesler, Kobi; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2009

modeling of framing that focuses on the subjective statistical dependence between prizes of compared lotteries. Unlike existing … framing. A distinct advantage of the proposed general descriptive model of choice is its ability to adequately explain a wide …

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Struggling for land access: The success and failure of social movement actors' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale land transformations

Prause, Louisa - 2016

advance the land access claims of local communities, social movement actors engage in specific framing strategies to mobilize …' framing strategies in conflicts over large-scale mining and agro-industrial projects. Discursive opportunity structures (DOS …) and framing are the key theoretical concepts used. I argue that the outcomes of framing strategies can only be understood …

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Punishment : and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering...

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