Specialization in a knowledge economy
Using firm-level data from the US Census Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), Yueyuan Ma discusses novel evidence about a wave of specialization experienced by US firms in the 1980s and 1990s.
Monuments for Posterity
Antony Kalashnikov challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined posterity.
Many Possible Worlds: An Interdisciplinary History of the World Economy Since 1800
Cameron Gordon provides a crosscutting interdisciplinary account of how the disintegrated, global subsistence economy circa 1800 has transformed into a global complex delivering unprecedented levels of material production and consumption.
Cosmopolitan Pariahs: The Moral Rationale for Exclusion under Article 1F
Colin Grey reconstructs the moral rationale for exclusion under article 1F of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
Before Queen: Vergil and the Musical Tradition of Sampling Popular Song
Just as contemporary artists sample music to invest their songs with cultural meaning, Vergil sampled Theocritus. Naomi Kaloudis suggests to better teach the complexities of Vergil’s Eclogues to undergraduate audiences, students should look more closely at the rhythms and lyrics of music popular.
Strawberry Fields Forever? Some Observations About Restrictive Covenants and Zoning
Restrictive covenants and statutory land use controls are both capable of promoting private or public interests, but there is tension surrounding their use. Eran Kaplinsky explores the relationship between the two devices and discusses the courts’ evolving approach to resolving conflicts between restrictive covenants and restrictive land use controls that apply to the same property.
Revolution and Terror
Graeme Gill argues that in order to understand the relationship between revolution and terror, it is necessary to distinguish between different types of terror and see how they are connected to the revolutionary seizure of power.
Beyond Technocracy: Unpacking the Political Values in Skills Policy
When politicians and policymakers enact public policies, they are making explicit or implicit choices about the political values that should shape our society. Peter Wilson argues that talk of political values and goals should be more prevalent in discussions of skills policy.
Motivational interviewing for employment: An exploration of practitioner skill and client change talk
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an evidenced-based approach for building and strengthening motivation for change. Eileen Britt discusses the effect of MI training on practitioner conversations with unemployed clients
Ignatian Contemplative Pedagogy
Tim Muldoon explores how Ignatian pedagogy, rooted in the 475-year tradition of Jesuit education, promotes a form of contemplative pedagogy especially apt for what this journal describes as the VUCA world
At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War
At War with Women reveals how post-9/11 politics of gender and development have transformed US military power. Jennifer Greenburg critically interrogates a new imperial feminism and its central role in securing US hegemony.
The winners and the losers of the platform economy: who participates?
The platform economy is rapidly transforming the dynamics of the labor market. Lyn Hoang discusses who participates in the platform economy and their motivation for participation, using a US nationally representative sample.
Ukraine’s Missing Children: Slipping into a Life of War Crime
Vivian McAlister discusses Russian nationalism and Ukraine’s Missing Children
Animal Rights Activism and the Constitution: Are Ag-Gag Laws Justifiable Limits?
It is a troubling time to be an animal rights activist in Canada. Recently, Alberta adopted legislation to create harsh penalties for trespassing onto private property, Ontario has adopted similar legislation aimed specifically at agricultural property. Jodi Lazare evaluates the legislation in both provinces.
The Role of Education in Reducing Racial Inequality
Any endeavor to understand the unique needs and challenges of urban education must begin with a proper interrogation of what is meant by the term, urban. Pedro A. Noguera discusses how institutions such as schools and universities that reinforce racial hierarchies
Exploring the associations between social support and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among Malaysian and Australian trauma survivors
Social support is an important feature in understanding posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its treatment. Non-clinical research has identified distinct profiles of culturally appropriate social support. Laura Jobson discusses cultural differences in the associations between social support and symptoms of PTSD.
Christianity and Labor Law
The ties between religion and labor law generally go unknown and unappreciated. However, current labor law would not exist without the religious impulse. Thomas Kohler discusses how religion shaped understandings of work, motivated actors, and shaped European and American labor and employment law.
Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986–1994
Kate Law examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case-study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid.
Nations Ascendant: The Global Campaign against Empire and the Making of Our World
Zaib un Nisa Aziz is Assistant Professor in the History of Modern British Empire in at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Her first book Nations Ascendant: The Global Campaign against Empire and the Making of Our World, (under contract with Yale University Press),tells the story of an international movement against imperialism.
Familial Moralities: Moral (Re)source of Commitment in the Immigrant Rights Movement in El Paso, Texas
Social movement scholars acknowledge the importance of morality in joining and shaping social movements. There is less knowledge about the content of morality that keeps social movement participants committed, once in. Moral commitments, Alejandro Márquez argues, emerge from the work conducted within social movements.
The Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Persian version of Romantic Love Myths Questionnaire
Sadeq Fallahtafti discusses the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Romantic Love Myths Questionnaire (RLMQ)
Factors predicting mathematics achievement in PISA
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has become the world’s largest comparative assessment of academic achievement. While hundreds of studies have examined the factors predicting student achievement in PISA, a comprehensive overview of the main predictors has yet to be completed. To address this gap, Xiaofang Sarah Wang discusses a systematic literature review of factors predicting mathematics performance in PISA.
Livelihood Improvement Through Participatory Mass Communications
Manfred Kofi Antwi Asuman sought to find out how the programmes and activities of community radio stations in Northern Ghana are improving the livelihoods and economic capabilities of women in their broadcast areas through participatory programming.
The Pyrrhic Victory in Racial Justice
Cheryl Matias draws from critical race theory and critical whiteness studies to investigate the ways in which whiteness and interest convengence impact modern day racial justice efforts.
Brave New World: Legislating for the Future of Driverless Cars
In January 2022, the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission on Automated Vehicles published their joint report on the regulation and safe deployment of automated vehicles. Paul Almond and Sally Kyd review the elements of the proposed regulations that employ the criminal sanction: the reimagining of the role of “criminal” responsibility and liability in relation to individual actors and “drivers”, and the development of a “regulatory” approach in relation to the organisational actors operating in this field.
Shaping a New Profession: Japanese Encounters with International Law, c. 1600–1900
Andrew Cobbing charts the shift from the early Japanese exploration of the outside world after centuries of self-imposed isolation, to the training of Japan’s first generation of international lawyers as the Meiji state embarked on reclaiming sovereign rights lost through the imposition of the treaty port regime.
Conceptualizing and Enabling Transformative Learning Through Relational Onto-Epistemology
Beatriz Carrillo Garcia puts forward Theory U as a framework for developing a more holistic and embodied understanding and approach to the practice and conceptualization of transformative learning.
Lived experiences of racism and intersectional stigma among Black youth living with HIV in the Deep South
The impact of anti-Black racism on child and adolescent health is well documented. When stigma related to race is compounded with HIV-related stigma, Black youth living with HIV (YLWH) may be further disenfranchised and systematically oppressed. Tiffany Chenneville discusses the experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of Black YLWH who reside in the Deep South, a region particularly affected by racism and the HIV epidemic
Ordering the city: revolution, modernity and road renaming in Shanghai, 1949–1966
Between 1949 and 1966, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-led municipal government of Shanghai renamed more than one in seven of the city’s roads. Renaming was an important marker of revolutionary change in China’s largest and most foreign-influenced city. Jon Howlett argues, however, that the nature and extent of renaming in socialist Shanghai was less dramatic than has been assumed.
Disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom
Antonios Ktenidis explores the first-hand accounts of disablist school violence experienced by young people with dwarfism during their secondary education in the United Kingdom.
Faculty beliefs and the need for teaching improvement
Heather Kanuka explores faculty beliefs about teaching and learning in different institutional settings and over time.
The impact of local identities on voting behaviour
The political salience of local identities has received limited academic attention in the British political science literature. David Jeffery discusses the political salience and consequences of the Scouse identity and places it in the comparative context of sub-state national identities across Great Britain
Clonal Expansion of Infected CD4+ T Cells in People Living with HIV
HIV infection is not curable with current antiretroviral therapy (ART) because a small fraction of CD4+ T cells infected prior to ART initiation persists. Understanding the nature of this latent reservoir and how it is created is essential to development of potentially curative strategies. John Coffin discusses.
Diversity and Social Mobility in the UK legal profession
I. Stephanie Boyce provides a current snapshot of diversity within the UK legal profession and how to drive inclusion going forward.
How Credible is the Credibility Revolution?
When economists analyze a well-conducted RCT or natural experiment and find a statistically significant effect, they conclude the null of no effect is unlikely to be true. But how frequently is this conclusion warranted? Kevin Lang discusses.