Values of the Land: Kinships as Climate Solutions in ‘The Honorable Harvest’ and ‘Land as Pedagogy.’ by Abigail Morton-Wilcox

“…Fundamentally, Kimmerer and Simpson reject and oppose the oppressive and exploitative systems at the centre of the climate emergency: settler colonialism and extractive capitalism, whilst simultaneously providing kinships with the living world as ways of mitigating such crises.…”
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O romance português : 1974-2024 by Miguel Real

“…The novel in Portugal between 1974 and 2020 is divided into two phases: 1. 1974 and 2000: the Late Modernist or Neomodernist Novel, which socially and politically corresponds to Portugal's integration into Europe; 2. 2000-2020: the Post-Modern Novel, following the literary rhythm of Europe, corresponding to the phase of Late Capitalism. The main objective of Portuguese literature in the first phase is to modernize the country, to participate in European literature, to be as European as France. …”
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Crisis and reconfiguration: economic and political changes in the Brazilian accumulation regime in the XXI century by Marcelo Soares Bandeira de Mello Filho, Diogo Oliveira Santos

“…This reconfiguration implies a partial reversal in the internalization of the dynamic centre of Brazilian capitalism that occurred during the import substitution industrialization process.…”
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Ideological Transformations of the Socialist party of Serbia by Anastasia V. Maleshevich

“…This study examines the ideological transformation of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), successor to the League of Communists of Serbia, during Serbia’s transition to capitalism. A distinctive feature of the Serbian case is that reformed communists retained power until the arrival of the right-liberal opposition in 2000. …”
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Contextualising the Regeneration of Africa’s Indigenous Governance and Management Systems and Practices by BC, Basheka

“…Centuries-old indigenous African knowledge regarding the management of societal affairs has been overshadowed by colonialism, neocolonialism, global capitalism and the promotion of Western organisational management/leadership practices. …”
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Examinando el papel de la educación ambiental en la construcción del buen vivir global: contribuciones de la corriente crítica a la definición de objetivos by Rafael SUÁREZ-LÓPEZ, Marcia EUGENIO, Fernando LARA, David MOLINA-MOTOS

“…Then, critical environmental education is presented, which spurns the uniformity of global capitalism and teaches the old and the new roots to our land and to the Earth, and a plural and diverse sense of collective and individual identity. …”
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Expertise and community juridification: Defense of subsoil and communal lands in Oaxaca, Mexico by Salvador Aquino-Centeno

“…While there has been a process of juridification of politics globally, in Capulálpam a process of community juridification took place that allowed it to reconstruct its own law, creating principles, norms and rights in relation to the colonialism and capitalism that impacted it. Methodologically, participant observation and the mapping of the injunction trial through information compiled in the community's archive stand out. …”
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Relations of Society Concepts and Religions from Wikipedia Networks by Klaus M. Frahm, Dima L. Shepelyansky

“…We establish five poles of influence for society concepts (Law, Society, Communism, Liberalism, Capitalism) as well as five poles for religions (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese folk religion) and determine how they affect other entries. …”
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Discotheques, Magazines and Plexiglas: Superstudio and the Architecture of Mass Culture by Ross K. Elfline

“…Once again, such projects were beholden to advanced information technologies spawned by late capitalism.  Studying the neo-avant-garde gambits of Superstudio, therefore, allows us to understand the contradictions inherent in any attempt to contend with popular culture in all its paradoxical forms.…”
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Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73 by Mark Swenarton

“…While it began in what Hobsbawm called the ‘golden age’ of postwar capitalism, the Cook years (1965-73) saw the onset of the crisis of the 1970s and with it the rise of the New Right and the Hard Left, both of which viewed the Camden housing projects as a legitimate target for attack. …”
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Responsabilité sociale des entreprises et diversité des capitalismes by Michel Capron, Pascal Petit

“…Several scenarios for this “third” phase are analyzed in conclusion which all stress the importance of the type of capitalism under view.…”
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Environments (out) of Control by Lorinc Vass, Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Contingent Collective

“…By probing the salient characteristics of these approaches, their problematic proximity to the logic of cybernetic capitalism is contextualised in relation to the broader ontological and ontopolitical questions of the Anthropocene era. …”
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Decolonisation, Globalisation and South Africa 1 by Liepollo Pheko

“…This article further discusses the concepts of global capitalism and decolonisation and centres them under the rubric of globalisation studies, including the neo-liberalisation of that field. …”
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The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order by P. Kopiec

“…Usually, they are rather critical towards global neoliberal capitalism when pointing out its disastrous consequences for entire societies and cultures. …”
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Direction des sociétés, modèle de reproduction des élites managériales et financiarisation du capitalisme allemand : Enseignements à partir d’un panel de vingt-cinq sociétés cotées by Christopher Lantenois

“…First, we will clarify two elements of pressure that the German capitalism has to bear, namely (a) the sudden arrival of the foreign Institutional Investors in the ownership capital structure, and (b) the reform of corporate governance principles. …”
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State and culture in sustainability transformations: structural power, democracy, and the promise of a Marcusian cultural politics of critical meaning-making by Marit Hammond

“…Yet, according to historical-institutionalist state theory, the imperatives of the liberal-capitalist democratic welfare state give rise to a “glass ceiling” of transformation that limits prospects for such systemic change beyond quality-of-life improvements that remain consistent with liberal capitalism. Exploring the potential of cultural meaning-making to break this glass ceiling, I draw on various strands of critical theory to identify the operation of ideological power at the level of both the state and the cultural realm as what creates the glass ceiling of transformation. …”
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Mercados culturais no Brasil: a expansão dos shoppings centers e das livrarias megastores by Carlos Alexsandro de Carvalho Souza

“…It should be noted that the reflections are included on what part of the specialized literature in the social sciences categorizes as creative economy, specially due to the management of the agents involved, of the new aesthetic and symbolic justifications that start to develop a panorama which, based on the general growth of the Brazilian economy in the period considered, indicates the robustness of what can be described as contemporary cultural capitalism. The work takes as its object a very specific business model, chosen to problematize the convergence of the relationships highlighted above and its potential to better distribute new habits of consumption: bookstores with the megastore model that, as the investigations pointed out, represent one of the most abundant model in today’s cultural markets. …”
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Trabalho, Cultura e produção cultural: notas para uma sociologia do trabalho com arte e cultura no Brasil by André Grillo

“…For that reason, I begin with the discussion about the so-called “new world of work” from the perspectives of the evolution of Gorz’s thought and Boltanski and Chiapello’s classic The New Spirit of Capitalism. Next, I present Menger’s approach to labor markets with culture and art, bringing his analysis closer to those discussed earlier, and complementing it with Becker’s study Worlds of Art. …”
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Review of Inclusive Growth and other Alternatives to Confront Authoritarian Populism by Saleamlak Getahun

“…Recently, the rise of authoritarian populism as an alternative path to mainstream democracy stems from the failure of inclusiveness in the political and economic institutions especially in the rural world. Due to extractive capitalism, nowadays, rural areas are characterized by persistent poverty, deep inequalities, marginalization and exclusion, fractured identities and loss of self-esteem, which in turn engenders a regressive politics dubbed 'authoritarian populism'. …”
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Who Does and Who Does Not Engage in Strategic Litigation in European Law? by Andreas Hofmann

“…While much research has emphasized European law as a resource for civil society groups, EU law in particular has also been identified as a boon for businesses who challenge cornerstones of coordinated capitalism. This paper sets out to provide a better empirical basis for a normative evaluation of the consequences of strategic litigation in European law by asking who engages in it and who does not. …”
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