ORTEGA Y GASSET: NO CAMINHO DA HIPERMODERNIDADE.UMA VISÃO PROJETIVA DA CONTEMPORANEIDADE by CARLOS GOMES

“…Because of this, Ortega recovers common philosophical and sociogical topics such as life, massification, hedonism, and nihilism, which Gilles Lipovetsky uses in order to ground the new paradigm of hypermodernity based on artistic (trans-aesthetic) capitalism.…”
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O Parlamento do Mercosul em sua primeira fase: uma análise preliminar da transnacionalização da política no Cone Sul by George Gomes Coutinho

“…This fundamental point to describe the "negative modernity" is here mobilized as an explanatory factor for the diffi culties of establishing a transnational parliament in the peripheral capitalism.…”
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A Single Bangle Does Not Jingle: The Twinning Imperative of Ubuntu by Nokuthula Hlabangane

“…Humanity is beset by a number of intractable challenges, most of which can be attributed to the underlying ethos of capitalism. Characterised as “cultures of cruelty” that, together, have wrought untold suffering across the epochs, Ani’s (1993) notion of Yurugu is deployed to begin to account for the proclivity towards this destruction. …”
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Les contradictions théoriques et empiriques du modèle rifkinien de troisième révolution industrielle. L’exemple de la Région des Hauts-de-France by Christophe Beaurain, Olivier Petit, Bruno Villalba

“…We also mobilise the critique of industrial capitalism developed by Rifkin to underline the limits of experimentation in NPC (and then in Hauts-France), notably by highlighting the contradictions of its technical, ecological and democratic orientations.…”
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Neoliberal Policy and Equity on Campus: A Comparative Administrative Study of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) and College Athletics by Darrell Lovell

“…A comparative analysis of NIL policies and university websites and interviews shows a shift toward the neoliberal approach, providing targeted administrative mandates while promoting market capitalism within college athletics. As a result, NIL policy’s neoliberal tendencies have a significant impact on social equity. …”
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Sorcellerie capitaliste et touristes pishtaco : les tensions occultes autour du tourisme d’ayahuasca chez les Shipibo de San Francisco (Amazonie péruvienne) by Doriane Slaghenauffi

“…These occult practices and interpretations can be seen, on the one hand, as forms of resilience adopted by Shipibo shamans in order to cope with and benefit from the current context of transition to capitalism, which is increasingly present within the communities, and, on the other hand, as manifestations of frustration and anxiety about the recuperation of local shamanism by global culture, symptomatic of the traditionally ambiguous links between gringos and Native Amazonians.…”
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Green tides: the Suez Canal as key hub and green corridor for a hydrogen future between the Middle East and Europe by Tobias Zumbraegel, Alisa Kegel

“…This paper examines the canal’s evolving role as a dynamic energy space, where diverse actors and networks intersect, shaping spatial power relations and aligning with green capitalism interests. It explores the Suez Canal’s potential to serve as a model for hydrogen initiatives and its capacity to influence global energy governance and geopolitical dynamics in the transition to a sustainable shipping future. …”
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Theorizing International Politics of Research, Science, and Technology: Implications for Global Governance, National Security, and Economic Growth by Julius Adinoyi

“… This article examines the value of understanding the international politics surrounding research, science and technology (RST) in today‟s world.It encompasses intricate connections between nations, international organizations, and multinational enterprises,which is essential for economic growth, social development, and national security.The significance of elements like anarchy, capitalism, welfare, and security that influences the global politics of RST is highlighted in the essay.In order to counteract technology misuse, the authors stress the significance of establishing ethical standards. …”
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O que acontecerá com o modelo alemão? Engajando fontes de diversidade ao nível da empresa dentro da economia alemã by Stefan Kirchner

“…This article summarizes important challenges by discussing four distinct sources of diversity in Germany’s economy: transformations of the institutional framework; key firm-level sources of diversity in Germany’s economy; SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) as a forgotten pillar of German capitalism; and the East German path in the German model. …”
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Toward humanistic healthcare through dystopian visions: Sally Wiener Grotta’s “One Widow’s Healing” by Meeyoung Kang

“…Conclusions By analyzing the literary response to the dystopian future, this study explores the potential dangers at the intersection of capitalism and technocentric healthcare, reflecting on the future direction of humanistic medicine.…”
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É possível romper com a herança ibérica? Uma releitura da obra de Raymundo Faoro by Marcos Abraão Fernandes Ribeiro, Wania Amélia Belchior Mesquita

“…Emphasizing points not systematically explored, we argue that Faoro’s theory has the material evolutionism as its structuring element which, by postulating the necessary relation between feudalism and capitalism as the only authentic path to the institution of modernity, makes it impossible to rupture any nature. …”
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Competição e digitalização: a expansão dos serviços culturais-digitais – os casos da Netflix, Disney e Apple by Elder Patrick Maia Alves

“…The first one sought to use the concepts of digitalization of the symbolic and cultural-digital capitalism, both of which are woven into other works and research that combine a broader research agenda, whose efforts are engaged in the realization of an economic sociology of cultural markets. …”
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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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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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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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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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O mercado audiovisual brasileiro, o circuito alternativo de exibição, as mostras e festivais de cinema na Bahia contemporânea by Mariella Pitombo Vieira, Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão

“…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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Entre precariedade e resistência: a cidade como espaço de produção e luta no capitalismo cognitivo by Carolina Salomão Corrêa

“…The shared understanding in the investigation is that from the 1970s, capitalism goes through a transformation characterized for the growth of the role of the cognitive dimensions of the work. …”
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