Working-class youth participation in climate action: networks, civic experience, and equity by Rasha Naseif, Isabelle Haddad, Paul Almeida

“…Abstract Research on individual participation in climate action largely focuses on middle class environmental activism around protest events. …”
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Contentious Territorial Alliances: Coalition Politics and Struggles over Urban Development in Pikine, Senegal by Nicole C. List

“…Through analysis of two spatially distinct –albeit interlinked– episodes of conflict over the development of middle-class and elite housing projects on Pikine farmland, I argue that various public and private actors –including farmers, traditional authorities, housing developers, and local/central government officials– are breaking with older forms of urban governance and forming what I call “territorial alliances” to stake land claims and advance urban development projects. …”
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Poutníci a jejich peníze na cestě do Říma. Zamyšlení nad edicí Il Libro del pellegrino (Siena, 1382–1446) by Roman Zaoral

“…The writer compares registered deposits with amounts intended for the pilgrimage to Rome (4–5 pounds of Prague groschens in the lower middle class and 8–10 pounds in the higher middle class) which have been entered into the memorable city book of Olomouc dated back to 1430–1492. …”
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The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…The presence and influence of religious groups in the publishing industry, paired with publishers’ new-found capacity to cater to middle-class demand for novelty children’s books, created an environment in which thumb Bibles’ popularity soared. …”
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The Emotional Costs of Solidarity: How Refugees and Volunteers Manage Emotions in the Integration Process by Neeltje Spit, Evelien Tonkens, Margo Trappenburg

“…Based on in‐depth ethnographic research of volunteer solidarity work in a deprived urban neighborhood and a middle‐class commuter town in the Netherlands, we show that volunteers are strongly aligned with the community regime, which involves navigating a multitude of feeling rules they struggle with. …”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…In the novel, the passage into an unfamiliar here and now, where governing epistemic paradigms break down, can occur in the middle of “nowhere,” or even in the supposedly happy confines of the middle-class home.…”
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Determinants of Mobility in the Middle-Income Classes for Turkiye by Banu Beyaz Sipahi

“…In this context, this study’s aim is to present a profile of the middle-income class in Turkiye and identify the effects of socio-economic and demographic factors on the transition from a middle-income class to a lower income group and upper income group using a probit model. The middle class was determined using the relative income measure. …”
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When are the classes of Gorenstein modules (co)tilting? by Wang, Junpeng, Liu, Zhongkui, Zhao, Renyu

“…For the class of Gorenstein projective (resp. injective and flat) modules, we investigate and settle the questions when the middle class is tilting and the other ones are cotilting. …”
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Sexual Inversion, Smoke, and Mirrors: The (In)Visibility of John Addington Symonds’s Homosexuality in his Autobiographical Writings by William Fize

“…Not a doctor himself, but being a homosexual, Symonds developed his identity as a member of the Victorian upper-middle class, shaped by the norms of the time, as he told his story in his correspondence and his posthumous Memoirs. …”
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‘Why Are the White Kids Clean and the Brown Kids Still Dirty?’: Parental Encounters with Racial Discrimination in Early Childhood Services by Cherie Suzanne Lamb

“…The overarching message was that everything is framed within the parameters of the dominant culture, which was taken for granted by educators, who are predominantly White and middle class. Parents withdrew their children because they perceived care to be culturally unsafe and unsuitable and because cultural and linguistic support was rarely available. …”
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Cidades e exclusão social: o Sul dentro do Sul, o Norte dentro do Sul by Marília Veríssimo Veronese

“…Considering the urban space as a place of production of thinking, practices and modes of subjectivation, concerning groups "underlings", we approach a snip of the project, seeking to understand the North-South relations within the South, i.e. to analyze how a group, inserted in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Porto Alegre, RS, constructs their representations of collective life, in a territory whose surroundings often proves hostile. …”
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Peter the Great’s “heirs”: power and administration in post-Petrine Russia by N. A. Omelchenko

“…According to the author, Anna Ioannovna managed to snatch victory, relying on the support of the middle and lower nobility, primary because in Russia the middle class was always afraid of the weakening of the central government, which, as a rule, led either to anarchy or to the power of the oligarchy.…”
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“In truth, I was really a pioneer”: Female Entrepreneurship and Selfhood Formation in Bethlehem's Diasporic Merchant Community, 1900–1940 by Eibhlin Priestley

“…Focusing on oral history interviews with Katrina Sa’ade and the memoir of Victoria Kattán de Hirmas, this study examines the outward expansion of Bethlehem’s merchant middle-class from the perspective of women whose lives were indelibly shaped by these ventures. …”
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Révolution sociale et utopie chez les premiers Fabiens (1884-1890) : un positionnement complexe by Marie Terrier

“…Its members were liberal, middle-class reformers. They aspired to a social revolution: they wished for a wide-ranging change in the social and economic organisation. …”
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In-betweeness: the (dis)connection between here and there. The case of Indian student-migrants in Australia by Michiel Baas

“…This paper will analyze what it means for young, middle class Indians, to be both students and migrants at the same time. …”
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SECHA: A Smart Energy-Efficient and Cost-Effective Home Automation System for Developing Countries by Abdulhafiz Ahmed Mustofa, Yohannes Alemayehu Dagnew, Prabhakar Gantela, M. Javed Idrisi

“…Nevertheless, utilizing home automation system technology can be energy-intensive and costly—especially for middle-class families in developing countries. In this article, we discuss SECHA, a smart, energy-efficient, and cost-effective home automation system. …”
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Parodies de dandies : travestissement et transgression des genres au music-hall by Catherine Rovera

“…Reviving the myth of the androgyne by making it both plausible and likeable is quite a feat, at a time when music-hall was under pressure from middle-class moral reformers. Thus, in the context of the Social Purity Crusades and against a background of hostility to music-hall culture, it is hardly surprising that male impersonations should arouse deep anxiety. …”
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La question du logement social à New York by Catherine Pouzoulet

“…Whereas political support for the lower tier of public housing for the poor soon eroded, the upper tier of federal programs for the middle class became more entrenched along the years. …”
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Resilient Cultural Practices in Mexican Immigrant Families: Children’s Helping and Parental Goals and Aspirations by Angélica López-Fraire, Maricela Correa-Chávez

“…Based on previous research in Mexico, we expected to find differences between the families related to familiarity with middle-class ways of organizing learning (associated with increased schooling) or familiarity with LOPI. …”
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Household Waste Management Strategy in Upper Middle Housing by Susan Rendra Utama, Mei Ahyanti

“…Emphasizing household waste reduction through the 3R+P model, tailored for upper-middle-class housing, and bolstering community waste management awareness through continuous campaigns is essential.…”
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