Laurence Barry
Laurence Barry
This paper suggests that catastrophe insurance schemes should be considered within the framework of public goods and commons, and as a form of polycentric organization whose success depends on collective action. The first section situates c...
Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility? [0.03%]
主动性影响保险团结和个体责任吗？
Alberto Cevolini,Elena Esposito
Alberto Cevolini
Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' ...
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations [0.03%]
数据化实践下的数字保险信任研究：数据化如何转移不确定性与重构信任关系？
Maiju Tanninen,Gert Meyers
Maiju Tanninen
Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk-averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer-policyholder relationships are chara...
Racial Health Equity and the Question of Black (Non?) Being: Exploring the Uses of Afropessimism in Approaches to Anti-Racist Health Promotion [0.03%]
健康公平与黑人存在的问题：探索非悲观主义在反种族主义健康促进中的应用
Tanisha Spratt
Tanisha Spratt
Afropessimism is a critical framework that is often used to analyse anti-Black violence and its deep entrenchment within systems and structures that perpetuate Black subjugation. By conceptualising Black life as 'non-life', afropessimism ex...
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities [0.03%]
人工智能和数字解决方案在转变残疾人士教育和就业途径中的作用
Anis Omri,Sana Slimani,Hatem Afi
Anis Omri
While education is essential for employability, people with disabilities often face barriers such as inadequate accommodations and limited access to adaptive technologies, hindering their equitable labor market participation. This research ...
The Last of England: Banal Nationalism and Communities of Loss in British Pub Closure Media Narratives [0.03%]
再见英格兰——英国媒体报道中大众酒馆关闭的平常民族主义与失落社区
Robert Deakin,Thomas Thurnell-Read
Robert Deakin
While pubs have long been celebrated as a quintessential part of British culture, the ongoing and increasingly rapid closure of British pubs has raised concerns about the impacts of their loss on the wider cultural life and identity of the ...
Army Deserters in Exile [0.03%]
流亡的逃兵
Godfrey Maringira
Godfrey Maringira
Desertion from the military does not turn soldiers into civilians. In this paper, I analyse military identity and embodied practices of soldiers who deserted from the Zimbabwe National Army and were exiled in South Africa. Soldiering is und...
Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance [0.03%]
卡尔·波普尔与卡尔·曼海姆关于社会学和民主治理的看法
Martyn Hammersley
Martyn Hammersley
There is a variety of conceptions of the public role that sociology ought to play. Perhaps the most common one presents it as serving a critical or oppositional function, not least in relation to governments and their policies. Yet this has...
Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the 'Black Box' of Student Employment [0.03%]
性别与学生就业的“黑箱”问题：同样糟糕，但分布不均
Mia Ruijie Zhong,Rachel Lara Cohen,Kim Allen et al.
Mia Ruijie Zhong et al.
Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies....