Published in Hungarian Studies Yearbook
Romanian IT professionals are marketized as young, highly skilled, and full of potential individuals. However, there is a contradiction in their image. In the discourse of international outsourcing, they are presented as cheap labour, while on the national and local level they are considered high earners. Under the privilege of income tax exemption...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Assessment practices in Higher Education remain beholden to the twin pillars of neoliberal economic orthodoxy and White supremacy. The former has given rise to the modularization and commodification of education, wherein student performance is measured according to narrow and often meaningless metrics that foster and maintain ineffective assessment...
Published in Disasters
在2016年世界人道主义峰会之后，关于人道主义援助本地化的辩论愈演愈烈。主导的话语集中在改革上，但要求更广泛的非殖民化援助的呼声也越来越高。本文研究新自由主义所激发的竞争的影响，这种竞争激励机构扩张，并与本地化发生冲突。本文介绍"冲突悖论"的概念，以说明武装冲突和国际行为组织的人道主义准入受限如何既能赋予又能削弱地方和国家人道主义行为组织（LNHAs）权力。然后通过对缅甸、索马里和索马里兰的案例研究证明这些主题，显示地方和国家人道主义行为组织要求人道主义系统变革的潜力，但也存在挑战。本文的结论是，要使本地化朝着非殖民化的方向发展，从根本上改变新自由主义的竞争心态是至关重要的。这包括需要从低质量本地化（分包）转变为以团结和解放议程为基础的高质量本地化。 关键词：缅甸、公民社会、非殖民化、大谈判...
This article explores the impact of neoliberalism on the linked areas of social work and community development practice, and makes the contention that practice is often poverty driven rather than poverty informed. Using notions of dissensus and insurrection, the argument is made that the authority of the neoliberal discourse on the social structure...
This historical review of poverty focuses on the Auckland region. To the extent that national and international policies and events affect Auckland these are included. The focus is historical and hence excludes contemporary poverty issues (see references to publications on contemporary poverty by the author). Aotearoa New Zealand has been deeply af...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
In this essay, I would like to suggest that the historical transition of psychedelics from an association with counterculture to becoming part of the mainstream is related to the rise of what late cultural theorist Mark Fisher termed “capitalist realism”—the notion that there is no alternative form of social organization and, as such, capitalism si...
Published in International Journal of the Sociology of Language
The present article examines the relationship between study abroad and the construction of multilingual identities regarded as more marketable in the neoliberal economy. The main objective is to provide an insight on student mobility and dominant visions of the future in line with which languages are chosen to be taught/learned at tertiary level an...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
In their recently published paper, Chater and Loewenstein critically elaborate on the differences between interventions that focus on individual behavior (‘i-frame’), as opposed to the systems in which health behavior occurs (‘s-frame’). They point out that behavioral scientists frequently rely on individual-level interventions, rather than systemi...
Published in Health (London, England : 1997)
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the governments of the world to implement different regulative and protective measures. Although these measures required serious re-considerations of public health strategies, they were still grounded on pre-existing contexts of countries' health systems, namely the "new public health" paradigm. Turkey's neoliberal heal...
Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
The scientific-reform movement, frequently referred to as open science, has the potential to substantially reshape the nature of the scientific activity. For this reason, its sociopolitical antecedents and consequences deserve serious scholarly attention. In a recently formed literature that professes to meet this need, it has been widely argued th...
