Papers

Brooke Erin Duffy, Megan Sawey

Fintech and decentralized finance have penetrated all areas of the financial system and have improved financial inclusion in the last decade. In this …

Abstract. Cruel memes spread messages of hate via social media. The Internet itself extends the memes’ geographical reach, and many such cruel memes circulate a

Digital platforms and application software have changed how people work in a range of industries. Empirical studies of the gig economy have raised concerns abou...

This article contributes to the emerging body of urban digitalisation scholarship concerned with alternative practices at the grassroots level by revi…

Scientific Reports - Trade of economically and physically scarce virtual water in the global food network

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic

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Learn about the neighborhood effect and how it influences the hybrid workplace because it is indication of the strength of your teams even when they are remote.

The ability of personality traits to predict important life outcomes has traditionally been questioned because of the putative small effects of personality. In ...

A small but growing share of sociological research recognizes the importance of perceptions of the future for explaining social outcomes. This article…

Uncertain Futures considers how economic actors visualize the future and decide how to act in conditions of radical uncertainty. It starts from the premise that dynamic capitalist economies are characterized by relentless innovation and novelty and hence exhibit an indeterminacy that cannot be reduced to measurable risk. The organizing question then becomes how economic actors form expectations and make decisions despite the uncertainty they face. This edited volume lays the foundations for a new model of economic reasoning by showing how, in conditions of uncertainty, economic actors combine calculation with imaginaries and narratives to form fictional expectations that coordinate action and provide the confidence to act. It draws on groundbreaking research in economic sociology, economics, anthropology, and psychology to present theoretically grounded empirical case studies. These demonstrate how grand narratives, central bank forward guidance, economic forecasts, finance models, business plans, visions of technological futures, and new era stories influence behaviour and become instruments of power in markets and societies. The market impact of shared calculative devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of narrative economics.

This article critically engages with Russell Belk’s ‘extended self’ theory and Susan Fournier’s ‘human relationship model’. When a human development model is ap...

Considering food consumption as an important daily practice, this article explores how and why Chinese young people consume takeaway food – a typical type of co...

Nike, a US-headquartered transnational corporation lauded for its putatively empowering women-centered advertisements, frequently releases nationally/regionally...

(2022). Dictators, personalized security forces, and coups. International Interactions. Ahead of Print.

Citizen engagement is heralded as essential for food democracy and equality, yet the implementation of inclusive citizen engagement mechanisms in urba…

The post-truth era has taken many by surprise. Here, we use massive language analysis to demonstrate that the rise of fact-free argumentation may perhaps be understood as part of a deeper change. After the year 1850, the use of sentiment-laden words in Google Books declined systematically, while the use of words associated with fact-based argumentation rose steadily. This pattern reversed in the 1980s, and this change accelerated around 2007, when across languages, the frequency of fact-related words dropped while emotion-laden language surged, a trend paralleled by a shift from collectivistic to individualistic language.

Nature - Insights into the interactions between pro- and anti-vaccination clusters on Facebook can enable policies and approaches that attempt to interrupt the shift to anti-vaccination views and...

(2022). Addressing the paradox of tolerance in liberal democracies: why do France and Germany respond differently to right-wing radicalism?. Journal of Contemporary European Studies. Ahead of Print.

(2021). ‘Smart’ in another way: the potential of the Fab City approach to reconfigure urban dynamics. Urban Research & Practice. Ahead of Print.

Nature - Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan...