Uneasy companions: language and human collectivities in the remaking of Chinese society in the early twentieth centurySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 49 - Trang 75-100 - 2020
Jeffrey Weng
How we think national standard languages came to dominate the world depends on how we conceptualize the way languages are linked to the people that use them. Weberian theory posits the arbitrariness and constructedness of a community based on language. People who speak the same language do not necessarily think of themselves as a community, and so such a community is an intentional, political, and...... hiện toàn bộ
The making of the global gambling industry: An application and extension of field theorySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 35 - Trang 265-297 - 2006
Jeffrey J. Sallaz
The past two decades have seen a global convergence from gambling prohibition to legalization, but also a divergence regarding how new gambling industries are structured and regulated. This article compares two cases of casino legalization exhibiting different and, given conventional understandings of the two countries, unexpected outcomes. In the United States, ethnic entrepreneurs (Indian tribes...... hiện toàn bộ
Creating a market in the presence of cultural resistance: the case of life insurance in ChinaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 38 - Trang 271-305 - 2009
Cheris Shun-ching Chan
This article brings together two different conceptions of culture—a shared meaning system on one hand and a repertoire of strategies on the other—to understand the emergence of a market. Based on ethnographic data, it examines how a Chinese life insurance market is emerging in the presence of incompatible shared values and ideas acting as cultural barriers, and how these cultural barriers shape th...... hiện toàn bộ
Towards cosmopolitan citizenship? Women’s rights in divided TurkeySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 41 - Trang 375-394 - 2012
Nora Fisher Onar, Hande Paker
Identity politics and citizenship are often envisaged in dichotomous terms, but cosmopolitan theorists believe commitments to “thin” universal values can be generated from divergent “thick” positions. Yet, they often gloss over the ways in which the nexus of thick and thin is negotiated in practice—a weak link in the cosmopolitan argument. To understand this nexus better, we turn to women’s rights...... hiện toàn bộ