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View article: Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory
Situating realism, the ethnographic sensibility, and comparative political theory within the methodological turn in political theory Open
Contextualist and empirical analyses have recently become important tools in political theory due to a growing ‘methodological turn’ in the discipline. In this article I argue that realism, the ethnographic sensibility in political theory,…
View article: Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy
Digital working lives: worker autonomy and the gig-economy Open
View article: Perioperative Care of Children with Severe Neurological Impairment and Neuromuscular Scoliosis—A Practical Pathway to Optimize Perioperative Health and Guide Decision Making
Perioperative Care of Children with Severe Neurological Impairment and Neuromuscular Scoliosis—A Practical Pathway to Optimize Perioperative Health and Guide Decision Making Open
Neuromuscular scoliosis is a common feature in children with severe neurological impairment (SNI), including those with severe cerebral palsy. Surgical correction of scoliosis is the mainstay of treatment. This group of patients also have …
View article: “ABOVE AND BEYOND THE MARKET”
“ABOVE AND BEYOND THE MARKET” Open
Assessments of the impact of automation often emphasize the need to “denaturalize” work. To what extent is denaturalization successful in separating proposals regarding the future of work from existing assumptions about its value? This art…
View article: Introduction: Why Should Political Theorists Care About Work?
Introduction: Why Should Political Theorists Care About Work? Open
Even though the future of work has become a significant public concern, political theory has not yet considered work to be a central concept within the discipline. The five papers in this symposium provide a range of perspectives on what i…
View article: Science and Ideology Revisited: Necessity, Contingency and the Critique of Ideologies in Meillassoux and Malabou
Science and Ideology Revisited: Necessity, Contingency and the Critique of Ideologies in Meillassoux and Malabou Open
Political thought influenced by post-structuralism rarely invokes ideology critique as a meaningful category of analysis, criticizing the structuralist attribution of contingency and necessity to, respectively, ideology and science. This a…
View article: Affinity and antagonism: Structuralism, comparison and transformation in pluralist political ontology
Affinity and antagonism: Structuralism, comparison and transformation in pluralist political ontology Open
This article develops a comparative and recursive approach to political ontology by drawing on the ontological turn in anthropology. It claims that if ontological commitments define reality, then the use of ontology by recent pluralist pol…
View article: Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes
Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes Open
Soil microbial diversity, by high-throughput sequencing data to characterise the variation in marker gene sequences, for 14 sites along a 3000 m elevation gradient in tropical forest in Peru. For bacterial community composition, the 16S rR…