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Reimagining collaboration:Degrowth practitioners, scholars and activists
No full textIn a selective history of the evolution of the degrowth movement, his chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (2025) offers a collective and subjective reflection revealing tensions between academics, practitioners and activists. Its four co-authors have lived in and with these tensions, analysing practical experiences in the degrowth cooperative Cargonomia (Budapest, Hungary) and the low-tech ecosystem Can Decreix (Cerbère, France). The chapter aims to launch a formal, respectful and significant dialogue between degrowth academics and practitioners. How did an initial public perception of degrowth as activists who experiment-by-doing based in a radical epistemological critique of traditional academia evolve more and more into an academia-dominated movement? We reflect on the movement's organisation to suggest how deeper collaborative relationships between researchers, activism and practitioners might strengthen degrowth as an academic field, enhance the credibility and robustness of grounded prefigurative activities, and facilitate conditions for diversity within the movement, preventing Identitarian closure. We recommend how academia, activism and the politics of degrowth might be connected with practitioners in mutually beneficial, pluralistic and participatory ways, while re-embracing epistemological considerations in the formation of the original pillars of degrowth and associated challenges
When do voters reveal candidate gender preferences?:Evidence from individual-level ballot data
No full textDoes candidate gender matter for vote choice? Whereas experimental research suggests an average preference for female candidates, observational studies tend to find null effects. In this note, we address the recent debate on how to measure voter preferences on the aggregate and the individual level. We argue that candidate gender preferences exist, but that whether and when they are revealed varies between and within voters. Drawing on an observational design and using data from over 500,000 individual ballots in Lithuanian elections, we employ multilevel regression and exponential random graph models to show how voters' candidate gender preferences are distributed across the electorate and how they vary in size and direction. We find that about half of all voters prefer either male or female candidates. Whereas preference for male candidates tends to be revealed in the first and second preference votes, preference for female candidates is first revealed in lower preference votes. Our results help explain contradictory findings in the literature and illustrate how observational data and methods can be used to assess voter preferences within electorates
Do infants use cues of saliva-sharing to infer close relationships? A replication of Thomas et al. (2022)
No full textThomas and colleagues found in 2022 that the observation of saliva-sharing between individuals serves as an indicator of relationship thickness for children, toddlers and infants. Our study sought to replicate their crucial experiment (2B), which was conducted online and reported that 8.5- to 10-month-old infants anticipated that a crying individual would be more likely to be comforted by a person who had been observed to share saliva with her than another person who simply had played with her. With the exception of changing the testing environment from online to laboratory, and using an eye-tracker supplemented by manual video coding, we closely followed the methodology of the original study. Our replication resulted in partial success: we replicated looking-time preference for the saliva-sharer but did not replicate the tendency to look first to the saliva-sharer upon observing the puppet’s distress. These findings confirm that infants rely on certain behavioural cues for mapping social relationships among third-party individuals
