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A capitalist contest: the AI industry v. the creative industries
No full textThis paper examines whether artificial intelligence industry developers of large language models should be permitted to use copyrighted works to train their models without permission and compensation to creative industries rightsholders. This is examined in the UK context by contrasting a dominant social imaginary that prioritises market driven-growth of generative artificial intelligence applications that require text and data mining, and an alternative imaginary emphasising equity and non-market values. Policy proposals, including licensing, are discussed. It is argued that current debates privilege the interests of Big Tech in exploiting online data for profit, neglecting policies that could help to ensure that technology innovation and creative labour both contribute to the public good
A hybrid classification approach for exploring Iraq’s welfare regime
No full textWelfare regime theory remains a central framework in social policy literature, valued for its theoretical insights and policy relevance. However, as this framework is increasingly applied to countries in the Global South, scholars have questioned whether all contexts fit neatly into the established welfare regime types. Recent contributions suggest adopting a hybrid lens, which recognizes that welfare arrangements often vary within the same country, with different populations experiencing distinct forms of social protection. This study contributes to this evolving debate by exploring the development of Iraq’s welfare system and proposing a hybrid classification within the welfare regime framework. We argue that Iraq functions as a hybrid welfare regime, where access to welfare and social protection is unevenly distributed across different segments of society. In doing so, the study extends welfare regime theory by classifying Iraq as a case of hybrid welfare regime and highlights the importance of hybrid welfare models for understanding welfare systems in the Global South
Latin America and Europe in the twentieth century: looking to The Americas Archives
No full textThere is a marked tendency to view Latin America’s twentieth-century international history through the lens of US hegemony, and Europe has been particularly impacted by this historiographical trend. On the basis of a review of 41 articles published in The Americas over the past 81 years, this essay explores The Americas’ important role in promoting scholarship on the variety of connections between Latin America and Europe. By bringing together two temporal currents—the chronology of history and the chronology of historiography—it traces how scholarship on Latin America’s twentieth-century relationship with the wider world has evolved. During the Cold War years, the majority of articles focused on Latin America as an arena for great power/superpower rivalry, but from the end of the previous century, scholars publishing in the journal made increasing use of different scales of analysis to uncover the multidimensional flows across the Atlantic. Ultimately, work published in The Americas on twentieth-century transnational relations has shown that Latin America and Latin Americans are important actors on the global stage with significant agency in drawing upon separate international influences and alliances to best suit their own domestic purposes, sometimes with significant consequences for the wider world
Introduction: China as context
No full textIn this introduction the editors outline the background to, aims and structure of the China as Context volume. As we discuss here, sixty years have passed since Maurice Freedman called for ‘A Chinese Phase in Social Anthropology’ (1963). Despite earlier attempts to revitalise Freedman’s call and promote the significance of China for anthropological theory, this vision has largely been ignored. Today, most discussions about China – both scholarly and lay – continue to be underpinned by an unspoken assumption that the country represents a fundamentally different ‘Other’ that exists apart from the ‘real’ world and is thus unsuitable for wider theorising. As we outline, the editors and contributors to this edited volume argue that without taking China seriously, that is without considering China as a sizeable agent, a prominent locus of knowledge production, and a new discursive topos of an emerging post-global imaginary, anthropologists may fail to adequately analyse the present and make sense of both the material and immaterial forces that animate it. Taken together as they are in this collection, ‘China’ and ‘context’ reveal complexity, ambiguity, and inconsistency in the lives of people at the cutting edge of geopolitical power shifts and help refocus scholarly attention around the scope and purchase of critical theory at the end of Western globalisation. Revealing – as the chapters here do – what it means to live in a world where ‘China’ becomes the ordinary ‘context’ for diverse ‘field sites’ and research practices carried out in them offers an antidote to anthropological and other ethnographic work which has for too long gestated within and against the foil offered by Anglo-American neoliberal globalisation and critical responses to it
Fuel price effects on motor vehicle collisions: evidence from Greece
No full textThis study examines the relationship between petrol prices and vehicle collisions using Greek data from 2012 to 2021. Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity models are employed for daily motor vehicle collisions. Our analysis reveals that petrol prices have a significant impact on vehicle collisions. Fatal vehicle collisions decrease during relatively high petrol prices, whereas light-injury vehicle collisions increase. No significant relationship was found between severe-injury vehicle collisions and fuel prices. We also analyze daily data on motorcycle vehicle collisions and find a positive relationship between these accidents and fuel prices. When considering models with lagged fuel prices, our results indicate that in all cases, vehicle collisions decrease during periods of increasing fuel prices. These findings suggest that policies targeting motorcycling safety are particularly necessary during times of rising fuel prices
Radical history as collective endeavour: joining History Workshop Journal in the present crisis
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The nature of narcissism: a review and expansion of research on narcissism in the workplace
No full textThis chapter offers a systematic review of narcissism in the workplace. Drawing on a review of 73 articles published in leading management journals from 2011 to 2023, it identifies key patterns in how narcissism has been conceptualized, measured, and studied. Findings reveal a strong emphasis on grandiose narcissism, particularly among formal leaders, with limited attention to antecedents, relational impacts, and subtypes. To address these gaps, the chapter integrates insights from clinical psychology, where narcissism’s developmental pathways, dimensionality, and treatability have been more fully explored. While drawing from clinical psychology enriches management research, the chapter also argues that management insights—especially on narcissism’s relational and social implications—can inform clinical understanding and practice. By bridging management and clinical perspectives, it proposes new directions for studying narcissism in organizational contexts—advancing theory, broadening outcomes examined, diversifying methods, and developing evidence-based interventions. The analysis underscores the value of interdisciplinary integration for understanding narcissism’s complex role in organizational life
From nerd to herd research uptake, impact and ‘policy entrepreneurs’
No full textI seem to be spending more and more time with Peter Evans, talking to UK universities and others about the thorny issue of ‘research for impact’. Most recently, we headed off down to the Institute of Development Studies, for the first of two sessions with their International Centre on Tax and Development. For once, I did not do that much talking, not least because I had a cold and could only manage a whisper/croak. It didn’t matter because Peter had plenty to say – he’s smart and whimsical, has huge experience in the research machine and thinks visually (which I do not). As an example here is a recent post from his excellent substack, which summarizes one of his main messages: that the bridge between researchers and policy/practice is getting wider and stronger, but we undervalue the importance of human agency in getting from ‘nerd to herd’
Fortalecimiento de la Ley de Cambio Climático de México: lecciones políticas extraídas de la experiencia subnacional e internacional
Get PDFPara hacer frente al cambio climático se necesita una gobernanza climática nacional eficaz. Hasta la fecha, la investigación sobre el diseño de marcos y procesos institucionales eficaces para alcanzar los objetivos climáticos se ha centrado en la experiencia de las economías avanzadas, principalmente las europeas. Este informe llena el vacío existente en el análisis de los mercados emergentes al examinar la gobernanza climática de México y su experiencia en la legislación sobre el cambio climático. Basándonos en los resultados de los procesos de participación pública sobre el cambio climático y en la reforma de una nueva generación de nueve leyes climáticas subnacionales, así como en la experiencia internacional, identificamos oportunidades para fortalecer el principal instrumento de gobernanza climática nacional de México: la Ley General de Cambio Climático. Analizamos las disposiciones en relación con las «funciones clave de gobernanza climática» que deben abordarse para permitir una respuesta eficaz a la crisis climática. El informe también ofrece información útil para otros países que están revisando sus contribuciones determinadas a nivel nacional (NDC) y buscan fortalecer los marcos jurídicos e instituciones nacionales que se encargan de su aplicación. Las conclusiones de este estudio podrían ser de especial interés para los países con una estructura federal y aquellos que buscan fortalecer el liderazgo subnacional en materia de cambio climático