“Financial Regulation and International Competitiveness: The Case of the German Bundesliga“: The paper discusses the intensively discussed problem of financial crisis, overburdening debts and insolvencies in professional European football. The academic literature identifies several special character...

Brazilian society was shaken by turmoil in the 1920s and 1930s. The country was rocked by heated debates over race and immigration, burgeoning social movements in cities and the countryside, entrenched oligarchies clinging to power, and nature being despoiled. Against this turbulent backdrop, a grou...

The construction of narratives takes place within specific contexts, including temporal, cultural, geographical, historical, ideological, and physical. The contextual creation of slave narratives and the processes of their construction and reconstruction resulted in a negotiation of power over the a...

Objetivo: O câncer de Brônquio e pulmão (CP) é uma doença altamente letal. Geralmente é detectado em estádios avançados, uma vez que a sintomatologia da doença não é detectada nos estádios iniciais. A população idosa por ter mais tempo exposição a fatores como consumo dos derivados do tabaco, tornan...

O estudo aqui apresentado objetiva discutir variáveis sociais e demográficas de doadores de sangue portadores de hemoglobinas variantes no estado do Piauí, no ano de 2019, através da análise dos dados coletados dos mesmos e armazenados no HEMOVIDA. Os dados obtidos foram submetidos a análise estatís...

Denis GUTHLEBEN, Odile LE Faou, A race for life. AFM and biological and medical research, Armand Colin, Paris, 2011. Published on 16 November 2011 since 1987, Telethon has contributed to the popularity of the French association against myopathies. But the AFM’s adventure starts much earlier. In 1958...

In this text I consider the notions of Brazilian agency that migrated to Europe from different sectors of the sex market. The analysis is based on a multi-site ethnography carried out in Brazil, Italy and Spain. I consider that the alteration of contexts has an impact on the re-significance of the d...

contributes to a website After their birth, international organisations have set themselves the goal of combating racism. However, despite numerous statements, they have been confronted with recurrent dilemmas in this company, first and foremost the ambivalent and deeply contested nature of the conc...

This paper shows that the problem of treating people as equals in a world marked by deep-seated and, often, recalcitrant inequalities has implications for the way we approach the provision of security and justice. On the one hand, it means that racial profiling will generally be unjustified even whe...

This poll, fielded April 13-14, 1999, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, First Lady Hilla...

For Bertrand Belin, notebooks are treated as reservoirs from which to draw content for future songs, but as will be understood, the process of writing them is relatively independent of the time of the composition of the texts. He told us at a meeting: “The words of these notes are like horses who ap...

Need to colonial Algeria in 1924 and died in Paris in 2011, Simone Ben Amara appears to have lived several lives, during which his assignments and affiliations of class, gender and ‘race’ were blurred. Daughter of settlers, she became anticolonialist and Marxist. Jewish of Algeria and a French citiz...

, which is different from other contemporary forms of domesticity, elitarian domesticity, serving particularly wealthy families, is a privileged place to study the effects of gender diversity in the context of social confrontation in permanent domestic work. It requires employees to be acculturated...

This poll, fielded April 1-5, 2009, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked whether they approved of the way Barack Obama was handling the presidency and issues such...

Nineteenth-Century ethnological shows involved the display of thousands of colonised people in a variety of urban settings, including zoos, cabarets, private apartments, and scientific institutions. This dissertation focuses on two South African shows in particular: the “Zulu Kafirs” and “Earthmen”,...

Ao longo dos anos 1970, as forças políticas mundiais se engajaram na corrida com vistas a conferir novo fôlego a um projeto capitalista de integração internacional. Após a falência do “pesado” modelo keynesiano-fordista, o consenso em torno da adoção dos princípios neoliberais para facilitar a liber...

This file includes data from the 2002 through 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) survey. The only variables included in the data file are ones that were collected in a comparable manner across all four years from 2002-2005, from 2006-2009, or from 2010-2013. The National Survey on D...

peer reviewed Drug trafficking is a mounting security problem in Latin America, specifically for the primary producers of narcotics in the region: Mexico and Colombia. The security concern from both countries has triggered the political and social mobilization of Mexican and Colombian migrants from...

The Afrobarometer project was designed to collect and disseminate information regarding Africans' views on democracy, governance, economic reform, civil society, and quality of life. This particular survey was concerned with the attitudes and opinions of the citizens of Benin. Respondents in a face-...

the Diversity Bargain is Natasha Warikoo’s second book, a professor of education science in Harvard. Through a transatlantic comparison of students from three prestigious higher education institutions, the author examines perceptions of merit and judgements about the more or less meritocratic nature...

This poll, the first of three fielded October 2012, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked how likely it was that they would vote in the 2012 presidential election, whether they thought presid...

The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) survey is designed to capture data on emergency department (ED) episodes that are induced by or related to the use of an illicit, prescription, or over-the-counter drug. For purposes of this collection, a drug "episode" is an ED visit that was induced by or rela...

A model is proposed to allocate Formula One World Championship prize money among the constructors. The methodology is based on pairwise comparison matrices, allows for the use of any weighting method, and makes possible to tune the level of inequality. We introduce an axiom called scale invariance,...

While questioning the post-racial trend towards the deseculation of racism through the proliferation of minority experiences, the article proposes to analyse, from a critical theory perspective, how the ‘racial eliminativism’ underlying post-racial projects has crystallised into particular forms of...