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Cultures of labour: aspiration, developmental futures and the materiality of memory after Chinese economic reform (2024)
Journal Article
Berlin, S. (2024). Cultures of labour: aspiration, developmental futures and the materiality of memory after Chinese economic reform. Social and Cultural Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2024.2342833

This article argues for attention to the affective investments that motivate working people’s life choices in contemporary China by tracing the materiality of the development of aspirations in a rapidly developing context. Turning to the work of Bern... Read More about Cultures of labour: aspiration, developmental futures and the materiality of memory after Chinese economic reform.

Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia (2024)
Journal Article
Marfany, J. (2024). Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia. Social History of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae018

Small local hospitals have been neglected by historians, and frequently assumed to have been marginal to their communities and largely obsolete by the eighteenth century. This paper questions such assumptions via a case study of Catalonia. It provide... Read More about Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia.

Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, C. (2024). Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses. Review of International Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210524000299

This article seeks to deepen understanding of the global politics of reactionary discursive formations, which at the current conjuncture increasingly coalesce around self-victimising articulations of racial nationalism and a rejection of social justi... Read More about Race, gender, and Occidentalism in global reactionary discourses.