..., the purpose of this paper is to suggest that the quality of “home” is altered by the presence of animal companions. Conceptions of home as a haven have been critiqued on grounds of the elision of power relations, yet home has also been understood as a place of resistance to, and refuge from, an exploitative...

... through reasoned injunctions, systems of belief, or statutory command” (p. 8). Following Ghertner (2015) , I explicate how the political appearances of state actors at Vaisakhi celebrations create particular visions of state power, which engage people in specific, post-racial modes of seeing...

... rich theoretical insights, drawing from Foucauldian theory, to examine the dialectical interplay between power and the subjective mobilisation of resistance practices of ex-combatants in prison in Northern Ireland. The wider point of prison policy and practice not meeting basic human rights...

..., power/hegemony, poverty, inequality, families, gender, race, and meaning making institutions. Darren Barany can be contacted at: dbarany@lagcc.cuny.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Power Politics Ideology Welfare state Social stratification The causes...

...Milan Zafirovski This article’s indented contribution is to provide novel theoretical insights and empirical observations on “who gets what” in the way of incomes, including wages. The article challenges the conventional wisdom about stratification, especially power and status, as an outcome...

...Joseph E. McCann; Barbara Gray Resource cutbacks and changing concepts on how best to deliver human services have created a greater need for collaboration among those involved in these systems. Collaboration can threaten the existing distribution of power among the organisations and groups involved...

...R. George Kirkpatrick; Louis A. Zurcher, Jr. In the last ten years, feminists in and out of the universities have developed a power‐ful critique of pornography as “the ideology of rape” and the “ideological justifica‐tion for male dominance”. This article is a sociological analysis of the feminist...