Introduction to the Special Issue “Pro-Sociality and Cooperation”

This short piece introduces the special issue on environmental Kuznets curves (EKC) — the hypothesized 'inverted-U' relationship between levels of environmental degradation and per capita income. Although the analysis of EKC relationships has been a relatively recent phenomenon, there is widespread interest on the part of academics in this analysis, and on the part of policymakers in the resulting implications for environment and development. The following introduction outlines the contributions to EKC analysis of the papers comprising the special issue. This is done in two ways: first, the empirical results of the special issue papers are compared with previous analyses of the EKC relationships; and second, the additional insights offered by the special issue papers on EKCs are discussed.

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Are fan fiction and mythology really the same?

Transformative Works and Cultures ◽

10.3983/twc.2016.0689 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tony Keen

Keyword(s):

Fan Fiction ◽

Special Issue ◽

Short Piece

This short piece addresses some of the assumptions about the connections between Greek and Roman mythology and fan fiction that underlie this special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, arguing that the connections are not always as simple as they are sometimes made out to be.

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Extending Ethnocracy: Reflections and Suggestions

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.5130/ccs.v8i3.5272 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 30-37

Author(s):

Oren Yiftachel

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Special Issue ◽

Short Piece ◽

Urban State

As prelude to the special issue, this short piece reflects on the scholarly origins of the 'ethnocracy' concept, and comments on the arguments made by James Anderson's insightful opening article. It then outlines several concepts developed in the author's own work in later years as 'offsprings' of ethnocracy. Finally, it answers the challenge raised by Anderson by suggesting future theoretical, conceptual and empirical directions for research into ethnocratic dynamics on urban, state and global scales.

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Introduction to Special Issue on Labour Laws and Labour Markets

Social & Legal Studies ◽

10.1177/0964663918758514 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 407-413 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ruth Dukes

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Research ◽

Labour Markets ◽

Special Issue ◽

Research Project ◽

Short Piece

This short piece of writing introduces a collection of papers by Judy Fudge, Diamond Ashiagbor, Simon Deakin, Shelley Marshall, Jenny Julen Votinius and Robert Knegt. It outlines the aims of the collaborative research project from which the papers resulted, referring to the event at which they were first presented, and it summarises the topic and argument of each paper in order.

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