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Resource Competition and Settlement Distribution in Bronze Age Greece
We apply the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) and Ideal Despotic Distribution (IDD) models to two Bronze Age (ca. 3100–1050 BCE) mainland Greek regions...
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Niche Construction and the Ideal Free Distribution: Partners in Characterizing Past Human-Environmental Dynamics
Niche Construction Theory (NCT) and the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) have been called upon by various researchers to assess, analyze, and understand...
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Dots on the Map: Issues in the Archaeological Analysis of Site Locations
The analysis of site locations is an important component of archaeological research. Recent advances in this topic include the use of ecological...
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Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society
Access to social capital and valued resources modulates household decision-making as people seek to occupy the best-quality patches of land...
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Democracy, News Media, and Religion
This chapter sets the ground and provides broader legitimacy for the proposed democratic approach to newspaper religion reporting and the questions...
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The Civilizational Approach: Contributions of Surajit Sinha
This paper critically analyses the Civilizational perspective of Indian society and culture in general and Surajit Sinha in particular. Providing a...
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Conceptual and Theoretical Issues in the Making, Unmaking and Remaking of Labour Markets in the SADC Region
This chapter explains the lenses for analysing the creation, break down and reconstruction of labour markets in countries that experienced war and...
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Building a strong programme in sociological aesthetics: Helmut Staubmann’s Sociology in a New Key
Helmut Staubmann’s Sociology in a New Key develops a compelling approach to the sociologies of art and the emotions, based primarily on Talcott...
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How Local Authorities Negotiate with Nail Residents and Why Concessions Are Made
This chapter demonstrates that the “success” of nail residents can be attributed to three factors. First, bureaucratic divisions within the state...
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Water Infrastructures: The Making and Maintenance of Material and Organisational Connections
Water has the capacity to infrastructure social worlds. From Wittfogel’s (Oriental Despotism. A Comparative Study of Total Power. London: Vintage,...
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Changes and Predicament in the Public Security System
The 1980s is the most important period for social transformation when the most radical changes have occurred, and when the state power has turned out...
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The Marginal Utility of Inequality
Despite decades of research, we still lack a clear explanation for the emergence and persistence of inequality. Here we propose and evaluate a...
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The Pariah Elite: The Reform of the Judiciary
This chapter focuses on one aspect of the campaign against the judges launched and fuelled by the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice; PiS)...
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Time to Go Back or Forward? Checking the Relevance of the Proletariat/Precariat Dichotomy in the Iranian Political Economy
Thanks to the popular literature on the global expansion of neoliberalism, the concepts of Precariat , Precarity , and Precariousness have been...
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Postcolonial Theory in Egyptology: Key Concepts and Agendas
This piece reviews the emerging debate over the ‘decolonization’ of Egyptology and thus sets the frame for the special issue on ‘Postcolonial Theory...
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‘Is it okay to have a child?’: figuring subjectivities and reproductive decisions in response to climate change
In this article, we engage feminist theorisations of figurations as “performative images that can be inhabited” (Haraway 1997/2018) to trace some of...
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Governance of the State
The thinkers and statesmen of China’s past proposed an abundance of doctrines on governance in the course of pondering and practicing the...
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Fragmented Cooperation
This chapter investigates how and what physical skills market workers learn to enact cooperation under the conditions of fierce competition and...
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4.0 Communities
The objective of this chapter is to analyze the type of community that is characteristic of technological societies. To achieve a correct...
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Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy
This article seeks to provide a comprehensive re-evaluation of the redistributive models of democracy advanced by Carles Boix, and Daron Acemoglu and...
