http://hdl.handle.net/2123/898 2013-05-25T11:15:26Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9099 Title: OECD: Inequality rising faster than ever Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-05-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9090 Title: Inequality and growth Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-05-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9064 Title: Why are luxury car sales growing at record rates — in a recession? Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-05-03T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9061 Title: Exploding the debt threshold myth Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9059 Title: "The rich don't always win" - but they usually do Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9058 Title: The squeezed middle: the title says it all Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-10T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9042 Title: Inequality, greed, and the demise of our better natures Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9022 Title: 'The best thing for the baby': mothers' concepts and experiences related to promoting their infants' health and development Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Mothers and pregnant women in contemporary western societies are at the centre of a web of expert and lay discourses concerning the ways they should promote and protect the health and development of their foetuses and infants. This article reports the findings from an Australian study involving interviews with 60 mothers. The findings explore in detail four topics discussed in the interviews related to pregnancy and caring for young infants: disciplining the pregnant body; promoting infants’ health; immunisation; and promoting infants’ development. It is concluded that the mothers were highly aware of their responsibilities in protecting their foetuses and infants from harm and promoting their health and development. They conceptualised the infant body as highly vulnerable and requiring protection from contamination. They therefore generally supported the idea of vaccination as a way of protecting their babies’ immature immune systems, but were also often ambivalent about it. The mothers were aware of the judgemental attitudes of others, including other mothers, towards their caring efforts and attempted to conform to the ideal of the ‘good mother’. The emotional dimensions of caring for infants and protecting their health are discussed in relation to the voluntary participation of mothers in conforming to societal expectations. 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9021 Title: Fat Politics: Collected Writings Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: This publication is a collection of short articles published by sociologist Deborah Lupton on her blog and The Conversation website dealing with topics relating to the politics of body weight. The articles include discussion of obesity and fat politics, fat activism, the Health at Every Size movement, fat stigma and discrimination, motherhood and children’s body weight, the use of disgust in anti-obesity campaigns and pro-ana websites. 2013-04-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9018 Title: Government exists to serve the people, not the privileged Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-04-04T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9010 Title: How inequality corrupts society Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-03-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9006 Title: How inequality is killing the dinosaurs Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-03-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9005 Title: The great Cyprus bank robbery Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-03-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8956 Title: Britain comes clean on slave fortunes Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-02-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8937 Title: The world order is changing, but not how you think Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8927 Title: The problem isn’t growth; the problem is inequality Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-02-10T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8912 Title: What's wrong with the "right to work"? Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-01-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8899 Title: To save Social Security, raise the minimum wage Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-01-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8867 Title: The debt ceiling gives the president enormous power – He should use it Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-01-12T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8866 Title: Who won in the fiscal cliff deal? Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2013-01-02T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8853 Title: On corporate taxes, Britain follows U.S. lead Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8852 Title: There is no American left Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8851 Title: Government keeps us rich Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8849 Title: The way to "save" Medicare is to expand it Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-29T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8848 Title: Gun ownership is a hobby, not a right Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8847 Title: Public companies should serve the public Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8811 Title: Entitlements are fundamental Human Rights, not political poker chips to be bargained away Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-05T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8798 Title: Strange but true: Taxmageddon will help level the playing field for small businesses Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8794 Title: Beyond the 'affect heuristic': the emotion-risk assemblage Authors: Lupton, Deborah Abstract: Little sociological research, with the notable exception of that on edgework, has focused directly on the emotional dimensions of risk rationalities. This space has largely been occupied by cognitive psychological approaches, particularly the ‘affect heuristic’ model. In this model, emotion is singled out as separate from and often in opposition to cognition. Emotional responses to risk are positioned as irrational and potentially misleading because they are viewed as emerging from the body and not from the mind. In this paper I argue that the theorising of the emotional dimensions of risk must recognise their fluid, dynamic and often contradictory and ambivalent nature. I take a relativist approach to both risk and emotion, and contend that emotion configures risk and risk configures emotion, and that aspects such as embodiment and location in space and place are important in these configurations. I propose the concept of the ‘emotion-risk assemblage’ as a way of acknowledging the contingent, constantly changing and inextricable aspects of the emotion and risk relationship. This concept avoids the attempt to position emotion as either rational or irrational, contending instead that it may better be viewed as one form of thinking. 2012-11-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8787 Title: Want to help small businesses? Bring on Taxmageddon Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-23T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8786 Title: Three centuries of Russian development Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8784 Title: After the election, the "R" word: Reparations Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-12-21T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8756 Title: Class warfare in Greece Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8750 Title: The test of a presidency Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-11-06T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8746 Title: Political polling is no longer meaningful Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-31T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8745 Title: HOT lanes make my blood boil: Fast tracks for the rich on the rise Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-30T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8739 Title: Women’s wages can no longer rescue the American family Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-26T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8725 Title: America is even more unequal than it seems Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-22T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8723 Title: The Romneys don't make money; Their money makes money Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8693 Title: China at century’s end Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-09T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8692 Title: The world’s smallest shipwreck Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-10-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8687 Title: Romney versus realonomy: A peek inside the bubble Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8667 Title: New York Times' teacher pay comparisons are way out of line Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-17T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8666 Title: Income inequality undermines economic growth Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-17T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8664 Title: How to end hard times? Reduce inequality Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-13T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8661 Title: More than 46 million Americans still in poverty Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-12T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8660 Title: We won the war on poverty, then lost the peace Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-10T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8653 Title: Forget the polls: Obama is the odds-on favorite to win in November Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-09-06T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8646 Title: How to safely scale down the fiscal cliff Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-08-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8643 Title: To end the jobs recession, invest an extra $20 billion in public education Authors: Babones, Salvatore 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z