Distress in the fields: Indian agriculture after economic liberalization, By R. Ramakumar (Ed.), Tulika Books. 2022. pp. xxiv+484. INR 1500 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐81‐950559‐0‐6
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
The double empathy problem and the problem of empathy: neurodiversifying phenomenology
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How to Read Marx’s Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters
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A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
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The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print.
Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the United States, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities. We investigate how inequalities in infant health contribute to differences in interneighborhood commuting mobility and shape neighborhoods’ embeddedness in the citywide structure of employment networks in Chicago over a 14-year period. We use the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer–Household Dynamics’ Origin–Destination Employment Statistics to analyze commuting networks between 2002 and 2015. Results from longitudinal network analyses indicate two main patterns. First, after the Great Recession, a community’s infant health problems began to significantly predict isolation from the citywide employment network. Second, pairwise dissimilarity in infant health problems predicts a lower likelihood of mobility ties between communities throughout the entire study period. The findings suggest that infant health problems present a fundamental barrier for communities in equally accessing the full range of jobs and opportunities across the city—compounding existing inequalities.
Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the United States, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities. We investigate how inequalities in infant health contribute to differences in interneighborhood commuting mobility and shape neighborhoods’ embeddedness in the citywide structure of employment networks in Chicago over a 14-year period. We use the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer–Household Dynamics’ Origin–Destination Employment Statistics to analyze commuting networks between 2002 and 2015. Results from longitudinal network analyses indicate two main patterns. First, after the Great Recession, a community’s infant health problems began to significantly predict isolation from the citywide employment network. Second, pairwise dissimilarity in infant health problems predicts a lower likelihood of mobility ties between communities throughout the entire study period. The findings suggest that infant health problems present a fundamental barrier for communities in equally accessing the full range of jobs and opportunities across the city—compounding existing inequalities.
Balancing the incentives in English higher education: the imperative to strengthen civic influence for levelling up*
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Children as worlding but not only: holding space for unknowing and undoing, unfolding and ongoing
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The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print.
New evidence on a classic sociological debate allows for a test of the consequences of self-labeling with mental illness. While a medicalized “insight” perspective emphasizes the importance of self-labeling for psychological well-being and recovery, a sociologically informed “outsight” perspective draws from modified labeling, self-labeling, and stigma resistance theories to suggest that self-labeling can generate negative consequences for self-esteem. We engage this debate by examining the effects of mental illness self-labels on a crucial component of psychological well-being for persons with mental health problems—self-esteem—by using longitudinal data that followed 427 sixth-grade youth over two years. Our findings support an outsight perspective whereby adopting a self-label led to decreased self-esteem, while those who dropped a self-label experienced increased self-esteem. This conclusion calls for revisions to prevailing public mental health models that overlook how self-labels can impede rather than enhance psychological well-being and recovery efforts.
New evidence on a classic sociological debate allows for a test of the consequences of self-labeling with mental illness. While a medicalized “insight” perspective emphasizes the importance of self-labeling for psychological well-being and recovery, a sociologically informed “outsight” perspective draws from modified labeling, self-labeling, and stigma resistance theories to suggest that self-labeling can generate negative consequences for self-esteem. We engage this debate by examining the effects of mental illness self-labels on a crucial component of psychological well-being for persons with mental health problems—self-esteem—by using longitudinal data that followed 427 sixth-grade youth over two years. Our findings support an outsight perspective whereby adopting a self-label led to decreased self-esteem, while those who dropped a self-label experienced increased self-esteem. This conclusion calls for revisions to prevailing public mental health models that overlook how self-labels can impede rather than enhance psychological well-being and recovery efforts.
State of Confusion: Ohio’s Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print.
This study examines an underexplored source of medical uncertainty: the political context of care. Since 2011, Ohio has passed over 16 abortion-restrictive laws. We know little about how this legislation affects reproductive health care outside of abortion clinics. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with genetic counselors and obstetrician-gynecologists, we examine how abortion legislation impacts their work. We find that interpretation and implementation of legislation is not straightforward and varies by institution and region of the state. An ever-changing legislative landscape combined with uneven implementation of restrictions into policy produces uncertainty in reproductive health care. We also found uncertainty about the legal consequences of abortion in restrictive contexts, with obstetrician-gynecologists reporting greater concerns given their proximity to care provision. We argue that uncertainty can result in stricter interpretations of regulations than necessitated by the law, thereby amplifying the impacts of an already restrictive context for abortion care.
This study examines an underexplored source of medical uncertainty: the political context of care. Since 2011, Ohio has passed over 16 abortion-restrictive laws. We know little about how this legislation affects reproductive health care outside of abortion clinics. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with genetic counselors and obstetrician-gynecologists, we examine how abortion legislation impacts their work. We find that interpretation and implementation of legislation is not straightforward and varies by institution and region of the state. An ever-changing legislative landscape combined with uneven implementation of restrictions into policy produces uncertainty in reproductive health care. We also found uncertainty about the legal consequences of abortion in restrictive contexts, with obstetrician-gynecologists reporting greater concerns given their proximity to care provision. We argue that uncertainty can result in stricter interpretations of regulations than necessitated by the law, thereby amplifying the impacts of an already restrictive context for abortion care.
Black–White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents’ Dementia
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Ahead of Print.
Emerging research documents the health benefits of having highly educated adult offspring. Yet less is known about whether those advantages vary across racial groups. This study examines how offspring education is tied to parents’ dementia risk for Black and White parents in the United States. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, findings suggest that children’s education does not account for the Black–White gap in dementia risk. However, results confirm that parental race moderates the relationship between children’s education and dementia risk and that the association between children’s education and parents’ dementia risk is strongest among less-educated parents. Among less-educated parents, higher levels of children’s attainment prevent the risk of dementia onset for Black parents, but low levels of offspring schooling increase dementia risk among White parents. The study highlights how offspring education shapes the cognitive health of social groups differently and points to new avenues for future research.
Emerging research documents the health benefits of having highly educated adult offspring. Yet less is known about whether those advantages vary across racial groups. This study examines how offspring education is tied to parents’ dementia risk for Black and White parents in the United States. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, findings suggest that children’s education does not account for the Black–White gap in dementia risk. However, results confirm that parental race moderates the relationship between children’s education and dementia risk and that the association between children’s education and parents’ dementia risk is strongest among less-educated parents. Among less-educated parents, higher levels of children’s attainment prevent the risk of dementia onset for Black parents, but low levels of offspring schooling increase dementia risk among White parents. The study highlights how offspring education shapes the cognitive health of social groups differently and points to new avenues for future research.