College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

While cancer remains the leading cause of occupational death among firefighters, cancer mitigation efforts are not always successful. This study examines how health practices become durable behavioral changes within the professional field of California firefighters. Drawing on 48 in-depth interviews, we examine how health uptake has been successful in a field where resistance would be expected based on the entrenched tradition and masculine culture. Integrating Bourdieu's framework with Fundamental Cause Theory, we show that cultural, symbolic, and social capital must be reconfigured concurrently to transform the entrenched habitus and enhance cancer mitigation. Specifically, acquiring new knowledge on cancer risks, reclassifying clean gear as a new symbol of professionalism, and solidifying the new knowledge and symbol through cohesive social networks can facilitate habitus transformation and produce sustained behavioral changes in cancer mitigation. Our research enriches both theoretical perspectives and extends medical sociology's understanding of how to overcome sociocultural barriers to pro-health actions.

How do people emotionally imagine political others and the competing sovereignty claims they represent, and how are these imaginaries tied to different visions of the collective “us”? Drawing on 93 interviews with Chinese college students in China and the United States between 2019 and 2021, this study examines how Chinese youth’s visions of China’s future organize their emotional responses to Hong Kong and Taiwan. We develop a typology along two dimensions: visions of China’s future (stronger versus freer) and the perceived significance of Hong Kong and Taiwan for that future. A stronger-China vision paired with high perceived significance produces nationalist defensiveness , which frames sovereignty in terms of national dignity, security, and the unfinished project of national strengthening. A freer-China vision paired with high perceived significance yields admiration and identification with democratic freedoms. Among students who attach less significance to Hong Kong and Taiwan or regard them as given, a stronger-China vision often appears as apathy , whereas a freer-China vision more often generates envy or ambivalence . These orientations are further informed by social positions, out-group interaction, and access to alternative information, which can either reinforce existing visions of “us” or unsettle perceptions of “them.” By foregrounding the interplay between imagined futures of “us” and emotional evaluations of “them,” this study shows how sovereignty debates are mediated through everyday emotions and national imaginaries, bridging research on state narratives and public opinion on territorial sovereignty.

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ABSTRACT This special issue examines globalisation and resilience, variously conceived, from a network perspective. In an era that moved from hyperglobalisation to disruption—pandemics, geopolitical tensions, climate risks—we argue that a key orienting question should be how globalisation is being reconfigured across multiplex economic, social and industrial networks. With this special issue, we hope to motivate new bodies of literature deploying social network analysis to diagnose and analyse the resilience of global economic networks to exogenous shocks. Where are such shocks likely to occur? Do they get contained in network subgraphs? Or are they absorbed more equally throughout the network? In any given network, which actors and ties, or types of actors and ties, underpin systemic robustness? The four papers in the issue span a bibliometric synthesis of ‘network resilience’ across domains; an industry‐level measure of supply‐chain disruption linking logistics reliability to US output; a country‐level study connecting embeddedness in the global FDI network to democratic resilience in less‐developed countries; and a firm‐level reconstruction of the EV corporate ownership network. We conclude by highlighting the substantive contributions of these papers, by calling for conceptual clarity on network resilience, and by suggesting a number of fruitful directions for future research.

Integrating minority threat theory with the political economy of globalization, this study theorizes and empirically tests how macrostructural changes via global value chains (GVCs) shape the carceral consequences of rising ethnic polarization in rich democracies. GVC integration should increase economic insecurity, activate and escalate latent racial and ethnic tensions, intensify dominant groups' perceptions of minority threat, and shift state strategies toward more punitive forms of social control. Thus, ethnic polarization should more strongly increase incarceration rates in countries more deeply integrated into GVCs. Using panel data from 20 countries and fixed-effects models, we examine how GVC integration moderates the relationship between within-country changes in ethnic polarization and incarceration rates. Our findings provide strong evidence that GVC integration amplifies the positive effect of ethnic polarization on incarceration. We conclude by reflecting on the broader implications of these findings for understanding the intersection of globalization, ethnic polarization, and incarceration.