UNASSIGNED: This article politicizes a reimbursement model proposed by some professional nursing associations that aim to better align the price of nursing labor (nurses\' pay) to the value of nursing and make nurses\' contributions more visible.
UNASSIGNED: Using the concept of \"missing care,\" the critique reveals how professionalization directs attention to individual-level interactions between care seekers and practitioners while obscuring from view the harm inflicted by social institutions and structures constitutive of a capitalist political economy and the related carceral state.
UNASSIGNED: Direct reimbursement models render practitioners complicit in the harms perpetrated and perpetuated by the health care industrial complex while professionalization processes are deployed to reduce cognitive dissonance (and moral injury) produced by combining harm with nursing\'s normative principles.
UNASSIGNED: We describe and trace the complementary capitalist imperatives of extraction-based profit maximization and efficiency through the health care industrial complex to demonstrate how formative those imperatives are of the health care system, care-seekers\' outcomes, nurses\' experiences, nonconsensual modes of data collection, and surveillance.
UNASSIGNED: The naturalization of racial capitalism and the precarity and violence it entails foreclose the creation of ethical alternatives that prioritize well-being instead of the pursuit of profit that could bring the provision of and payment for care closer to the normative principles held by practitioners.

After European Union expansion in the 2000s, Danish farmers went eastward in search of cheap land. In Latvia, they encountered indebted farmers and impoverished rural residents who readily sold their land, while at the same time harbouring resentment towards \'the Dane\' for undermining Latvia\'s sovereignty. In the view of significant segments of the Latvian public, ownership of land and territorial rule were intricately linked. In the view of \'the Dane\' and the European Union, refusal to separate ownership from rule - or property from sovereignty - was a mark of \'not-yet-mature\' liberal democratic subjects. While European Union institutions monitored and disciplined the Latvian state\'s attempts to juridically restrict foreign land ownership, the Latvian state sought to use financial instruments to limit land sales to foreigners. Drawing on ethnographic analysis of the tensions surrounding the Danish presence in the Latvian countryside and on historical analysis of the shifting regimes of ownership and rule since the beginning of the twentieth century, this article traces the emergence of \'good enough sovereignty\' as a form of political practice aimed at ensuring continued existence of the Latvian state and Latvian farmers.

Research investigating young people\'s social media use has been criticized for its limited theoretical foundations and scope. This paper elaborates young people\'s social media activity from a socio-ecological evolutionary perspective (SEE), where young people\'s online exchanges cannot be divorced from the highly competitive and achievement-oriented modern market cultures in which they live. In highly competitive and achievement-oriented forms of life, young people\'s social media environments are often constituted as dynamic and evolving extrinsically oriented ecological niches that afford for status and identity enhancement while also affording for peer approval, belongingness, and self-worth nested within, and subordinate to, these higher-order affordances. The extrinsic value organization of social media platforms that serve young people\'s status and identity-enhancement are embodied by a community of mutually interdependent criteria that are evolutionary-based, developmentally salient, and market-driven: physical attractiveness, high (educational and extracurricular) achievements, and material success. Young people\'s online signaling of these interdependent extrinsic criteria affords for status-allocation and self-enhancement, where each criteria becomes an arena for social competition and identity formation, enabling young people to build personal and optimal models of social success congruent with their own interests and abilities. Young people\'s status and identity enhancing signaling of these extrinsic criteria is moving toward increasingly idealized or perfect embodiments, informed by accelerating, short-term positive feedback processes that benefit from the technological affordances and densely rewarding peer environments instantiated on social media.

Worldwide the assistance on renal replacement therapy (RRT) is carried out mainly by private for-profit services and in a market with increase in mergers and acquisitions. The aim of this study was to conduct an integrative systematic review on privatization and oligopolies in the RRT sector in the context of contemporary capitalism. The inclusion criteria were scientific articles without language restrictions and that addressed the themes of oligopoly or privatization of RRT market. Studies published before 1990 were excluded. The exploratory search for publications was carried out on February 13, 2024 on the Virtual Health Library Regional Portal (VHL). Using the step-by-step of PRISMA flowchart, 34 articles were retrieved, of which 31 addressed the RRT sector in the United States and 26 compared for-profit dialysis units or those belonging to large organizations with non-profit or public ones. The main effects of privatization and oligopolies, evaluated by the studies, were: mortality, hospitalization, use of peritoneal dialysis and registration for kidney transplantation. When considering these outcomes, 19 (73%) articles showed worse results in private units or those belonging to large organizations, six (23%) studies were in favor of privatization or oligopolies and one study was neutral (4%). In summary, most of the articles included in this systematic review showed deleterious effects of oligopolization and privatization of the RRT sector on the patients served. Possible explanations for this result could be the presence of conflicts of interest in the RRT sector and the lack of incentive to implement the chronic kidney disease care line. The predominance of articles from a single nation may suggest that few countries have transparent mechanisms to monitor the quality of care and outcomes of patients on chronic dialysis.

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In the twenty-first century, the notion of the state and its role in innovation and development have become dominant topics of theoretical and empirical inquiry. Although contemporary innovation theorists clearly unpack the myth of market fundamentalism in industrial policy and practice of neo-liberal states, they do not seem to explain precisely how come such states have been justified to play extensive roles in the economy. This paper provides a theoretical explanation by drawing lessons from Poulantzas\' approach to the state and going beyond it to consider alternatives. Accordingly, it conceives the innovation state as a result of the social division of labour and as a condensation of conflicting social relations which have their own materiality. The paper argues that whatever form the innovation state has taken in the western world since the industrial revolution, this has remained predominantly capitalist. Thus, it reproduces the social division of labour that is exploitative and unjust, delivering most benefits of innovation to dominant classes and excluding the very poor and the marginalised. The kind of innovation state that matters for social justice is a non-capitalist one, promoting pluralism of societies of equals through innovation.

This paper uses qualitative sociological modelling to assess the transformative potential of Modern Monetary Theory as set out in recent work by Stephanie Kelton and Mariana Mazzucato. The starting point is Ruth Levitas\'s (2013) Utopia as Method. This defines and develops Utopia as an exploratory, speculative sociological method characterised by a holistic and ecologically embedded approach. This is then used to explore the potential of MMT for envisioning social transformation. The paper argues that the neglect of unpaid work and a commitment to economic growth undermines the radical potential of MMT, as does the abstraction of \'the economy\' from a wider understanding of social structures and processes. It suggests also that the project to use MMT to reform capitalism is fundamentally flawed since there is a conflict between the compound growth on which capitalism depends and the environmental imperatives that both Kelton and Mazzucato acknowledge.

It seems clear to many analysts that there are several existential and many \'normalized\' threats to wellbeing of individuals, societies and environments-such as disruption from climate change, diseases from manufactured foods and species losses linked to habitat destruction-that have been associated with fields of science, mathematics and technology (and, likely, engineering). Culpability for such threats, while perhaps engaging much of humanity, seems most likely attributable to pro-capitalist individuals (e.g., financiers) and groups (e.g., corporations and transnational trade organizations)-which appear to have relatively successfully influenced most living and nonliving entities to form assemblages (dispositifs) that serve their self-interested ideologies. Given harms associated with such assemblages, it seems clear to many analysts that they need to be severely disrupted or, perhaps, replaced with alliances of entities that are based on ideological perspectives that may contribute to comprehensive wellbeing. Although pro-capitalist assemblages have been extremely resilient, it seems that current sociopolitical instability and, moreover, considerable disruption from the CoViD-19 pandemic may provide unprecedented opportunities for dramatic changes. In this article, after consideration of characteristics and extents of harms linked to fields of science, mathematics and technology/engineering, possibilities are described and critically defended for uses of a particular curriculum and pedagogical framework for helping students to imagine and, perhaps, realize new assemblages of entities that are held together by ideologies that they consider appropriate.
Il semble clair pour de nombreux analystes qu\'il existe plusieurs menaces existentielles et de nombreuses menaces « normalisées » au bien-être des individus, des sociétés et des environnements, telles que les perturbations dues au changement climatique, les maladies provenant des aliments manufacturés et la perte d\'espèces liée à la destruction de l\'habitat, qui ont été associées à des domaines des sciences, des mathématiques et de la technologie (et, probablement, de l’ingénierie). La culpabilité de telles menaces, même si elle engage peut-être une grande partie de l\'humanité, semble très probablement attribuable aux individus procapitalistes (par exemple, les financiers) et aux groupes (par exemple, les sociétés et les organisations commerciales transnationales) - qui semblent avoir influencé avec un succès relatif la plupart des entités vivantes, non vivantes et symboliques pour former des assemblages (dispositifs) au service de leurs idéologies intéressées. Compte tenu des préjudices associés à de tels assemblages, il semble clair pour de nombreux analystes qu\'ils doivent être gravement perturbés ou, peut-être, remplacés par des alliances d\'entités fondées sur des perspectives idéologiques susceptibles de contribuer au bien-être global. Bien que les assemblages pro-capitalistes aient été extrêmement résilients, il semble que l\'instabilité sociopolitique actuelle, à laquelle s\'ajoutent les perturbations considérables dues à la pandémie de COVID-19, peut offrir des occasions de changements profonds sans précédent. Dans cet article, après avoir examiné les caractéristiques et l\'étendue des préjudices liés aux domaines des sciences, des mathématiques et de la technologie / ingénierie, les possibilités sont décrites et défendues de manière critique pour l\'utilisation d\'un programme et d\'un cadre pédagogique particuliers pour aider les élèves à imaginer et, peut-être, à réaliser de nouveaux assemblages d\'entités maintenues ensemble par des idéologies qu\'ils jugent appropriées.

This article contrasts specific aspects of indigenous world views and wisdom on the one hand with specific themes in capitalism, colonisation, corporate interests, technology and education, on the other and argues that there is a fundamental clash of values between them. There is no assumption of a homogenous indigenous wisdom and no claim is made about novel insight into capitalism, colonisation, corporate interests and technology and education. The contribution is in tracing lines of thought in all of them and, by juxtaposing them in the context of a contemporary upsurge in digital/online/blended learning with particular attention to the global techno-corporation, to expose a fundamental clash of values that deserves more thorough scrutiny than it is getting. The paper does not present a linear argument, but rather a woven tapestry of themes. The conclusion is that education would be better served by the insights of indigenous wisdom and a more critical and tempered view of capitalism and technology.

This article argues that corporate law has become the legal platform upon which is erected a social process impeding society\'s capacity to lucidly reflect on its primary ends; in this sense, corporate law is in conflict with social autonomy. This process is described here as a social feedback loop, in the structural centre of which lies the corporation which imposes its own purpose as an irrational social end, i.e. irrespective of its potentially catastrophic social consequences. The article argues that resolving the conflict between corporate law and social autonomy is impossible, because it presupposes a change of social paradigm towards one where corporate law as business organisation law has no obvious fit. This questions the social legitimacy of corporate law, signifies its non-permanence and thus opens up the field for seeking radical alternatives in the future.