» New issue: Social closure and identities Compaso

We are happy to announce the online publication of the third issue of Compaso – Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology. The current issue addresses the challenging topic of social closure through research articles that tackle it from a wide-range of perspectives, which are informed by empirical data coming from various cultural contexts.

You are kindly invited to read and comment on the articles, which are available at the following addresses:

Issue 1 / 2011: Social closure and identities

Volume 2, Number 1, May 2011

Research articles

Laurence Bachmann / Women’s struggle for emancipation through their dealings with money

Larissa Bamberry / The evolution of social closure in school education in New South Wales, Australia

Stefanie Börner / Social closure and social policy. The debates on social opening within benefit societies in the advent of national health insurance

Lucie Cviklová / Social closure and discriminatory practices related to the Roma minority in the Czech Republic through the perspective of national and European institutions

Fred Dervin / The repression of us- and we-hoods in European exchange students’ narratives about their experiences in Finland

Yi-Hsuan Chelsea Kuo / Subversions of the social hierarchy: social closure as adaptation strategy

Christin Heß / Post-Soviet repatriation and nationhood in Germany and Greece

Guy Lanoue, Vincent Mirza, Jorge Pantaleon / The Impending Collapse of the European Urban Middle Class: The European Union’s De-naturing of Space and Place