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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Sinclair W. Bell, Northern Illinois University, Dorian Borbonus, University of Dayton, Ohio, Rose MacLean, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book:
    Freed Persons in the Roman World
    Published online:
    16 May 2024
    Print publication:
    23 May 2024, pp 1-29

  • Summary

    This introductory chapter places the volume within its wider academic context through discussion of its method, background, and content. First, the chapter frames the debates that gave rise to the collection and sets out the central research questions that the chapters address. Second, it summarizes the current state of the literature, including a discussion of how similar lines of inquiry have developed in different disciplines (archaeology, legal history, epigraphy, and ancient history). Third, it discusses the contents and significant conclusions of the volume by summarizing the chapters and then by highlighting the major commonalities between them. Fourth, it outlines the volume’s unique contributions to the debate and sketches avenues for future research.

Freed Persons in the Roman World
  • Status, Diversity, and Representation
  • Edited by Sinclair W. Bell, Dorian Borbonus, Rose MacLean
  • Published online:
    16 May 2024
    Print publication:
    23 May 2024
  • How were freed people represented in the Roman world? This volume presents new research about the integration of freed persons into Roman society. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman freed persons on the basis of highly fragmentary sources whose contents have been fundamentally shaped by the forces of domination. Even though freed persons were defined through a common legal status and shared the experience of enslavement and manumission, many different interactions could derive from these commonalities in different periods and localities across the empire. Drawing on literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, this book provides cases studies that test the various ways in which juridical categories and normative discourses shaped the social and cultural landscape in which freed people lived. By approaching the literary and epigraphic representations of freed persons in new ways, it nuances the impact of power asymmetries and social strategies on the cultural practices and lived experiences of freed persons.

  • Attitudes of stakeholders to animal welfare during slaughter and transport in SE and E Asia

  • M Sinclair, S Zito, Z Idrus, W Yan, D van Nhiem, P Na Lampang, CJC Phillips
  • Journal:
    Animal Welfare / Volume 26 / Issue 4 / November 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 January 2023, pp. 417-425

  • Understanding cross-cultural differences in attitudes to animal welfare issues is important in maintaining good international relations, including economic and trade relations. This study aimed to investigate the attitudes of stakeholders towards improving the welfare of animals during slaughter and transport in four key SE and E Asian countries: China, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. Logistic regression analysis of the associations between demographic factors and attitudes identified nationality as the most significant factor influencing attitude. Motivating factors for improving welfare were ranked according to their importance: religion, knowledge levels, monetary gain, availability of tools and resources, community issues, approval of supervisor and peers. Strong beliefs in the influence of animal welfare laws, the power of the workplace and the importance of personal knowledge were shared by all countries. In addition, religion and peer consideration were significantly associated with attitudes in Malaysia and Thailand, respectively. The findings of this research will assist in the development of international animal welfare initiatives.

  • Repugnant innovation

  • Darcy W. E. Allen, Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson
  • Journal:
    Journal of Institutional Economics / Volume 19 / Issue 6 / December 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 October 2022, pp. 918-929
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  • Repugnant innovation is a form of evasive entrepreneurship that occurs in repugnant markets. Repugnance is an informal institution – controlled by long-lived norms, attitudes, customs and traditions – and repugnant innovation acts to shift institutions at the lowest level of the institutional stack. The paper considers three examples of repugnant innovation: e-cigarettes, online gambling, and webcam modelling. Each repugnant innovation challenges the complex mixture of material and moral concerns that contributes to repugnance in their respective markets. The paper adds to and expands on a body of evidence about innovation in apparently unsupportive institutional environments.

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