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'Inside outside, outside in' is an annotated version of a script that had earlier become the monologue for a short film titled 'Unbecoming Boy: After Taylor Swift' (2019). In response to the issue's theme of 'Disorientation', these annotations consider a piece of writing 18 months later, following the many significant events in 2020 and 2021 which have affected local and global relations, publics, and politics. These annotations draw from existing literature that includes sources which informed the original script and new sources which have since informed readings of it. The writing begins by reflecting on excerpts from Zadkiel's Dream Book, which had originally informed the short film. Thoughts then 'return' to Nietzsche's famous text Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None. "Precisely, what conditions shape my selves?" I ask upon my return. Revisiting lyrics by Taylor Swift, and now also Harry Styles, the writing shifts back and forth from thoughts to rhetorical questions around repetition and accumulation, identity and gender non-conformity, interdependence and Covid-19, the city and its fall, as well as the imaginations and conceptions of time in capitalism. These thoughts and questions remain unresolved, but finally, we return to Chinatown in London, to what used to be the Sun Luen Snack Bar, where my father and his uncle used to work: "Sun Luen" meaning "New Union." Diffracting the 'new' of 'New Union', the final thoughts and questions in this article begin with "Excuse me, is anybody sitting here?"

WEAVER-ZERCHER stellt in Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler die wesentlichen ethnographischen Arbeiten zusammen, die sich mit der Rolle von HOSTETLER als Altamischer und als Verbindungsglied zwischen der Kultur der Amischen und der Wissenschaftswelt beschäftigen. Hervorgegangen ist dieses Projekt aus einem unabgeschlossen gebliebenen Buch des späten HOSTETLER mit teilweise autobiographischem, teilweise wissenschaftlichem Charakter. Mithilfe von Essays und Kommentaren werden HOSTETLERs Originalbeiträge zu Amischen-Kultur und Sozialwissenschaften nachvollzogen und erweitert, die helfen den Weg zu verstehen, den HOSTETLER über Jahrzehnte von einem Advokaten der Amischen zu einem Anthropologen haben werden lassen. Die Anfänge dieser Reise fallen in eine Zeit, in der HOSTETLERs Familie von der "Peachy Amish"-Gemeinde verbannt wurde und er selbst als junger Erwachsener nicht Mitglied der Gemeinde wurde, sonst eine universitäre Laufbahn begann. Ausgehend von WEAVER-ZERCHERs Band entwerfe ich eine Re-Konzeptualisierung der Insider-Outsider-Positionierung, und zwar nicht als fixe und binäre Konstruktion, sondern als flüssige Positionierung innerhalb eines Kontinuums. Denn Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler ist ein einzigartiges Beispiel für die problematische Konzeptualisierung der Forschungsposition als Insider oder als Outsider.

Um Einsicht in die Implikationen der Insider-Outsider-Theorie für die Einkommensverteilung zu gewinnen, ist es wichtig, zuerst die wesentlichen Annahmen und Folgerungen dieser Theorie zu erörtern. Demgemäß befaßt sich der vorliegende Beitrag zuerst mit einer Übersicht der Insider-Outsider-Theorie, aus der entnommen werden kann, daß diese Theorie nie weit von Fragen der Einkommensverteilung entfernt ist. Auf dieser Basis werden dann Schlüsse über die Einkommensverteilung zwischen Arbeit und Kapital sowie auch zwischen Arbeitenden und Arbeitslosen gezogen. (psz)

This Research Note is concerned with the relationship between party politics and the political behavior of insiders and outsiders in the labor market. 'Insiders' have stable and protected employment whereas 'outsiders' have insecure jobs or no jobs at all. Recent work in comparative political economy has identified the increasing political and economic relevance of this distinction. So far, however, most studies of labor market 'dualization' have been concerned with macro-level factors such as political institutions, public policies, and structural economic change, not with individual political behavior. By contrast, we use both macro-level and micro-level evidence in order to examine how party strategies influence individual behavior and vice versa. Our main argument is that center-left parties face a dilemma. If they propose policies that benefit insiders, they may push outsiders to exit politics or support radical parties. If they propose policies that benefit outsiders, they risk losing support among insiders. In order to test this idea, we engage in a detailed analysis of Sweden, the home of what was until recently the world's most powerful center-left party: the Swedish Social Democratic Party. We combine an analysis of election campaigns with an analysis of data from the Swedish National Election Studies, concentrating on the five elections between 1994 and 2010, paying particular attention to the most recent election. We show that in these elections, the distinction between insiders and outsiders mattered to the vote shares of individual parties, to electoral participation, and to the ascendancy of the center-right 'bloc' in Swedish politics. We are not the first to recognize the electoral dilemmas that left-wing parties face. For example, Adam Przeworski and John Sprague emphasized the historical contradiction between winning elections and pursuing revolutionary goals, and Herbert Kitschelt examined the differences between traditional socialist voters and voters with more libertarian preferences. More generally, a growing literature on spatial models of elections has analyzed the relationships between party programs, party competition, and the policy preferences of voters, and, as we discuss below, scholars of comparative politics have examined the balancing acts that political parties perform when they decide whether to appeal to 'core' or 'swing' voters. At the heart of these arguments are two basic questions: Which groups matter most to political parties? And what determines the electoral strategies that parties pursue? By integrating ideas and methods from political economy, comparative politics, and political sociology, our Research Note makes two contributions to these scholarly debates. Adapted from the source document.