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The barbarism of ignorance and the ethics of critical surveillance in postmodern culture and in the fiction of Mário de Carvalho

Gragoatá, 2013
The fiction of Portuguese contemporary writer Mário de Carvalho addresses the specific topic of cultural ruin, i.e. cultural barbarism, as an upsetting symptom of postmodern culture.
José Cândido de Oliveira Martins
doaj  

Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
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Power, costs, collective action, bargaining, and solidarity

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Some argue that the more costly it would be to exercise one's power over an issue, the less power one inherently has over it. I challenge this thesis with two major objections—one conceptual, the other practical or explanatory—contending that costs influence issue‐power not inherently but contingently in specifically strategic contexts.
Arash Abizadeh
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Wachten op de barbaren: Metageschiedenis in het werk van Peter Blum

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017
This article explores metahistory in the poetry of Peter Blum. In many of Blum’s poems Western civilisation is confronted with the forces of barbarism, without civilisation necessarily being given preference over barbarism.
Siegfried Huigen
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Can riots represent? A democratic theory

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
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Starvation Genocide and the Triumph of Raphael Lemkin. [PDF]

Rambam Maimonides Med J, 2022
Weisz GM.
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Unpacking the role of in‐group bias in US public opinion on human rights violations

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Which actor identities and social and political cleavages drive public opinion on human rights violations? While in‐group bias is known to influence public responses to government abuses, the relative impact of different identity characteristics has not been directly tested.
Rebecca Cordell
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Forced to Live: Controlled Forced Feeding of Political Prisoners and the Challenge to Nation-States' Civilising Processes. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Vertigans S, Connolly J, Dolan P.
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‘Conquest from barbarism’: The Danube Commission, international order and the control of nature as a Standard of Civilization

, 2019
Joanne Yao
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