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Combating converging crises: The role of universities in global health, climate, and equity. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Clim Chang Health
Ratevosian J   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nationalism and Education in the Arctic: A Study of Greenland in the Context of the Kingdom of Denmark

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the coconstitution of nationalism and education in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) within the Kingdom of Denmark. Drawing on Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, Michael Billig and Siniša Malešević, it argues that schooling standardises language, history and civic repertoires, thereby fabricating the modern national subject ...
Benedikte Brincker, Mitdlarak Lennert
wiley   +1 more source

Against Private Power: A Democracy Agenda Beyond Charter 88

open access: yesIPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since Charter 88, democratisation efforts in the UK have focused on constitutional reform to change the internal structures of the Westminster state. Today, however, the major challenge for democracy comes from our degraded public sphere, and from the emergence of new forms of private power operating outside of the state.
David Klemperer
wiley   +1 more source

Territorial Rights and the Debate About the Morality of Zionism

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the view that, beyond particular wrongs committed by Zionism, the Zionist project was itself inherently wrong. I argue that the most plausible basis for this claim is the contention that Zionism disrespected the territorial rights of the local Arab population. By examining leading contemporary theories of territorial rights
Daniel Statman
wiley   +1 more source

Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
wiley   +1 more source

Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
wiley   +1 more source

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