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Time at Home: The October Revolution and Soviet Temporalities
Abstract The October Revolution ushered in a radical, future‐orientated political agenda. Almost immediately, through the press, advice literature, activism and avant‐garde planning, a lively discourse on domestic life presented the home as a central site for building this ‘new epoch’. The home became the hub of a new and burgeoning Soviet temporality –
ANDY WILLIMOTT
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Abstract By drawing, among others, on the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle and Judith Butler, this paper explores spatial struggles over the right to free speech at Hyde Park, London, 1861–1962. From the 1860s to the early 20th century, the state gradually constructed a “monologic” discourse about an ideal‐typical “indecent” speaker who would “trespass” on ...
John Michael Roberts
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Eastern Encounters: Ilia Repin's Orientalist Aesthetics Abroad and at Home
This essay examines Ilia Repin's sustained engagement with European Orientalist painting and its impact on his oeuvre. Through close readings of three of his major works, Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876), Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan (1885), and Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan (1880–91), it argues that Repin ...
Maria Taroutina
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Banal and everyday (inter)nationalism: French and Italian anarchist exiles in London, 1870s–1914
Abstract This article explores the anarchists' multilayered theoretical and practical engagement with the concepts and performance of nations, nationalism and national belonging, by applying the frameworks of banal nationalism (understood as an ideology) and everyday nationhood (the daily practices in which nation and nationhood are enacted) as ...
Constance Bantman, Pietro Di Paola
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The subversive potential of witchcraft: A reflection on Federici's Self‐reproducing movements
Abstract This is a theoretical contribution that draws on the work of Silvia Federici, and particularly her book, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the body and primitive accumulation to discuss crises, struggles over social reproduction, and feminist activist organizing.
Maria Daskalaki
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Bound to fail? Assessing contemporary left populism
Constellations, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 290-308, September 2023.
Giorgos Venizelos, Yannis Stavrakakis
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Léo Frankel, communard sans frontières
Voici la première biographie en français de Léo Frankel (1844-1896), seul élu étranger de la Commune de Paris (1871). Militant de la Première Internationale, dont il intègre la direction lors de son exil à Londres, il est un proche de Karl Marx.Il est emprisonné sous le Second Empire. Pendant la Commune, il est élu à 27 ans responsable de la commission
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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LIBERTOPIA: An Intellectual Stroll in Berlin's Tempelhof Park
Abstract Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, an old airport turned into a public park, stands as a unique urban space. What it is about this simple and massive open space in the heart of a large city that makes it a near‐utopian formation? This essay attempts to explore the meaning of this sociospatial entity, framing it in terms of a ‘libertopia’, to serve as ...
Asef Bayat
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The purpose of this study is to determine a possible new etymology of the title of A.P. Platonov’s novel Chevengur and to track the reflection in the text of the novel of possible translations of this title into Russian.
Boris V. Sokolov
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