Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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The Politics of Russian ‘Diaspora’: From Compatriots to a Russian World
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left twenty-five million ethnic Russians living outside the contemporary borders of the Russian Federation, the country’s ruling elite have undertaken increasing efforts over time to formulate policies on ...
Burcu Degirmen Dysart
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Češi v Bulharsku — pokus o typologii současných komunit. Specifická kulturní nabídka pro tyto skupiny, centra jejich setkávání [PDF]
The article’s topics is current context and relations within a community of Czechs living in Bulgaria; the text is focused on the last twenty years.
Kateřina Churtajeva
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Racialized Labour in the Colonial Food Regime: The Whitening of England's Farmworkers
ABSTRACT The crystallization of a colonial food regime in the 1870s centred around Britain is key to historical accounts of agrarian political economy. Yet such accounts have neglected the role of the agrarian proletariat in shaping this regime from below and its basis in racialized hierarchy.
Ben Richardson
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Ze vzpomínek Josefa Martínka, účastníka tří odbojů [PDF]
A native of Poděbrady, poet, editor of the socialist press, pedagogue and federal official, Josef “Joe” Martínek (23 March 1889 — 20 March 1980) lived in the United States from a young age and joined all three resistance movements.
Martin Nekola
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Abstract Firms are known to commonly imitate peers' foreign investment location choices. We shed further light on this phenomenon by exploring the role of foreign locations' cultural tightness, which refers to the prevalence of social norms in a location and the tolerance for deviance from them.
Arjen H. L. Slangen +3 more
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A „Divine Sanction” on the Revolt: The Cult of St. Demetrios of Thessalonike and the Uprising of Peter and Asen (1185–1186) [PDF]
The paper examines the role of the cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica as a tool of maintaining legitimacy of the anti-Byzantine revolt in Tărnovo, 1185–1186, led by brothers Theodore- Peter and Asen-Belgun, which is viewed in the modern scholarship ...
Dobyčina, Anastasia
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From noble Muslims to saracen enemies: Thomas Stamford Raffles’ discourse on Islam in the Malay world [PDF]
This article examines the development of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles’ discourse on Islam as practised by the Malays. It is argued that this discourse shifted from admiration of Islam to the belief that it had brought detriment to the Malay World. Such
Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied,
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Who belongs in South Africa? ‘Tapestry nationalism’ in the African National Congress
Abstract Perhaps more than any other organisation, the African National Congress (ANC) has defined who belongs in South Africa. Yet, how does the organisation imagine national belonging, and how has this developed? We explore these questions through a discourse analysis of the organisation's annual ‘January 8’ statements.
David Jeffery‐Schwikkard +1 more
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Income Aspirations and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence [PDF]
This article is the first attempt to study the empirical link between income aspirations and cooperation in a one shot public good game. By combining experimental with survey data, we find evidence that the more frustrated people are with their income ...
Dalton, P.S.
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