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Stressing Equality or Embracing Diversity? How Teen Activists Navigate Societal Beliefs About Youth Activism

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Civically and politically participating children and teens encounter contrasting societal beliefs about their identities and actions. Some portray them as heroes, others as naive or rebellious; some celebrate their efforts, while others dismiss or diminish them.
Markéta Supa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Bathroom of One's Own: Intimacies of Austerity and Austerities of Intimacy in Barbara Pym's Fiction

open access: yesCritical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Climate shocks, democratization and (a culture of) cooperation

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract While the direct economic effects of adverse climate shocks are well known, their indirect institutional impact is still poorly understood. To clarify this, we test the idea that adverse climate shocks push time‐inconsistent elites to enact inclusive political institutions, and non‐elites to embrace strong norms of cooperation.
Giacomo Benati, Carmine Guerriero
wiley   +1 more source

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