This article explores the meaning, manifestations, and ramifications of medical neutrality in conflict zones. We analyse how Israeli healthcare institutions and leaders responded to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2021 and how ...
Zvika Orr, Mark D. Fleming
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Clashing Tactics, Clashing Generations: The Politics of the School Strikes for Climate in Belgium
Much has been written about the challenges of tackling climate change in post-political times. However, times have changed significantly since the onset of the debate on post-politics in environmental scholarship.
Anneleen Kenis
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From social contract to 'social contrick' : the depoliticisation of economic policy-making under Harold Wilson, 1974–75 [PDF]
The 1974-79 Labour Governments were elected on the basis of an agreement with the TUC promising a redistribution of income and wealth known as the Social Contract.
Barnett J. +22 more
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The Currency of Politics: Rejoinder
This response gives me the opportunity to clarify, extend, and complement several aspects of my conceptual and historical argument in The Currency of Politics.
Stefan Eich
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Antinomies of „truth and reconciliation“: Post-Yugoslav cases [PDF]
The paper offers a critical evaluation of the theoretical propositions and practical uses of the concept of “truth and reconciliation” (T&R), with special regard to the post-Yugoslav case studies. Firstly, the paper indicates an antinomy situated
Karamanić Slobodan
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The Big Society and the Conjunction of Crises: Justifying Welfare Reform and Undermining Social Housing [PDF]
The idea of the “Big Society” can be seen as culmination of a long-standing debate about the regulation of welfare. Situating the concept within governance theory, the article considers how the UK coalition government has justified a radical ...
Atkinson R. +52 more
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‘Once upon a time …’ Orphanhood, childhood studies and the depoliticisation of childhood poverty in southern Africa [PDF]
Policy, interventions and research concerning southern African children remain dominated by a focus on AIDS-related orphanhood, although the association between orphanhood and disadvantage is highly questionable. I argue that the trope of the AIDS orphan
Ansell, N
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The People Against Europe: The Eurosceptic Challenge to the United Kingdom's Coalition Government [PDF]
This article approaches Euroscepticism as central to a contemporary dynamic of government and opposition. Populist Eurosceptic mobilizations exemplify opposition to depoliticized forms of political rule and demonstrate the tight political coupling of the
Albertazzi +31 more
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Neo-liberalism, Crisis and the Contradictions of Depoliticisation
This paper develops a political economy analysis of depoliticisation in the context of the crisis of neo-liberalism in Western Europe. Following a discussion of the theoretical foundations of the concept, it emphases that whilst depoliticisation ...
Peter Burnham
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The politics of economic policy making in Britain : a re-assessment of the 1976 IMF crisis [PDF]
Many existing accounts of the IMF crisis have argued that British policy was determined either by the exercise of structural power by markets through the creation of currency instability and the application of loan conditionality, or by demonstrating ...
Andrews +29 more
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