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Indigenous environmental defenders and the legacy of Macli-ing Dulag: Anti-dam dissent, assassinations, and protests in the making of Philippine energyscape

open access: yes, 2020
Globally, Indigenous Peoples’ dissent against unjust state and corporate incursions in their lands is being suppressed. States and corporations use penal laws, anti-terrorist legislation, and emergency powers to justify the detention of activists, who ...
Laurence L. Delina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mr. Justice Black, Constitutional Review, and the Talisman of State Action [PDF]

open access: yes, 1965
In an endorsement of Justice Black’s dissent in Bell v. Maryland, this work argues in favors of Black’s interpretation of the state action requirement and attempts to make sense of Black’s understanding in other cases where he found state action in ...
Van Alstyne, William W.
core   +4 more sources

Soviet State and Society: on a Question of Evolution of Opposition in the 1960–1970th Years

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2018
The article analyzes the socio-economic and spiritual-moral characteristics of the relationship between the Russian state and society at various stages of national history, showing their specificity in the so-called Soviet period.
A. I. Lushin
doaj   +1 more source

The Solidarity Collection of Polish Clandestine Publications at the British Library

open access: yesZ Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi, 2021
This article describes the history and content of the British Library’s Solidarity Collection of Polish clandestine publications. Over the past forty years, the British Library’s curators have collected Polish samizdat publications as valuable documents ...
Krzemień Zuzanna
doaj   +1 more source

Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon

open access: yes, 2015
Obtaining and maintaining anonymity on the Internet is challenging. The state of the art in deployed tools, such as Tor, uses onion routing (OR) to relay encrypted connections on a detour passing through randomly chosen relays scattered around the ...
Feigenbaum, Joan, Ford, Bryan
core   +1 more source

Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy: Between the essentially contested concept and the agonistic practice: Connolly, Mouffe, Tully [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2010
The text considers points of view of theoreticians of the radical pluralism (democracy): Connolly (William Connolly), Mouffe (Chantal Mouffe) and Tully (James Tully) with regard to the status and the nature of concepts in the political discourse, as well
Sladeček Michal
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction. Disenchanted Prophets: Social Movements between Dissent, Solidarity and Creativity

open access: yesSociologica, 2023
Social movement theory, with its Euro-American focus, struggles to capture the radically divergent imaginaries and claims that accompany current waves of protest.
Jonathan Bach, Elena Pavan
doaj   +1 more source

Democratic Education in an Era of Town Hall Protests [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
One central aspect of a healthy democracy is the practice of democratic dissent. For the first time in many years, dissent is being widely practiced in town hall meetings and on street corners across the United States.
Stitzlein, Sarah
core  

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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