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A Century of Marxist Debates Concerning Capitalism, Imperialism and Imperialist Competition

World Review of Political Economy, 2015
The mechanicist association of capitalism to western imperialism has paved the way for current “globalisation” and “empire” discourses while minimising the importance of the nation-state.
Omer Moussaly
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WorldCuP: A database of checklists documenting the World's Cultivated Plants and their distributions

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Human life would be unrecognizable without the benefits of cultivated plants, including crops, ornamentals, or plants with other uses. Despite their importance in daily life and prevalence across landscapes, we know surprisingly little about global cultivated plant distributions.
Nicole L. Kinlock, Amy J. S. Davis, Mark van Kleunen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Academic imperialism meets media imperialism: the case of Abraji in Brazil

Online Media and Global Communication
This article examines intellectual and media imperialism as complementary dimensions of cultural imperialism. While previous studies have addressed these concepts separately, this study argues that the United States’ dominant role in the international ...
de Albuquerque Afonso, Barba Marcela
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Examining economic theory's influence on criminology: Imperialism and disciplinary boundaries

Journal of Economic Criminology
The paper aims to investigate the imperialistic status of Economic Theory of Crime. Among economists, ETC is often regarded as a successful case of imperialism toward criminology, but criminologists do not share this perception.
Felipe Coelho Sigrist, Solange Regina Marin   +1 more
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Imperial pasts, imperial presents [PDF]

European Journal of Political Theory, 2016
This article reviews Jeanne Morefield's "Empire's Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection," and Andrew Fitzmaurice's "Sovereignty, Property, and Empire, 1500-2000." Both books are sterling representatives of the growing field of political theory and empire and ought to be of interest to scholars of political science ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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“Just My Presence, Just Using These Words Is Not Enough”: Shifting from Identity‐Based Inclusion to Structural Transformation in Language Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study focuses on 17 in‐service language teachers who graduated from a social justice‐oriented MA program in Teaching Languages to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching Foreign Languages (TFL) at a US higher education institution. Drawing on multiple data sources that connect participants' pre‐service and in‐service experiences,
Deniz Ortactepe Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Hannah Arendt and the political : the contemporary challenges posed by sovereignty, nationalism and imperialism [PDF]

, 2015
This thesis seeks to show how the reassessment of Arendt’s thought for contemporary international political theory must be grounded in her first major published work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and, more specifically, in the concept of the political
Nicholas, Donna
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A South African Language Teacher Educator's Reflective Journey Through Sociocultural Theory and Asset‐Based Mediation

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This reflective article chronicles a South African English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) university teacher educator's journey from professional disillusionment toward a more intentional, transformative praxis. The catalyst for this journey was the recurring observation of novice teachers abandoning dialogic, asset‐based pedagogies learned ...
Nhlanhla Mpofu
wiley   +1 more source