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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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A yes vote in the Scottish referendum would start a serious debate about independence for Wales [PDF]
, 2012 Roger Sculley argues that while independence for Wales does not presently enjoy significant backing, this would change with a Yes vote in the Scottish independence referendum.
Sculley, Roger
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The Catalonia challenge. A descriptive analysis / El desafío catalán. Un análisis descriptivo
Barataria, 2015 On December 12th, 2013, the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Artur Mas, together with the representatives of some Catalan political and civil organizations, announced at a press conference its decision to conduct a referendum with the aim of ...
Elena Llorca Asensi
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2023 Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum presented a pivotal moment in the nation's democratic landscape. Despite support for Indigenous well‐being, the referendum did not secure the necessary approval, prompting extensive analysis of its outcome.
Scott Baum, William Mitchell
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The New Caledonia independence referendum: What happens now?
Pacific Journalism Review, 2019 This article gives an interpretative treatment of the historical record, from France taking possession of New Caledonia in 1853, through to the current Matîgnon process, assessing indications for coming developments.
Lee Duffield
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
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While the Scottish people may be on the brink of the unknown, the Welsh continue to prefer familiarity [PDF]
, 2014 Has the Scottish independence debate and the narrowing of the opinion polls ahead of the referendum stirred desire for an independence referendum in Wales?
Evans, Adam
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The argument in support of Scottish independence
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014 In this contribution to the debate I trace distinctive strands in a Scottish approach to social welfare. I make a case that manifestations of a Scottish approach are, however, susceptible to the vagaries of political decisions and directions emanating ...
Mark Smith
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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The Catalan independence movement has been more ‘emotionally’ driven than its Scottish equivalent [PDF]
, 2013 Scotland is due to hold an independence referendum in September 2014, while independence supporters in Catalonia recently held a mass demonstration in favour of the territory’s independence from Spain. Luis Moreno compares the two independence movements,
Moreno, Luis
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