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Liberal ethnicity: beyond liberal nationalism and minority rights [PDF]

, 2000
This article tries to make the case for a variant of the good life based on a synthesis of liberalism and ethnicity. Liberal communitarianism's treatment of ethnicity tends to fall under the categories of either liberal culturalism or liberal nationalism.
Kaufmann, Eric P.
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Transferring Transnationally, Transforming Locally, Imagining Transnationally: The Transference of Interwar Poland’s Popular Culture to Israel and Its Rediscovery in the Last Decades

Postscriptum Polonistyczne
The article addresses the relationship of Jewish audiences in Mandatory Palestine/Israel to the cultural heritage of the Second Polish Republic, examining the transfer of Polish interwar popular culture to Palestine during the mandate period and to ...
Marcos Silber
doaj   +1 more source

Disastrous social theory: lessons from New Orleans [PDF]

, 2006
Contemporary social theory struggles to deal with disasters not just because of epistemological shortcomings regarding the continued dualistic nature of its dealings with social phenomena and events, relegating disasters to the real of “extraordinary ...
Charlesworth, S, Loon, J van
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Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach, Marta R. Eidheim, Anne L. Fimreite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

understanding the discrepancies [PDF]

, 2019
Public attitudes related to social Europe are important for legitimating the aspirations of the European Union and European politicians to deepen European integration.
Ignácz, Zsófia S.
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Educational policy as a tool for identity formation: In search of a balance between tradition and modernization

RUDN journal of Sociology
The article considers the transformation of the Russian educational policy as a strategic tool for shaping national identity under global competition. The author identifies the key contradiction between the traditional paradigm, focusing on patriotism ...
M. V. Subbotina
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Deliberation and global civil society : agency, arena, affect [PDF]

, 2010
The article provides a critical analysis of the role and function of global civil society within deliberative approaches to global governance. It critiques a common view that global civil society can/should act as an agent for democratising global ...
Brassett, James, Smith, William
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