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Waves, Floods, Currents: The Politics and Poetics of Water in Social Movement Analysis
Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 1822-1840, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The task of conceptualising social movements draws on a wealth of watery images, from protest waves and political currents, to imagining mobilisations as tides, ripples, cascades or high‐pressure hydraulics. Called upon to analyse complex processes, these waters have a life of their own, carrying analytical implications while extending a ...
Jamie Matthews
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CONJUGATED UNIVERSALISM: From Rural Pakistan to “Worker‐Peasant Rule”
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 334-360, August 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Across anthropology, political theory, and history, scholars are recentering the role of universalisms in the radical political struggles of the global South. Whereas some argue that these movements realized and even shaped Enlightenment universalisms, other scholars maintain that they promoted alternative universalisms.
SHOZAB RAZA
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The Kurdish Janus: The intersocietal construction of nations
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 718-733, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Existing accounts of Kurdish nationalism can be mapped onto the main theories of nationalism, that is, primordialism, ethnosymbolism and modernism. These theories, however, suffer, respectively, from essentialism, circularity and aporia, manifest in their common inability to digest the Janus‐like character of nations, that is, their display of
Kamran Matin, Jahangir Mahmoudi
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Help yourself by helping others: self‐interest in appeals for Russian famine relief, 1921–23
Disasters, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 700-719, July 2022., 2022 The hypothesis of psychological egoism is a commonplace in disciplines like economics, psychology, and biology. As an explanatory model it includes prosocial behaviour such as providing aid for distant strangers. But the inclusion of self‐interest in humanitarian appeals can prove difficult because the moral economy of charitable work is regulated by ...
Steffen Werther
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Between Exception and Normality: Schmittian Dictatorship and the Soviet Legal Order
Ratio Juris, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 139-157, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This article addresses Schmitt’s concept of sovereign dictatorship—a departure from the normal legal order aiming to bring about a new mode of legality—as applied to the Marxist, and then Soviet, “dictatorship of the proletariat.” Unlike Schmitt, Marx and Engels, as well as Soviet legal theorists, saw the space for law even while aiming to ...
Anna Lukina
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Policing and Autocratisation in Bolivarian Venezuela
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 159-174, January 2022., 2022 This article aims to identify and analyse the mechanisms and manifestations through which the Venezuelan police have undergone a gradual and incremental counter‐reform in the scope of the autocratisation process of the political regime from Chávez to Maduro.
Stiven Tremaria
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Bound to fail? Assessing contemporary left populism
, 2023 Constellations, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 290-308, September 2023.
Giorgos Venizelos, Yannis Stavrakakis
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Intermediaries as Change Agents: Translating, Interpreting, and Expanding Socialism
, 2023 The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 387-400, July 2023.
Charles D. Shaw, Constantin I. Iordachi
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Alasdair MacIntyre as a Marxist and as a critic of Marxism [PDF]
, 2014 This essay reconstructs Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism with a view both to illuminating the co-ordinates of his mature thought and to outlining a partial critique of that thought.
Blackledge, PR
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NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2021 The present study is based in a departure from the currently abounding academic researches into contemporary Pakistani English novel exploring the cultural and religious identity crises of the local and diasporic Pakistani characters in the wake of 9/11 ...
Kalsoom Khan
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