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L. T. Hobhouse's idea of a European Federation
Abstract This article discusses L. T. Hobhouse's project for the creation of a new European Federation based on a social‐liberal model of the State without sacrificing the principle of national identity. The nineteenth century, according to Hobhouse, associated the idea of nationality and liberty, and the connection was genuine enough as long as it ...
ALESSANDRO DIVIDUS
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Abstract Can there be a Godly ethnography? This article explores how the epistemic entailments of this question trouble our taken‐for‐granted notions about what decolonizing anthropology demands. Disciplinary decolonization aims at more‐just futures through interrogating Eurocentric ways of knowing and approaching marginalized histories and ...
Yasmin Moll
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Contesting property: urban commons, statecraft, and the ‘tyranny’ of liberalism in Lebanon
Abstract As heterogeneous forms of commodification threaten the survival of urban commons worldwide, in Beirut a group of residents and professionals has resorted to civic advocacy to keep the beach of Dalieh of Raouche accessible, including calling on public authorities to intervene.
Alice Stefanelli
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Ex‐gay activism and the reification of sexual identity in law
Abstract The increasing visibility of sexualities beyond heterosexual, gay/lesbian, and bisexual is often associated with progressive politics and the questioning of heteronormativity. Yet non‐majoritarian sexualities can also include self‐identifications premised upon an opposition to LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion, including those who identify as “ex ...
Méadhbh McIvor
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A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808–1814)
Abstract The ideal of the patriotic citizen‐soldier familiar from civic humanism re‐emerged in Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Spaniards were required to uphold a model of masculinity that was continually threatened by ‘effeminacy’. The study of this model is approached through an analysis of literary texts: the main neoclassical tragedies
Xavier Andreu‐Miralles
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A New Priest for a New Society? The Masculinity of the Priesthood in Liberal Spain*
This study examines the formation of the ideal of the “good parish priest” as a means for the Catholic Church to recover its social influence in the Spain that emerged from the liberal revolutions of the early nineteenth century. It makes use of the concept of masculinity as a resource for illuminating the forms of authority and social relationships ...
María Cruz Romeo Mateo
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Variations of Public Opinion Towards Face Veiling: Arguments in the Swiss Debate
Abstract This study focuses on public opinion towards the face veiling of Muslim women and investigates the possibility of identifying different groups of citizens supporting distinct combinations of arguments regarding face veiling criticisms. Two groups are expected to argue for or against face veiling.
Beatrice Eugster
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Ceux du lointain de Patricia Cottron‐Daubigné
Résumé Le livre de poésie Ceux du lointain (2017) de Patricia Cottron‐Daubigné ressort à un versant de la littérature contemporaine qui s’intéresse aux représentations des personnes migrantes. L’objectif de cet article est de mettre en évidence les processus par lesquels l’auteure fait voir au lecteur la vie, et non la survie ou non‐vie, de migrants ...
Dominique Ninanne
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Liberalism has been fundamental to the making of the modern world, at times shaping basic assumptions as to the nature of the political, and in other cases existing as a delimited political project in contention with others. Across its long history, liberal projects have taken a diverse range of forms, which resist easy reduction to a single logic or ...
Taras Fedirko +2 more
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Minority sexualities, kinship and non‐autological freedom in Montenegro
I propose an alternative conception of freedom in an actually existing liberal order by focusing on how gay men in Podgorica, Montenegro maintain love and kinship relations. For theorists of late liberalism, the demands of liberal freedom and those of social relatedness have been seen as opposed.
Čarna Brković
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