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Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Hindu Political Thought and Plato’s View of Democracy in Indonesia
Politics is a main pillar in national life, but political practices in Indonesia often deviate from public orientation and favor the interests of the oligarchy. This condition reveals a gap between the political ideal as a means of serving the people and
I Made Gede Nesa Saputra
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Abstract This article brings together theories of history and filmic realism to analyze the representation of the provinces in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory (Kombinat “Nadezhda,” 2014) and Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). It argues that these two films share a typically realist attitude of respect toward the profilmic in ...
Daria Ezerova
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Xenophon on Athens : between democracy and oligarchy
This dissertation explores Xenophon’s view of Athenian political society and governance during the 5th-4th centuries BCE. Xenophon has often been portrayed in scholarship as an uncritical conduit of traditional conservative, aristocratic thought: hostile
Yarbrough, Colin Warner
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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ABSTRACT This article examines how the Venezuelan government defended the gradual transformation of the country's political system from democracy to authoritarianism in an international forum. Building on the concept of international legitimation strategies, we qualitatively analyse Venezuelan government speeches at the United Nations General Assembly (
Felipe Jaramillo Ruiz, Osmel Osuna
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Transformations of democracy and the problem of wealth: some remarks on oligarchy and the Czech case
There are many signs that our democracies are undergoing a transformation: populism, an erosion of civic participation in political parties, to replace citizens’ decision- making with expert knowledge, and the growing power of super-wealthy people ...
Lánský, Ondřej
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In Political Translation: How Social Movement Democracies Survive, Nicole Doerr uncovers the role of translators as a “third voice within deliberation,” neither participants nor facilitators but advocates for specific individuals to be heard and ...
Peter Levine
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Peronism as a model of social and political development: The modern Argentinian myth [PDF]
The subject of the analysis in this paper is the study of the emergence and evolution of the phenomenon of Peronism as the most important political movement and ideology in Argentina and perhaps in Latin America throughout the 20th century.
Krstić Zoran
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