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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

From Asset to Liability–Considerations on the Constitutionalizing of Religious Freedom Within the European Union Member States

open access: yesLaws
This paper examines the usage of different phrases naming “religious freedom” in international treaties and European Union member states constitutional texts in order to identify traces of contemporary ideological polarization in relation to the main ...
Catalin Raiu
doaj   +1 more source

Justice, community and obligation: a study of recent liberal political philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Liberals disagree about the state's legitimate sphere of activity. Some emphasise individual liberty and self-determination, believing the requirements of these principles are best met by the free market.
McCarthy, A, McCarthy, Austin
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source

“ICTs, the Knowledge Economy, and Neo-Liberalism”

open access: yes, 2001
It is a common argument that ICTs have enabled a new epoch in which information andknowledge play a central role, economically, socially and politically.
Hull, Richard, Hull R
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Enlightenment liberalism and the challenge of pluralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Issues relating to diversity and pluralism continue to permeate both social and political discourse. Of particular contemporary importance and relevance are those issues raised when the demands associated with forms of pluralism clash with those of the ...
Jones, M.
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Integration Through Rights: Towards an Associational Paradigm

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Integration policies in the EU and the UK have over the past two decades increasingly emphasised duties and constraints for migrants. This article challenges the duty‐based model and proposes an alternative legal conception: ‘integration through rights’, with associational rights taking a central role.
Sarah Ganty, Clíodhna Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Liberalism between Politics and Epistemology: A Discussion of Alessandro Ferrara’s The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism

open access: yes, 2016
In this symposium, Alessandro Ferrara’s recent book The Democratic Horizon: Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism – an attempt to expand the framework of Rawls’ political liberalism in order to enable it to meet the challenge of today’s ...
Simeunović, Bojana   +4 more
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
wiley   +1 more source

The problem of liberalism identity

open access: yesPolitologija, 1999
The article deals with three problems related to the political doctrine of liberalism. The problems are put in as follows: at the outset, the substance of the concept of liberalism is introduced, the main challenges facing the identity of modern ...
Alvydas Jokubaitis
doaj   +1 more source

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