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Political Philosophy as Practical Philosophy: A Response to “Political Realism” [PDF]

Journal of Political Philosophy, 2019
First paragraph: From where should political philosophy take its normative orientation? According to self‐described “political realists,” political philosophy is not oriented by ordinary moral reasoning about values and obligations, but must take its normative orientation from an interpretive understanding of the practice of politics itself. This doesn'
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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Coal and Collective Action in Appalachia: Findings from a New Dataset

Government and Opposition
Collective action involving natural resources can be politically consequential. But organisers confronting resource interests or even just operating in natural resource-dependent areas face substantial obstacles.
Manfred Elfstrom, Abigail Ververda
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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What is Ancient Political Thinking?

Problemos, 2019
This paper examines the origins of ancient political thinking from (roughly) 750 to 348 B.C. The analysis of authors who had been discussing political questions over this period shows that ancient political thinking can be classified into three ...
Vilius Bartninkas
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Analytical political philosophy

, 2008
Abstract Analytical political philosophy is a complement to social science. Whereas social scientists aim to determine the empirical facts about human behaviour and institutions, political philosophers aim to determine what ought to be done in light of that information. How should states be organized?
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Philosophy of Political Ideologies and Trends or What is Political Philosophy?

Open journal for Studies in Philosophy, 2022
This study aims to recall the ideas and activities in the field of political philosophy. It is one of the so-called “practical perspectives of philosophical knowledge”, along with those such as the philosophy of law, social philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, etc. At the basis of the way of construction and reflection in our societies, the social-political-
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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Die another day: explanations based on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) for the survival and non-survival of isolated ski lifts in Switzerland [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
In the form of an explorative empirical study, this paper deals with the reasons for the survival and demise of isolated Swiss ski lifts. For the first time, all isolated lifts documented in Switzerland have been recorded and coded according to a total ...
S. Schlegel, C. Schuck
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