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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Marx's Concept of Justice: Disambiguating Capitalist and Communist Justice
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Gregory Slack
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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“Iraqis and the Palm Trees. Who Represents Whom?”
Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer narrates Iraq’s political, social, and disastrous events taking place in the last thirty years and concludes by castigating wars and the American invasion of Iraq and their repercussions. There has been a growing body of
Muthanna Al-Janabi
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ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
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Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests
Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
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Negativity and Political Behavior: A Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Negative Voting in Contemporary Democracies. [PDF]
Garzia D, Ferreira da Silva F.
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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Correcting misperceptions of the other political party does not robustly reduce support for undemocratic practices or partisan violence. [PDF]
Druckman JN.
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