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Reimagining Trust as Feminist Praxis: A Transnational Analysis of Gender and Public Confidence in Women's Organizations

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1760-1777, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines trust in women's organizations as a gendered and contextually embedded dimension of institutional trust, drawing on data from 90,192 respondents across 60 countries using the 2017–2022 World Values Survey, the World Bank, and Varieties of Democracy.
Ruby Amanda Oboro‐Offerie
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Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
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¿Una distopía que supera a la ficción? El cuento de la criada como ideal del aceleracionismo. The A dystopia that comes true? The Handmaid's Tale as an axis of accelerationism. [PDF]

Distopía y Sociedad, 2022
El aceleracionismo es una vertiente violenta del neonazismo y una de sus manifestaciones es el fenómeno de los célibes involuntarios que se caracterizan por la misoginia y por exhortar a la violencia contra las mujeres.
Eva Gómez Fernández
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Are Women Accepted at Work? Gender Discrimination in Chinese Firms

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT To what extent is women's employment accepted in modern Chinese firms? Drawing on pooled 2017 and 2021 nationally representative Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data, this article estimates the socioeconomic predictors and prevalence of the belief that women should be stay‐at‐home wives instead of working in Chinese firms.
Anson Au
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ISLAMIC GOVERNANCE AND THEOCRACY

The Islamic Culture, 2018
ISLAMIC GOVERNANCE AND ...
Dr. Khalil ur Rehman
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Anti-Westernism as a criterion for pretending to be revolutionary in Iran and its application as an effective tool in removing political rivals

Journal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2019
What has been less visible to observers over more than Iran’s thirty years political events or, in other words, what was actually formed the motivation power of government system after the 1979 revolution, was located under the shadow of a vast tree of ...
Shokrollah Kamari Majin
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Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 3, Page 307-324, July 2026.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
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Theocracy Problem in Russian Scientific and Social thought in second half of 19th - early 20th Centuries

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2012
The article deals with the interpretation of theocracy as a form of government and socio-philosophical concept in the Russian scientific literature and periodicals in the second half of 19 th - early 20 th centuries.
A A Sakhno
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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Specters of Spinoza in Iran: The Crisis of Theocracy and the Reception of Spinoza

Journal of Spinoza Studies
Although Spinoza and, for that matter, modern European philosophers were known among some Iranians for centuries, it was not until the final decades of the twentieth century that they were eventually received into the Iranian intellectual scene ...
Ali Ferdowsi
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