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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
wiley   +1 more source

Keeping a distance in neoliberal times: The politics of friendship in the City of Sanctuary movement

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract In 2010, the UK government transferred all contracts for the accommodation and reception of asylum seekers from local authorities to private contractors, followed by large financial cuts to support services. This article explores the consequences of these neoliberal reforms for the languages of asylum used by the City of Sanctuary movement ...
Franz Bernhardt
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Gender in a Transnational Perspective – Challenges, Resistances and Strategies

open access: yesKvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2017
This opening article argues for the need for adopting a transnational perspective in the teaching of gender in the classroom, an approach which has considerable resemblance with Mohanty’s ‘Feminist solidarity or comparative feminist studies model’ of ...
Connie Carøe Christiansen   +1 more
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Feminist transnational diaspora in the making. The case of the #BlackProtest

open access: yesPraktyka Teoretyczna, 2018
This paper discusses the #BlackProtest mobilization among Polish migrant women living in four European cities. The #BlackProtest is the name of the most impressive women’s rights protest in Poland’s recent history.
Greta Gober, Justyna Struzik
doaj   +1 more source

War and Peace: Ogawa Takemitsu's Theological Engagement with State and Religion

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
The Manchurian Incident of 1931 marked a pivotal moment in the rise of Japanese fascism. During the period from this incident until the Pacific War's defeat, dissent from the state's control was not tolerated, leading to coercive measures in religious communities. The Christian community, rather than devising theological reasoning to resist the state's
Eun‐Young Park, Do‐Hyung Kim
wiley   +1 more source

From National Borders to Digital Frontiers: Comparing the Impacts of Social Media Use on Transnational Identity Negotiation in South Korea and Taiwan

open access: yesJournal of East Asian Studies
Using data from the seventh wave of the World Values Survey, this study examines how social media use shapes the negotiation of transnational identity in South Korea and Taiwan—two countries characterized by distinct forms of nationalism—and whether ...
Shin Haeng Lee
doaj   +1 more source

Las Funciones del Sindicato en un Mundo Globalizado [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In these times national unions seem to be out of breath under the wave of globalization, on which multinational firms surf quite well. But this is a false perception nowadays, when global unions begin to appear everywhere discussing, orienting and ...
Ojeda-Avilés, Antonio
core   +1 more source

‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

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