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Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
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Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Strategic litigation is a growing public concern, but remains understudied in democratic theory. In strategic litigation, collectives go to court with a political agenda that goes beyond their specific case. How should we assess the legitimacy of strategic litigation? Building on Lafont's model of deliberative democracy and Klein's distinction
Svenja Ahlhaus
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Change in migrants’ political attitudes: Acculturation and cosmopolitanization
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates change in international migrants’ political attitudes. It theorizes a novel attitudinal typology distinguishing polity‐specific attitudes influenced by national contexts and transnational attitudes forged by migratory experience. It applies the typology to four dimensions of political competition in contemporary Europe:
Eva Krejcova +2 more
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Neglected middle men? Gatekeepers in homeland politics: case: Flemish nationalists receptivity to the plight of Turkey’s Kurds [PDF]
, 2011 Casier, Marlies
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Active Citizenship and Representation in Europe: Towards Transnational Democracy? [PDF]
, 2013 Facts and views around the European Year of Citizens ...
Bruno Kaufmann
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how Nishi‐Kawaguchi Chinatown, a Chinese ethnic enclave in suburban Tokyo, functions as a ‘socioeconomic emergency elevator’ for Chinese migrants. The enclave serves a dual purpose: offering refuge from social exclusion and facilitating upward socioeconomic mobility.
Hiroya Takamatsu
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Non‐linear pathways of/for social and spatial justice research
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This commentary challenges the linear connection between research, engagement and activism in geographical scholarship, emphasising how these elements often intersect, overlap and conflict in complex, non‐linear ways. It reflects on the author's personal experiences as a human geographer and activist in the UK and Spain, exploring the ...
Mara Ferreri
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper examines how Chinese‐run commercial spaces in Hurstville, Sydney, function as dynamic platforms for immigrant identity formation, highlighting the interplay of ethnicity, nationality, and national origin. Through mixed‐methods research, the study reveals the complex ways in which cultural expression, consumer perceptions, and ...
Yingfei Wang, Weijie Hu
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Area, EarlyView.Abstract This intervention has three aims: (1) to consider how solidarities are being policed in the academy; (2) how friendships and solidarities emerge in practices of resistance; and (3) what a radical geography which embraces a decolonial pedagogy can offer us in these unsettling times.
Shereen Fernandez
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