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Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
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Tribalismo pós-moderno: Da identidade às identificações
Ciências Sociais Unisinos, 2007 The article discusses the characteristics involved in what is presently called post-modern. Michel Maffesoli reaffirms the idea that tribalism will be the dominating value in the coming decades.
Michel Maffesoli
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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Increasingly Problematic Issue of Political Participation: A Case Study of the Twelfth Term Elections of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province [PDF]
جامعه شناسی کاربردیIntroduction Elections represent a collective will and serve as a vital link between participation and legitimacy. In complex societies where millions of citizens cannot engage directly in governance, the system of indirect or proxy representation has ...
Sadegh Panahinasab +2 more
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract Decolonial theory (DT) has been advanced as a strategy for decolonisation alternative to 20th‐century anticolonialism, positioning decolonisation as an epistemic project rather than a historical‐material one. Here, I examine DT's arguments about anticolonialism: that it had a dogmatic bias towards nationalism and postcolonial state formation ...
Lavanya Nott
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Trans-generational trauma and tribal conflict among AmaNdebele and VaShona Pentecostal clergy
African Journal of Pentecostal StudiesBackground: This article explores the intersection of trans-generational trauma and tribal conflict among AmaNdebele and VaShona Pentecostal clergy in Zimbabwe, rooted in the historical context of the 19th-century AmaNdebele invasions of Mashonaland and ...
Nomathemba N. Msipa, Maake J. Masango
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley +10 more
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When Earth Matters: Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather
Open Cultural Studies, 2019 This essay discusses Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather from an ecocritical perspective, asking how her late 1960s’ novel already anticipated some of the politics of early twenty-first-century environmental thinking in the postcolonial sphere.
Bayer Gerd
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A Systems Thinking Approach to Mitigating Xenophobia in South Africa for Socio‐Economic Development
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 247-256, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT Economic growth in South Africa has led to significant influx of migrants, especially from the African continent, searching for greener pastures. The influx of migrants in South Africa has given rise to competition for scarce resources between locals and migrants.
Y. S. Nyam, O. Kunguma, O. T. Selelo
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The civil sphere and its resilient tribalist discontents: a muslim ban cloaked in sacralized binaries [PDF]
Filozofija i DruštvoThis article explores how primordial, tribally rooted bonds become sacralized within the Civil Sphere (CS), challenging prevailing assumptions about the sphere’s inertial universal horizon.
Belback Joseph Daniel
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