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For reasons of both electoral competitiveness and democratic legitimacy, political parties in diverse democracies increasingly compete for the votes of immigrant and ethnic minority voters. A ... ethnic minority voters, with consequences for their political inclusion and representation. We examine how these questions have been answered in New Zealand, a country characterised by high rates of inward
social and commercial interactions between the British class and Chinese community. This was then transmuted by the PAP’s top-down imposition of the institutions and discourses of political meritocracy ... Department of Political Economy, King's College London , London , UK Why have Singapore's unique developmental state arrangements persisted in a region which has experienced democratic change? This paper
that mythical modes of reasoning are actually far more pervasive in modern political and cultural discourse than we commonly admit and that the difference between mainstream discourse and conspiracy ... ). The creativity of conspiracy theories . The Journal of Creative Behavior , 55 ( 4 ), 916 - 924 . Bottici , C. ( 2007 ). A philosophy of political myth . Cambridge University Press. Bouchard , G. ( 2017
With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong ... contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio‑political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are
of the ‘intellectual in exile’ and its political potential is also under threat as displaced scholars navigate democratic backsliding and structural precarity in the contemporary university and in the ... both the autocratic and the 'nominally democratic' higher education (HE) context where in some cases the very idea of the intellectual can represent, at least in part, a banal political figuration
Netherlands Fatih Goksu Arjen Leerkes Introduction A considerable academic literature in migration studies and political science seeks to identify the factors that determine whether persons with a migration ... levels, for example, are seen as evidence that ethnic minorities have acquired a considerable level of knowledge of, and access to, the domestic political system. Furthermore, the overrepresentation of
, moods frame not only immediate situational experience but scope for future thought and action. In this sense, moods frame political agency. This framing is primarily intuitive rather than conventionally ... focus upon how the mood affect them as political actors. Mood stories are neither traditional representational narratives nor simple impressionistic portraits of feelings, but accounts of how people find
in the discourses of social and political history. By tracing a certain genealogy in this historiography back through the recent New History of Capitalism to a broader Atlantic and even global set of ... –political landscape of late. Friends have become enemies and enemies’ friends, and finding common ground seems as increasingly difficult as it is increasingly necessary, at least to those of a more
diverse socio-economic, socio-political and cultural contexts, histories of inward migration, as well as differently preferred destinations in the migration of refugees from Syria in the 2010s. The ... solidarity (Bracic, 2018; Pawlicka et al., 2019; Pedersen & Thomas, 2013; Verkuyten, 2004) , behavioural intentions (Badea et al., 2017; Yitmen & Verkuyten, 2018) , political orientation and related
modernity-coloniality. Rather than passive subscribers to powerful but deceitful political utopias, ‘peripheral’ migrant subjects emerge as autonomous agents, articulating radically different visions of the ... solidarity, justice and egalitarianism as they relate to the realms of work, selfhood and socio-political organisation, my interlocutors countermap the trauma of the present to the stability and fullness of
international students and have experienced similar political trajectories during this period, they have pursued divergent education and immigration policies in regulating ISM. Driven by a mix of educational ... particular have contributed to its spectacular ascent. The first is educational expansion, which can be defined as a political strategy to increase tertiary enrollment across society. Historically, the need to
Diasporas can create, transform, and exploit transnational networks to engage in political movements in their homeland and in their hostland, engaging in both electoral and non-electoral politics ... . However, the individual processes of subjectivation and its relationship with arts as a form of political engagement have been under‑ explored especially in contexts of violence and insecurity. This
protecting in ways that it, first, neglects ongoing processes of integration and, second, disregards possibilities for social and political change and emancipation, particularly if triggered by immigrant ... rights. In political philosophy, questions of border control are, in principle, separated from questions of domestic justice (e.g., Fine & Ypi, 2016) . Moreover, it must be noted that within the ethics
prisoners they depict when addressing the public and the press tend to represent more educated groups with higher levels of symbolic capital (political prisoners, those convicted of economic crimes, and ... divisions between groups (Swartz, 2013, p. 88). This paper turns to prison third sector employees working in Russia, and to the particularities of work in a non-democratic political system that gradually
This article combines political analysis with ethnographic fieldwork to theorise Communist party’s construction of political allegiance and their persistence of power in the democratic context at a ... , Bengaluru, India Alexander , K. C. ( 1968 ). Changing status of Pulaya Harijans of Kerala. Economic and Political Weekly , 3 ( 26 /28), 1071 - 1074 . Althusser , L. ( 2001 ) [1970]. Lenin and philosophy and
evolving threats at the far-right fringes of the political spectrum. Most public, political and scholarly debates on right-wing populism and extremism have revolved around the ideological messaging of these ... conspiratorial knowledge system constitutes a central element of far-right anti-publics that not only fundamentally rejects the dominant political discourse but also abandons basic principles of political
with actors on the international political stage with the aim of representing themselves and their interests to one another’ (Van der Pluijm 2007, p.6). City diplomacy is seen to normally taking place in ... raises a number of issues that have been at the centre of recent debates in urban studies and international relations, namely urban political agency and global urban governance (Amen et al. 2011
on the content of individuals’ rights and their belonging and participation in social and political institutions, this essay shows that official membership categories that are labeled ‘citizenship’ by ... relevant terminological differentiation for political philosophy, but it seems less important from the perspective of legal state membership and its discursive conceptualizations. The disassociation between
This contribution investigates the intersection between macro-level political narratives on diversity and micro-level lived experience of social inclusion and everyday interaction. The case studies ... -state nationalist sentiment? What is the impact of diversity political discourse on young adult migrant arrivals in these settings? How are macro-narratives on diversity in these regions understood and
environment-focused civil society. In this paper, I offer such an analysis, examining the political strategies—rhetorical and procedural—mobilised by the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) in the United ... Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science , Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London , UK While scholarship on the topic of gender and the environment is steadily growing, little is known about the
