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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
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
, 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 ... political actors. Mood stories are neither traditional representational narratives nor simple impressionistic portraits of feelings, but accounts of how people find meaningful ways of constituting their own
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
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
further a political agenda that implies enormous environmental and human-rights consequences. Transport of oxygen was used to promote building a road that, together with its planned side roads, would give ... project that political use of the crisis materially advanced. Amazon; BR-319; Economic viability; Highway; Logistics; Madeira River; Oxygen; Pandemics; Public health - Manaus, the largest city in
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
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
different urban contexts and how they affect governance. These organisations contribute to sustainability politics by engaging local and national governments, allying with political parties and politicians ... Political Science, Rutgers University , Camden, NJ , USA 1 Governance and Local Development Institute, University of Gothenburg , Gothenburg , Sweden 2 Department of Politics, University of San Francisco
This paper assesses the impact of age and ideological identification on the left–right scale on the use of online social networks to acquire political information. Socio-demographic indicators and
crisis’. Scholarly literature has often separated charity and humanitarian action from social activism, as the former is seen as lacking the goal of social and political change that characterises the ... relations that transform their engagement and lead them to link charity/humanitarian action with broader objectives of social and political change. More generally, our analysis highlights the processes
the co-production of knowledge for sustainable food policy-making. The paper further highlights that co-producing knowledge in and for sustainability transformation is fundamentally a political process ... struggles in the co-production of knowledge. The paper further highlights that the co-production of knowledge for sustainability policy-making is fundamentally a political process, with politics broadly
,” “lack of time to get COVID-19 vaccine,” “no support from my family and friends,” “political reasons,” and “fear of the needle.” Important barriers to the COVID-19 vaccination for African Americans living ... non-Hispanic. Approximately 42.6% of the participants were full-time employed, and 46.3% had high school or less education. Their political leaning included conservative (15.0%), liberal (27.7%), and
, development studies, political sociology, and critical geography have started to address this phenomenon. After discussing the existing literature on this topic, this introduction proceeds to define and ... in the public sphere. Generally grounded in individualized actions like gardening, eating, cooking, and biking, it is often seen by social scientists as a “new” form of (political) participation (Bang
measures, and defending their immigration status. They shared strategies to help racial and ethnic minorities against racism including mental health resources and greater political representation. All racial ... course [ 4 ]. Across time, racism can have compounding and cumulative effects as disadvantages mount, which can increase the risk of a variety of adverse health, social, economic, and political outcomes
Climate change is an overwhelming issue today, but sociology has yet to fully engage with its hermeneutical and political aspects. The article tackles this limitation and thus the lexicon of climate ... resilience, adaptation, mitigation and precaution, Anthropocene and Capitalocene, nature and society. Although some authors have stressed the political aspects underlying these concepts and notions, and the
