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Political Philosophy of Technology: After Leo Strauss (A Question of Sovereignty)

Bernard Stiegler’s contributions to political philosophy in the presence of technology are honored and complemented by imagining an encounter with the thought of Leo Strauss. The concept of ... mutually reinforcing, and that the political philosophy of Strauss can help us appreciate this happening. Engineering and technology are not simply instruments available for use by the nation-state; they are

Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand

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

Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate

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

Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands

 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

The American Constitution in the Cycle of Kali Yuga: Eastern Philosophy Greets Western Democracy

AND PHILOSOPHY FOR ALL AGES 22 (1997) (ebook2017) (no page numbers on Kindle). greatest and longest periods of decline occurring in the last Yuga (Kali In its early stages, Kali Yuga (the last in the

Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan

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

Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom

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

Gene Drives as Interventions into Nature: the Coproduction of Ontology and Morality in the Gene Drive Debate

raises ontological questions about evolution, nature, and wilderness. The transformative promises and perils of gene drives also raise pressing ethical and political concerns. The aim of this article is to ... . Bovenkerk · D. Ludwig Philosophy , Innovation, Communication, and Education , Wageningen University , Wageningen , the Netherlands Gene drives are potentially ontologically and morally disruptive

“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts

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

Philosophy and Synthetic Biology: the BrisSynBio Experiment

Simons visited BrisSynBio for a research stay in 2018 3 D. Meacham ( 4 Dept. of Philosophy, Maastricht University , 90-92 Grote Gracht, 6211SZ Maastricht , Netherlands 5 M. Prado Casanova Dept. Health and ... attraction of philosophy to “synthetic biology” starts already with the difficulty in defining synthetic biology or identifying clearly its origins (see [1] for a discussion of this from a molecular biology

The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights

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

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of limited approaches to political philosophy and technology. As Mitcham pointed out in personal communication, which also forms the basis for this brief summary of the event, he hopes this special ... concerning the history of the philosophy of technology and science in China, but also an impressive look far back into the twentieth century, and testament to the profoundly international character of the

Atypical citizenship regimes: comparing legal and political conceptualizations

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

Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol

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

Mare nostrum: the political ethics of migration in the Mediterranean

In the political theory debate about open borders and the ethics of immigration control there has been little discussion of trade-offs and a lack of distinctions between admission claims. This paper ... University Press.Google Scholar Frazer, M. (2016). Utopophobia as a vocation: The professional ethics of ideal and nonideal political theory. Social Philosophy and Policy, 33, 175–192.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Reflections on Perspectives of Transhumanism, Buddhist Transhumanism, and Buddhist Modernism on the Self

Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine or the Mind & Life Institute (MLI) which organizes meetings between the Dalai Lama and scientists on science and Buddhist philosophy and meditation ...   and Buddhist transhumanism referring to Western3 and Buddhist4 approaches in philosophy. 1 The philosophical differentiation of the aims of transhumanism, techno-posthumanism and critical posthumanism

Exploring the ideational explanation for pro-immigrant sentiment: evidence from a South Korean survey

attitudes. We selected two majors for each  field of study: History and Philosophy for humanities, and Political Science and Sociology for social science. The universities selected are Seoul National ... graduation. Field-based attitudinal differences are also observed in environmental and moral issues. Political science students are more supportive of state intervention in environmental issues than students

Financial Aid and Felonies: The Exclusion of Justice-Involved Individuals from Federal Student Aid

punishment for committing societal wrongs.18 The first philosophy is retribution, or the prevention of future crime by “removing the desire for personal avengement” by victims or society against the individual ... government.21 The second philosophy of punishment is deterrence.22 Deterrence averts future crime by specifically frightening the defendant or generally intimidating the public with the threat of punishment 15

Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany

International students are conceived as essential contributors to the development of their countries of origin after they finished their studies abroad. Political decision-makers of the countries of ... ) , political (Rother, 2017) , social (Krannich, 2017) or cultural processes (Zhou & Lee, 2015) in their home countries. Sometimes they might do that even more effectively than they would have stayed at

Bureaucratic configuration and discretion in asylum case processing: the case of the EUAA in Greece

how migration is managed. The motivation behind these ‘creative strategies’ differs from case to case. Some frontline staff may have a political agenda (Ioannidis et al., 2021) , try to resolve ... the top (ibid). Agency-oriented debates surrounding impartiality, subordination and political nonalignment are central to both historical and contemporary discussions on bureaucrats in many public