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Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965

In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia. Many of these were women, who built informal and ... between men that remain underexplored. Apart from in Burma, the hub of the Asian socialist movement, Asian socialist parties were almost always in political opposition to mainstream nationalist parties. The

Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940

. 10 Liam Kofi Bright, ‘White Psychodrama’, forthcoming in Journal of Political Philosophy. 11 Alexandra Walsham, ‘The Reformation and the “Disenchantment of the World” Reassessed’, Historical ... choosing, as he does, to see ‘belief’ as a colonizer of ‘neighboring epistemic categories’. Ibid., 282, 293. 7 See Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2005), 193; D

Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain

Mackenzie made no secret of his political ambitions. Modern interpreters treat the debate as a literary joust, a playful display of mock argument in a classic late Renaissance mode. A letter from Evelyn to ... political events; his shrewd reflections on the arts, religion and science: all these make his Diary an invaluable source. Evelyn was an influential courtier and a polymath, a notable figure in his day. But

Tax Now or Tax Never: Political Optionality and the Case for Current-Assessment Tax Reform

, please contact , USA Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation David Gamage & John R. Brooks, Tax Now or Tax Never: Political ... —political optionality. If there is a many-year or longer gap between when either income is earned or wealth is * © 2022 David Gamage & John R. Brooks. ** David Gamage, Professor of Law, Indiana University

SEmHuS: a semantically embedded humanitarian space

lowest priorities for those who operate there. In humanitarian crises, interests and preferences of decision-makers are driven by their original languages, cultures, education, religions, and political ... political affiliations. Therefore, imposing a universal solution upon them might be difficult, if not impossible. The shortage in machine-based reasoning techniques that could be applied to humanitarian data

The stagnation of innovation in humanitarian cash assistance

internal and external capacities, inherent characteristics of new financial technology (fintech), and a wider social, political, and regulatory context. According to the cyclical model of technological ... political context (Dearing and Cox 2018) . Innovators can be represented by an organization if the diffusion is a system-wide effort across the organization or a selected individual within an organization

Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910

tendencies. The pre-gold city of Sydney, with a pre-rush population of 54,000, positioned itself at the top of the Australian colonies’ social and political food chain. Gold rushes upset this balance of power ... ’.53 In this case, the first university council in Melbourne saw revolutionary impulses and looked to re-create an Old World social hierarchy. Word of new political creeds in ascendance across the globe

Who Needs the State? We Do (Maybe)

exists principally in the breach. Indeed, the State operates within a settled political economic context that grants families “negative liberty” but denies households the positive right to assistance in ... institutions and mutual aid entities to assesses their comparative strengths and weaknesses in the context of a neoliberal political economy. It does so in the context of pandemic-related support. It concludes

Solidarity through National Pride: The Future of Catholic Politics in the 21st Century

democratic nations to approach the current political issues facing them in the 21st century. Though Dewey and Rorty were neither politicians nor Catholics (being liberal thinkers trained in philosophy), their ... little time for religion as part of his political philosophy, arguing for a culture of liberalism ‘which was enlightened, secular […] in which no trace of divinity remained’.8 Yet Catholics need not limit

Flows of History

articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards, reflecting the growing importance of water to scholarly (as well as cultural, political and artistic) agendas in the previous two decades. We have ... and China and the staggeringly rapid melt of polar ice caps. At the same time, infrastructures around water reveal long legacies of political and environmental disfranchisement. To give but three recent

Recognising the shadow pandemic in the humanitarian sector: ending violence against women in the aftermath of COVID-19

structural relations of power that are deeply rooted in cultural, social, economic, and political systems of the different societies and communities assisted by humanitarian organisations. The term ... , Europe, and Central Asia region; but also supporting and expanding helplines in Malawi, Uganda, and Kenya; and supporting emergency legal assistance services in Malawi, Uganda, and Kenya. Driving political

Adversarial Election Administration

accountability, and secure election outcomes voters can trust. THE HISTORY OF PARTISAN ELECTION ADMINISTRATION IN THE UNITED STATES .......................................................... 1081 A. Political ... Parties and Democratic Theory............................... 1081 B. Political Parties and Early U.S. Elections ............................1083 C. Progressive Era Reform: States Take Over

Refugee COVID-19 protocol adherence and NGO staff perceptions: paternalism and power in humanitarian assistance

power over refugees in paternalistic ways (Verdirame and Harrell-Bond 2005) . Humanitarian assistance often de-emphasizes the agency of refugees, treating refugees as if they are detached from political ... belonging because they are not treated as political beings that have the capacity to belong to a polity. In this way, paternalism can lead to what Agamben (1998) called “bare life” and what Malkki (2002

Jacques Maritain and a Spirituality of Democratic Participation

The contribution of Jacques Maritain to twentieth century political philosophy has been widely noted. This paper explores the implications of Maritain’s work and life for contemporary spirituality ... required – one marked by strong personalist, communal and pluralist dimensions.43 To explore in detail Maritain’s political philosophy is beyond the scope of this essay, which takes instead the spirituality

Education as Childcare

exacted from poor black families for public assistance demonstrates the need for fundamental change in our philosophy of care”). A. The “Republican Mother” From the nation’s founding, men and women ... occupied separate spheres: women occupied the private, domestic sphere of the familial home, while men existed in the public, political sphere.84 But women nonetheless were expected to serve the public good

Who is your constituency? The political engagement of humanitarian organisations

The World Humanitarian Summit of 2016 was an attempt to elevate humanitarian organisations more completely into the international political domain. Humanitarian organisations are agencies which ... conflict or man-made disasters and use the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence to guide their work. However, humanitarian organisations have always been political

The Political Theology of Sir James Stephen

communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Do not remove this notice. Recommended Citation Heslehurst, Raymond (2015) "The Political Theology of Sir James

The Political Grammar of Early Constitutional Law

document that inspiredpoliticaldebate and the culture out of which our notions and understandings of constitutionalism grew. Professor Powell asserts that the "creation of a shared political and legal ... language" is perhaps one of the greatest achievements offounding-era Americans. Because deep political disagreement existed at the time, ProfessorPowell suggests that when we look to the founding

Conceptualizing an Anti-Mother Juvenile Delinquency Court

programs individualize an experience shared by over thirty million Americans,149 stigmatizing the result of political and economic inequality. These programs, moreover, rest on empirically unsupportable ... narratives about the “deserving” versus the “undeserving” poor.150 Policymakers may also invoke racialized tropes to buttress political support for punitive and harsh social welfare policy. Over thirty years

Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain

and oral history interviews to show how collectives helped shape the places in which they lived, changing Spain’s social and urban landscape and constituting the emergence of women into the political ... untaken, opposing her former political activism with an identity she depicts as traditionally feminine. This conflict might relate to cultural expectations from the time she is describing, or to her later