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Barriers to Voting
Some Americans choose not to vote. Others are kept from the polls by carefully orchestrated, intentional, systematic efforts to suppress and...
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Fundamental Properties of Societies
The main goal of this chapter is to begin develo** a general theory of inter-societal dynamics by conceptualizing the fundamental properties of...
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The Deep Story of Femininity: Politics of Gender in the Therapeutic Field
The chapter argues that the therapeutic field serves as an important site in which gendered contradictions of capitalism are lived out and...
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Landscapes of white supremacy and settler colonialism: Stone Mountain, Mount Rushmore, and the contested geographies of memory in America
Monumental landscapes draw attention to the cultural politics of memory as well as the grammars of white supremacy and colonialism in their creation....
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The Return of Race in Native Soil
This chapter recounts how the identitarian problematisation of Dutchness was eventually exhausted and interrupted by a purported return of race and...
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Social Integration: Conceptual Foundations and Open Questions. An Introduction to this Special Issue
Is the social integration of contemporary Western societies at risk? We will not provide an answer to this question, which is high on the political...
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The Independence of Research—A Review of Disciplinary Perspectives and Outline of Interdisciplinary Prospects
The independence of research is a key strategic issue of modern societies. Dealing with it appropriately poses legal, economic, political, social and...
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The End of Science Fiction
In her role as critic and editor, Judith Merril showed increasing antagonism to the label “science fiction.” At first, she seemed to prefer the term...
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Redreaming the Human and the Ethics of Terraformation
It seems we have reached the end of the world. Floods destroy, fires rage, and pandemics spread, catastrophes that may only increase in frequency and...
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Emotions, Morality, and Political Participation Behaviors in Online Activism
The chapter analyzes emotional expressions and corresponding moral dimensions in messages posted on the Chinese social media Weibo, and the...
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China: Capitalism and Change?
This chapter explores possible futures for capitalism in China. After describing how capitalist production fits within China’s social and political...
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Youth Protest Culture in Lima (2011–2016)
This chapter analyses how the protest culture displayed by a network of political and cultural youth collectives, bolstered unprecedented social...
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Madness as Response-Ability Against State Terror: A Case Study from Iranian Revolution
In this chapter, we engage with different forms of atrocities committed against imprisoned dissidents in post-revolutionary Iran. This is just a...
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The Social Transformation from Labor Movement to Political Movement—The Praxis of Committee for Action of Labor Legislation and People’s Democratic Political Movement
This paper discusses the empowerment of the powerless in Taiwanese society. It also reviews praxis of Taiwan’s democratization by left-wing social...
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Restoring the Culture of Peace in Locals: Agent of Change from Myanmar’s Periphery
Since a culture of violence, rooted in its intricate history, is deeply ingrained into society, Myanmar is in constant danger of violent conflict....
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Sentiment and Visual Analysis: A Case Study of E-Participation to Give Value to Territorial Instances
Over the last two decades, ICT has contributed to re-modelling relationships between individuals and territories, urging new and unprecedented ways...
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Racism, Colonialism, and Modernity: The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois was the founder of American scientific empirical sociology and one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century. Today,...
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Background on Urban and Regional Planning
Sustainable development has been a subject of urban planning for three decades now. Planners and practitioners now have a wealth of materials,...
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Critical geopolitics in the era of identitarian populism
The transformation of the current world paradigm is generating new, strong stimuli for geopolitical knowledge. The sharpened geopolitical competition...
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The Price of Individual and Institutional Self-Censorship
While self-censorship is a necessary part of everyday social life, suppression of campus speech is inconsistent with academic freedom. Such...