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Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics
The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and...
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Covid Vaccination Disputes in Czechia: Political Myth-Making and Boundary Work
The paper argues that one of the reasons the suppression of scientific dissent during the Covid pandemic has been so severe was because the dominant...
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Forced Migration of Farmers in Eco-City: The Investigation of Environmental Justice in New Chandigarh
In India, the development of new cities and expansion of existing cities is being conceived and executed by private players with the state's...
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Against Our Fetrah: On the Epistemic and Material Implications of Anti-Gender Politics in the Gulf
This chapter critically investigates anti-gender, anti-feminist, and anti-queer politics and discourses in the Gulf region. I focus on specific case...
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The Nexus Between Patriarchy and Capitalism: An Analysis of Mahesh Dattani’s Play Where There’s a Will
Raising voice against any form of exploitation is very difficult, but the task becomes even more challenging when one has to question one’s own...
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Policing Indigenous Land Defense and Climate Activism: Learnings from the Frontlines of Pipeline Resistance in Canada
The climate crisis is demanding profound transformations in political, economic, and social systems. In Canada, despite rhetoric about “bold action...
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A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach to Mixed-Gender Friendship in the Saudi Context: The Case of the Twitter Platform
Motivated by the growing popularity of Twitter as a public sphere where both genders interact and discuss and debate issues both formally and...
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College Diversity Politics and American Higher Education: An Institutional Analysis
In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC, this paper reexamines the politics of diversity and...
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The Promises of Empowered Girls
Everyone loves empowered girls – those “can-do” girls who succeed in school, postpone motherhood, have a voice, star in athletics, and believe they...
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National Populism and Refugee Crisis: The Case of Rohingya Refugees in India
In contemporary global politics, the interconnection between national populism and the refugee crisis lays bare one of the significant challenges to...
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History and Ecology of Malaria in the Caucasus
This chapter explores the history of malaria in the Caucasus. Devastating epidemics of Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) were quite common during the early...
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Populism, Politics of Exclusion, and Women
Populism is a much-debated concept, coupled with different forms, narratives, and applications. The conceptualization of populism is highly...
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Hierarchies and the Complementarity of Authority and Equality
Authority involves hierarchy and is a component of many patterns of useful collective action, capacity-building for addressing needs, and 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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Pluralism Versus Populism
Pluralism and populism can be looked at as the shades of democracy that try to aggregate the needs of the people and shape their interests. As the...
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New Populism and Political Implications
The development of new populism in the twenty-first century disrupts politics and challenges democratic norms and institutions. This entry analyzes...
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Social Work as an Unwitting Enabler of Oppression and Disenfranchisement of the Masses: A Freirean Analysis of Social Workers’ Perspectives on the Government of Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 Response
Social workers have been actively involved as part of multi-disciplinary teams responding to the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. In Zimbabwe, a WhatsApp...
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An Ethnography of Endogenous Institutional Change in Community-Driven Development
Community-Driven Development (CDD) empowers target communities with control over development resources but is criticized for exogenously establishing...
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Confessions of Two Well-Meaning ‘Mzungu’ Journalism Trainers
Is it helpful, and appropriate, for experts from the North to fly into countries of the Global South to deliver journalism training courses, usually...
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Social Integration Through Conflict: Mechanisms and Challenges in Pluralist Democracies
Conflicts are not usually associated with social integration, but rather with threats to it. They appear as a cause of social distance, alienation...