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Knowledge of India as an Instrument of Nazi Politics: Ludwig Alsdorf, German Indology and Indian Anti-Colonialism
Ludwig Alsdorf (1904–1978) is primarily remembered as a scholar of ancient and medieval India. This paper examines a little known aspect of Alsdorf’s...
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Kenya in World Politics
The discussion in this chapter underscores the journey of Kenya in world politics. The altercations have characterized the journey with colonialism...
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Accusation and Innuendo: Oligarchic Jewish Politics in Fourteenth Century Valencia
This article offers an interpretation of oligarchic politics in the Jewish community of Valencia over the course of the fourteenth century through an...
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Politics
Politics is such a familiar concept that it is easy to forget that its associations are not fixed and unchanging, nor has it always seemed apt or...
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The Development of Swedish Sport Politics Until the 1930s
In this chapter, it will be clear that the period from 1870 to 1920 was formative for Swedish sport politics, that sport politics was greatly...
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The Libertarian Utopia of Non-politics
In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Nozick argues against the moral possibility of a more-than-minimal State by means of a hypothetical story that tells...
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The Social Politics of Karl Escherich’s 1933 Inaugural Presidential Lecture
The essay offers a close reading of the inaugural address Termite Craze by the entomologist Karl Escherich, the first German university president to...
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Contemporary Kenya: Politics, Economics, Environment, and Society
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Kenya is a bold attempt to address a wide range of themes and ideas in one volume, covering the country’s...
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Philosophy and Politics (1972)
It is dangerous to make politics a topic of philosophicalPhilosophie, philosophical thought; for there is an irresolvable opposition between politics...
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The Politics of Cultural Integration
The political and cultural streams of Hindu nationalism had much in common; both embraced the unity in diversity doctrine. However, because of their...
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Politics of Recognition
This chapter takes the investigation further to transitional justice in the broad sense: declassification of state-security archives, truth seeking...
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The Vietnam Moratorium and the Limits of Cold War Congressional Peace Politics
The Vietnam Moratorium mobilized millions of Americans to oppose the Vietnam War on October 15, 1969. Congressmen shared the stage with grassroots...
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Role of Students in National Politics in Kenya
University students have played a major role in the leadership and democratization process in Kenya since independence. It is generally believed that...
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Civil Society and the Politics of Democratization
As noted in Chap. 20 , Kenya gained independence in 1963 under a multiparty system, with two major...
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Investigating forty years of French politics through the prism of value change
In this introduction, we advocate for an approach based on values when trying to make sense of shifts and changes that occurred in French politics...
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The Politics of Street Naming
The chapter examines the role of streets as politically contested spaces that act as representations of a group’s self-image—its identity—and serve...
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Women in the AKP Years, 2007–2021: Conservative Politics and Neoliberalism
The chapter contextualizes the representations of Muslim women between 2006 and 2021 during the dominance of neo-Orientalism in global affairs,...
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The Women’s Movement and Gender Politics in Kenya
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, many of Africa’s 54 nations witnessed increases in the number of women in politics (Mama, 2013;...