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Leave Olympia Alone: Reversing the Approach Toward the Parisian Salon Scandal of 1865
This study re-examines the socio-cultural scandal surrounding the exhibition of Manet’s Olympia in the Parisian Salon of 1865, byshifting the...
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Beyond Xenophobia: Migrants-Locals in Socio-Economic Spaces in Cape Town, South Africa
While the dominant understanding on the relationship between African migrants and local South Africans is framed around xenophobia, migrants are not...
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Foes, Friends or Both? Looking Beyond Hostility in Relations Between Congolese Migrants and South Africans in Empangeni
This chapter analysed the nature of dyadic (two-way) relations that exist between Congolese migrants and South Africans in Empangeni, a small town...
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Scales of Autonomy: The Body, the Domestic Space, the Digital Space
The chapter offers a micro-geographical and -political interpretation of “migrant autonomy in tension,” focusing on the micro-geographies of power...
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Women, a Separate Experience?
In Palestine, from 1967 onwards, women have been a small minority in prison, most of the time isolated from communication channels between prisons...
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Civic Values in the Films of Jan Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovský
In studies on the prospects for “civic culture and civilityCivility” in the post-Communist Czech democracy, psychologists and sociologists have...
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The Beauty Culture and Perspective of North Korean Women
Regardless of time or place, the human instinct to pursue beauty has continued to change to fit the societal preferences of the day.
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The Position and Performance of Women Local Leaders Within Local Oligarchy Networks: Case of South Tangerang and Indramayu
One of the interesting phenomenaPhenomenon that follow the emergence and the victoryVictory of women politiciansWomen politician at direct local...
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Multiple Deliberative Democratic Decision-Making: Procedures for Chinese Structure
Democratic participation has been a very important criterion to measure the political development in China, no matter how its modern evaluation index...
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Self-Staging: Aura and Appearance
Meeting Hitler and looking into his eyes—the erstwhile Nazi supporter Fridolin von Spaun recalled in an interview with the BBC—“was one of the most...
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Intersections Between Temporal Organization and Life Projects Among Young Adults
In this chapter, the authors present results of their empirical study that reveal the intersections between temporal organization and life projects...
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Can the DPRK Preserve Its Sovereignty Without Nuclear Armaments?
This paper notes the arguments that the DPRK has put forward for its nuclear weapons programme, in particular with reference to its supposed defense...
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Archipelagos of Constraint: Arrival in Europe
The long journey of African migrant women does not end at the gates of Europe: Southern European receiving countries are “useful margins,” in both...
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The Diaspora Returns
Back in Port Dickson I begin to settle in. One of my first tasks is to call Mok the builder; I need to give him a cheque for the kitchen renovation...
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Orange Kinley
“Ron, can you set the Betamax to tape Fame and That’s Incredible!?” My dad had bought my mom and stepdad a VCR earlier this year as a gift, and I’m...
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Pennsylvania: A New Bellwether?
Pennsylvania, a perennial battleground state, voted for every Democratic presidential candidate from 1992 to 2012. Then came Donald Trump. After...
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Toleration and Religious Discrimination
Toleration plays a central role in debates about the accommodation of religious beliefs and practices in liberal democracies. This chapter addresses...
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The Human, Economic, Social, and Political Costs of COVID-19
This chapter provides an overview of the human, economic, social, and political costs of COVID-19. The pandemic has had immediate negative health...
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Exemplifying Muslim Mompreneurs in Indonesia
This chapter presents the case studies of Pamela Sunardi Syahuri and Nurhayati Subakat: two middle-class Muslim mompreneurs in Indonesia. It examines...
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Razors
I am lying on the narrow, antique wooden bed in the room I’ve been given to use on Thursdays and Sundays, the days I sleep over at my dad and...