miles away, is celebrated as the driving force in the victory over ISIS in a self-declared egalitarian movement, and why is the credit for the triumph dedicated to him? How is it that Abdullah Öcalan became the international leader of the Kurdish
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The Egalitarian King?
Abdullah Öcalan and His Evolving Role in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Axel Rudi
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Sep 2022
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- 83–103 (21 total)
Crypto-Egalitarian Life
Ideational and Materialist Approaches to Bitcoin
Matan Shapiro
research in a Bitcoin social club in Tel Aviv, I use the theoretical lens of egalitarian life to contemplate on the processual rather than binary nature of these two forms of practice. I argue that traders and maximalists engage in complementary rather than
An Introduction to Egalitarian Thought and Dynamics
Knut Rio, Bruce Kapferer, and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
The articles in this special issue address contemporary egalitarian or egalitarianizing dynamics, in other words, practices that explicitly attempt to challenge and overcome socio-economic and political circumstances that place constraints and
Labor System Experimentation in Egalitarian Intentional Communities
Mari Hanssen Korsbrekke
In rural Virginia in the United States, a hub of interconnected ‘intentional communities’ (ICs) is making great strides toward egalitarian experimentations. While they come in many forms, shapes, and sizes, ICs are commonly designed around
Egalitarianism and Community in danish housing Cooperatives
Proper Forms of Sharing and Being Together
Maja Hojer Bruun
The Danish concept of faellesskab (community) is explored in this article. Faellesskab covers different kinds of belonging and notions of proper togetherness in Danish society, ranging from neighborhood relations at the local level to membership in society at the national level. In investigating the ideals and practices of faellesskab in housing cooperatives, the article shows how people establish connections between these different scales of sociality. It argues that the way people live together in housing cooperatives, in a close atmosphere of egalitarian togetherness, is a cultural ideal in modern Denmark. The more recent commercialization of cooperative property has, however, caused concern. While some believe that faellesskab can still be practiced in the small enclaves of autonomous cooperatives, others fear that this ideal is threatened by economic inequalities.
Egalitarian Lives and Violence
Community Policing in Mozambique
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
hand, and aspirations for a more ‘egalitarian life’ on the other. Let me comment first on state ordering and then on the notion of egalitarian life. Das and Poole (2004: 5) have argued that much anthropological analysis of state ordering is often
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 104–125 (22 total)
Fracking and Democracy in the United Kingdom
The Dark Side of Egalitarianism
Anna Szolucha
egalitarian impulses that are simultaneously imbued with grand ideals of equality and justice and driven by bitter experiences of hostility and wrong. Wherever I went, the extent of social, political, and personal transformation that shale gas exploration and
The Swiss Paradox
Egalitarianism and Hierarchy in a Model Democracy
Marina Gold
processes (with hierarchical tendencies) undermine local democracy, Swiss cantonal political structures ensure the egalitarian representation of people's local needs. However, many fear that this tendency has been altered due to increasing
Pentecostalism and Egalitarianism in Melanesia
A Reconsideration of the Pentecostal Gender Paradox
Annelin Eriksen
societies have often been understood and discussed as almost the prototypical egalitarian society (see, e.g., Lepowsky 1990 ). However, the understanding of what egalitarianism is has often been based on ideas of economic distribution or political systems
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
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- 37–50 (14 total)
Liberal Egalitarianism
Daryl Glaser
This article suggests ways of demarcating a liberal-egalitarian family of conceptions within political philosophy. It seeks to accommodate diverse conceptions while nevertheless demarcating liberal egalitarianism in a way that is coherent, distinctive and attractive. Liberal egalitarianism (the article argues) is about the simultaneous strong defence of individual liberty and substantive equality. But because there are real tensions and sometimes contradictions between certain liberties and substantive equalities, liberal egalitarianism is also necessarily a set of theories about how to address these. Liberal egalitarians differ in their accounts of equality and in their proposals for addressing liberty-equality tensions. Even so, I argue, any attractive and distinctively liberal-egalitarian resolution of these tensions must require a strong but morally individualist account of substantive equality, protection of political and civil liberties from trade-offs with equality or welfare, weak protection of property rights and respect for a proceduralist-democratic minimum.