The Ariadne’s thread that runs through, and connects, the articles in this issue of Theoria is the modern state. How should the state approach welfare policy? Is the state’s power as absolute as once it had been? What is the importance of nationalism for states? What assumptions about the relationship between the state and civil society should be examined, and how? What, especially in a developing society such as South Africa, is—or should be—the relationship between the state and the poor? These are the overarching questions that knit together the contributions.
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Ana Miškovska Kajevska
thorough examination of the terms “antinationalist” and “nationalist” is visible throughout the whole book. I warned “against the creation of simplified dichotomies” 7 and I reminded “scholars to always ask what one's alleged nationalism or antinationalism
The East Side Story of Gender and Feminism
The Hungarian and Czech Cases
Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
of interwar female activism and its ideas. She opens the question of why today there is still a “long-lasting connection between extreme nationalism, perceived national interest, and illiberal gender values” (14). In her opinion, “this connection
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Ism Concepts in Science and Politics
Jani Marjanen
next issue of Contributions , by Pablo Facundo Escalante on French republicanism in the late eighteenth century and Antero Holmila and Pasi Ihalainen on nationalism and internationalism in British debates during and after the world wars, also
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Editorial
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- v–ix
Empire and Economics
Decolonising Colonialism and Its Legacies in Africa
Edited by Lawrence Hamilton
historiography and political theory. Liberalism, communism, African and Afrikaner nationalism, localised cultural and social histories and related ideological conflicts of identity have failed to grasp and explain the relations of power that continue to operate
structures within the social networks of the café and “legitimate” commercial operations. Keywords : Algerian nationalism, clandestine networks, Paris, policing Muriel Cohen , Les circulations entre France et Algérie: un nouveau regard sur les migrants (post
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Abstract
- Pages:
- 151–153
Romanticizing Difference
Identities in Transformation after World War I
Nadia Malinovich
empire were enjoined to respect their residents’ linguistic identities as a critical element in ensuring that Europe would have a peaceful future. Maggy Hary’s comparison of representations of Irish and Zionist nationalism in British political discourse
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–9
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Some Senses of Pan-Africanism from the South
Christopher Allsobrook
principles haunt South Africa forty years after Biko’s death. With political independence, despite the sterling example of early nationalist leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere, relations between African Nationalism and Pan-Africanism have tended
Women and War in the Balkans
A Comparative Review Essay
Maria Bucur
metaphor of the double helix seems to hold here. 2 Notes 1 Maria Bucur, “Between Liberal and Republican Citizenship: Feminism and Nationalism in Romania, 1859–1918,” Aspasia 1 (2007): 84–103; Maria Bucur and Mihaela Miroiu, eds., Patriarhat şi
Edited by H. C.
others might follow. She finds that France’s standing has declined in many (though by no means all) areas, and she asks what prospects the current moment—Emmanuel Macron’s electoral victory in the face of Europe’s resurgent nationalism—might hold for a
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Editorial
- Pages:
- v–vii