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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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
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
Editorial
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
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- 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
Maesen and Walker 2012: 90 ). References Corbett , S. 2016 . “ The Social Consequences of Brexit for the UK and Europe: Euroscepticism, Populism, Nationalism, and Societal Division .” International Journal of Social Quality 6 ( 1 ): 11 – 32 10
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2016
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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
Editorial
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
Edited by Raili Marling
includes two review essays in addition to book reviews. Željka Jankovic and Svetlana Stefanovic discuss two books dedicated to Serbian herstory, and Selin Çağatay reviews two volumes that engage with the intersection of modernity and nationalism in the late
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Traces of Pan Africanism and African Nationalism in Africa Today
Denis Goldberg
African Unity had different reasons for that call at different times. It is also necessary to distinguish between concepts such as African Nationalism in the different countries or even regions and Pan-Africanism relating to the whole continent. Then there