regulated borders. Rather it was a product of global travel and trade, and unless we are willing to embrace quite radical forms of national autarky, we have little reason to think that actually having open borders would make a significant difference to our
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Milja Kurki
that the “liberal order,” or, at least, the neoliberal order with its agenda of austerity are, in part, to blame for the current predicament. On the one hand, it seems that the globalized system of trade underpinning the liberal order enabled not only
Samuel Moyn and Jean-Paul Gagnon
commensurability (e.g. on matters of culture, language, and logic) has been with, at least, Eurasia and Africa (probably Australia, too) for millennia as people traveled, translated, loved, warred, and traded over this time and in those spaces. But what's the
Ajume H. Wingo
the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England in October 1945. Organised by the Trinidadian pan-Africanist George Padmore and Ghanaian independence leader Kwame Nkrumah, it was planned to follow the World Federation of Trade Unions’ meeting in
‘The Expenditure of a Million of British Sovereigns in this Otherwise Miserable Place’
Frontier Wars, Public Debt and the Cape’s Non-racial Constitution
Jeff Peires
disintegrated over the question of free trade, and was succeeded by a series of unstable coalition governments which persisted throughout the period we are looking at. Earl Grey, the Colonial Secretary in Lord John Russell’s Whig government, was influenced by
Thom Brooks
must make sure their reasons for voting as they do are morally and epistemically justified’ ( Brennan 2011: 4 ). Call these duties the Duties to Vote Well. Brennan claims that ‘vote buying, selling and trading are morally permissible’ where it does not
Monique Deveaux
over the years (and some new powers as well). This resulted from a series of political trade-offs involving, at different stages, the African National Congress (ANC), the National Party, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP
Neither Shadow nor Spectre
Populism as the Ideological Embodiment of the Democratic Paradox
Anthony Lawrence Borja
in pressing their demands for the return of Peron. Second is the Peronist Youth whose radicalism was based on (1) disdain towards the trade union bureaucracy and bureaucratic party structures; (2) emphasis on generational struggle; and (3) an
Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control
Updated for Big Data and Predictive Analytics
James Brusseau
Kafka's Trial, with an increasingly unhinged Josef K. obsessively returning to doors irregularly closed to him by a malevolent overseer. Contrastingly, the reality today is that those professionals who track consumers and trade in the marketplace of
The Ambiguity of Subversion
Resistance through Radio Broadcasting
Gisli Vogler
necessary pre-conditions for quotidian forms of dissidence. The trade-off in public visibility increases the vulnerability of everyday opposition to having no or little impact and passing by unnoticed. The resistant actor is likely to have limited influence