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By Urvashi Vaid, Jyotsna Vaid, Amy Hoffman, Tony Kushner
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6065-9
... authoritarianism autocracies far-right white nationalism threat to democracy 22nd Century Initiative ...
Published: 21 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060659-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6065-9
... Autocracies are on the rise globally. In the US, far-right social movements have promoted white supremacist, authoritarian, and anti-democratic values, posing a real threat to democracy. Social-justice movements need to organize to counter this threat. This will require capacity building, new...
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By Doreen Lee
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374091-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7409-1
... in times of perceived crisis, in particular during the threat to democracy presented by the return to power of New Order era elite figures. Joko Widodo Prabowo Subianto image war presidential election crisis ...
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By Urvashi Vaid, Jyotsna Vaid, Amy Hoffman, Tony Kushner
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6065-9
..., authoritarian, and anti-democratic values, posing a real threat to democracy. Social-justice movements need to organize to counter this threat. This will require capacity building, new infrastructure, new communications strategies, and leadership across all sectors. The 22nd Century Initiative seeks...
Published: 27 May 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383468-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8346-8
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By Joseph Masco, Lisa Wedeen
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
... “connecting the dots” between seemingly unrelated events and people to identify and anatomize sources of threat. This essay traces the production and circulation of these forms of bureaucratic and judicial artifice, or national security fictions , which are the everyday currency of state-led conspiracy...
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 04 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375685-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7568-5
..., the office also targeted material perceived to challenge the political status quo.  Government officials claimed that these regulatory measures were intended to protect Cuba from communist threats, but they also came at a moment in which U.S. media were regularly questioning Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship...
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By Urvashi Vaid, Jyotsna Vaid, Amy Hoffman, Tony Kushner
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6065-9
... it means to be a lesbian in a society in which there are few, if any, positive images of lesbians; where lesbians are seen only in relation to men; and where lesbians’ very existence is under threat. It argues that, despite their marginalization in mainstream society and in the LGBTQ rights movement...
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By Alma Guillermoprieto
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
Published: 21 March 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6038-3
...Mexico This chapter explores the state of Mexico’s electoral democracy circa 2004. Looking at the role of the media, which reveled in scandals, and at the widespread political corruption, the chapter concludes that the two are intertwined. Andrés Manuel López Obrador Victor Trujillo...
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By C. L. R. James, Christian Høgsbjerg
Series: The C. L. R. James Archives
Published: 21 July 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7334-6
... of supporters of Leon Trotsky from the Communist International internationally, which now took place. The development of a disastrous and sectarian new theory of “social fascism,” which saw social democracy as equivalent to fascism, accompanied a new catastrophist political perspective of “class against class...
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By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... still survives in today’s Vila Mimosa and is presently facing political and economic threats to its existence brought about by a new wave of land speculation and authoritarian municipal politics in the São Cristovão neighborhood. hygienization prostitution political resistance urban renewal...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-047
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... associated with the newspaper El Eco de la Igualdad (The Echo of Equality), which disseminated the slogan “We are all equal” and advocated for direct democracy, federalism, local municipal power, and regional autonomy. Andrés Ibáñez was considered dangerous by local elites, who turned to the central state...