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...Jardar Østbø The Russian authoritarian regime is not necessarily immoral, but its morality shares characteristics with that of street gangsters—and aristocrats. As argued in this article, there are two competing moral orders in Russia—the culture of honor and the culture of dignity. The article...

...Nouri Gana This article examines the cultural politics of bastardy in the films of Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid at a time when questions of national and cultural identity have come to the fore in Tunisia in the wake of the Revolution of Freedom and Dignity. Nouri Bouzid is the doyen of Tunisian...

... The colonial power in the Israeli prison system is a form of total domination; however, political prisoners created a space of freedom to redeem their humanity. In their view, the dignity and freedom of the soul is what makes them human, and this humanity can't be attained without risking the body, which...

..., the inmates can also be described – despite their very limited scope of action – as “subjects and formers of this society” ( Pätzold 2005: 111 ) as well, thereby restoring to them some of their human dignity (see Suderland 2008 ). If one reads the documents of former concentration camp inmates carefully...

... it. The scheme of alternatives must be such as to place constraints upon his making a selection for a ‘purpose.’” 11 Rehabilitation as an ascetic intervention—the essence of the claims made by Goodwill and Salvation Army—is constituted through degradation; rehabilitation of one’s dignity implies that one...

...), including the right to be reasonably protected from the accused; to timely notice of court or parole proceedings, and to be heard at those proceedings; to confer with prosecutors handling the case; to full and timely restitution provided by law; and to be treated with fairness, respect, dignity, and privacy...

... as disconnected from world affairs—the “world,” as Roslyn Weaver ( 2009 : 71) notes, has ended but this excludes Australia (for now)—in order to stage there, in microcosm, the drama of the world ending. In the nuclear age, there is no outside. A common theme in Shute's novels is the dignity of work...

..., with humility and dignity, she stands up in the hemicycle of sessions of the federal legislative palace of the National Assembly. She does so as the second Black woman, after Argelia Laya, who addresses the nation occupying a legislative position from the ethnic-racial, gender, and class consciousness...

... their autonomy. By scrutinizing the power relations between citizens and a complex surveillance amalgam of private and public institutions, with reference to the erosion of humanist conceptions of selfhood, Harcourt addresses issues such as the right to privacy, dignity, and freedom to be let alone. His work...

... and a wider variety of craftsmen were allowed the dignity of signing their own work as artists. It would be unfair to expect Ross’s book to settle the questions surrounding communal luxury. But what it achieves is the presentation of a sympathetic account of the communards’ attempts to realize a higher...

..., that mass grave, where so many brothers and sisters have died as a result of racist and criminal policies. —Union of Street Vendors, Manifesto for the freedom of the “manters” Whatever Contains Your Source of Sustenance, Contains Your Dignity —Marame Gueye (83) Legal clothing, illegal people — Top...

...-American liberalism and the European Union in the period between the opening act of the Russia-Ukraine war—namely, Russia's invasion and illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula following the ousting of Viktor Yanukovch in the wake of the 2014 Revolution of Dignity—and one of the concluding episodes...

... to take a moment from their labors (cooking, leaf blowing, driving fire trucks and taxis), Slavick sets her camera to capture them with all the dignity of a formal studio portrait. They appear before us, singly and in groups, with their eyes closed and faces at rest and expressionless. What...

... the key concepts that emerge from Che's political thought, constituting also the main points of reference in the discussions that follow, are (1) the restoration of people's dignity and equality in view of the legacy of racist oppression and division; (2) the building of internationalism and universal...

..., and fostered by rigorous discipline from childhood upward, he is trained to conceal passion, and not subdue it … This shallow self-mastery serves to give dignity to public deliberation, and harmony to social life. ( Parkman 1898 : 48) The mixing of wild and noble implied an ambiguous relationship...

... (and not just kind) endowed with sentience, volition, and dignity. They participate as interagentive members within a shared community of life and are bound to other life-forms—including the human—through relations of reciprocal care and nurture (Kimmerer 2013 ). These relations are in turn inextricable from...

... such as amongst Bantu-speakers in the south. When Africans were forced into slavery in the Americas, itutu became a means of maintaining a sense of dignity in oppressive conditions. There is an obvious line here from slavery through mid-twentieth century hipster and jazz culture to present-day street style, hip...

... points of inflection we might seek, but I restrict the discussion to just two in this article. On reciprocity, see, for example, Whyte and Cuomo 2017 ; Kimmerer 2013 . On dignity, see Watene 2016 ; Winter 2019 . 9. Another distinguishing feature of the settler states is that sovereignty...

... experience what Lacan calls “transversing the fantasy”—the protective layer of fantasies disintegrates and we confront the de-sublimated real of the flesh? For Lacan it is the direct opposite that takes place in the described scene: the vagina ceases to be “an object elevated to the dignity of a Thing...

...) (Derrida would say not even an ontology but a “hauntology”) ( Derrida 1994 : 10) that takes the philosophical measure of the “foundation crisis” that the article is, after all, trying to address. For Lyotard (and this gives to his thinking its specific dignity and often humorous gravitas, a whole...