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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (2): 171–191.
Published: 01 July 2020
...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...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 July 2017
...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...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 193–211.
Published: 01 July 2021
... expression, “The soul remains steadfast.” The meaning of victory in the eyes of the hunger strikers is linked to the dignity of the soul, as embodied in their liberation and the end of their detention, and this is the ultimate goal of their hunger strike. As Yunis Hroub put it, “If the prisoner...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (1): 23–46.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., 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...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 173–189.
Published: 01 July 2016
... “kicked off its Welfare to Work Program where individuals would be brought into Goodwill to become independent and productive members of society” ( Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina 2013 : 3). Today, Goodwill Industries “works to enhance the dignity and quality of life of individuals...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 139–161.
Published: 01 July 2019
... rights and harsher sentencing—over the right, for example, to be treated with dignity and respect—is indicative of just who gets to be included as a rights bearer. As Ginsburg (2016) points out, victims’ rights advocacy never faced opposition. It was largely taken for granted from the movement’s...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of tortured parody of the pleasure beach (Moira) or a blind obedience to precedent (Dwight). Shute prefers the latter, but it barely matters, since everyone dies at the end. Mary's discomfort speaks to the wider concerns of On the Beach , which are about dignity and character in the face of calamity...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 392–408.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as part of the United Nations declaration, in 2021, as the inaugural year of the International Day for People of African Descent. Casimira Monasterio, a woman with a long career, a teacher, and a militant. With impetus, proud of her origins, with humility and dignity, she stands up in the hemicycle...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 263–265.
Published: 01 July 2017
... conceptions of selfhood, Harcourt addresses issues such as the right to privacy, dignity, and freedom to be let alone. His work thereby contributes to debate in the field of cultural politics, particularly with respect to digital cultures, new media interactions, and the value of human rights. ...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2016
... was available to the children of Paris 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...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (1): 136–154.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the “manters” Whatever Contains Your Source of Sustenance, Contains Your Dignity —Marame Gueye (83) Legal clothing, illegal people — Top Manta T-shirt slogan European migration policies turn the mantero into a border wherever they go, thus revealing the ideological nature of public space: public...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 244–251.
Published: 01 July 2019
... 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 are they dreaming? We’re prompted...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 189–218.
Published: 01 July 2011
..., “the common enemy should be enough” (see Guevara 2003a [1964] , 2003b [1964] , 2003c [1964] , 2003d [1965] , 2003e [1965] , 2003f [1967] ). Having found endorsement and protection under the revolution, the fashionable Havana Carnival depicts some measure of the “equality and dignity” the revolution...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 319–338.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., 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) Because the notion of “savage nobility” relied upon the belief...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2023
... (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...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 137–158.
Published: 01 July 2006
... 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-hop, and rap. Cool in its diverse manifestations historically in different places and amongst white people...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (2): 228–245.
Published: 01 July 2021
... the other as an object for pleasure. Only in marriage is sex a genuinely moral relationship with human dignity. In Sex and the Failed Absolute Žižek muses, “Enjoyment introduces asymmetry, surplus, envy into the balance of the exchange of pleasures: the two (or more) sexual partners reach a deal of what I...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2023
... 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 was not returned...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (2): 203–211.
Published: 01 July 2013
... specific dignity and often humorous gravitas, a whole dimension that, reading this piece, one is reminded is lacking in so much of what has come from France since in the name of “philosophy”), this unpresentable and ungraspable archaic dimension functions as a kind of element or milieu (what he himself...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (3): 315–325.
Published: 01 November 2017
... authoritarian white nationalist agenda and apocalyptic tweetstorms calling for a strong man to “fix” the nation’s problems, has set in motion forces and policies that, if implemented, would deny whole segments of the population the very basic dignity of their humanity. Trump’s attacks on historical memory...
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