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...Jerónimo Rilla Abstract In the United States, the first presidential debate of 2020 featured a discussion about Antifa. While Biden argued that Antifa is “an idea, not an organization,” Trump portrayed it as a “dangerous, radical group.” The nature of Antifa sparks disagreements not only...

.... 41, NO.2, 294-312 httpsdoLorg/10.1080/07393148.2019.1596682 ARTICLE Securitization as Discursive (Re)Articulation: Explaining the Relative Effectiveness of Threat Construction Frank A. Stengel. Research Group on International Political Sociology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany ABSTRACT This article...

... Group on International Political Sociology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany ABSTRACT This symposium explores the value of Poststructuralist (or Political) Discourse Theory (PDT) for the analysis of world politics. PDT was originally developed by the late Argentine political theorist Ernesto Ladau...

.../07393148.2019.1596688 ARTICLE An Ontology of Global Order? Heidegger, Laclau, and Political Difference Franze Wilhelm. Research Group on International Political Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany ABSTRACT The question of ontology in thinking about global order(s...

.... The crafting of a collective candidacy for the city council - a grouping that was ultimately elected in 2020 - is also analyzed. It is argued that these social innovations played a key role in the resistance to the Bolsonaro government’s agenda of autocratization, showing how these forms of resistance...

...Ron Hayduk; Emily Woo; Jazveline Marinez Estrada; Aaron Adrian Abstract Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a welcome democratic innovation because it promises to empower traditionally marginalized groups and create more equitable public spending. PB delegates public authority to neighborhood residents...

...Shawn Schulenberg Abstract Research in political science often entails investigating the attitudes and behaviors of actors and groups. Usually it is clear who the subjects of our study are, especially when dealing with governmental actors (for example, a person either is a member of Congress...

...” between Food Not Bombs activists and police and City officials in order to regulate their public meals of the homeless in order to moderate the group’s politics and remove them from contested public space. Food Not Bombs refused this negotiated management and instead occupied public space and provided...

...Marcelo Hoffman Abstract Shocked by harsh prison conditions in France, Michel Foucault in February 1971 co-founded the Information Group on Prisons (GIP), a group dedicated to heightening public intolerance towards the prison system by facilitating the voices of prisoners themselves. Foucault...

... understandings of the self have given rise to what Paul Rabinow refers to as “biosociality,” that is, groups that organize around, and identify with, a specific disease or disability to lobby for recognition, better treatment options, access to resources, and, in some cases, equal rights. This biopolitical...

...Arnold L. Farr; Amahlia L. Perry-Farr; Louisa N. Perry-Farr Abstract One of the great obstacles to liberation and social change is the one-dimensional focus of many liberation movements. By “one-dimensional,” we mean the narrow reductionist approach to social change by many oppressed groups...

...Matthew Dean Hindman Abstract As inequalities in the United States have intensified in recent decades, Washington, DC’s advocacy system has thrived. Why has this proliferation of interest groups failed to deliver more substantive equality? The dominant response to this question typically cites...

...” aim or approach. However, even dissenting academic groups, like the Caucus for a New Political Science, began to be reabsorbed within their disciplinary homes. With time, many of these groups succumbed to a degree of professionalization that perhaps inhibited their larger aspirations. As Foucault...

...Na Kahn-chae Abstract This paper attempts to explain the developmental process of the Gwangju Uprising, which lasted for 10 days in May 1980. The early stage of the Uprising is described based on collective behavior theory. After that, groups of movement organizations appeared with complex...

... compared to those exposed to non-political rap and the control group, subjects who were not exposed to any form of music. Our research finds that those exposed to non-political rap have less affinity for Black feminist attitudes than those in any other group. This research is important to political science...

...Victor Wallis Abstract In this essay, I explore the structural distinctiveness of class domination as compared with intersecting structures of oppression framed by race, gender, sexuality, or other criteria. Social classes are not simply demographic groupings; they are (actual or potential) agents...

... of directness, expediency, and force. This paper argues that the particular “structures of feeling” that make listening difficult for advantaged groups call for a different kind of activism. It draws on interdisciplinary expertise from four sectors effective in fostering listening in the face of challenge...

... democracy is selective and differential vis-à-vis the various social groups in Israeli society. A systematic critique of this model demonstrates the attempts made by Israeli political sociologists to turn the ethnic nature of Israeli democracy into a stagnant ideal-type in a time where regime dynamism...

... Women’s Health Organization for three groups within American medicine: patients, practicing physicians, and physicians-in-training. Using these consequences as a backdrop, we explain not only what questions confront each group, but what the moment calls them to do in the face of attacks on their bodily...

...Matthew Dean Hindman Abstract In recent years, political science research on “intersectionality” has breathed new life into perennial debates about group politics, inequality, and marginalization, demonstrating that unitary identity categories are insufficient for understanding group interests...