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This article identifies the difficulty in defining conservatism and then goes on to illustrate the contradiction inherent in conservative thought.* The central problem addressed by the article is the absence of conservative thinking in modern India. Contrary to the practice of labelling certain strands of thinking as conservative, Indian political thought of past two centuries hardly has any serious conservative tradition. Looking at the ideas of Malaviya, Gandhi and Hindu nationalists, this article shows that while some of their positions did come close to conservative thinking, they did not systematically pursue conservative thinking. A key reason for this is the colonial rupture that negative possibility of serious engagement with past.

This paper addresses the lack of automated contradiction detection systems for the Spanish language. The ES-Contradiction dataset was created and contains examples with two pieces of information classified as Compatible, Contradiction, or Unrelated. To the author's knowledge, a Spanish-language contradiction dataset is non-existent and therefore, the ES-Contradiction dataset fills an important research gap, given Spanish being one of the most widely spoken languages. Moreover, the dataset built includes a fine-grained annotation of the different types of contradictions in the dataset. A baseline system was designed to validate the effectiveness of the dataset. The BETO transformer model was used to build this baseline system, which obtained a good result to detect the three class labels Compatible, Contradiction, or Unrelated. ; This research work has been partially funded by Generalitat Valenciana through project "SIIA: Tecnologias del lenguaje humano para una sociedad inclusiva, igualitaria, y accesible" with grant reference PROMETEU/2018/089, by the Spanish Government through project RTI2018-094653-B-C22: "Modelang: Modeling the behavior of digital entities by Human Language Technologies", as well as being partially supported by a grant from the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) and the LIVING-LANG project (RTI2018-094653-B-C21) from the Spanish Government.

In this article, we trace the racialized history of the environmental movement in the United States and Canada that has defined the mainstream movement as a default white space. We then interrogate the turn to solidarity as a way to escape/intervene in the racialized and colonial underpinnings of mainstream environmentalism, demonstrating that the practice of solidarity itself depends on these same racial and colonial systems. Given the lack of theorization on solidarity within environmentalism, we draw on examples of solidarity work that bridge place and power and are predicated on disparate social locations, such as in accompaniment or the fair trade movement. We conclude that the contradictions of racialized and colonial solidarity should not preclude settler attempts to engage in solidarity work, but rather become inscribed into environmentalist practices as an ethic of accountability.

The development of welfare states should be explained not only as a factor of deindustrialization, social power resources, or economic competitiveness, but also as the consequence of Cold War confrontation, the post-9 / 11 new world order, and more broadly the long-term geopolitical competition between modern societies. Contradictions inherent to capitalism are the driving forces of recent trends in international political economy. Drawing upon Harvey's perspective, the aim of this article is to bind the contradictions of capital to the contradictions of the welfare state. While this does not entail suggesting these contradictions are of the same nature, it can be argued that the latter derives from the former. This perspective helps to integrate a global dimension into welfare state conceptualisation since the contradictions of capital are not only the product of state interrelations, but also reflect the interaction of market and society at the domestic and supra-national level. The purpose of this article is to apply Harvey's framework on the contradictions of capital to the period in which they have most affected welfare state reform, and to establish a chronology of the contradictions of the welfare state. This will demonstrate how the welfare state has evolved in response to the paradoxes of capital. However, instead of resolving the tensions inherent in capitalism, the welfare state started developing contradictions of its own. A deeper understanding of the contradictions of welfare states is vital in assessing the dynamics of modern social policies, as it enables the policy-makers to better understand why these arrangements do not often meet public expectations.