Résumé Les croyances et la pratique religieuses ont décliné très fortement en Australie depuis les années 1960. Mais, depuis 1996, le langage et les thèmes religieux sont de plus en plus présents dans le discours politique de la nation. Cette tendance est évidente aussi bien dans les discours du Premier ministre, Julia Gillard, qui se déclare athée, que dans ceux du chef de l'opposition, Tony Abbott, un catholique fervent. La montée en puissance de la religion dans la culture politique australienne a moins à voir avec les croyances et les pratiques des citoyens qu'avec les associations symboliques que permet la religion, les vides qu'elle est censée combler dans un espace politique largement défini par l'engagement de l'Australie dans la prétendue « guerre contre la terreur » et le ralliement enthousiaste des deux principaux partis au consensus néolibéral.
This article aims to review the models that historically have shaped technologies of gender through popular representations in Spanish culture. First, an anthropological view will be cast on the naturalised Catholic-Francoist models that exalted heterosexual dichotomies and reproductive marriage. This includes an analysis of how, although the criminalization of transsexuals aggravated their situation, resistance movements generated a wide range of cultural references and possibilities for inclusion. Second, the article will review the models associated with Spain's transition to democracy and their evolution moving on to the beginning of the 21st century. Finally, it will draw an outline of the trans models produced during the past two decades and their popular expressions.
An analyst of U.S. foreign economic policy observes that each wave of antiforeign sentiment associated with the surge of foreign direct investment (FDI) coming into the United States washes ashore a flotsam of restrictive and exclusionary laws that recedes slightly or becomes buried and forgotten in the sand only to advance again with a new wave. During the late 1980s, the controversy generated by the sharp rise of Japanese acquisitions in the United States washed ashore the latest flotsam of regulatory measures and further advanced the tangle of rules and regulations targeting inward foreign direct investment (IFDI). Of the various types of FDI, the present study is concerned mainly with the policy change toward foreign investment in an already established domestic business. This type of investment often involves merger or acquisition and is distinct from a "greenfield" investment where the foreign investor establishes "from scratch" a new business in the host economy.
Sold and stolen : the use and abuse of paintings in Nazi Germany and during World War II / Peter Jonathan Bell -- Map : the movements of the "202" -- Walter Farmer and the Central Collecting Point in Wiesbaden / Tanja Bernsau -- Making art history : the masterpieces' postwar tour / Kristi A. Nelson -- The road (back) to Berlin : the endless journey of the "202" / Neville Rowley -- Walter Ings Farmer : memories of a life -- What's past is prologue : provenance research in American museums / Nancy Yeide -- Catalogue -- Appendix : paintings from the Berlin museums.
The place of innovative praxis as a possibility for the realisation of the ethical and the political in an educational setting, within the framework of legal literacy and early citizenship is presented; to this end, the project is described as one of the techniques to address these processes, defining a specific didactic situation, which was applied to a community of students between twelve and fifteen years of age, for which the results are presented.
AbstractThis article analyses the margin of manoeuvre of Portuguese executives after the onset of the sovereign debt crisis in 2010–2015. To obtain a full understanding of what happened behind the closed doors of international meetings, different types of data are triangulated: face‐to‐face interviews; investigations by journalists; and International Monetary Fund and European Union official documents. The findings are compared to the public discourse of Prime Ministers José Sócrates and Pedro Passos‐Coelho. It is shown that while the sovereign debt crisis and the bail‐out limited the executive's autonomy, they also made them stronger in relation to other domestic actors. The perceived need for 'credibility' in order to avoid a 'negative' reaction from the markets – later associated with the conditions of the bail‐out – concurrently gave the executives a legitimate justification to concentrate power in their hands and a strong argument to counter the opponents of their proposed reforms. Consequently, when Portuguese ministers favoured policies that were in congruence with those supported by international actors, they were able to use the crisis to advance their own agenda. Disagreement with Troika representatives implied the start of a negotiation process between the ministers and international lenders, the final outcome of which depended on the actors' bargaining powers. These strategies, it is argued, constitute a tactic of depoliticisation in which both the material constraints and the discourse used to frame them are employed to construct imperatives around a narrow selection of policy alternatives.
Contributors to this theme issue examine the history of the life sciences at the Botanical Gardens in Bogor (Kebun Raya Bogor) in Indonesia. Each of the essays in this theme issue focusses on a major transformation that the garden, its networks, and staff underwent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before summarizing individual contributions, this introductory essay familiarizes readers with more recent scholarship in the field. Taken together, the essays in our theme issue suggest that the practice of the life sciences at the Gardens can be best analyzed as the outcome of historical processes of coordination and competition in which different disciplines, communities, and networks not only in insular Southeast Asia but also other parts of the world played a formative role.
Abstract What kinds of politics do export controls entail and whose rights do they enable? The following article will take a critical perspective on the governance challenges associated with export controls of dual-use technologies. After discussing challenges around transparency, the performance of human rights and export control havens, this article will then turn to looking at policy solutions, including audits, transparency and targeted international governance mechanisms. With conclusion, export controls continue to constitute an important policy tool to promote human rights and can be improved considerably to strengthen human rights further.
The Yoruba presence in the Americas, particularly in Brazil and Cuba, has been the topic of much research in past years. The role of the individuals who molded and guided the new directions taken by these cultural manifestations, however, continues to be virgin terrain. In particular and without doubt, women were the most important contributors to these acculturative processes. The present article examines the influence of three African women and their contribution to the evolution and survival of Lukumi religion in Cuba. In so doing, it brings to the fore other important issues that cast light on the lives of Afro-Cuban women in nineteenth-century Cuba forced to live in a Eurocentric society in which they occupied the lowest rung of the ladder. These issues highlight the hardships and impediments that in many ways all Afro-Cubans had to overcome in their struggle for power and respect--even among members of their own ethnic groups. Eventually, this struggle played an important role in the contributions made by these groups to Cuban culture and society.
This paper introduces the special issue on "Urban Politics on Ethnic Entrepreneurship" based on research insights and focused discussion that bridges disciplinary discourses. It challenges ethnic entrepreneurship theory by presenting new perspectives and empirical case studies from North America and Europe. As ethnic diversity is widely regarded as a special asset for entrepreneurial cities in the competitive global city environment, there is a need to better understand how ethnic entrepreneurship is used as a resource in city branding and how it is enabled through certain policies. Starting from the historical development of ethnic entrepreneurship research, the introduction leads over to the theoretical embedding of the special issue with its relational focus on space. The contribution proceeds with linking ethnic entrepreneurship to urban politics and outlines three major fields of research that are covered in the special issue: symbolic value to urban development, placemaking and social inclusion, and urban planning.
1. Introduction -- SECTION I: THE ORIGINS OF MOTOR SPORT. 2. 'The Origins of Motor Sport in France: Sites of Racing Memory -- 3. The long winding road to stability and innovation. The politics and development of the World Rally Championship -- SECTION II: THE EARLY POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MOTOR RACING - 4. Racing and Racism: German Motorsport and the Third Reich -- 5. Henry Ford and the Rise of US Motorsport -- 6. 'The Fascist Race Par Excellence': Fascism and the Mille Miglia -- 7. Vargas, Perón and Motor Sport: a Comparative Study of South American Populism -- SECTION III: MOTOR RACING AND THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY - 8. Politics, Motor Sport and the Italian Car Industry, 1893-1947 -- 9. British Motor Sport and the Rise of the Garagisti -- SECTION IV: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER -- 10. It Was Ironic He Should Have Died in Bed: Racing Drivers, Masculinity and the Politics of Safety -- 11. From Power Puff to W Series: The Evolution of Women-Only Racing -- 12. The Awkward Gender Politics of Formula 1 as a Promotional Space. The 'Grid Girls' issue -- SECTION V: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF RACE - 13. A Political and Economic Analysis of South Africa's Historical Relationship with Formula One Motor Racing, 1934–1993 -- 14. Recovering the Black Geographies of Motorsports: The Counter-Mobility Work of NASCAR's Wendell Scott -- 15. Can the Formula One Driver Speak? Lewis Hamilton, Race and the Resurrection of the Black Athlete -- SECTION VI: MOTOR RACING, THE MEDIA, AND POSTMODERNITY - 16. Formula One as Television -- 17. The Shifting Landscape of Sponsorship within Formula 1 -- 18. 'Men love women, but even more than that, men love cars': Motor Racing on Film -- 19. 'Who D'You Think You Are? Stirling Moss?' British Racing Drivers and the Politics of Celebrity: 1896 to 1992 -- 20. 'The star in the car': Formula One Stardom, Driver Agency and Celebrity Culture -- 21. Neoliberal Interpellation in the F1 2018 Video Game -- 22. Ecclestone out, Liberty Media in. An Analysis of the Shifting Ownership Structure of Formula One -- SECTION VII: THE GLOBALISATION OF MOTOR RACING - 23. The Circus Comes to Town: Formula 1, Globalization, and the Uber-Sport Spectacle -- 24. Circuits of Capital: The Spatial Development of Formula One Racetracks -- 25. Formula 1 as a Vehicle for Urban Transformation in China: State Entrepreneurialism and the Re-Imaging of Shanghai -- 26. Event on the Streets: the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the Commodification of Urban Space in Baku -- 27. Motor Sport in the Middle East: Business and Political Rivalries in the Arabian Gulf -- 28. Stray dogs and luxury taxes: What happened to the Indian Grand Prix? -- 29. Formula One and the Insanity of Car-Based Transportation.
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Households are sites where a progressive politics of change towards sustainability can be nourished. Efforts to do so, however, must attend to gender dynamics. Our aim is to improve our understanding of how gender and sustainability intersect at the household level and engage with progressive politics in this context. To do so, we present a collaborative autoethnography focused on gender and sustainability in our household covering five years during which we experienced multiple lifecourse transitions. Building on this we answer two questions. First, how does the encounter between personal experiences and scholarship shape conceptual refinement? Second, how do personal experiences and scholarship combine to shape what we understand as progressive politics? This article not only advances the understanding of gender and sustainability in households and progressive politics in this context but also shows that collaborative autoethnography offers a valuable methodological toolkit for advancing research towards progressive politics.
