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Borders of Desire is a collection of studies from the eastern borders of Europe, particularly the Baltics and the Balkans, that take a novel approach to borders and the work they do. Instead of viewing borders only as obstructions to the fulfillment of desire, this book shows how borders produce desire, particularly gendered and sexualized desire.

1 Introduction -- PART I Trust, Distrust, and Democracy -- 2 Trust in Science Revisited. Social-Epistemic Challenges in Democratic and Digital Societies -- 3 Suspicious Minds: Towards a Typology of Political Distrust -- 4 Distrust and Democracy -- PART II Authoritarianism and Democracy -- 5 Whose populism? What democracy? On the Conceptual and Normative Connections of Populism and Democracy -- 6 Carl Schmitt and the Political Theology of Populism -- 7 Between Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Illiberal Challenge -- 8 The Grey Areas of Democracy: Indifference and the Erosion of Democratic Principles from Within -- 9 Constitutional Thought, Democracy and Crisis Government -- PART III Democracy—The Will of the People? -- 10 From the Democracy of Opinions to the Democracy of Procedures -- 11 The Agenda Problem in Referendum Democracy -- 12 On the Concept and Practice of Democracy in Late Modern Mass Conditions: An Oakeshottian Update.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the relation between German Idealism and feminist philosophy has been explored. It demonstrates the significance of German Idealism for feminist philosophy, and simultaneously brings out the relevance of feminist readings and interpretations for a critical understanding of German Idealism. Key Features: Presents original work on the German Idealists and considers their legacy within feminist thought from different philosophical perspectives. Incorporates perspectives from queer theory, new materialism, Black feminism and critical philosophy of race, and so explores German Idealism through the subversion and transformation of meanings and conceptual arrangements. Challenges the epistemic boundaries of philosophy by engaging the thought of women contemporary with the German Idealists such as Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Gunderrode. Places the work of the German Idealists on gender, sexuality, marriage and family within the wider contexts of colonialism and European nation building. Considers how several key concepts of German Idealism (such as subject, reason, enlightenment, autonomy and the sublime) have been central targets of feminist theory. Fully reflecting the diversity that characterizes feminist thinking today, The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of German Idealism, feminist philosophy and feminist theory. Susanne Lettow is Senior Researcher at the Margherita-von-Brentano-Center for Gender Studies and teaches philosophy at Freie Universitat Berlin. Her research focuses on classical philosophy from German Idealism to Heidegger, feminist philosophy, gender studies, history and theory of biopolitics, critical social philosophy and environmental humanities. Tuija Pulkkinen is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research areas include German Idealism, 20th century French philosophy, political theory, the history of concepts, and the politics of philosophy in contemporary feminist theory. She also works on the history of feminist thought and gender studies.

This paper unpacks the complexities, ambiguities and paradoxes associated with the concepts of competition and collaboration, using the academic profession in the Nordic countries as an empirical case. We relied on paradox theory to reconceptualise the relationship between competition and cooperation. Our analysis focused on the ways in which university-based academics in the Nordic countries navigate the tensions and paradoxes associated with the interplay between competition and cooperation while shedding light on the nestedness among various levels of analysis. The findings not only show that the competition–cooperation interplay is strongly present throughout multiple contradictory tensions, but also that the tensions and paradoxes identified act as push factors in the further development of the academic profession and the HE systems in which these are embedded.

This study examines the current state of special education provision and resources in Finland after the extensive reform of the government transfer system and Basic Education Act implemented in 2010–2011. Data were collected from a survey of compulsory school principals and from interviews with the highest-ranking officials in municipal education administration. The results show that participants viewed the Basic Education Act as having a more significant impact on the provision of special education than the reform of the government transfer system. Partly due to the reforms, local authorities have targeted the resources of special education differently and used resources more effectively. Continued efforts are needed to ensure the provision of resources for part-time special education and the use of other forms of early intervention in general education classrooms. ; peerReviewed

We investigate conceptually the institutional change process and innovation underpinning knowledge-based regional development from the point of view of institutional entrepreneurship. The main aim is to raise institutional entrepreneurship among debated concepts in regional development studies. We set out to discuss the following question: what kind of conceptual base provides empirical studies with a fresh set of research questions and hence point of departure in a study of the ways in which actors influence the course of events and aim to change the very institutional setting in which they are embedded?