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Recent decades have seen a move from cash to cashless payments in both Europe and the United States. Barbara Brandl writes on how the ‘abolition of cash’ has had dramatic impacts on many people’s economic lives. She writes that the emergence of cashless payments has blurred the lines between payments and consumer credit, which can … Continued

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This article analyzes tweets in the Turkish language from November 2020 to May 2021 in which Kurds are explicitly mentioned that feature negative animalization directed toward Kurds and pro-Kurdish organizations. It systematically compares ways of animalization attribution, to what entities the animalization is attributed mostly, and the attributors (actors) of animalization. First, it argues that animalizing dehumanization directed at Kurds in the data set principally occurs for attributing the lack of four human traits: agency, civility, morality, and rationality. Second, it shows in what different ways the lack of these traits is attributed to Kurdish people in general and to major pro-Kurdish groups such as HDP (the largest pro-Kurdish legal political party) and PKK (the largest pro-Kurdish armed group). Finally, it discloses three main political networks among Twitter users within the data set and characterizes how negative animal references to Kurds, pro-Kurdish groups, and each other were used by these actors. Thus, this research seeks to establish a framework to study other ethnic conflicts from the perspective of animalization and invites further research on whether the trends that were found imply a general tendency around the world.

Les communs n'ont pas été seulement un mouvement d'en bas pour réclamer des espaces et des ressources matérielles et symboliques. Ils ont marqué également un changement profond dans la façon dont nous concevons la ville et ses institutions. Inscrits dans un long processus de transformation de l'identité urbaine de plus en plus caractérisée par une multiplicité d'acteurs et de stratégies, les communs ont ainsi influencé les politiques urbaines par des voies différenciées, parfois composites, parfois divergentes. Cette contribution analyse des différents chemins qui ont conduit en Italie et, plus largement en Europe, à l'émergence de ladite « commonification » des politiques urbaines et locales en mettant en évidence des effets à la fois innovants et ambivalents.

How might we speak about religion and politics? Here, Fr Ryan Service looks at pluralism, co-responsibility, and friendship as taught by Pope Francis, and what this means for reimagining the political. Reading Pope Francis' letter to the world Fratelli Tutti (Sisters and Brothers, All), at times, can feel like overhearing a conversation – or better, … Continued