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The article attempts to analyse the concept of engagement (commitment) in the books of Predrag Matvejević, a remarkable Croatian intellectual. Starting with a short presentation of his nonconformist views on political, social and cultural issues, the article focuses on highlighting the main features of his fight for the right to be different, one of the most important rights in the eyes of an intellectual.

Amid a political and media furore over EEA nationals' rights to claim social assistance benefits in the UK, this article sets out some recent changes to entitlement – amendments to the Habitual Residence Test, restrictions on entitlement to Housing Benefit, and the income threshold for relying on a right to reside as a worker – and considers the likely impact and legality of these changes.

This article offers a discussion of a collaborative international learning experience with a social work student in an MSW program in the United States. It tells the story of a particular student from Western Africa who has worked for political and civil rights as well as economic and social rights, and delineates lessoned learned by both the student and the professor through their collaboration.

Quantiative and qualitative evidence suggest that the returns to irrigation in France were similar during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Old Regime failed to develop irrigation because of fragmented political authority over rights of eminent domain. Since many groups could hold projects up, transaction costs increased dramatically. Reforms enacted during the French Revolution reduced the costs of securing rights of eminent domain.

In an interview in the January 1990 issue of Index, American writer and political activist Grace Paley pointed out the odd circumstance in which Americans, enjoying the right of unfettered speech, are often embarrassed to make use of it. In this story, she offers a vision of a different world in which the right to speak also guarantees the privilege of being heard and the obligation to listen.

Historic centers have suffered different processes of neglect, occupation, segregation, gentrification, and touristification as a result of changes in demand and policies. Currently, they are going through a homogenization process motivated by tourist pressure, which is causing the expulsion of the local population; this is a common topic of interest for media and political agendas, which requires scientific analysis. This research aims at identifying the winning and the losing tourist groups in the historic center of Seville. It is structured in two parts: a conceptual one based on the bibliographic review with which one wants to know how the current society responds to tourist pressure through defining and characterizing the processes of substitution of uses and inhabitants, and another empirical one in which the analysis of statistical indicators (demographic, economic, and residential) treated with Geographic Information System (GIS) allows us to measure the degree of existing vulnerability and analyze social and spatial effects caused by the tourism in Seville ; This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) Transformations of the historic urban landscape induced by tourism: contradictions and controversies, government and local governance (CSO2016-75470-R), New Models for Governing Cities and Intervention in Urban Spaces in the Post-Crisis Period (CSO 2016-75236-C2-1-R) and Territorial intelligence versus tourism growth. Planning and managing destinations for the new cycle of real estate expansion (PGC2018-095992-B-I00) ; SI

International relations and global development just got a whole lot easier. Through the conscious choice and purchase of the "right" kind of coffee, bottled water, or t-shirt, now available at one's local supermarket, the caring relationalities of development of the "fair trade" kind can quite easily be put into practice. For some, these practices provide the space for people's "everyday" moralities let loose through their ordinary choices that then works to globalize a form of responsibility toward poor Others (Barnett, Cloke, Clarke and Malpass 2011). Here, the weekly grocery shopping has morphed into the first line of defense of poor farmers' livelihoods, clean water, women's empowerment, and international development. With Brand Aid (Richey and Ponte 2011), with its celebrity- and corporate-brand-drenched marketing campaigns, this "causumerism" has been taken to the extreme. Now, through the purchase of Product (RED)-labeled commodities, it is instead the very real case that saving the very lives of poor, Aids-stricken Africans just got a whole lot easier. Put in rather stark, and exceedingly un-ironic and unproblematic terms, in buying a Product (RED) iPod, "you have a new iPod and you helped save a person's life." Over time, however, the Product (RED) campaign has morphed slightly and narrowed the advertised scope of whom it saves. Now, RED provides its drugs predominantly to pregnant HIV-infected mothers in Africa in order to halt the spread of HIV to newborn children designed to usher in an "Aids-free generation" by 2015 (Joinred.org 2012). Thus, in the contemporary incarnation of Product (RED), "a person's life" has taken on more specific meanings and materialities in the even more stable forms of pregnant mothers and children, while the mechanisms of how they are "saved" have remained the same. Adapted from the source document.

Can the needs of capital ever be reconciled with the needs of people? To what extent can social policies bridge the gap between social rights and human welfare, and economic competitiveness in a global world? Building on his previous writings on political economy and human need, Ian Gough throws new light on these perennial questions in a series of penetrating and original essays. The conclusion is upbeat: social policy still has the potential to narrow (though never close) the gap between the drive of capital and the universal needs of people

The spirit of American politics -- The ideas that shape america -- The Constitution -- Federalism and nationalism -- Civil liberties -- The struggle for civil rights -- Public opinion -- Political participation -- Media, technology, and government -- Campaigns and elections -- Political parties -- Interest groups -- Congress -- The presidency -- Bureaucracy -- The judicial branch.

Introductory readings --The right to vote --Representation and districting --Partisan gerrymandering and political competition --Race and redistricting --Election administration and remedies --Ballot propositions --Major political parties --Third parties and independent candidates --Campaigns --Bribery --The Buckley framework --Spending limits --Contribution limits --Public financing --Disclosure --Appendix.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Athlete Activism: Contemporary Perspectives -- Outline of the Book -- Chapter Outline -- References -- Chapter 1 Athlete Activism and the Olympic Games: A Dialectic of Resistance and Restriction -- Introduction -- IOC and Political Dissent -- Olympian Dissent -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Educated Activism: A Focus Group Study of High School Athletes' Perceptions of Athlete Activism -- Introduction -- Stakeholder Theory -- Identity -- Methods -- Results and Discussion -- (Semi)educated Activism -- Agency, Inspiration, and LeBron -- Hopeful for Change -- Implications and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 "It's Our Duty to Utilize the Platform That We Have": Motivations for Activism Among U.S. Collegiate Athletes -- Who Becomes a Collegiate Athlete Activist? A Profile of the Participants -- Why Do Collegiate Athletes Become Activists? Motivations for Activism -- What's Next? Implications for Empowering Collegiate Athlete Activists -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Financial Implications for Athlete Activists: The Cost of Taking a Stance -- Introduction -- The 2016 NFL Protests -- Colin Kaepernick's Protest -- Colin Kaepernick's Activism Off the Field -- Gwen Berry -- Corporations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 The Changing Face of Black Athlete Activism -- Introduction -- Race and Resistance: Black Athlete Activism -- Black Power and the Struggle for Civil Rights: The 1968 Summer Olympics -- Quieter Times, But Not Silent: Black Athlete Activism in the 1980s and 1990s -- Say It Loud! I'm Black and I'm Proud: Contemporary Black Athlete Activists -- Concluding Thoughts: Pariah Today, Hero Tomorrow? The Changing Face of Black Athlete Activism -- References.

The article analyzes the attitude of Russian neo-populist parties — socialists-revolutionaries and people's socialists — to the problem of rights and freedoms of the individual, which they considered a full subject of social interactions and the basis for building a socialist society. It is shown how much the leaders of these parties devoted to the principles of democracy, humanism and good in their program and tactical settings, and how they combined the passion of public struggle and strict moral imperatives in their political practice. Main research methods: analysis, synthesis, biographical method, analogy, comparison.

The article analyzes the attitude of Russian neo-populist parties — socialists-revolutionaries and people's socialists — to the problem of rights and freedoms of the individual, which they considered a full subject of social interactions and the basis for building a socialist society. It is shown how much the leaders of these parties devoted to the principles of democracy, humanism and good in their program and tactical settings, and how they combined the passion of public struggle and strict moral imperatives in their political practice. Main research methods: analysis, synthesis, biographical method, analogy, comparison.

The demise of communism in Eastern Europe, & the discredit it casts on Marxist theory, suggests the need to rethink the nature of left-wing politics. Taking Rosa Luxemburg as a guide, an attempt is made to identify the ambiguities in Marxism itself. It is proposed that Marxism & capitalism arose in the nineteenth century as ways to confront a threat felt as fundamental but never theorized adequately, ie, the threat of democracy. The political claim based on this theoretical account is that Left & Right are distinguished in terms of their respective attitudes toward the further development of democracy. AA