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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Illiberal"”.
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What Enemy Hath Done This? The Death of the Fusion Movement and the Rise of Illiberal Conservatism
… was always theoretically divided and how illiberalism – or the theoretical critique of liberalism – has slowly gained the upper hand within the conservative intellectual movement. Using the archives of National Review, the preeminent conservative publication and guardian of the fusion …
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Slavery and abortion: the paradox of american liberalism
… is still applicable to America even though illiberal institutions have and do exist. My contention is that it is the paradox of liberalism that allows for this. Slavery is the quintessential illiberal institution, yet liberal concepts allowed it to exist in America for over 200 years. It is …
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Socially necessary labour: countering the regime of speculative capital. A decolonial case-study from the east-central european semiperipheries in the age of illiberal democracy
… (ECE) semiperiphery, commonly referred to as ‘illiberalism’. To gauge the current state of the ECE region, the work redefines the notion of Europe and Europeanness in the first chapter, relying on the seminal scholarship of fellow Eastern European thinkers. Analysing the period of the region’s …
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Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives
… nonviable by hegemonic liberal infrastructures—‘illiberal’ secondary witnessing alternatives—by reading a global archive of twentieth and twenty-first century testimonial narratives attesting to state-sponsored torture and genocide. The textual archive this project curates and works through, …
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Deliberative Practices In and Outside the Malaysian Parliament
… of a Westminster-style parliament in an illiberal democracy. This study makes a contribution to the literature by filling the apparent gap and contributing to an understanding of the extent to which the Malaysian Parliament incorporate deliberation as a means of involving their citizens …
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Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City
… and outside their nation, I argue that the illiberal state achieves its political legitimacy by successfully convincing citizens that only it can secure Singapore's continuous economic growth. I further assert that within Singapore's strongly communitarian political framework, gay citizens …
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The law and economics of bargaining: an examination of the bargaining model employed by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… during prior regimes. As regimes move from illiberal to liberal, post-transition justice methodology has developed from the restorative justice model to engender truth and reconciliation. These normative concepts have evolved into a policy of creating truth and reconciliation commissions …
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Creating the Leader-centred Modernity: the birth of the successor in North Korea
… ideal paradoxically transitioned into an illiberal modernity centred around the primacy of the leader and the novel space of a successor in the revolution. I hope my work contributes to our understanding of the history of socialism, political resilience, illiberal modernity, and political …
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Debating the Ideal Soviet Woman: Public Discussions of Gender and Morality in Khrushchev's Russia
… and Brian LaPierre have stressed the presence of illiberal currents in the Khrushchev era, finding that this period featured greater repression and state control, as opposed to the traditional interpretation of the era as a time of liberal reform and greater freedom of expression. Utilizing the …
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Towards a queer liminality: an examination of the use of space in Irish lesbian fiction 1872-2017
… has been perceived as being a homophobic, illiberal, socially conservative country. This perception has now changed. Ireland is now commonly regarded as being a modern, European, secular and (arguably) queer-friendly nation. The equal marriage referendum in 2015 highlighted the extent to …
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Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism: Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission
… in Africa, adopting instead an openly illiberal colonial outlook. Journalists were at the center of that change, shaping and disseminating across Italy a vicarious colonial experience that eventually undermined the application of liberal values. In this respect the scandal constituted …
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Intervention Legitimisation and the Modern Democratisation Movement
… of the State as illegitimate, where it pursued illiberal policies. In the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq prohibitions on the use of force and transformative occupations were disregarded, in part to accomplish regime change, with far reaching implications to both international law and the …
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The EU and civilian crisis management: a case study of EULEX KOSOVO and building multi-ethnic rule of law
… and compromise. This greatly empowers local illiberal elites, while largely failing to engage with Kosovo’s societal space and thus failing to engender local ownership of rule of law. The case of EULEX KOSOVO is important and can serve as an example for future Western civilian crisis …
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Nietzsche’s Europeanism: A Critical Genealogy
… idea of Europe is inextricably tied to the illiberal, anti-democratic concerns that define his political thought. It also needs to be clearly distinguished from more recent notions of European identity and unity.
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Transylvanian Baroque: Liberalism and its Others in Rural Romania
… new identity projects that fuse the liberal and illiberal in innovative ways. I trace how the rural revitalisation programme brought together romantic, “integralist” visions of the Saxon villages with the EU’s liberal technologies of governance to create a set of projects the value of which could …
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Rhetoric, reason, and the problem of rule : Aristotle and J.S. Mill on speech and politics.
… his inegalitarianism leads to a hierarchical and illiberal political order only because the life of the wisest does not entail the activity of ruling inasmuch as ruling is a burdensome task directed to the good of another rather than the ruler's own good. In contrast to Mill, Aristotle affirms the …
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