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Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...
Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...
The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...
Iwrote the play as a way to reflect upon Brazil’s political crisis, which seemed at first to favour the left, before turning sharply to the right. 1 The realist impulse in this case was not of the ...
The Work of Inheritance Let us begin, then, where Derrida himself begins: his initial act of positioning himself within his own text by enclosing his text between two quotations from Hamlet, which ...
The emergence of China as the world’s economic powerhouse has shifted the centre of the global market eastwards. The prc ’s growth rates are the envy of elites everywhere, its commodities circulating ...
2. definitions of well-being At this point, we need to unpack the idea of well-being. The idea of a steady-state or sustainable economy puts constraints on material throughput, but does not tell us ...
We have seen, in our own time, the climax and the decline of liberal tragedy. To understand its structure of feeling is now a central problem. For we are all to some extent still governed by it, even ...
It was a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, who in 1688 coined the term ‘nostalgia’, from the Greek nostos —return home, and algia —longing. Not so much an ancient passion as a pseudo-classical creation of ...