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Securing women's citizenship: Indifference and other obstacles
In "The Sexual Contract", Carole Pateman investigated how women's lesser status as citizens is founded on their subordination in marriage and employment. Now, she writes, global inequalities introduce a racial dimension to the "classical" sexual contract. [more]
The university in the twenty-first century
Towards a democratic and emancipatory university reform
Universities can regain their legitimacy only through radical democratic restructuring. Countering the brain-drain -- so far the main result of the transnationalization of education -- will only be possible by embarking on a counter-hegemonic process of educational globalization. [Lithuanian version added] [more]
Transmodernity, border thinking, and global coloniality
Decolonizing political economy and postcolonial studies
Postmodernism as an epistemological project still reproduces a particular form of coloniality. A decolonial perspective requires a broader canon of thought that would require taking seriously the epistemic insights of critical thinkers from the global South. [more]
Beyond abyssal thinking
From global lines to ecologies of knowledges
Modern Western thinking continues to operate along abyssal lines that divide the human from the sub-human. One side of this line is ruled by a dichotomy of regulation and emancipation, the other by appropriation and violence. In order to succeed, the struggle for global social justice requires a new kind of post-abyssal thinking. [more]
Between micro-war and macro-peace
Masculinities and femininities in gang warfare in Rio de Janeiro
An analysis of "masculinized" actors within new wars and women's resistance to masculinized practices in contexts of "formal peace". [more]
Living and loving beyond the heteronorm
A queer analysis of personal relationships in the twenty-first century
The organization of personal life and "the family" has transformed significantly over the past thirty years. Sociologists must take these changes into account and start to decentre the family and the heterosexual couple in our intellectual imaginations. [more]
Law as hope
Constititutions, courts and social change in Latin America
Towards an aspirational constitutionalism. [more]
Modelling the EU constitution
How do the effects of globalisation shape the features of the EU constitution? [more]
Security, migration and "social control" in the context of the "constitution" of the EU
How can the European constitution constitute and build democracy in Europe? [more]
Towards widening the democratic canon
Social movements are emancipatory in so far as they seek alternatives to conditions imposed by states and economic conditions. Moreover, they redefine more inclusive social identities and act as truly transnational democratic units. [more]
Collective suicide or globalization from below?
After the war in Iraq, a new voice for peace must come from the NGOs. [more]
Is this the way to go?
Handling immigration in a global era
As Europe more than ever fortifies its borders against illegal immigrants, what about the increase in human trafficking? [more]
Social justice in globalisation
Redistribution, recognition and participation
How is globalisation reconcilable with new prospects for social justice? [more]
Trade Union Internationalism in the Age of Seattle
The global neo-liberal world order has rendered national trade unions superfluous. Or has it? [more]
The Processes of Globalisation
Hardly any topic evokes such different definitions and broad opinions as globalisation. Boaventura de Sousa Santos brings together different sides of the debate to formulate a new understanding of the contradictory processes of globalisation, its history, its economic and political implications for today and for the future of the capitalist, global economy. [more]
Understanding Integration and Differentiation
Inclusion, Marginalisation and Exclusion
Which processes are at work in European welfare states, that result in mechanisms of exclusion or inclusion, and how are these mechanisms or barriers related to integration and differentiation? [more]
"Border talk," hybridity, and performativity
Cultural theory and identity in the spaces between difference
Friedman argues in this essay for a more transgressive, open understanding of the notion of hybridity within contemporary American cultural studies. [more]
Towards a post-Westphalian Internationalism
150 years after the publication of Marx & Engels' Manifesto of the Communist Party, Pureza takes a look at the shortcomings and disunities that have emerged in the internationalist legacy it stands for. [more]
The Racist Albatross
Social Science, Jörg Haider and Widerstand
Racism is an inescapable part of our history, of our present and of ourselves. Only when we realise this can we also understand the role of racism in the world-system, and only then are we able to interpret the successes of the populists and the extreme right – as well as the resistance that these successes have triggered. [more]
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