Purpose – The aim of the current study is to investigate how fans behave towards greater introduction political identities in pop culture. Theoretical framework idea consumption as an identity-building instrument, growing discussions on and emergence entertainment industry arena for consumer resistance are associated with each other. Design/methodology/approach Foucauldian archeogenealogy was a...

I study the egalitarian way of distributing resources across generations. Distributional equity deeply conflicts with the Pareto principle: efficient allocations cannot guarantee that i) each generation be assigned a consumption bundle that is at least as large as an arbitrarily small fraction of the bundle assigned to any other generation and that ii) each generation finds its assigned bundle ...

International aid agencies have experienced a ‘political turn’ over the past decade, with political economy analyses becoming increasingly numerous as a means to drive development effectiveness. Yet aid agencies have so far failed to shift their aid modalities in response. The problem lies in an inadequate conceptualisation of ‘politics’. Most donors continue to see development as a public good...

Political reactions 'from below' to global land grabbing have been vastly more varied and complex than is usually assumed. This essay introduces a collection of groundbreaking studies that discuss responses that range from various types of organized and everyday resistance to demands for incorporation or for better terms of incorporation into land deals. Initiatives 'from below' in response to ...

Is a state ever truly insulated from interest group influence, or is state insulation conditional under the best of circumstances? While Huang (1995) attributes relatively low inflation in China to political discipline of the Chinese communists, the banking sector has slowly fallen into quagmire. While harsh retrenchments succeeded in lowering inflation, each monetary expansion brought the Chin...

Political prisoners in the North of Ireland have a well-documented capacity to influence events inside and outside of prison. From the widespread opposition to internment (1971) to the hunger-strikes of 1980-81 and the signing of the Good Friday Agreement [1] , political prisoners have remained central to broader political and social developments in society [2] . This paper contextualises the B...

L atin America has been the cutting edge of struggles worldwide against neoliberalism. Several alternatives to the dominant model of global capitalism appear to be emerging in the region. A new model of revolutionary struggle and popular transformation from below for the 21 st century may be emerging, based on the Venezuelan experience, but more broadly, on mass popular struggles in Ecuador, Bo...