In a recent publication, I introduced the theoretical framework of neosecularisation with regard to Orthodox Church and society in Bulgaria. argued that neosecularisation, as complex process decline religion’s importance hold religious authority over social system, while genealogically different from communist secularisation, explicates patterns continuity past. Important aspects this include p...

Intermediary spaces between health social movements and biomedicine have proliferated since the 1970s typically been analyzed through lenses of co-optation or hybridization. In this article, we present data from two separate empirical projects (teaching learning pelvic exam in medical schools feminist anti-violence counseling programs) order to theorize what call “counter-clinical spaces.” Coun...

Abstract A growing body of literature on the role courts in democratic backsliding claims that court-packing weakens liberal democracy. However, this is not necessarily case. The goals actors who produce help to explain why co-optation judiciary can have a substantial negative effect democracy some (although all) cases. In respect, we distinguish two types court-packing. First, policy-driven oc...

In 2011 the 15 M movement occupied squares across Spain demanding true democracy. Four years later, bottom-up municipalist initiatives won 2015 local elections in seven medium-size and large cities. coalition with traditional parties, these formed new left-wing governments that incorporated former activists as mayors councilors. This history has sparked debates about consequences of co-optation...

this paper is trying to offer a better understanding of relationships between government and nongovernmental organizations in iran. although the constitutional law, development plans, development practitioners have paid more attention to the importance of ngos in the society, but still ngos are not functioning properly. the 1990s has been quite a decade for increasing the numbers of nongovernme...

Recent years have seen vast sums of money invested in health, education and economic empowerment Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs for women girls, particularly the Global South. Feminist scholars IPE charted how transnational corporations (TNCs) partnered with international institutions, donor governments non-governmental organizations to position themselves as champions gender eq...

Drawing on recent literatures that explore the complicated role of ‘Indigenous intermediaries’ within histories geographical exploration, and bringing these into dialogue with research exposing colonial nature knowledge, this article studies ways in which information extracted from an Indigenous Arctic informant named Nocum was crucial formation troubling understandings regarding Inuit ‘origins...