This study is a critique of two overlooked shorts Jia Zhangke, leading figure from the sixth generation Chinese filmmakers: Smog Journeys (2015) and The Condition Dogs (2001). Contemplating imminent demise human animal lives represented, it argues that looming ecological crises in films stress biological finitude to such an extent fear pity disavow truth about capitalist co-optation. To underst...

The Paris Agreement marks a significant milestone in international climate politics. With its adoption, Parties call for non- and sub-state actors to contribute the global agenda close emissions gap left by states. Such facilitative setting embraces non-state action through joint efforts, synergies, different modes of collaboration. At same time, have always played critical confrontational role...

The 26th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP (Conference of Parties) took place in Glasgow, Scotland November 2021 amidst intersecting global crises. rising number and intensity unprecedented extreme weather events many countries, increased knowledge about industrial agriculture’s significant emission contributions to the climate crisis, vulnerability food system wake COVID-1...

The social impacts of computer technology are often glorified in public discourse, but there is growing concern about its actual effects on society. In this article, we ask: how does “consent” as an analytical framework make visible the dynamics and power relations capture, extraction, labor data science knowledge production? We hypothesize that a form boundary violation workplaces—gender haras...

Abstract Emigrant voting rights have opened new electoral arenas, and many political parties increasingly campaign across borders. Yet relatively little is known about the challenges confront when campaigning transnationally strategies they developed in response to these challenges. This paper addresses shortcomings. First, I investigate hurdles Latin American face linking up with organized mig...

The trope of the repressive Muslim, obstinately attached to their regressive world views, recalcitrant antagoniser modernity, has become a thoroughly familiar drama. Redundant spectacles abound: events often highly mediatised, substantiated by conservativism and liberalism alike, deployed as justification for policing, surveillance invasion. 2019 protests against ‘No Outsiders’ LGBT lessons hel...

The term “post-truth” is a capacious trope that collects threats to the stability of shared knowledge on many fronts—digitally spread disinformation, ignorance and resistance science, unabashed lies in public sphere, mythologizing by resurgent nationalist forces, so on. History particularly vulnerable this array. Post-truth serious history produced professional standards for research reasoning ...

Reflective of a wider, global trend changing civil society space and anti-gender backlash against womenʼs rights, research is increasingly interested in exploring the dynamics implications hybrid authoritarian regimes strategies toward society, organizations particular. Nevertheless, few have focused on studying role governmental – so-called women-GONGOs - as mechanisms regime strategies, such ...

Major events possess limited resources relative to those they must seize, extract and control from a host destination. All sport events, varying degrees, are parasitic as highly dependent onexternal destination resource environments deliver complex operational strategic event objectives. This dynamic poses management challenge the event's existence, sustenance survival is principally determined...