Parental alienation is defined as a mental state in which a child, usually one whose parents are engaged in a high-conflict separation or divorce, allies himself strongly with one parent (the preferred parent) and rejects a relationship with the other parent (the alienated parent) without legitimate justification (Lorandos et al. 2013, von Boch-Galhau 2013). Parental alienation is anomalous, ma...

Health-related lifestyles (smoking, drinking alcohol, exercise and diet) and feelings of alienation (powerlessness and hopelessness) of the citizens of Helsinki and Moscow are examined and discussed in a framework of life chances and life choices. The data were collected by a postal survey of 18-64 yr old citizens of Helsinki (N = 824) and Moscow (N = 545) in 1991. Almost all respondents in bot...

Chinese campuses have been remarkably calm since the post-1989 repression. Yet, absence of contention masks profound changes in party-state’s campus management tactics, exemplifying different approaches authoritarian regimes employ to regiment students. Based on fieldwork before and after Xi Jinping’s rise power (2012), we analyse move from a ‘corporatist’ ‘partification’ strategy campus. Contr...

The article presents a normative principle of constitutional justice that acknowledges ethnocultural and ethnonational diversity by addressing the injustice of political alienation. It is suggested that this principle could be the subject of a methodological overlapping consensus among several comprehensive normative-theoretical frameworks that are influential in current debates. The main impli...

Alienation is among the most influential terms in Marxist theory, but also one of ambiguous and controversial. Unlike previous literature, which has tended to focus on Marx’ early philosophical writings, this offers a novel reinterpretation theory alienation found Marx’s later works. Rather than conceiving as subjective experience or an inherent feature social organization, I contend that sense...

The widespread disaffection of students from school is manifested in academic failure, indifference, and defiance. These problems can be alleviated, I argue, when an authority structure is developed that combines three components – freedom, power, and legitimacy. Authority understood as either power or freedom is apt to subvert students’ school attachment even while attempting to strengthen it;...