The concept of resistance within the peace-building literature has received considerable attention as well becoming central to critique liberal interventions. Scholars approach ‘local turn’ resulted in more elaborate studies; even so, local agency is typically narrowed down and conceptualised a response what considered problematic aspects By analysing to/against inclusion ‘forced marriage’ crim...

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a multidisciplinary holistic, consisting of a number of different theoretical approaches to the microlevel analysis of text and talk that has to do with the social and/or political. These various methodological approaches are unified, however, by a macrolevel social critique which maintains that social inequality may be enacted, sustained and legitimised thr...

Abstract This article is about Islamism (or political Islam) as a challenge for contemporary liberal democracies. portrayed an ideology that favors one specific religion supreme and threat to freedom of speech. The author makes plea distinguishing a. the Islam, b. Muslims group, c. Islamism. Regarding dangers Islamism, some sociological research convictions discussed (Koopmans, Esposito) most r...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound Journal Article How to cite: Revill, George (2016). How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound Journal Article How to cite: Revill, George (2016). How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound Journal Article How to cite: Revill, George (2016). How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound. Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this...

T HE most common view of the relation between humanism and science is that the two elements are antithetic. In my view humanism and science are complementary. And indeed, I believe that in the last analysis each includes the other which is not to say they are identical. But this antithetic view has a long and I suppose distinguished history dating back to virtually the very beginnings of modern...

In this article, we take a critical look at the growing interest in U.S. political participation as it exists in the youth civic engagement literature. Our critique draws from principles of liberation and developmental psychology, and from the incisive writings of experts in youth organizing. Youth Organizing evolved from the Positive Youth Development (PYD) and Community Youth Development (CYD...