The fight for sexual and reproductive rights has been the cornerstone of feminist activism and struggle for many decades. The second wave of feminism saw women’s organisations and feminists mobilising around (amongst other important struggles for political and social equality) the right to abortion, access to safe contraceptives, better policies and laws to address rape, domestic violence and t...

This paper develops a dynamic theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class con‡icts, and output growth performance over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional e¤ects of international trade, it …nds a prominent interaction between trade policy and the pattern of economic development, and also a signi…cant role for trade...

In a global context where political campaigning, social movements, and public discourse increasingly take place online, questions regarding the regulation of speech by media platforms become ever more relevant. Companies like Facebook moderate content posted users on their through mixture automated decision making human moderators. this moderation process, rights play an ambiguous role: those w...

This study highlights the early history of development Islamic movements in Malaysia since colonial times. It looks at this from two important and overlapping angles: islah movement that brought about national consciousness aspirations for renewal tajdid, influence anti-colonial pioneering politics overseas archipelago. was qualitative nature terms literature review content analysis. The data c...

Although Habermas’ sophisticated conception of constitutional patriotism successfully avoids the charge of trying to ground patriotism in a set of principles that is too thin and abstract to sustain a real sense of solidarity and belonging, his optimism regarding the prospect in modern pluralist societies of building a genuinely shared political culture is misplaced. The march of modernisation ...

Pieter Lemmens' neo-Marxist approach to technology urges us to rethink how to do political philosophy of technology. First, Lemmens' high level of abstraction raises the question of how empirically informed a political theory of technology needs to be. Second, his dialectical focus on a "struggle" between humans and technologies reveals the limits of neo-Marxism. Political philosophy of technol...