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...

In this ethnography of the public cinema during stronismo (1968-1979) aim is to describe Asuncion, Caaguazú and Coronel Oviedo from general sociodemographic data, reception movies seen between 1968 1979, description way this, organized social activities comprehended notion ritual. Several devices were generated: a film series in three territories, semi structured interviews, polls, analysis aud...

What role do political opportunities play in far-right mobilisation? The case of Georgia indicates that modernisation itself may be insufficient to trigger a backlash. A systematised database 154 protest events the period 2003–2020 shows movement remained dormant for over two decades after post-Soviet independence and decade 2003 Rose Revolution. After 2012, however, less severe repression prot...

Abstract In recent decades, as part of the efforts Chinese government first to integrate and, more recently, forcibly assimilate Uyghur population into China’s mainstream culture and society, language has been marginalized repressed an unprecedented extent. The academic literature on Xinjiang’s policy repeatedly acknowledged that this repression is a major source concern discontent among many U...

The article focuses on varying protest intensities of social movement activists in an authoritarian political environment. Drawing on a sample of participants in El Salvador’s El movimiento popular, the paper examines how structural location in the resistance movement’s multi-sectoral organizational infrastructure shapes the level of participation. Those motivated by state repression and mainta...

feel at home in this world. —Jean Amery The Hidden Epidemic E day human rights abuses all over the world endanger and destroy the lives of many people. The only "crime" these people have committed is that their political opinion, religion, or ethnic background is disconcerting to those in power. Numerous governments, as well as armed resistance movements, utilize repression, torture, and murder...

This article is intended to engage others in a dialogue about the role and meaning of jokes about suicide. Types of jokes involving suicide are examined to distinguish the different types of humor involved. A sample of 118 recent political cartoons in an online website was downloaded, of which 73 concerned suicide bombers. Examples of suicide cartons and jokes involving disparagement, incongrui...

The activities of human rights defenders concern all categories of human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political, and social. Inspired and guided by human rights standards, human rights defenders act against the serious problems that affect the life of people throughout the world, such as hunger and poverty, intolerance and discrimination, abuse of power and corruption, insecurity, conflic...

This article presents an integrated model of contentious nationalist activity, 7 with structure, politics, and action assuming equal roles in an interdependent 8 causal system. The model is tested using simultaneous equation systems on 130 9 ethno-nationalist groups from 1990 to 1998. The results confirm the vital, 10 indirect role of grievances and group identity on protest and the powerful di...

This article reveals, by studying correlative relationships between US regime support and regime properties, that the US foreign policy in the Middle East has traditionally helped governments to limit the political participation of Islamists, communists, enemies of Israel and populations that could be hostile to the US oil interests. This way the US economic and strategic security interests hav...