A. Erkinov’s publication presented here includes a number of original sources, namely, works of eminent poets of Central Asia from the late 19 to the early 20 century. Such works are very rarely studied as original historical sources. However, local poetry, as a genre, provided the most complete reflection of the religious-ethical standards of the era, particularly with regard to the most signi...

Nuclear criticism theorizes culture as the site of struggle between ideological nanatives seeking authority over the meaning of nuclear symbols. Following the end of the cold war, various groups have conducted this stnlggle through public discourse about U.S. nuclear weapons organizations. This paper examines symbolic conflict over the history and future of one such organization, the Los Alamos...

This paper investigates legislation in parliamentary and semi-presidential democracies where the legislature and the president have formal role in legislation. A proposed law is …rst voted in the legislature and if it passes, comes to the consideration of the president. I study two prevalent legislative procedures: (i) Single-round legislation where the president’s action is …nal, (ii) Two-roun...

The public health research community has long recognized the roles of discrimination, institutional structures, and unfair economic practices in the production and maintenance of health disparities, but it has neglected the ways in which the interpretation of these structures orients people in overcoming them and achieving positive outcomes in their lives. In this call for researchers to pay mo...

My most important objection to Hudson's article ('The Freedom Charter and the theory of national democratic revolution, In Transformation 1) Is his handling of the strategy of national democratic revolution. He falls to reflect anything of the long history of the concept In our own South African struggle. The question of a socialist strategy for South Africa goes back to at least 1915 with the ...

This article reports a case study about the process experienced by Japanese International students (JIs) in a suburban high school. The study examined the relation between schooling, multiculturalism and cultural identity. The research explored cultural identity as the outcome of contest: an ideological struggle over values, practices and cultural identity. The major findings of the study were ...

The article analyzes how the process of the professionalization of physicians in São Paulo related to healthcare policy under the administration of São Paulo governor Adhemar de Barros (1947-1951) during a period of broad change in the realm of health known by São Paulo physicians as the "socialization of medicine." Medical professionalism confronted certain ambivalences under this populist adm...

This editorial article argues for No Borders as a practical political project . We first critically examine borders as ideological, generating and reinforcing inequality . We consider some responses to injustices produced by borders: the call for “human rights”; attempts to make immigration controls more “humanitarian”; and trade unions’ organizing and campaigning with undocumented workers . Re...