This article addresses a familiar dilemma in discussions of experimental forms political practice the context state racism. On one hand, predominant modes engaging with power through strategically representing claims to actors often re-affirm categories domination, mimic hierarchies that radical intend overcome, and tend become invested reformism limits horizon change. other, prefigurative poli...

Abstract Turkey's 1960 military coup d’état was received by Kemalists in the courts, bureaucracy, and universities as an opportunity to reinvigorate Atatürk's ideal of a centralized rationally organized state. This article investigates how handful avant-garde thinkers sought ride post-1960 wave reformism promoting techno-utopian approach governance through publications seminars aimed at state l...

the political, social transformation in 1940’s, are counted as an importance point in recent history of iran. for increasing the process of reconstruction, mohammad reza shah conquest and destroyed the opponents of this program using military forces and savak (intelligence agency). these opponents believe in working under the mashroote laws. after devastating these opponents, new opponents appe...

Darwinism and evolutionary theory have a bad track record in political theory, given their entanglements with fin-de-siècle militarist imperialisms, racialized hierarchies, eugenic reformism. In colonial contexts, however, had an entirely different afterlife as anticolonialists marshaled evolutionist frameworks to contest the parameters of rule. This article exhumes just such anticolonialism th...

based on the epistemological theory of islamic reformism which is an important school of thought in the muslim world, in order to gain or construct an authentic knowledge, the interaction between reason and religion is a necessity. this theory faces with two main theoretical challenges. the first challenge is the position of modernists toward this theory. they argue that this theory is in contr...

~ "Trade and Class: Labour Strategies in a World of Strong Capital," I set out a strategic model which yielded as logical inferences a program including "nationalization, tax penalties for inadequate investment, the growth of a state sector and full employment, boycott campaigns and protective trade legislation in addition to a concerted campaign against concessions."! Further, the argument not...

The concept of "surau" for the Minangkabau community cannot be separated from framework Nature conception itself concerning process Islamization and its relationship to sociocultural (customary) aspects. Under ideal conditions, surau used function as a means Islamic education, such learning recite Qur'an, studying religious knowledge, or suluk (for tarekat community), well inheriting certain tr...

A B S T R AC T This article deals with a transition process from a professional engineering archetype to a modernizing managerialist archetype in a British electricity utility. This took place in the context of the substantially changing utility sector characterized by privatization, the introduction of efficiency targets, the introduction of a regulatory system, the prospect of mergers and pre...