Islam and Scholarship Tradition: Historical Trajectories and Future Challenges of Modernity by Mohammad Fadel

“…Various forms of modernity that appear in phenomena of secularism, capitalism, and democracy have been penetrating Muslim lives. …”
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“Here Lies the Possibility of Bodies Turning Elemental”: by Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang

“…Taking its meandering and associative form from Serpent Rain’s experimental aesthetics, this article draws on Black feminist theory—particularly Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake—to argue that the film unsettles visual and ontological certainty to dramatize the repetitive structure of racial capitalism and its ongoing reiterative violence, from the sunken slave ship to the ongoing extraction of oil on indigenous land. …”
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The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day by Claire Wrobel

“…However, new concerns have also emerged in the “post-totalitarian dystopia”, in which late capitalism is a predatory force that devours humans and nature. …”
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Soviet Researchers on the Middle East: Ahead of Their Time by I. D. Zvyagelskaya

“…Such an explanation was the theory of the non-capitalist path of development or socialist orientation. It posed that capitalism cannot solve any of the problems of developing countries. …”
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Essay on Bernard Stiegler’s history of mnemotechnics by B. V. Podoroga

“…It is shown that Stiegler speaks from the point of view of humanistic marxism arguing that the positive development of mnemotechnics is determined by their integration into symbolic relations, outside of which they becomes a means of consumer capitalism. History of mnemotechnics is divided on two large periods — preindustrial and industrial, where the former is determined by the dominance of religion, politics and culture, and the latter — by the law of surplus value. …”
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O mercado audiovisual brasileiro, o circuito alternativo de exibição, as mostras e festivais de cinema na Bahia contemporânea by Mariella Pitombo Vieira, Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão

“…It should be noted that the reflections are included on what part of the specialized literature in the social sciences categorizes as creative economy, specially due to the management of the agents involved, of the new aesthetic and symbolic justifications that start to develop a panorama which, based on the general growth of the Brazilian economy in the period considered, indicates the robustness of what can be described as contemporary cultural capitalism. The work takes as its object a very specific business model, chosen to problematize the convergence of the relationships highlighted above and its potential to better distribute new habits of consumption: bookstores with the megastore model that, as the investigations pointed out, represent one of the most abundant model in today’s cultural markets. …”
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Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Idea and the Ideology of Industrialism by Jean-Yves Tizot

“…Howard purported to transcend the apparent contradiction between socialism and capitalism by planting his vision firmly on the common ground of these two supposedly incompatible conceptions of society. …”
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Entre precariedade e resistência: a cidade como espaço de produção e luta no capitalismo cognitivo by Carolina Salomão Corrêa

“…The shared understanding in the investigation is that from the 1970s, capitalism goes through a transformation characterized for the growth of the role of the cognitive dimensions of the work. …”
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Growth models and comparative political economy in Latin America by Nikolas Passos, Guilherme Spinato Morlin

“…We argue that the growth models perspective, introduced by Baccaro and Pontusson (2016), contributes to understanding the diversities of capitalism in Latin America. We find that the commodities boom oriented the countries towards export-led growth models, especially in Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico. …”
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Ji-Yong Lee, La gouvernance d’entreprise et l’hybridation : Le cas de l’Asie by Ji-Yong Lee

“…Understanding of the changes in corporate governance lies at the heart of contemporary debates about transformation of capitalism. Asia is no exception to this phenomenon. …”
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La cohérence institutionnelle d’une économie dépendante : formes de l’État et conflits redistributifs autour de la rente au Burkina Faso by Juliette Alenda, Pierre Robert

“…Dependence, linked to integration with world capitalism, is a reality in Burkina Faso. It is based on a rentier economic regime, mainly agricultural. …”
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Mobilização para além das fronteiras: semelhanças transnacionais dos movimentos sociais de origem virtual pelo mundo by Luciana de Oliveira Leal Halbritter, Maria Inácia D\u2019Ávila Neto

“…If, on the one hand, globalization serves to expand and strengthen contemporary capitalism, on the other, it makes popular mobilization possible globally. …”
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Mercados culturais no Brasil: o BNDES e o financiamento das empresas culturais brasileiras by Elder P. Maia Alves

“…Such changes have led BNDES to a range of new financial and institutional activities, which, together, turned it into the most important state actor in the market of cultural capitalism in Brazil.…”
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BEAUTIFYING MOSQUES, ENHANCING WORSHIP: THE FIQH PERSPECTIVE OF FOUR MADHHABS AND MUHAMMAD IQBAL'S AESTHETIC CONCEPT by Mohamad Zakky Ubaid Ermawan, Ahmad Khudori Soleh, Mohammad Fadil Akbar Islamy

“…In addition, the temptation of capitalism also raises questions about mosque designs that are overly grand and problematic for the socio-economic life of the community. …”
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Entre a posição e as práticas: classes médias nas perspectivas de Erik Olin Wright e Pierre Bourdieu by Luís Fernando Santos Corrêa da Silva

“…It is concluded that while Wright takes interest in reshaping the theoretical grounds ofMarxism to understand the class structure in the contemporary capitalism, by problematising the middle class as a heterogeneous social layer, Bourdieu is interested in the symbolic constructions sustaining a concept ofmiddle class which undertakes strategies to diferentiate itself from popular classes by valorising scarce or found to be superfluous cultural goods by those who are close to the border of basic-needs.…”
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The Global World Order in the Mirror of the International Likhachev Scientific Readings. Book Review of ‘The Growth of a Global Culture and the Clash of Civilizations’ by A.S. Zape... by V. V. Kochetkov

“…Zapesotsky highlights a growing civilizational crisis of capitalism and outlines the contours of the new, post-capitalist world order. …”
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De l’utopie socialiste au réalisme chrétien by Isabelle Richet

“…He saw the New Deal as a program aiming to save capitalism through state action, whereas the society based on social justice that he envisaged required the socialisation of the means of production which could be brought about only through social conflicts that may require the use of violence. …”
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Une transition économique inattendue : vers le « cupidalisme » ? by Wladimir Andreff

“…During the last quarter of a century various activities of asset grabbing hinder capital accumulation in the legal and regulated part of the real economy and finance. …”
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Some aspects of privatization effects on the labor market in the Republic of Serb by Zimonjić Stefan

“…In the last more than 30 years transformation of numerous state-owned companies has been privatized in countries that started the transition process from socialism to free trade and capitalism including Serbia. Many economic studies prior to the transition process have started pointing out the importance of these changes for economic development and efficient growth of economies. …”
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Dynamics of the Indonesian Parliament in Formulating Food Laws to Achieve Food Security at the End of the New Order by Agustina Wilujeng Pramestuti, Yety Rochwulaningsih, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono

“…Research findings reveal that the Food Law formulated and passed at the end of the New Order era actually attempted to be oriented towards food security and was critical of capitalism. This can be seen from the opinions of the factions in parliament during the formulation of the Food Law.…”
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