Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: A Network-Text by Michael Hinds

“…Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) uniquely dramatizes the threat (or promise) of the obsolescence of the poetry collection in the age of postcapitalism. …”
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Introduction to Dossier. Towards a Re-appropriation of Critical Geography for Latin America by Sofia Zaragocin Carvajal, Melissa Moreano Venegas, Soledad Álvarez Velasco

“…This article attempts to review and synthesise the main debates in critical geography across both the Latin American and Anglo-Saxon traditions. By reviewing the main theoretical approaches including from political ecology, feminist geography, post-colonial and de-colonial approaches and the geography of motilities and migration, the aim of this article is to delineate a pan-Latin American approach to critical geography. …”
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Conservación neoliberal de la naturaleza en la Patagonia chilena: explorando nuevas modalidades ecoextractivistas y tensiones hidrosociales by Esteban Ortiz Robles, Robinson Torres Salinas, Alejandro Salazar-Burrows, Fabien Bourlon

“…Drawing from a Latin American political ecology perspective and employing a relational, multi-method approach—ethnographic, discourse, and documentary analysis—the study examines hydro-social reconfigurations and the eco-extractive dynamics of tourism development and land parceling in Puerto Río Tranquilo and the Valle Exploradores in the Aysén region of Chile. …”
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El Movimiento Bolivariano en Venezuela: ¿de vuelta al populismo? by Flávio da Silva Mendes

“…The new chief of state’s profile was similar to that of past Latin American political leaders and the Chávez phenomenon was presented by a large number of social scientists as a return to the continent’s old problem: populism. …”
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HORROR FILMS IN UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF BIOPOWER by S. A. Malenko, A. G. Nekita

“…And the emergence of the horror film genre in American and world cinema means abandoning the model of classical political power based on the sacralisation and rationalization of personal authority and physical coercion. …”
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‘You’re considered a warrior then’ by Marjo Väyrynen

“…Keywords: Native Americans, military service, values, respect, individualism, identity, tradition …”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…Though this counter-tradition is hardly apolitical, it refocuses its politics on the everyday instead of the American millennium, and on the proximate instead of the distant, substituting the imperial appetites of the all-consuming settler subject for the embodied, proprioceptive confusions of the domestic subject. …”
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« Very much in the dark about light » : Franklin, lumières et critiques by James Delbourgo

“…The fundamental question raised was whether Franklin’s famous experiments constituted legitimate natural philosophy in the tradition of Isaac Newton. This dim view of Franklinist enlightenment is linked to the conflicts of the American Revolution, social anxieties about mechanical ingenuity, and geographical hierarchies of knowledge-making. …”
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Le Krimi sous le Troisième Reich : une invention de l'étranger by Vincent Platini

“…The crime novel then took on dictatorial forms, reflecting the changed conception of the law in the new Germany and contrasting with the English tradition of the genre. Although Nazi Krimis and American hard-boiled stories converged to a certain extent, the German products differed unmistakably in their opposition to the imagination prevalent in democratic countries. …”
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European Studies by V. O. Pechatnov, E. O. Obichkina

“…Another characteristic of the tradition is the analysis of foreign policy and diplomacy in a close relationship with the socio-economic and political processes. …”
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A Science of Diplomacy by T. V. Zonova

“…A possibility of converting the study of diplomacy in the field of modern political science became evident. Having preserved the tradition of the historical and international law studies, MGIMO scientists started analyzing complex diplomacy as a political institution, evolving according to its own rules and in accordance with certain laws. …”
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Blacking Up : Une histoire du rock au prisme du blackface by Keivan Djavadzadeh

“…Thus, White artists, such as Elvis Presley or Mick Jagger, have worn a metaphorical blackface mask while “borrowing” signs from the African-American tradition. But some Black artists who were “rediscovered” in the 1960s (Blues Revival) also had to entertain their White audience with the thrill of a so-called “racial authenticity.”…”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…Unfortunately, I do not believe they can. The American race problem is simply too big for reparations to fix. …”
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Restricting Voting Rights in Modern America by Desmond King, Rogers M. Smith

“…Holder ruling invalidating Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is in part a product of efforts to resist further transformations to the traditional American institutional arrangements that have conferred advantages on whites, especially disproportionate political power. …”
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Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“… This essay examines the relationship between the Christian tradition of contemplation and social action. It takes as its paradigm the life and writings of Thomas Merton (Fr Louis), an American Cistercian monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, who became one of the most widely-read and influential spiritual writers as well as Christian social commentators of the mid-twentieth century. …”
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Raça, cultura e pertencimento: a emergência da noção de diáspora africana by Cauê Gomes Flor

“…Since the end of the 19th century it was present in the United States, having an important role as a locus of belonging, contributing to the building of solidarities and political agendas of the black American social movements. …”
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International connections of the Ecuadorian Amazonian forest colonization process 1960-1970 by Pablo Campaña

“…During that period poor farmer organizations in several Latin American countries were demanding access to land held by traditional latifundia. …”
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U.S. strategy in Central Asia by V. N. Zemskov

“…In this connection, the author notes that successive governments of the USA, the American political and expert community, business circles traditionally in the last twenty years pay particular attention to this region, bringing to secure the U.S. presence in the region the concept of "Big Central Asia".…”
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CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND PECULIARITGIES OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION by A. N. Pankov

“…Particular attention is paid to the principles and the specific characteristics of the current constitution of 1987, as well as the constitution of 1935, which was the first basic law, which laid the foundations of western constitutional model and the basic principles characteristic of the constitutions of democratic countries, including progressive for that time legal status of the individual, based on the "Bill of Rights" and directly borrowed from the American constitutional system. The question of the national state of one of the countries in South-East Asia is also analyzed which is of considerable scientific interest in terms of the perception of the Western model of democracy and attempts at planting on alien for these models of socio-economic and political framework. …”
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Exploring Lessons from Soviet Diplomacy and Western Allied Cooperation in World War II by V. O. Pechatnov

“…It also acknowledges dissenting voices in Anglo-American political spheres who advocated for a more equitable relationship with the USSR. …”
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