Afghan Pashtun asylum seekers’ ideological resistance in Germany by Ashfaq takkar

“… This article provides the migration experiences of Afghan Pashtun asylum seekers who have migrated from Afghanistan to German cities of Landshut and Cologne. This ethnographic study focuses more explicitly on how asylum seekers' patterns of resistance materialise against deportation and temporal rationalities (waiting and time). …”
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Building with Jelly, or, Concrete as the Concretion of the Abstract by Alan Díaz Alva

“…Unlike most Marxist critiques of architecture which usually focus on questions of class or ideology, Jappe focuses on matter and abstraction. …”
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De Revolutionibus by Franz Josef Brüseke

“…We draw attention to this constellation of ideological conflict within the German "Left" more than one hundred years ago, because it provides the matrix of the disputes and struggles within and between "left" parties during almost the entire twentieth century. …”
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As modernas técnicas de reprodutibilidade: adestramento ou resistência? by Daniel Calbino, Mariana Mayumi Pereira Souza, Rafael Diogo Pereira, Ana Paula Paes de Paula

“…The objective of this work is to rescue the debate between two major thinkers of the German school in Frankfurt, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, of the political and social impacts of the reproducibility and mass culture processes. …”
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La dimension vocale de la propagande by Oksana Bulgakowa

“…The complexity of the Soviet vocal landscape of the propaganda can be understood and illuminated through a juxtaposition and comparison to the German strategies of vocal indoctrination or the American cultural politics of the voice.…”
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A Ship Emerges in the Distance... People Stand and Applaud. The (Un)obvious Contexts of the Wrocław Sea Festival Celebrations in June 1945 by Joanna Nowosielska-Sobel

“…The aim of this article is to attempt to answer whether the celebrations of secular holidays and ceremonies sponsored by the emerging communist governments in Poland can be reduced solely to the implementation of ideological tasks leading to the political subjugation of the nation. …”
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Call for Papers: How attractive are political parties and trade unions to young people? by IF and FRFG

“…For instance, the share of young members (under 26 years old) in German parties is at most 6.3% (LINKE) but can also be as little as 2.2% (CSU) (Niedermayer 2016). …”
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The language ecology of a new Afrikaans Bible by F. Ponelis

“… Three sets of codes are germane to a current Afrikaans Bible translation: Dutch, English and varieties of Afrikaans, especially Standard Afrikaans. …”
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Dissecting climate adaptation strategies and planning of ports from different theoretical angles by Adolf K.Y. NG, Mark C.P. POO, Tianni WANG, Austin BECKER, Yui-yip LAU, Tina Ziting XU, Zaili YANG

“…This paper fills this gap by dissecting climate adaptation strategies and planning of ports from four main perspectives, including institutional systems, path dependence, supply chain risk management, and stakeholder management. It is a germane reminder to port decision-makers that effective climate adaptation is not limited to engineering technicalities but is an ideological issue that requires shifting existing political, economic, and social paradigms. …”
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