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Šenkýřová, Barbora Balík, Stanislav
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Politics in Central Europe
The local policy is sometimes degraded by this opinion: in the small village, there is no policy, self-government is based on the personal character without the political context, it is mainly oriented on the technical side of the government. However, different researches confirm that despite this claim local policy contains political (and ideologi...
Chaguaceda Noriega, Armando Cilano, Johanna
We discuss the recent development of Cuban civil society, characterized by restrictions arising from the current post-totalitarian regime and the emergen-ce of new identities and demands. Data derived from two series of interviews with officials, activists and academics, made at two moments of the Cuban current political process: the governments of...
Polozhentseva, Irina V. Yulina, Galina N. Kashchenko, Tat’yana L. Kalita, Vitaly V.
Published in
SHS Web of Conferences
The present study combines a theoretical analysis of youth protest as a special social phenomenon and the results of an empirical study. Based on the empirical study conducted by the authors in the Moscow State University of Technology and Management (First Cossack University), an analysis of the protest activity of youth (students) in the 2010s is...
Bahram, Haqqi
There have been increasing efforts at the international level to make migrants and refugees’ participation and inclusion in policy more meaningful. Yet, little is known on their perspectives about these possibilities and the outcomes of these efforts. Drawing on the case of one refugee-led initiative, the Network for Refugee Voice (NRV), in attendi...
Rathbun, Lyon
When Javier Sicilia’s son was killed by cartel assassins in 2011, he transformed into a civic activist, with a mass following sufficiently large for Time Magazine to recognize him in 2011 as one of its “Protestors of the Year.” His very success mobilizing public opinion against cartel violence overshadows his more fundamental role as an advocate fo...
Gläske, Monia Helga Hannelore
The city is a complex reality that is composed of a physical environment, social action and political as well as cultural structures. This thesis is based on the assumption that urban space is produced in a continuous process in which all these dimensions mutually interact with each other. I endue, furthermore, that the perception of urban space is...
