kim, dugsam kim, taesoo
The human community confronts a plethora of disasters, including man-made epidemics like COVID-19, environmental problems such as water and food resource depletion, biochemical warfare, and even threats from human-created artificial intelligence. Consequently, it is appropriate to term our current community a “disaster community”. This paper delves...
wenkel, david h.
Today’s culture is becoming increasingly secularized and characterized by social fragmentation. Christian teachers in public schools should no longer expect to share the same worldview as their students. It is only natural to ask the question: can anything good come about in a public-school classroom? This essay outlines a Christian vision for indi...
Jonsson, Hjorleifur R.
This article examines notions of national identity and diversity in Thailand during the twentieth century. It draws on ethnographies, historical fiction, jungle adventure, romance, and official documents to question common notions of Thai identity and of what constitutes socially relevant Thai-language writing. The focus is in part on so-called hil...
Vivier-Muresan, Anne-Sophie
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keping, wu
Northwest Yunnan is nested in the border areas of Tibet, Myanmar, and Southwest China. The religiously and ethnically diverse region has astonishingly seen a lack of “conflict”, as is often assumed in regions of ethnic and religious differences. This paper argues that there is an organic form of pluralism through frequent inter-ethnic and inter-rel...
Östlund, Sebastian
Promoting well-being is a central concern in both private and public life. Yet, what that amounts to is contested and the disagreements run deep. In this dissertation, I argue that analyses of well-being should take into account more features of doing well and doing badly than is typically recognised. I put special emphasis on hitherto under-resear...
Franzé, Javier Melo, Julián A.
This paper poses the following questions: What is pluralistic hegemony? Which are its defining features? Can populism be seen to possess them? We draw on Laclau’s thought to examine whether antagonism and “the name of the leader” as an empty signifier are incompatible with pluralism. With reference to various different perspectives regarding the re...
Svensson, Manfred Mansuy, Daniel
Political society is a “society of societies”. So goes a recurrent formula with which different traditions of political reflection are often characterized. This formula is, indeed, often used to describe projects such as that of Aristotle in ancient Greece or that of Altusius in early modernity. The formula was, however, coined at the beginning of ...
Vikingson, Mons
Freedom of speech as a concept is both highly topical regarding its philosophical significance and practical application in a democratic society. The focus of this study has concerned the shaping of freedom of speech in social studies teaching, in particular how social studies teachers both reason and experience the shaping of freedom of speech in ...
Sjöström, Jesper
Publications with Vision III-ideas of scientific literacy and science education are reviewed. Since its inception in 2007, the same yearas Vision I and II were first formulated by Roberts, there have been at least eight mainly independent proposals for Vision III. The ideas encapsulated in Vision III – understood as alternative views to Western mai...
