Histories of Hating

Hating Hate Crime Legislation

Approaching paradox: Loving and hating mega-events

This paper examines the role of paradoxes in research and proposes strategies of engaging with them. For this purpose, it analyses the ways in which six paradoxes are constitutive of sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games: the universalism paradox, the compliance paradox, the winner’s paradox, the participation paradox, the uniqueness paradox and the passion paradox. It then develops thre...

Commodities in Economics: Loving or Hating Complexity

A review of economic thought since the sixteenth century reveals two streams of economic discourse, dirigisme and laissez-faire. Starting with the mercantilists, dirigiste approaches to economics embrace the real-world complexity of commodities that often differ greatly in attributes that are growthand rentaugmenting. Most importantly, this means that free trade is likely to be polarising: it c...

Loving and hating the movies in English, German and Spanish

We present a quantitative analysis of evaluative language in a genre in which it is particularly prominent, that of movie reviews. The data chosen are nonprofessional consumer-generated reviews written in English, German and Spanish. The reviews are analyzed in terms of the categories of Attitude and Graduation within the Appraisal framework (Martin & White, 2005). The results show a clear infl...

Bohmian Histories and Decoherent Histories

The predictions of the Bohmian and the decoherent (or consistent) histories formulations of the quantum mechanics of a closed system are compared for histories — sequences of alternatives at a series of times. For certain kinds of histories, Bohmian mechanics and decoherent histories may both be formulated in the same mathematical framework within which they can be compared. In that framework, ...