We explore the connection between social class, mobility, and voting behavior in nineteenth-century England. To avoid pitfalls associated with survey or aggregate data on behavior, we use administrative longitudinal records preceding secret ballot voters’ choices occupation. These reveal that landed gentry, farm workers, non-skilled workers white-collar voted, average, more for Conservatives, p...

The bulk of critical works on August Strindberg’s Father use biographical material and misogyny to assert the struggle between sexes in Captain’s tragic victimization by his domineering wife, Laura, while a few other have presented play as dramaturgy for power an aristocratic man bourgeoisie wife. Following Foucault’s approach power, this paper argues that although both Laura Captain actively p...

This work attempts to understand the contemporary Haitian state, which is a paragon of neoliberal state model. Haiti’s colonial impoverished serve American global capitalist hegemony under auspices comprador bourgeoisie and oligarchy composed professionals, managers, intellectuals, business elites in Haiti diaspora. However, unlike Chile, West points as success model process, complete failure, ...

This article provides a comparative analysis of Muerte de un ciclista (dir. Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955) and La mujer sin cabeza Lucrecia Martel, 2008). It argues that both films use the hit-and-run motif to address class difference, but also reflect on key historical events such as Spanish Civil War desaparecidos during last military dictatorship in Argentina. The analyses how adopt rework conve...