This essay makes a distinction between the roles that activists and social critics can play in democratic societies defends separate tasks of non-activist critic. Drawing on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings, I argue are better situated than to reach certain audiences, cultivate capacities, preserve their audience’s agency while doing so. In case, his concerns about activist contemporaries led him...

In the last two decades, Anglophone political theory witnessed a renewed interest in social-scientific empirical findings – partly as reaction against normative theorising centred on formulation of abstract, intuition-driven moral principles. This brief article begins by showing how this turn has taken distinct forms: (1) nonideal theoretical orientation, which seeks to balance emphasis princip...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

This article sheds light on Andrei Danilov’s political asylum case. Danilov is a Sámi activist who left Russia after the start of war in Ukraine. His case seems to have created precedent; it being processed Norway because his connection with Norwegian part Sápmi. The also casts impact relationship between people and Norway, Sweden Finland.

In December I travelled to Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP). I did not attend any of the ocial meetings in the Bella Center, where the conference was based, but rather participated outside the conference in a range of protest activities directed against the actions (and more importantly the inactions) of the ocial parties. ere is much to be said about the protes...

Behind the political stagnation on the surface, signs abound that a fundamental political transformation is taking place in China. In the fall of 2011, an unusually large group of independent citizens launched very vocal campaigns to compete for seats in various local congresses. Around the same time, groups of ‘‘netizens’’ went to a small village in Shandong province to try to visit Chen Guang...