Politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. Conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. Were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. Civil society moveme...

This commentary article discusses the chapter titled ‘Assam: Identity Movements and Insurgent Politics’ – ‘Assamese Issues’ in Udayon Misra's book "India’s North East: Movements, State Civil Society" (2014), focusing on Assam movement its implications for Assamese identity. The author sheds light how was centered around issues questions between foreign migrants indigenous people, highlighting s...

In 1964, Claude and Jeanne Nolen, who were white, joined an interracial NAACP team intent on desegregating local restaurants in Austin, Texas as a test of the recently passed Civil Rights ACt. Twenty-five years later, the Nolens pleaded "no contest" in a courtroom for their continued social activism. This time the issue was not racial segregation, but rather criminal trespassing for blockading ...

there are different approaches to the question of developments in contemporary iran. this research is an attempt to introduce communitarianism theory whilst at the same time use it to examine the history of political thought in contemporary iran. today this theory is one of the most important approaches of post modernist era which has challenged liberalism and some tenets of modernity. using th...

Recent work by political sociologists and social movement theorists extend our understanding of how religious institutions contribute to expanding democracy, but nearly all analyze religious institutions as institutions; few focus directly on what religion qua religion might contribute. This article strives to illuminate the impact of religious culture per se, extending recent work on religion ...