Abstract This intervention consists in a conversation between an activist-scholar engaging research questioning the conditions facing refugees and asylum seekers Greece activist leading ngo supporting displaced people. We reflect on our own positionality working this area role of academia humanitarian sector more generally. explore different approaches to knowledge production that challenge exp...

The article presents the life and public activity of Marian Kiniorski. He studied at University Agriculture in Dublany, Berlin School Political Sciences Paris (until 1899). was a modern landowner, striving for industrialization property, use new agricultural techniques progress. belonged to number societies landowners’ organizations (including president Central Agricultural Society). At same ti...

Models of elections typically indicate that all parties, in equilibrium, will adopt positions at the electoral center. This situation, however, is seldom observed. This chapter outlines how an integrated theory of party strategy may be constructed based on a theorem for existence of Local Nash Equilibrium (LNE) in a stochastic electoral model where political agents have differing valence, or el...

This paper exp lores th e bou ndaries of social issues o r ‘activist’ games with a case stud y on a pop ular game released in 2009 which fosters a critical type of play among the audience. We as sess t he game’s public reception to better understand how contradictory play elements led to an anxiety of ambiguity during open play. Borrowing from the “poetics of open work,” we will demonstrate how...

The present article describes participatory theater as a means of empowering audience individuals to lead social change. The focus on participation by oppressed individuals as a means of organizing for social change was recognized as important by scholars and practitioners, especially by the celebrated Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, and the Brazilian theater activist, Augusto Boal. Here we d...