THE NEW LEFT IN RUSSIA: BORIS KAGARLITSKY: PRACTICE AND THEORY
 This article examines the essential ideas of theory and practice New Left politics in work well-known scientist politician Boris Kagarlitsky. Since he is actively involved political life Russian Left, exposition theoretical issues impossible without placing them context socio-political situation contemporary Russia. The collap...

In an increasingly complex literature exploring the geographies of socially constructed scale, interest has focused on the relationship between scale, power and the contested political terrains through which these relations are played out. In this paper, I argue that these interactions must be understood in specific contexts, where shifts in scale are inextricably linked to shifts in the source...

The purpose of this contribution is four-fold. First, it seeks to provide an answer to the questions that have recently been posed, if not for the first time, by David Harvey (2000, p. 13). He recognises that globalisation “is now one of the most hegemonic concepts for understanding the political economy of international capitalism. And its uses extend far beyond the business world to embrace q...

The accession of the new EU member states of Eastern Europe has highlighted ambivalence towards migration both within the older member states, but less frequently discussed, in the new. The former Soviet republic of Latvia serves as a case-study. Outward migration is a factor undermining social and economic progress, while generating pressures towards inward migration to meet labour shortages. ...

In this article we are primarily concerned with the disparity between the ‘mental health consumer’ label which carries implications of consumer power and consumer rights, and the reality underlying consumerist societies which presupposes a level of choice and spending power. The consumer label, while attempting to free the patient/client from an unequal relationship to her or his doctor or heal...

A " questão agrária " e a saúde pública: considerações em torno de uma crítica ao neoliberalismo The agrarian issue and public health: remarks on a critique of neo-liberalism 1 " A única finalidade da ciência está em aliviar a canseira da existência humana ". Bertolt Brecht Contrário à indiferença dos cientistas face à ex-ploração do homem pelo homem, fascinados pelo amor ao saber pelo saber, o...

As the introduction to this special issue argues, the relationship between power and ideas is at the heart of debates over international financial orders, and the cycle of stability of change that we have seen over the last hundred years. Hall [1989] documents how Keynesian ideas were widely (if not universally) accepted across advanced industrialized democracies in the wake of World War II. Ru...