conceptsActivist/accommodator style Pragmatist/converger styleTheorist/assimilator styleReflective observationActive experimentation

Through two neighborhood case studies in the rapidly upgrading East German city of Leipzig we discuss political implications urban restructuring. Scrutinizing tenants’ rightist and racist reactions to housing question, argue that residential alienation affects people’s sense place a divisive manner, which turn impacts both their interpretations change respective practices. Based on our analyses...

This paper uses a detailed case study in order to exemplify some key trends and characteristics of activist uses of the Internet. It focuses on the We Are All Boat People campaign in support of asylum seekers, discussing this in relation to three main areas. First, it considers the campaign’s media strategies in the context of what Scalmer has called ‘the dilemmas of the activist’ (2002: 41). I...

INTRODUCTION The study focuses on the programmatic bases of Slovenian political parties since independence. It presents an analysis of party programs and their preferences regarding doctors and other health workers, as well as the contents most commonly related to them. At the same time, the study also highlights the intensity of the presence of doctors on the policy agenda through time. METH...

This study investigates the effect of participative political institutions (PPIs) that emerged in many central European cities from the late 13th century. The empirical analysis of the paper is based on newly compiled long-run data for the existence of different types of PPIs in 104 cities in the Holy Roman Empire. The effect of both an overall index of participativeness of political institutio...

Currently, there are hardly any works that explicitly claim the political title “feminist” or “activist” while fully exploring feminist translation. Without necessarily embracing and recognizing transgressive reactionary processes of translation in movements activisms, existing collections generally explore “connections between gender women translation” (p. 2). This essay collection suggests im...