North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a cornerstone of the 1990s liberal hegemony established with rise multilateral trade agreements. On July 1 st 2020, NAFTA replaced by new deal: USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement). This article argues that through inclusion digital provisions, signifies vision regional economic space differs substantively from NAFTA’s. To make this case,...

Regional initiatives pursuing self-sufficiency through the use of renewable energy sources (RESS-initiatives) aim at contributing to broader transitions towards more sustainable energy systems. As such, they have raised high expectations among local activists and are increasingly supported by diverse funding schemes such as national programs. How can the social dynamics entangled in these initi...

This study examines the nature of media bias within the news media (for this study, newspapers and television news), the trajectories and methods through which these biases are spread and how a hegemony is formed, and looks at the qualities of this hegemony. The thesis begins with a review of some of the literature covering bias in the news media, approaching the issue from a number of angles a...

Whether and how societal structures shape individual psychology is a foundational question of the social sciences. Combining insights from evolutionary biology, economy, and the political and psychological sciences, we identify a central psychological process that functions to sustain group-based hierarchies in human societies. In study 1, we demonstrate that macrolevel structural inequality, i...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship between neo-aortic root size, neo-aortic insufficiency (AI), and reintervention at mid-term follow-up. BACKGROUND Data on neo-aortic valve function and growth after the Ross procedure in children are limited. METHODS A total of 74 of 119 Ross patients from January 1995 to December 2003 had > or =2 follow-up echocardiogram...

The present paper examines horror films originating in Muslim contexts and available on U.S. streaming services. Using Gramsci's concept of hegemony, the how such negotiate articulate with dominant Hollywood mainstream genre particular attention to hegemonic power its Christian iconography assumptions.