Brian Mathenge notes the actions of successive regimes in Kenya overseeing suppression staunch Marxists and progressives who seemed a threat to establishment - including political assassinations arrests those happened have different perspectives or ideological orientation primarily because ruling class was (and still is) frightened by efforts educate develop consciousness masses. But as he remi...

USINGTHE n w o R i m OF PIERREBOURDIEUabout occupational fields of struggle and species of capital, this article examines the ideological implications of the digital reference call-center model. This model has the potential to lead to deprofessionalization of reference work because of increased automation and the replication of eniployment conditions prevailing in private sector call-centers. C...

The paper questions the fashionable ideas, that bureaucratic organization is an obsolescent, undesirable and non-viable form of administration, and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards marketor network organization. In contrast, the paper argues that contemporary democracies are involved in another round in a perennial debate and ideological struggle over what...

From a critical perspective, children's literature is considered public discourse. It collection of ideas championed in the sphere about something happening or being discussed that forms particular point view. Children's often becomes tool ideological struggle. The authors, primarily adults, consciously unconsciously, tend to impose certain ideologies on young readers. So, constantly exposed sp...

h—This study looks at Spike Lee’s Malcolm X as an important text in understanding Afrocentric perspectives that challenge the ideological stereotypes of mainstream Hollywood film. Malcolm X intervenes between Lee, the filmmaker, and the powerful media industry and is emblematic of the larger discussion of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic views in media culture. This film is not only an interesti...

Based on a sample of matched adult children and aging parents in the rural Midwest, this study examined the effects of family relationship history on depressive symptoms among elderly parents. The study used reports from both adult children and aging parents regarding intergenerational affectional solidarity and relationship strain. Aging parents reported levels of depressed affect. Adult child...

Reflecting on the process of national liberation as a struggle against neo-colonialism, Kinuthia Ndung’u draws from Kinyatti’s example and looks at role revolutionary petty bourgeoisie intellectuals students in neo-colonial oppression. In today’s Kenya this is reminder to that it their duty give ideological guidance ongoing class debate (hustlers-dynasty) other struggles everywhere they find th...

I study the egalitarian way of distributing resources across generations. Distributional equity deeply conflicts with the Pareto principle: efficient allocations cannot guarantee that i) each generation be assigned a consumption bundle that is at least as large as an arbitrarily small fraction of the bundle assigned to any other generation and that ii) each generation finds its assigned bundle ...