The decline and fall of the Roman empire and its place in contemporary American political discourse, 2003-present
Presentation / Conference
Dodd, L. (2008, May)
The decline and fall of the Roman empire and its place in contemporary American political discourse, 2003-present. Paper presented at Classical Empires in Contemporary Culture
This paper examines the ways in which the trope of Roman declinism was used by media and political commentators during the period 2003-2008. It considers how, during the Iraq ...
Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform
Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005)
Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform. Critical Quarterly, 47(1-2), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00612.x
University and higher education comprising a multi-disciplinary training in abstract, systematic reasoning has a vital role in modernizing societies. Such an education seems t...
Accounting for the failures of islamic legal theory at public administration: political economy of historical institution of hisbah as a regulatory body
Presentation / Conference
Avdukić, A., & Khaleel, F. (2019, October)
Accounting for the failures of islamic legal theory at public administration: political economy of historical institution of hisbah as a regulatory body. Presented at Sarajevo Islamic Finance and Economics Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim in this paper is to examine the implementation and working of market regulations within the Muslim world with the objective of investigating the political economy of i...
The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction
Journal Article
Faire, R. (2021)
The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction. International Research in Children's Literature, 14(1), 39-51. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2021.0376
Lualhati Bautista's Dekada '70 (1983) is a mainstay of Philippine high school reading. It tells the story of Amanda Bartolome and her five sons during the titular decade as th...
The Electronic Monitoring of Offenders in Context: From Policy to Political Logics
Journal Article
Laurie, E., & Maglione, G. (2020)
The Electronic Monitoring of Offenders in Context: From Policy to Political Logics. Critical Criminology, 28, 685-702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-019-09471-7
The electronic monitoring (EM) of offenders is a subject that has been researched widely within criminology. Theoretical engagement with this instrument has been limited, howe...
Political (in)stability and its influence on tourism development.
Journal Article
Causevic, S., & Lynch, P. (2013)
Political (in)stability and its influence on tourism development. Tourism Management, 34, 146-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2012.04.006
This paper explores ways in which the context of economic and social renewal in the aftermath of
political conflict affects tourism development. The primary research took plac...
Metadata: the political dimension
Journal Article
Haynes, D. (2018)
Metadata: the political dimension. Alexandria, 27(3), 198-206. https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749018778984
The use and management of metadata raises many ethical and eventually political issues. The security revelations by Edward Snowden in 2014 demonstrate the key role that metada...
This Thing Called Goodwill: The Reynolds Metals Company and Political Networking in Wartime America
Journal Article
Perchard, A. (2019)
This Thing Called Goodwill: The Reynolds Metals Company and Political Networking in Wartime America. Enterprise and Society, 20(4), 1044-1083. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2019.25
This article examines the Reynolds Metals Company’s political networking activities in Washington, D.C., and the state capitals of the U.S. South in the 1940s and 1950s. It ar...
Contested Identities: Exploring the Cultural, Historical and Political Complexities of the "Three Chinas"
Journal Article
Li, J., & Jennings, R. (2016)
Contested Identities: Exploring the Cultural, Historical and Political Complexities of the "Three Chinas". IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies, 2(1), 25-40. https://doi.org/10.22492/ijas.2.1.02
When facing the political, historical and cultural complexities of Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, problematic issues arise in relation to understanding the sorts of nat...
Wasps in a jam jar: Scottish literary magazine and political culture 1979-1999.
Conference Proceeding
Gunn, L., & McCleery, A. (2009)
Wasps in a jam jar: Scottish literary magazine and political culture 1979-1999. In A. McNair, & J. Ryder (Eds.), Further from the frontiers: crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish studies
No abstract available.