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A Russian Radical Conservative Challenge to the Liberal Global Order : Aleksandr Dugin
2019
The chapter examines Russian political theorist Aleksandr Dugin’s (b. 1962) challenge to the Western liberal order. Even though Dugin’s project is in many ways a theoretical epitome of Russia’s contemporary attempt to profile itself as a regional great power with a political and cultural identity distinct from the liberal West, Dugin can also be read in a wider context as one of the currently most prominent representatives of the culturally and intellectually oriented international New Right. The chapter introduces Dugin’s role on the Russian right-wing political scene and his international networks, Russian neo-Eurasianism as his ideological footing, and his more recent “fourth political t…
Empire and Democracy. A critical reading of Michael Ignatieff
2013
Empires expand their hegemony combined two contrasting forces; one is violence the second is characterized by persuasion. Ideology works in these contexts, as an efficient instrument of self-indoctrination whereby dominated cultures accept the cultural matrix of empire. In this vein, the present essay-review not only questions the employment of human rights in the liberal thought, but also tries to respond to the conceptual problems of liberalism to understand terrorism. Based on two seminal texts written by the liberal Michael Ignatieff, we formulate the thesis that liberalism supports the war against terror because of its doctrine of self-determination.
"Mad Men", "Los Soprano" y el "American way of life". Historia del capital en dos tiempos
1970
Don Draper (Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, AMC: 2007-2015) participa del nacimiento y consolidación dela sociedad de consumo sin ser consciente de la gran ficción que intenta creerse. Tony Soprano (TheSopranos, David Chase, HBO: 1999-2007) se agarra desesperadamente a los últimos restos de un idealde superación y esfuerzo que no solo está agotado sino que nunca fue verdaderamente coherente. Estetexto realiza un análisis textual, sociológico y discursivo comparativo de ambas figuras en cuantorepresentativas de la evolución del discurso capitalista en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, es decir, laartificialidad del discurso hegemónico de búsqueda de la felicidad como uno de los grandes mitos delneolib…
The Short and Intense Post-Nationalist Period in Finnish Higher Education
2020
This chapter presents the transition from a nationalist to post-nationalist period since the 1980s as the increasing systematic mobility and European cooperation as well as the fall of the Soviet Union turned Finnish higher education towards Western cooperation. The new internationalization strategies first aimed at founding mobility programmes for higher education and then particularly English medium study programmes. Post-national nation state emerges in the analysis mainly as an actor on the global economy. The discourses of competition and success in the global markets are interwoven with discourses of protection of the nation state. The use of English as an ostensibly self-evident and …
Independencia o Constitución: América en el Trienio Liberal
2020
El Trienio Liberal fue la segunda oportunidad para establecer una monarquía constitucional en España y en los territorios americanos. Los diputados de América que participaron en los debates parlamentarios plantearon, una vez más, las propuestas de autogobierno y autonomía que el sistema constitucional les permitía. En este sentido, pusieron sus esperanzas en la Constitución de 1812 que, si bien era inclusiva, su rigidez impedía la modificación de la estructura jurídica y territorial del imperio. En este trabajo, pretendemos acercarnos a las propuestas y debates políticos que sobre la posible modificación de la Constitución se tuvieron en las Cortes del Trienio Liberal (1820-1823) para comp…
Neoliberalismo y procesos de privatización 'en' la educación pública en Inglaterra y España
2021
El neoliberalismo desde la década de los 80 ha impactado en las agendas de política educativa tanto nacionales como internacionales con el objetivo de introducir la racionalidad competitiva en el seno de los sistemas educativos. En gran medida, estas políticas introducen mecanismos que ponen a funcionar a los centros educativos bajo formas pedagógicas, de gestión y de gobierno similares a las de una empresa. No en vano, el impacto y profundidad de estas reformas están relacionadas con la historia, contexto, economía y objetivos de los responsables políticos en el poder en un momento dado. Por lo tanto, no podemos hablar de un neoliberalismo, sino de diversos neoliberalismos. En el presente …
The symbolic landscape of an illiberal regime: glorifying the interwar era in post-2010 Budapest
2022
Since 2010 the Fidesz party, led by Viktor Orbán, has gradually eroded democratic institutions in Hungary using methods commonly applied by illiberal and authoritarian regimes. Previous studies explored how memory politics play a crucial role in maintaining the populist rhetoric, essential for Fidesz rule. This article aims to shed light on the spatial representation of Fidesz power in urban space. Drawing on the literature of symbolic space appropriation in general and the memory politics of Fidesz in particular, I analyze the transformation of two emblematic, centrally located squares in the capital of Hungary: Liberty and Kossuth Square. I argue that the interventions/transformations of …
Las independencias iberoamericanas a debate: reflexiones sobre revoluciones y liberalismos en la década de 1820
2022
The Ibero-American independences have provoked important historiographi- cal debates that have shown the impor- tance of the revolutionary transforma- tions that took place between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The idea is to show that, in the 1820s, the revolutionary ele- ments of nineteenth-century liberalism that formed the independent republics were implemented in almost all the Ibe- ro-American territories. Thus, I am based on the concept of revolution to de- fine the processes of independence in Ibero-America, highlighting that this oc- curred from the assumptions of liberal- ism. In this way, this reflection allows us to broaden our perspective an…