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Defending the Nordic model: Understanding the moral universe of the Norwegian working class
2021
In recent years, much attention has been paid to the white working class’ concern with their declining position in the neoliberal era. The hypothesis that social and economic insecurity provoke anger and xenophobia are unable to account for the Norwegian case. The Nordic model still acts as a buffer against neoliberal capitalism, making the white Norwegian working class less vulnerable than in comparable countries. This paper will argue that the Norwegian working class has defended the Nordic model by utilising a range of moral values. I use 56 qualitative interviews to examine the morality of the white Norwegian working class. The study is theoretically and methodologically inspired by Bol…
National culture in post-apartheid Namibia: state-sponsored cultural festivals and their histories
2016
Religious toleration and the limits of liberal secularism: The case of India
2019
In recent years there has been a resurgence of public discourse about the role of tolerance as one of the key elements of the Western philosophical heritage. The fact that Western societies remain ...
Scholarly discussion as engineering the meanings of a European cultural heritage
2016
The vague concept of a European cultural heritage is frequently referred to – but rarely explicitly defined – in scholarly discussion. The use of the concept in academia constructs a European cultural heritage as a category in research and explicitly and implicitly produces its focuses and outlines. Thus, the use of the concept can be considered as scholarly engineering of a European cultural heritage. To be able to have a scholarly discussion about a European cultural heritage, the meanings and uses of the concept need to be clarified. This article examines the meanings and uses of the concept in recent scholarly articles published in various disciplines. In the study, the concept analysi…
Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’ : Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media
2020
Finland and Sweden share the ideal of a Nordic welfare state, with gender equality as a central tenet. In both countries, right-wing populist parties have gained prominence in mainstream politics. Despite similar political agendas at the moment, these parties have different political histories, and different modes of expressing their anti-immigration pleas. In this comparative study, we examine how the distinction between ‘us’ and the ‘other’ is performed intersectionally in terms of gender, social class, ethnicity and ‘race’, and sexuality. For this purpose, we examine empirical material collected from the party newspapers of the Finns Party and the Sweden Democrats, because their content…
Immunoanalytical approaches for the control of xenobiotics and biotoxins in food
2020
[ES] El control efectivo de la calidad y seguridad de los alimentos requiere de métodos analíticos que garanticen la determinación fiable de cualquier sustancia potencialmente perjudicial para el consumidor que pueda estar presente en el alimento antes de su distribución y comercialización. Una de las aproximaciones analíticas que contribuye a garantizar este objetivo engloba una serie de técnicas que tienen en común la utilización de anticuerpos como elementos esenciales para la detección del analito diana, y que en conjunto reciben el nombre de métodos inmunoquímicos. Este artículo pretender aportar una visión básica de los principios bioquímicos subyacentes a estas tecnologías y cuáles…
A community without history? A life story approach to Romany memory and ethnicity
2019
This paper approaches Romany memory culture through life stories and is based on results and conceptualizations from the study of biographical narratives and life experiences obtained within variou...
The right of the child to play in the national reports submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
2020
The right of the child to play is recognised in Art. 31.1 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). The 2013 approval of General Comment No. 17, in which the Committee on the Rights of t...
La realización sustitutiva de la subasta judicial en el Anteproyecto de Código Procesal Civil chileno. Reflexiones a partir de su regulación en la Le…
2008
Speaking of the presentation of the civil procedural draft bill, the author intends to contribute to cover some of the imperfections and omissions related to the regulation ofattachment goods or rights, that come to substitute other traditional means of execution such as the judicative auction or even the so called judicative antichresis; in the light of doctrine, experience and the Spanish Law.
Reproductive rights or duties? The rhetoric of division in social media debates on abortion law in Poland
2019
This study explores the argumentative schemas used in claimmaking and the rhetorical resources for stance-taking in the online abortion law debate in Poland in late 2016. It shows how these discursive devices were used to divide and discredit the opponent in the social media by two social movements: the Stop Abortion coalition of conservative and religious organizations that sponsored the legislative proposal to considerably restrict abortion, and the Save Women committee that stood behind the ‘black’ protests opposing the project. The textual material is drawn from social media profiles of the two movements following a week of intense street protests and publicity activities (19–26 October…