Dissent ≈ Dissent
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#HashtagActivism Open
This “well-researched, nuanced” study of the rise of social media activism explores how marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. (Ms.) The power of hashta…
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Exploring youth activism on climate change: dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent Open
The policies and decisions made today will influence climate and sustainability outcomes for the remainder of this century
\nand beyond, and youth today have a large stake in this future. Many youth are expressing dissent toward economic, …
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Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of The Arab Spring Open
Do authoritarian states deter dissent in the diaspora? Using data on Libyan and Syrian activism in the United States and Great Britain, this study demonstrates that they do through violence, exile, threats, surveillance, and by harming dis…
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Shareholder Voting and Corporate Governance Around the World Open
Using a sample of non-U.S. firms from 43 countries, we investigate whether laws and regulations as well as votes cast by U.S. institutional investors are consistent with an effective shareholder voting process. We find that laws and regula…
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(((They))) rule: Memetic antagonism and nebulous othering on 4chan Open
Previously theorised as vehicles for expressing progressive dissent, this article considers how political memes have become entangled in the recent reactionary turn of Web subcultures. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s work on political affect, …
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Democratic Business Ethics: Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal and the Disruption of Corporate Sovereignty Open
There is an established body of politically informed scholarly work that offers a sustained critique of how corporate business ethics is a form of organizing that acts as a subterfuge to facilitate the expansion of corporate sovereignty. T…
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Sonic Agency: Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance Open
In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistance be auditory? Sonic Agency highlights sound’s invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities, and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformati…
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Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy Open
B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are typically considered antagonists who held…
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Kenya’s 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual? Open
This article asks what Kenya’s 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability. Three constitutional changes are particularly impo…
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Deliberation, Dissent, and Distrust: Understanding Distinct Drivers of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United States Open
Background Despite the availability of safe and efficacious coronavirus disease 2019 vaccines, a significant proportion of the American public remains unvaccinated and does not appear to be immediately interested in receiving the vaccine. …
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On order and disorder during the COVID‐19 pandemic Open
In this paper, we analyse the conditions under which the COVID‐19 pandemic will lead either to social order (adherence to measures put in place by authorities to control the pandemic) or to social disorder (resistance to such measures and …
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Some Dare Call It Conspiracy: Labeling Something a Conspiracy Theory Does Not Reduce Belief in It Open
“Conspiracy theory” is widely acknowledged to be a loaded term. Politicians use it to mock and dismiss allegations against them, while philosophers and political scientists warn that it could be used as a rhetorical weapon to pathologize d…
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The dynamics of dissent: when actions are louder than words Open
A profusion of international norms influences state behaviour. Ambiguities and tensions in the normative framework can give rise to contestation. While research on norm contestation has focused on open debates about norms, we identify a se…
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Fine-tuning language models to find agreement among humans with diverse preferences Open
Recent work in large language modeling (LLMs) has used fine-tuning to align outputs with the preferences of a prototypical user. This work assumes that human preferences are static and homogeneous across individuals, so that aligning to a …
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The Never-Ending Story: Discursive Legitimation in Social Media Dialogue Open
This paper explores the dialogical dimensions of discursive legitimation in social media sites to understand how organisations produce knowledge of legitimacy in concert with their stakeholders. Drawing on the dialogical theories of Bakhti…
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Platform Surveillance and Resistance in Iran and Russia: The Case of Telegram Open
Telegram messenger, created by an exiled Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, brands itself as a non-mainstream and non-Western guarantor of privacy in messaging. This paper offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges faced by the platform …
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A populist paradise? Examining populists’ Twitter adoption and use Open
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Introduction: Whose civility? Open
This article is an introduction to this special issue on civility. It asks what can anthropological insights contribute to debates about civility? We propose to understand civility as a “worldly concept.” We mean this in two senses. First,…
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TraceTogether: Pandemic Response, Democracy, and Technology Open
On 20 March 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Singapore government released a new app called “TraceTogether.” Developed by the Ministry of Health, SG United, and GovTech Singapore, the app uses the Bluetooth capability of sm…
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“Academics for Peace” in Turkey: a case of criminalising dissent and critical thought via counterterrorism policy Open
On 11 January 2016, 1128 academics in Turkey and abroad signed a petition calling on Turkish authorities to cease state violence in mainly Kurdish populated areas of the country, which had been under curfew and an extended state of emergen…
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Prediction, pre-emption and limits to dissent: Social media and big data uses for policing protests in the United Kingdom Open
Social media and big data uses form part of a broader shift from ‘reactive’ to ‘proactive’ forms of governance in which state bodies engage in analysis to predict, pre-empt and respond in real time to a range of social problems. Drawing on…
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Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics Open
The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental heal…
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India's Obsession with Kashmir: Democracy, Gender, (Anti-)Nationalism Open
This article attempts to make sense of India's obsession with Kashmir by way of a gendered analysis. I begin by drawing attention to the historical and continuing failure of Indian democracy in Kashmir that results in the violent and multi…
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A Tale of a Tub Open
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They hav…
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Dissent in Consensusland: An Agonistic Problematization of Multi-stakeholder Governance Open
Multi-stakeholder initiatives involve actors from several spheres of society (market, civil society and state) in collaborative arrangements to reach objectives typically related to sustainable development. In political CSR literature, the…
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‘You can’t pick up a phone and talk to someone’: How algorithms function as biopower in the gig economy Open
This paper asks why there is so little collective dissent and mobilised resistance in the gig economy, especially when labour-based digital platforms are used. We suggest part of the answer lies with ‘management by algorithm’. Drawing on a…
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Politicians unleashed? Political communication on Twitter and in parliament in Western Europe Open
Twitter is a prominent communication tool for politicians with two potential uses: as a “substitute” channel to circumvent constraints from other political arenas, or as an “amplifier” that reinforces party messages. Using a novel dataset …
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Neoliberal developmentalism, authoritarian populism, and extractivism in the countryside: the Soma mining disaster in Turkey Open
While state-society relations in Turkey have historically been top-down and coups d'état periodically interrupted democratic politics, the recent authoritarian turn under Erdoğan is remarkable. Two dynamics are especially salient. First, E…
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Democracy in Crisis, the Specter of Authoritarianism, and the Future of Higher Education Open
As the forces of neoliberalism gain ascendency in the United States, democratic public spheres must confront a growing crisis—one that impacts subjectivity as much as the material conditions in which most people must now struggle to surviv…
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Legislator Dissent as a Valence Signal Open
Existing research suggests that voters tend to respond positively to legislator independence due to two types of mechanism. First, dissent has an indirect effect, increasing a legislator’s media coverage and personal recognition among cons…