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112494
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2012.
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This article analyses current trends in the struggle for democracy in Africa, including the role of social movements. Such movements found early expression in the anti-colonial movement, while recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are reminiscent of the second liberation struggles of two decades earlier. The article undertakes a critical evaluation of emerging democratic forces in Africa, arguing that such a review is vital to the analysis of the trends in the struggles for people power, and explores strategies for avoiding the pitfalls that undermined earlier waves of democratisation in the continent, particularly that of the 1990s when initial euphoria led to uncritical acceptance of movements that were later found to be opportunistic and undemocratic. The article concludes by examining the conditions under which an 'emanicipatory' African national democratic project-defined by an increase in people's participation in authoritative resource allocation-can be initiated and sustained in the face of a deepening crisis of the current neoliberal world order.
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144022
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In every single region of the world, economic growth has failed to return to the rate it averaged before the Great Recession [1]. Economists have come up with a variety of theories for why this recovery has been the weakest in postwar history, including high indebtedness, growing income inequality [2], and excess caution induced by the original debt crisis. Although each explanation has some merit, experts have largely overlooked what may be the most important factor: the global slowdown in the growth of the labor force
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151408
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This study explores the role of emotion in political mobilization by
studying People Power, a radical group in Hong Kong. Th e group abandoned
their disruptive approach and adopted a new tactic of social
movement—joyous resistance—which attracted large numbers of participants
and thus became a powerful political force exerting great pressure
on the government. Th is case shows that festive emotion can be an intangible
resource that reduces the cost of participation compared with
confrontational tactics. Th e cathartic function of joyous resistance also
reduces the potential for violence during mobilization. After the
Umbrella Movement, there has been debate on whether more confrontational
or even violent tactics should be adopted in social movements.
Th e idea of joyous resistance will remain an important option for social
movement organizers considering the sustainability of mobilization in a
moderate society such as Hong Kong.
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161405
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This article deals with the scandals that engulfed South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, in 2016–17 and the role of popular protest in how she, her confidante, and associated officials and business leaders were pursued, prosecuted, and jailed. The South Korean experience is located in a framework of integrity institutions and the 1986 exemplar of “people power” in the Philippines.
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112491
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2012.
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This article examines the relationship between oppression, injustice, and liberation both theoretically and practically and in relation to contemporary global events and political history. The struggle for human freedom and liberation from structures of oppression and exploitation, and the relation to democracy and to the agents of social change, is the central subject of the analysis. The article summarises the critical analyses of the contributors to this collection, who examine the past several decades of `People Power' via popular struggles for substantive democratisation, and assess both the obstacles and achievements of these movements in a context of global, regional, and national political economic tendencies. The authors revisit the theses of `Low Intensity Democracy', which appeared in the early 1990s, in light of the recent upsurge of popular protest and rebellion in the context of an on-going global crisis.
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097002
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2010.
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Takashi Inoguchi is Professor Emeritus of University of Tokyo and President of University of Niigata Prefecture. He gratefully acknowledges comments on earlier drafts of this article made by the late Hayward Alker, Tahir Amini, Thomas Biersteker, Andrew Hurrell, Yuen Foong Khong, Patricia Owens and Ann Tickner, as well as two anonymous reviewers.
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