Political dissent
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It was Vaclav Havel who brilliantly offered a way out of this conundrum in his influential 1979 essay "The power of the powerless" - now translated into many languages and serving as a guide - as much for current dissidents in Iran and... more
„Lengyel, magyar, két jó barát” – tartja az ismert mondás, amelyet 1981-ben még a Kontroll Csoport is megénekelt. Mégis, mára szinte feledésbe merült, hogy a hetvenes évek második felétől kezdve e hagyományos baráti viszonyt a két ország... more
"In an age of proliferating media and news sources, who has the power to define reality? When the dominant media declared the existence of WMDs in Iraq, did that make it a fact? Today, the "social web" (sometimes known as Web 2.0,... more
From December 1963 until his death in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to "neutralize" him as an effective civil rights leader. In the words of the man in charge... more
RÉSUMÉ Le Printemps de Prague de 1968 est un événement complexe, ambivalent et multiforme. On y découvre du meilleur et du pire. Il achève une époque où une réforme du communisme paraissait à certains encore possible. Il a marqué non... more
Until recently, conflicts between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state over land development projects have proceeded without the requirement that the state or companies obtain Indigenous consent. In 2018, this changed when the... more
Masons at the time were upset about the publication of this text, since some believed that it revealed hitherto unrevealed secrets of Freemasonry.
This article analyzes the creative contributions to counterrevolutionary criticism in Venezuelan popular music (2002-2018). I examine how these musical productions reclaim discourses previously controlled by political power. From the... more
‘Herbert Marcuse and the Legacy of One Dimensional Man’, International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference, https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/files/2014/09/One-Dimensional-Man-at-Fifty-Conference-Program1.pdf
The purpose of this work is to extrapolate Solzhenitsyn’s consideration for human rights from the wider context of the political remarks that he presents in the “Letter to the Soviet Leaders” (the Letter from now on). In particular, we... more
"The need to gain and maintain general acceptance for the waging of a war in which casualties would reach unimaginable heights involved what was no doubt the most ambitious propaganda campaign in British history, mobilizing politicians,... more
A study of the means by which Italian Renaissance artists and writers managed to express criticism of the religious and political status quo in relatively safe ways.
This article argues that the use of sexual infiltration by police and criminal collaborators represents a strategic deployment of surveillance technology by the state with the aim of creating Foucault’s “docile bodies” through the... more
VOCAŢIA LIBERTĂŢII FORME DE DISIDENŢĂ ÎN ROMÂNIA ANILOR 1970-1980, Institutul Național pentru Studiul Totalitarismului, București, 2014
Loadenthal, Michael. “‘Eco-Terrorism’: An Incident-Driven History of Attack (1973-2010).” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 11, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 1–106. Abstract: The animal and earth liberation movements (i.e. “eco-terrorists”),... more
Over the past two decades, the UK has led global efforts in the production of knowledge and practice of preventing ‘radicalisation’—a process by which individuals become violent extremists. Along with the rest of the world, Australia has... more
A study of the means by which Italian Renaissance artists and writers were able to express their dissatisfaction with the religious and political status quo in relatively safe ways.
The emergence of India as a fascist nation ruled by the BJP with Modi as its figurehead is no surprise considering the origins of the BJP. Nor is it a surprise considering the identity of those unmarried, fanatically devoted party workers... more
Political dissent in communist Romania is generally understudied. Although weak, dissent did exist in communist Romania and those who engaged in dissent took far greater risks than their counterparts in Central Europe. This chapter... more
Tato kniha je autorskou adaptací z francouzského originálu, který jsem původně napsal na výzvu jednoho belgického nakladatelství a i když jsem samozřejmě pro naše čtenáře českou verzi upravil, nese přece jen stále ještě stopy... more
The fall of Communism gave way to a frantic search for the “truth” wherein competing narratives aimed at expunging collective memory and reconstruct national identity. In post-socialist Romania memory, history and justice have become... more
Article based on paper presented as part of Panel 24: ‘Looting, Refusing, Negating, Embodying’ ‘Critical Refusals’ Fourth Biennal Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, University of Pennsylvania, 27-29th October... more
Edited version of published paper presented at 'Is Black and Red Dead?' Conference, Centre for the Study of Social and Global and Justice (CSSGJ) University of Nottingham, 7-8 September, 2009... more
In this article, I deconstruct the concept of legitimacy (notably in the form elaborated by Max Weber) by emphasising its conceptual complicity with the notion of sovereignty. Through an analysis of Derrida's critique of Austin's theory... more
This project interrogates how hospitality operates as a concept and a political practice. Since the concept’s first sustained appearance as an object of social and political thought some thirty years ago, scholarship has centred almost... more
This study has been developed in the frame of the project COURAGE – Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020... more
Expanded methodology chapter on activist design research originally from Fashion-able thesis (2008) - published through Lulu in 2008
While a political dimension was perhaps not at the forefront of the sociology of critical capacity of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, as most prominently articulated in On Justification (2006), it can be argued that their work engages... more