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From commercials to movies to fashion, Indigenous artworks have been misused in ways that are offensive to the artists who created them and disrespectful of the cultures that inspired them. Using Indigenous traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) without acknowledging their sources or providing...
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Multiculturalism has taken a life of its own, swinging too far in one direction. The authors claim that the rapidly changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights should also apply to majority groups. They present...
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In Bolivia, rights to increased political participation and the recognition of indigenous political systems are interrelated. The new constitution of 2009, a prime example of the 'new Andean constitutionalism', defines Bolivia as a representative, participatory and communitarian democracy. It...
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Ethnically diverse societies have long faced the challenge of accommodating distinct and often conflictive normative orders within a single polity. Leaving the ideal of a single, homogeneous legal order aside, many Latin American states have recently acknowledged the right of indigenous peoples...
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With the recent expansion of extractive industries in Latin America, contestations with the affected communities have increased in number and intensity. Therein, the indigenous right to prior consultation and to free, prior and informed consent has played a crucial role. Based on the empirical...
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Am Beispiel Hamburgs werden der Verlauf der Suburbanisierung sowie der gegenwärtig zu beobachtende Reurbanisierungsprozess analysiert. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, zu einem möglichst umfassenden Verständnis der Rahmenbedingungen zu gelangen, die die demografischen Veränderungen in der Kernstadt...
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The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than existing sociological theories. Two case studies - one on...
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This paper discusses sociological analyses of the formation and role of expectations in the economy. Recognition of the social constitution of expectations advances the understanding of economic action under conditions of uncertainty and helps to explain core features of modern capitalist...
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Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit unterschiedlichen Facetten des Wohnens in Bezug auf multilokales Wohnen: Ausgehend von der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Wohnbegriff wird der Wandel des Wohnens im Kontext der Spätmoderne skizziert. Dabei wird multilokales Wohnen als ein Aspekt der...
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In diesem einführenden Beitrag gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren zunächst kurz auf die Zusammen- und Zielsetzung des Arbeitskreises ein. In diesem Kontext werden auch jene Aspekte benannt, auf die sich der Arbeitskreis nicht konzentrieren konnte. Inhaltlich wird knapp der Zusammenhang zwischen...
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