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Book Review - Kate Langdon Forhan, The Political Theory Of Christine De Pizan, Louise D'Arcens
Book Review - Kate Langdon Forhan, The Political Theory Of Christine De Pizan, Louise D'Arcens
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Christine de Pizan scholars are familiar with Kate Langdon Forhan’s many valuable contributions to the growing research into Christine’s political writings. In The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan Forhan seeks to bring Christine’s work to the attention of a new audience, political theorists, in order to ensure a place for her within the mainstream history of political theory. In so doing she continues the worthy task already underway in her translation of Christine’s Book of the Body Politic for Cambridge’s Texts in the History of Political Thought series, and her Medieval Political Theory reader, co-edited with Cary Nederman. In …
The Corrosive Acid Of Commercialism Has Bitten Into Our Life': Commodification And The Rise Of Popular Political Economy In Australia 1900-25, Ben Maddison
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The term 'commercialism' started to appear in Australian popular and political discourse in the decades that spanned 1900. On one hand, its appearance reflected the qualitative change in commodity relations in Australia in that period. On the other, the use of the term was also part of the reconstucted conceptual apparatus through which working class and popular anti-capitalist stances were articulated. This popular political economy was a vernacular expression of social knowledge about the dehumanising effects of the commodification process. It also expressed popular resistance to bourgeois attempts to represent capitalist institutions such as the market as natural and inevitable.
Political Corruption In South Korea, Hyung-A Kim
Political Corruption In South Korea, Hyung-A Kim
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The exposure of corporate corruption at the heart of the industrial "advanced" world,with the 2001 collapse of Emon and many other multinational corporations,makes it clear that the problem of corruption is not confined to Asia or developing countries but is universal. The Korean case of political corruption poses one of the most interesting case studies of the role and impact of corruption in newly industrializing countries in Asia. With big conglomerate business,chaebol,as the foundation of its rapid industrialization structure,Korea brought about an industrial revolution within just three decades. The chaebol were seen as 'industrial warriors' in the 1970s. In the …