November 20, 2018, 9:04 p.m.,
nTine Van Osselaern,
Allgemein.
This article focuses on the political meaning and transnational appeal of the Belgian stigmatic Louise Lateau. It examines the reception and construction of her as a Catholic celebrity in the late nineteenth century and how these changed over time and space. For although Louise Lateau seems to have been a point of reference for European Catholics, this does not mean that her image, or what she represented to the faithful, was the same in the various countries or even within one country. Focus is on her appeal in Belgium, her home country, and in Germany where she seems to have had a special meaning for the beleaguered Catholics. In these countries Louise figured as a symbol of “Catholicism” to the faithful and their anti‐Catholic opponents. In a later phase of her life however, her public image changed as she got caught up in intra‐Catholic battles and turned into the prophetic type of mystic. She became a point of tension between the liberal and ultramontane Catholics.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9809.12545?af=R
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November 19, 2018, 7:24 p.m.,
nMORITZ HÜTTENn,
Allgemein.
The emerging blockchain technology is expected to contribute to the transformation of ownership, government services and global supply chains. By analysing a crisis that occurred with one of its frontrunners, Ethereum, in this article I explore the discrepancies between the purported governance of blockchains and the de facto control of them through expertise and reputation. Ethereum is also thought to exemplify libertarian techno‐utopianism. When ‘The DAO’, a highly publicized but faulty crowd‐funded venture fund was deployed on the Ethereum blockchain, the techno‐utopianism was suspended, and developers fell back on strong network ties. Now that the blockchain technology is seeing an increasing uptake, I shall also seek to unearth broader implications of the blockchain for the proliferation or blockage of global finance and beyond. Contrasting claims about the disruptive nature of the technology, in this article I show that, by redeeming the positive utopia of ontic, individualized debt, blockchains reinforce our belief in a crisis‐ridden, financialized capitalism.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/glob.12217?af=R
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November 19, 2018, 7:24 p.m.,
nCARLOS GONZÁLEZn,
Allgemein.
The rise of the modern corporation has disrupted the class structures of nation‐states because, in the era of globalization, such reorganization now occurs across borders. Yet, has globalization been deep enough to facilitate the emergence of a transnational capitalist class (TCC) in which both class formation and consolidation processes are located in the transnational space itself? I contribute to our understanding of the TCC by contrasting the personal characteristics, life histories and capital endowments of members of the British corporate elite with and without transnational board appointments. The existence of the honours system in the UK allows us to compare individuals objectively in terms of their symbolic capital and to link this trait to embeddedness in the TCC. By studying 448 directors from the 100 largest firms in the UK in 2011, I find evidence of a TCC with a class consolidation process that is located within transnational space, but whose class formation dynamics are still tethered to national processes of elite production and reproduction.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/glob.12220?af=R
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November 19, 2018, 12:15 p.m.,
Pierre-Yves Donzé,
Allgemein.
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November 19, 2018, 2:41 a.m.,
Sandra V. Constantin,
Allgemein.
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November 18, 2018, 9:00 a.m.,
New Global Studies,
Allgemein.
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November 16, 2018, 1:28 p.m.,
Arturo Zoffmann-Rodriguez,
Allgemein.
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November 16, 2018, 12:06 p.m.,
Lars T. Lih,
Allgemein.
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November 16, 2018, 3:19 a.m.,
Clara Ervedosa,
Allgemein.
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November 16, 2018, 3:19 a.m.,
Clara Ervedosa,
Allgemein.
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