Solving the Cape Town Puzzle: Class, Politics and Migration in the Informal Food Economy by Graeme Young

“…Cape Town, South Africa, is in many ways a model for this idea: following its post-apartheid democratization process, governments at the local, provincial, and national levels officially recognize the value of informality and have adopted policies to support it. …”
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Da redemocratização do Brasil através das Constituições de 1946 e 1988 by Simon Riemann Costa e Silva

“…This paper analyzes the process of re-democratization in Brazil through the Constitution of 1946 and the Constitution of 1988.Both constitutions represented a turning point from dictatorship to democracy to establish a democratic state. …”
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Islamic Movements and Their Role In Politics In Turkey by Nezir Akyeşilmen, Arif Behiç Özcan

“…Developments and refracting in the process of democratization and modernization have changed the roles, quality and quantity of the elements in Turkey’s political life. …”
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Legal mentality and causes of corruption in Ukraine by Dovhanych V.

“…It is established that corruption in Ukraine remains one of the key obstacles to democratization, the rule of law and economic development. …”
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Africa’s Political Questions Today by Siphamandla Zondi

“…From debates about governance and democratization to struggles over resource management and economic justice, the continent's future is shaped by forces both internal and external. …”
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‘Overcrowded with tourists’: Guest Books, Postcards, and Other Popular Forms as ‘Micro-Texts’ of Travel Writing by Alan McNee

“…The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed an expansion and democratization of travel. Yet the voices of the ‘new tourists’ from the working and lower middle classes are rarely heard, with elite accounts continuing to dominate the archive. …”
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Las coaliciones de izquierdas en Francia y España (1899-1939) by Antonio Robles Egea

“…The major objective of the mutual convergence was the formation of a model of democratic and social State…”
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Resilience of Civiliarchic Democracy in the Face of Challenges and Gaps in European Integration: The Political Dimension of the Index of Civiliarchy by Ashot Aleksanyan, Arusyak Aleksanyan

“… The Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries face significant challenges in achieving democratic consolidation amid geopolitical tensions, authoritarian tendencies and regional conflicts. …”
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Évangélisation en Algérie : débats sur la liberté de culte by Karima Dirèche

“…The phenomenon of evangelization in Algeria raises other issues related to those of democratization (the debate that has occurred since the abrupt discontinuation of the electoral process of 1992) and authoritarian abuses of presidential power.…”
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Techniques laitières domestiques et conception du monde microbien laitier en Mongolie by Sandrine Ruhlmann

“…The analysis of dairy technology allows to draw the shape of a Mongolian conception of the bacterial world of dairy products which, in the post-communist context of democratization and globalization, consists of an art of composition between different systems, notably Buddhism, shamanism, hygienic communism, and international sanitary standardization.…”
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Bibliothèques publiques et virage citoyen : enjeux institutionnels et communicationnels by François R. Derbas Thibodeau, Christian Poirier

“…From a theoretical standpoint, this assessment leads us into questioning the very notion of citizen library, as well as concepts such as third-place library, cultural democratization and democracy, and cultural citizenship.…”
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Siyasal Gelişme Perspektifinin Bir Analizi by Fatma AKKAN GÜNGÖR

“…In terms of the evolution of political development to democratization, many topics are considered to be important in the comparative politics literature. …”
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Introduction. The formation of the Hungarian Information Society in the last ten years by Róbert Sinka

“…Hungary was an example to follow as one of the initiators of the change that ultimately resulted in the elimination of the Soviet dependence, as well as in the democratization of Eastern-Central European countries. …”
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« Screens, screens, it’s nothing but screens! » La profusion des écrans à l’Exposition Universelle de Shanghai, 2010 by Tatjana Barazon, Van Troi Tran

“…This article uses the example of visual devices at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 in order to develop a reflection on the place of screens in both the fabric of artificial environments, a phenomenon characteristic of world’s fairs since the 19th Century, and the diffraction of the visitor’s experience by the proliferation and the democratization of screens. Whereas world’s fairs appear to embody consensual grand narratives of progress, a close examination of the social life of the animated images that people their ecologies uncover an event that is also rich in openings, multiplicities and virtualities.…”
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Soudobá historie, osobní vzpomínání a politika dějin by Jan Randák

“…Personal recollection may be understood as an expression of democratization of history. Witnesses` telling, however, may lead to the schematization of stories from the past. …”
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Ignorancia, retórica y revisión: las independencias en el discurso del nacionalismo historiográfico español by Antonio Sáez Arance

“…It stresses the considerable continuity of a national-catholic interpretation of Spanish colonial past which reduces or even neglects the importance of the Spanish American Independence. Despite of the democratization process since 1975, apologetic approaches are still strong and influential in the public sphere. …”
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Imagens e sons da Coreia do Sul em espaços transnacionais by Luã Ferreira Leal

“…The article focuses the relationship between state agencies, entertainment companies, and industrial conglomerates in promoting South Korea’s images as a country that combines modernity and tradition. Between the re-democratization in the late 1980s and the mandate of Park Geun-Hye, started in 2013 and finished in 2017, after the impeachment process, the country invested in positioning itself as adjusted to the conditions of globalization with projects that stimulated cultural production, tourism, and accomplishment of sports mega-events. …”
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Sobre a perda da grandiloquência na literatura hispano-americana pós-noventa: notas sobre a des-representação do exílio em Lemebel e Bolaño by Pablo Gasparini

“…The aim of this article is to analyze the transition from the political comprehension of the Hispanic-American Literature on the ’80 to another paradigm that involves speci fi c changes on the functions and characteristics of the literary discourse due to the Latin-American democratization and the strengthening of the mass culture. …”
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Usages du « genre » à l’Université : sur l’institutionnalisation des études féministes en Roumanie by Ioana Cîrstocea

“…Providing a brief overview of the feminist studies’ institutionalization in 1990s Romania, the paper analyses the context of this process, closely connected to some opportunities coming from the NGOs’ action and generally from the transnational programs promoting women’s rights within the democratization of the ex-communist countries. Various uses of gender are then reviewed. …”
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Mémoires de l’esclavage et redémocratisation à Rio de Janeiro (1978-1988) by Thaís Tanure

“…This article focuses on the development of various memories of slavery, in line with two political periods: the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985) and the democratization. The racial claims related to the legacy of slavery and the management of these demands by the dictatorial government are analyzed. …”
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