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0000-0002-4093-2916
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Deakin University Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
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Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-04-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-03-2018
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-03-2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 24-01-2020
DOI: 10.1017/NPS.2018.81
Abstract: In late 2010, Azerbaijan tried to introduce a ban on hijab in all secondary schools, referring to an article of the new Law of Education that mandated school uniforms. The supporters of the ban argued that the hijab was inimical to Azerbaijani culture and law because it violated the separation of religion and state, was a propaganda tool of Islamist fundamentalists funded from abroad, and was a foreign form of clothing that did not exist in Azerbaijani culture. This article examines why hijab is the focus of controversy in Azerbaijan. The supporters of the ban offered simple oppositions, such as secularism versus theocracy, modernity versus backwardness, and national versus foreign, to explain and justify the ban. However, these dichotomies do not capture the complexities of Islam in Azerbaijan. Rather, they are polemics that blur more than they reveal. In this article, I argue that the debates around the hijab controversy in Azerbaijan are a political discourse aimed at building a nation. The key contribution of this article is to examine the wider historical trajectory of the political discourse that constructed hijab as fundamentalist, backward, threatening, and alien, through discussing the topics of secularism, Islamist politics, modernity, and nationalism.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-11-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 06-09-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-02-2022
Publisher: European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS)
Date: 20-07-2023
DOI: 10.55271/RP0042
Abstract: In recent years, Pakistan has witnessed the emergence of digital authoritarianism as a governing strategy. This involves using digital technologies and surveillance mechanisms to control and monitor online activities. The government has implemented legislation like the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) to regulate cyberspace. However, the vague definitions of cybercrime within PECA and the broad surveillance powers granted to agencies such as the FIA and ISI raise apprehensions about potential abuses of power.
Publisher: European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS)
Date: 07-08-2022
DOI: 10.55271/PP0013
Abstract: This paper comparatively examines the ruling religious populist governments in Turkey and Pakistan through a theoretical framework that focuses on populists’ promises, their compromises, and their attacks on democratic institutions. Through our three-legged framework, we examine how these religious populists behave in power and how strategic necessities, the realities of governing, and structural constraints shape their policies. Similar to the other populists in other parts of the world, before coming to power, Islamist populists make sweeping promises to the people and quick fixes to major problems of the country—most famously, quick and substantial economic development. While they may want to retain their uncompromising style and lofty goals, the realities of governing force populists to make serious compromises to their designated ‘enemies’ and on their values once they are in power. Finally, like other authoritarian politicians, Islamist populists attack formal institutions of democracy such as the judiciary, the media, and civil society they politicize them, evacuate them, and eventually capture them from within. Keywords: Religion, populism, Islamism, authoritarianism, populists in power, democratic backsliding, Turkey, Pakistan
Publisher: European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS)
Date: 10-09-2023
DOI: 10.55271/PP0024
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-12-2021
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 03-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-06-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-03-2021
DOI: 10.1177/01979183211000282
Abstract: This IMR Research Note examines the impact of the level of bonding social capital on access to employment among newly arrived Afghan refugees in Victoria (Australia). Based on a mixed-methods analysis of biographical interviews with 80 Afghan refugees, it examines their use of social capital, year by year, during the first three years after their arrival. Our analysis shows that higher levels of bonding social capital are associated with greater success in finding employment during the first and second year of settlement. In the third year, however, bonding social capital for Afghan refugees in Victoria is no longer a significant predictor of employment. This Research Note helps clarify inconsistent findings in the literature on the effects of social capital on obtaining employment by suggesting that bonding social capital’s impact on refugee employment success changes significantly across the first three years after arrival. This finding has important implications for migration policy and the prioritization of resources toward services for newly arrived refugees.
Location: Australia
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