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Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.3898/soun.79.rev01.2021

C. Lewis

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Painting historiography: Meleko Mokgosi’s Democratic Intuition 绘画史学:Meleko Mokgosi的民主直觉

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.3898/soun.79.10.2021

Meleko Mokgosi, Ashleigh Barice

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Beyond equality of opportunity: from ‘common sense’ to ‘good sense’ 超越机会平等:从“常识”到“明智”

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.3898/soun.79.05.2021

T. Jefferson

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‘I wanted to offer my sympathy … woman to woman’: Reading The Crown during a conjuncture of crisis “我想表达我的同情……女人对女人”:在危机关头读《王冠

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.3898/soun.79.08.2021

Laurie Clancy, Sara De Benedictis

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Caught between two superpowers: Taiwan’s left in an age of US-China tensions 夹在两个超级大国之间:台湾左派在美中关系紧张的时代

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.3898/soun.79.02.2021

B. Hioe

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The crisis of social reproduction and ‘Made-in-China’ feminism 社会再生产危机与“中国制造”女权主义

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.3898/soun.79.01.2021

Yige Dong

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Stuart Hall, a peerless mediator 斯图亚特·霍尔，无与伦比的调解人

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.3898/soun.79.04.2021

G. Mclennan, Bruce Robbins, Angela Mcrobbie, B. Louis, C. Hall

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Sociological podcasting: radical hope, care and solidarity in a time of crisis 社会学播客:危机时刻的激进希望、关怀和团结

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.3898/soun.79.06.2021

C. Lewis, Tissot Regis, George Ofori-Addo

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Arch villains 拱恶棍

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-05-17 DOI: 10.3898/soun.77.05.2021

Richard E. Payne

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The long revolution: why the left needs a strategic and long-term perspective 长期革命:为什么左翼需要战略和长远的眼光

Soundings: a journal of politics and culture Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.3898/SOUN.77.09.2021

M. Rustin

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