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Paella pans and petrol cans: Noise-making and Charivari in contemporary Spain

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Pot-banging has been a common feature of protest in Spain over the last decade. In this paper I will discuss how we can historicise the emergence of political pot-banging through a focus on episodes of carnivalesque noise-making since the 1970s. I argue that while ‘traditional’ charivari disappeared, pot-banging was appropriated from Latin America in the 1980s.

Digital Sovereignty, Economic Ideas, and the Struggle over the Digital Markets

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Digital market regulations respond to technological changes and global dynamics, but also to how political actors shape markets. Focusing on the Digital Markets Act, this article explains the EU’s marketcraft as the result of a struggle in the EU’s policy field between political actors promoting competing economic ideas in a rapidly evolving technological and geopolitical context.

Election implications for Bangladesh’s domestic stability and foreign relations

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Election implications for Bangladesh’s domestic stability and foreign relations

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Jacob Williams

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I am currently researching the various relationships between political liberalism, religion, and conservatism in public reason for my DPhil at DPIR. My research examines how disagreements about social values, including those pertaining to contested concepts of gender, family structure, and personal relationships, should be handled in societies committed to the political liberal ideal of acknowledging reasonable pluralism about conceptions of the good among their religious and non-religious citizens.