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Responding to Populist Parties in Europe
Authors: Bourne Angela K. 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Responding to Populist Parties in Europe: The ‘Other People’ vs the ‘Populist People’ provides a new theoretical toolkit exploring how those who disagree with populist parties oppose them and what kinds of opposition initiatives work, why, and to what ends. It argues that analogies with the interwar rise of fascism and postwar communist takeover to the East do not easily fit the reality of today’s Europe. Those opposing populist parties often swim in muddier waters than the past, navigating more complex questions about whether populist opponents deepen or threaten democracy. Even would-be autocrats legitimize rule with appeals to popular sovereignty in regular electoral contests. Populists also operate in a globalized, interdependent Europe, with overlapping spheres of territorial governance. This novel context, the book claims, not only helps us understand the rise of populist parties, but also opposition they face. The book presents a new typology of tolerant and intolerant initiatives opposing populist parties by public authorities, political parties and civil society actors operating at state and international levels. This forms the foundations of a ‘bottom up’ approach for evaluating the effectiveness of opposition to populist parties, acknowledging substantial variation in opposition forms. The book then outlines a goal-attainment theory of effective opposition, focusing on whether opponents manage to curb illiberal and anti-democratic policies, reduce support for populist parties, diminish their resources, or induce moderation, without producing perverse effects. Opponents achieve these goals through manipulation of strategic choice, enforcement of the law, exploitation of interdependence through leverage, and persuasion.
Professor Jones vs. The Time Philosophy
Authors: Baines Robert 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Finnegans Wake persistently returns to the notion of time. This is because, as Joyce was writing that novel, his frenemy Wyndham Lewis accused him of adhering to Bergson’s radical time philosophy. Joyce responds to this accusation in book one of the Wake by casting the character of Shaun as a caricature of Lewis named Professor Jones, an angry academic who is vehemently anti-Bergsonian. This chapter shows that Joyce uses Jones to highlight the similarities and the differences between himself and Lewis. In doing so, Joyce not only refuses Lewis’ attempt at defining their relationship as oppositional; he also reveals the essential ambivalence of his attitude towards Bergson’s time philosophy. Joyce supports Bergson’s notion of a discord between internal time and external time, but he also calls into question the idea that those two temporal modes can be viewed as separate. Joyce’s understanding of Bergson matters because Bergson is the central time theorist of literary modernism.
The Unity and Duality of Burrus and Caseous
Authors: Baines Robert 
Published: December 2023

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Are there individual substances or is all being really one? The third chapter assesses the Wake’s answer to that question by examining a tale told by Professor Jones, the tale of Burrus and Caseous. Joyce there uses Roman representations of Shaun and Shem to engage with the philosophies of being of Aristotle, Nicholas of Cusa, and Giordano Bruno. The chapter shows that, while Jones favors the divisible world of Aristotle, the Wake privileges the monisms of Nicholas of Cusa and Bruno and so endorses their beliefs in the principle of the coincidence of contraries. At the same time, the chapter also demonstrates that the Wake frequently offers a version of that principle that belongs neither to Nicholas of Cusa nor to Bruno, but rather to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is important because the principle of the coincidence of contraries is central to the Wake.
A Portrait of the Ondt as a Young Man
Authors: Baines Robert 
Published: December 2023

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In the tale of the Ondt and the Gracehoper in book three, Shaun and Shem appear as characters inspired by Aesop’s “The Grasshopper and the Ants.” Joyce’s reworking of that fable offers a unique insight into his view of philosophy because it contains more philosophical allusions than any other section of the Wake. Those allusions point to a wide range of philosophers, including Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Confucius, and Plato. This chapter demonstrates that Joyce aligns the philosophers of his youth with the Shaunish Ondt and those of his maturity with the Shemish Gracehoper. Since Shaun and Shem primarily function as opposites, these alignments show that, as Joyce’s conception of philosophy developed, he came to embrace thinkers who challenged his original positions. This idea is significant because it allows a means of understanding the larger trajectory of Joyce’s relationship to philosophy.
Conclusion
Authors: Baines Robert 
Published: December 2023

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Vico and Bruno are the central philosophers of Finnegans Wake. The conclusion explains why Joyce embraced Vico’s cyclical conception of history and Bruno’s principle of the coincidence of contraries. At the same time, it also shows that, in considering how those ideas operate within the Wake, one must look carefully at how Joyce adapted and contextualized them. The conclusion then proceeds to demonstrate that Joyce used the characters of Shem and Shaun to align the Wake’s other major philosophers for or against Vico and Bruno. Those associated with Shem are connected to Vico and Bruno and, thereby, Joyce. Those related to Shaun are defined as standing against the key philosophical ideas of the Wake. In expanding and refining this basic opposition, Joyce created a network through which he defined his relationships to all the philosophers who feature prominently in Finnegans Wake.
Coins
Authors: Taylor Colleen 
Published: December 2023

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This chapter examines the coin’s pivotal role in the articulation of eighteenth-century Irish national identity and introduces a little-known text: The Adventures of a Bad Shilling of the Kingdom of Ireland (1805), a hybridized genre that is half it-narrative and half aisling. The Hibernian iconography on Irish coins from 1691 up through the early nineteenth century reflects Ireland’s fraught national status; coins rebranded with Hibernia encoded a Williamite, Protestant, and Anglicized Ireland associated with Jacobite defeat. Charles Johnstone’s Chrysal (1760) and Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1800) demonstrate that any text bearing Irish authorship and invoking a coin inevitably questions the actions of the British Empire. Most importantly, The Adventures of a Bad Shilling and The Wild Irish Girl (1806) suggest that Irish nationalist consciousness in the wake of the Union quietly endures inside Irish mind and matter, despite the forced impression of Hibernia as the weakened kingdom.
The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan
Authors: Baczko Adam 
Published: December 2023

AbstractWhat if the Taliban, with military and technological capabilities far inferior to those of Western armies, had won the war through law? While the international coalition set up an inadequate and corrupt legal system, the Taliban set up hundreds of courts in the countryside: by insisting on due process, impartiality from the judges, and the enforcement of verdicts, this system of justice has established itself as one of the few sources of predictability in the daily lives of Afghans. ‘The Taliban court is for all people of Afghanistan but the government’s court is only for rich people’, said one resident of Wardak province. How did the Taliban gain the trust of the population? How did they manage to put themselves in a position to regulate social relations? And with what consequences for Afghan society? Based on long-term fieldwork in various provinces in Afghanistan, this investigation offers new perspectives on a country that was at war for over four decades and proposes an innovative reflection on the place of law in civil wars.
Cities of Islamic States in Deccan
Authors: Shankar Pratyush 
Published: December 2023

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The cities of Deccan between the 14th and 18th centuries represented a very interesting phase in Indian Urban History. The examples such as Bidar, Bijapur, Golconda, etc. are early urbanization in India wherein concerns of defence, symbolism of Islam, and formation of suburban public places. The position and role of Islam pose interesting questions in the formation of the city. The location of Jami Mosque as being away from the palace and in the heart of the city was a conscious effort in balancing the power relation between state and religion. The surprising development of suburbs in form of the royal necropolis and the widely popular spots of Sufi saints created a pull outside the limits of the city.
Colonial Cities
Authors: Shankar Pratyush 
Published: December 2023

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The three main colonizers in the Indian sub-continent—the British, French, and Portuguese—were also prolific city builders. This chapter teases out the key difference between the colonial intents of the three European empires and how this difference manifested in the formation of their cities. British for example never had any great plan for city building during the major period of their presence in India. For them city building was a pragmatic and opportunist based on immediate problems. The lack of city building tradition back home did not allow them to form a comprehensive or centralized strategy to city building leading to cities that were more like patchwork. The French on the other hand had a tradition for centralized planning and city building while trying to use cities as a way of integrating the colonies with France. The Portuguese colonies all across the world and also in India were marked by a distinct tradition of urban municipalities that led to professional development and management of cities. The church became an important force that unified the diverse ethnic communities of the locals and foreigners into a single moral community. These attitudes reflected in the formation of the city as the church formed an important central open space in the city.
Introduction
Authors: Medhi Hemjyoti 
Published: December 2023

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The Introduction offers an overview of the milieu that shaped early women’s mobilization in the Brahmaputra valley with the backdrop of the anti-colonial mass movement. It explores the contested contours of the shifting borders of Assam with colonial intervention, plotting some of the key moments as a complex understanding of the public evolves in a nascent vernacular print culture. The Introduction locates the Assam Mahila Samiti (AMS, 1926 cont.) story amidst the proliferation of women’s associations across British India and a range of contemporary sabhas, samitis, and associations in the Brahmaputra valley. The extraordinary life of the firebrand feminist Chandraprava Saikiani (1901–72), the founding secretary of the AMS, is briefly discussed indicating how she attained celebrity status as a young woman activist mobilizing people in various movements as well as a writer and a controversial columnist, despite being a mother outside matrimony and belonging to a lower caste.
Early Women’s Writing, the Mahila Samitis, and the Naam Kirtan Space
Authors: Medhi Hemjyoti 
Published: December 2023

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Chapter 2, titled ‘Early Women’s Writing, the Mahila Samitis and the Naam Kirtan Space’, enters a different milieu in the mobilization of women. Despite the prevalence of caste and gender hierarchy, women have had a sustained presence in the vibrant practice of naam kirtan (community singing of prayer songs) in the Vaishnava tradition in Assam since the sixteenth century. Both early women writers in Assam and leaders in the mahila samitis sourced and reinvented the naam kirtan space as a mode to validate self-expression in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, albeit in somewhat different ways. While scholars have established women’s education and social reform movements as being intrinsic to women’s socio-political mobilization in India, this chapter extends these connections to include earlier forms of expressive traditions such as the naam kirtan. The centrality of naam kirtan in such diverse sites allows us to explore writing practices, colonial education, access to print culture, publication, and political mobilization as interconnected trajectories. New political equations and liberal agendas of women’s claims to the nascent public were being rehearsed and shaped in a complex and dynamic relationship with available traditional practices. Practices around the naam kirtan, therefore, offer us a vital thread to connect diverse disciplinary borders of women’s writing, political mobilization, and the public sphere. The chapter also raises methodological questions about what constitutes sources in feminist research and historiography.
‘Weaving Fairy Tales’: The Mahila Samitis and the Sipini Bhoral
Authors: Medhi Hemjyoti 
Published: December 2023

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Chapter 4, ‘Weaving Fairy Tales’: The Mahila Samitis and the Sipini Bhoral, concentrates on the mahila samitis’ institutionalization of women’s customary practice of weaving through several sipini bhorals (weaver’s stores/co-operatives) established in different parts of Assam from 1928 onwards. This initiative connects women’s everyday domestic labour to larger discourse of Swadeshi and Gandhian khadi. Weaving runs across tribe, caste, and class; hills and plains, in the northeastern region in India and is the single thread that symbolically connects women across this geographical landscape. This chapter argues that the mahila samitis’ privileging of this space acquires immense significance at a time when identity markers of tribe–caste formulations were beginning to acquire political colours in early twentieth-century Assam. While Gandhi’s call for khadi helped to institutionalize women’s domestic labour of weaving in a wider context of market economy and patriotic nationalism, the mahila samitis were eager to invoke the weaving tradition by women in Assam for a more meaningful participation within the nation. The chapter explores the weaving tradition as opposed to agricultural or plantation labour, because weaving was the site through which the mahila samitis articulated their politics and poetics of nation-building and emphasized women’s role therein. The chapter outlines some of the links between women, labour, production, and the imagining of a new nation.
Mukto Manuh: Chandraprava Saikiani’s Writings
Authors: Medhi Hemjyoti 
Published: December 2023

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The fifth and the last chapter explores Saikiani’s extensive range of writings through five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s including her letters, reports, essays, speeches, poems, short stories published in contemporary periodicals; novels, books, translations; select issues of edited journals Abhijan (1941–, perhaps the first Asamiya-Hindi Bilingual) and Abhijatri (1947–, mouthpiece of the APMS); handwritten manuscripts of novellas and a memoir Jail Kahini among others. The chapter discusses that the appearance of Saikiani’s early writings in periodicals, such as Banhi, Chetana, Awahan in the 1920s and the 1930s, is symbolic of the selective democratisation process unleashed by print culture where a female headmistress of a girls’ school in Tezpur could jostle for print space with contemporary luminaries. Though Saikiani was celebrated among noted Asamiya women writers by her contemporaries, most histories of Asamiya literature written in the late twentieth century do not acknowledge her among significant litterateurs; some even fail to mention her altogether. The chapter explores how Saikiani’s writings examine, conceptualize, and critique institutions such as marriage, family, patriarchy, and social divisions of caste and class through perspectives of the social ‘other’, the ‘fallen’ woman. The chapter argues that Saikiani’s vision for ‘revolutionary social change’ is part of a larger imaginary of freedom and liberty, ‘mukto manuh’.
Curating Memories
Authors: Medhi Hemjyoti 
Published: December 2023

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This piece shares field notes from an oral history and archiving project conducted during 2009–12 around three mahila samitis: Assam Pradeshik Mahila Samity (Guwahati), Dibrugarh District Mahila Samity (Dibrugarh), and Tezpur District Mahila Samiti (Tezpur). This project (funded by the Sephis Programme, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam and supported by Tezpur University) has digitally scanned and preserved handwritten minutes and proceedings of select early mahila samiti meetings. Simultaneously, audio-visual recordings were made of conversations and interviews with samiti members and associates. The memories of an earlier generation of women both complement and challenge other sources available in print that have figured in this study. This raises questions related to agency, memory, and history and their entanglements in the process of writing about the mahila samiti in the early twenty-first century. Retrieving and recording the mahila samitis’ vision for a ‘revolutionary social change’ has been crucial to understand the richness and diversity of women’s conceptualization of the public sphere anew. This note alerts us to the contingencies that inform the process of creation of an archive—human and technological, academic and logistics without blurring crucial distinctions between voices and visuals, memory and history—where women’s memory transforms the very essence of how we attempt to understand women’s agency, then and now.
Inflexible Beliefs
Authors: Kennerley Helen , Padesky Christine A. 
Published: December 2023

Abstract
Chapter 6, “Inflexible Beliefs,” can prove challenging in psychotherapy. Common traps that therapists fall into include trying to proceed despite a poor therapy alliance, difficulties understanding inflexible beliefs that are not articulated in words, disengagement over the course of lengthy therapy, client and therapist hopelessness, and times when client inflexible beliefs trigger therapist inflexible beliefs. Fortunately, there are many specific guided discovery methods designed for working with inflexible beliefs that help avoid these traps. Each of these approaches can include embedded Socratic dialogue to foster a more positive therapy alliance, active client engagement, as well as greater optimism and new pathways for change. Guided discovery methods and related interpersonal processes are described and brought to life with case illustrations. Special attention is given to a prejudice metaphor for understanding the maintenance of inflexible beliefs, alliance-building therapy strategies, how to identify and work with beliefs encoded in imagery or a “felt sense,” use of a continuum to increase core belief flexibility, and strategies for keeping long-term therapy “fresh.”
Impulsive and Compulsive Behaviors
Authors: Kennerley Helen 
Published: December 2023

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Impulsive and compulsive behaviors can be challenging to successfully manage unless therapists and clients reach a common understanding of the cognitive, emotional, physiological, social, and environmental factors that maintain them. Common traps that therapists fall into include not understanding the personal meanings of behaviors, inadequate risk assessment, underestimating the likelihood of relapse, not appreciating the fluctuating nature of motivation to change, overlooking the world surrounding the client’s change efforts, and failing to consider the negative consequences or dangers of change for the client. Detailed therapist–client interactions illustrate how Socratic dialogue can be effectively employed to manage these traps, identify safer, substitute behaviors, and increase client motivation for change. Good Socratic questions to ask clients are bulleted throughout the chapter to help guide therapist learning and practice.
Supervision and Therapist Beliefs
Authors: Kennerley Helen , Padesky Christine A. 
Published: December 2023

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Chapter 11, “Supervision and Therapist Beliefs,” addresses the complex tasks faced by supervisors who must simultaneously educate supervisees, support them as they learn, and manage the responsibilities entailed in meeting standards of clinical care for their clients. The authors recommend a written supervision agreement, methods for constructive feedback, and guidance for supervisees on how to prepare for supervision sessions. Uses of Socratic dialogue are illustrated throughout the chapter to demonstrate ways this can boost supervisee learning. Supervisors are encouraged to listen to session recordings and use active guided discovery methods in supervision such as role-play, imagery exercises, and behavioral experiments. Supervisee learning can be maximized by pairing these experiences with Socratic dialogue. Reflective practices for both supervisors and supervisees are also emphasized. Both supervisors and supervisees benefit from processes of self-observations and self-review accompanied with practice using these to inform clinical judgments and decision making. Common supervision traps related to therapist and supervisor assumptions, the social context outside supervision and therapy, and the supervisory relationship are addressed.
Dialogues for Discovery: What Next?
Authors: Padesky Christine A. 
Published: December 2023

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Chapter 12, “Dialogues for Discovery: What Next?”, recaps some of the main themes of the book regarding the roles discovery plays in psychotherapy. It reviews the common traps addressed in each chapter that can be effectively managed by Socratic dialogue and other methods of guided discovery. In addition, this chapter speculates that the 4-Stage Model of Socratic Dialogue illustrated throughout this text could provide a stimulus for sudden gains in psychotherapy. The importance of actually carrying out the Reader Learning Exercises throughout this book is highlighted. Three Reflective Practice Worksheets are provided to support clinician development of the skills taught in this text. Finally, the author poses a series of research questions that could advance learning about the effective use of guided discovery incorporating Socratic dialogue.
Commodum and the Fear of Exclusion
Authors: Krostenko Brian A. 
Published: December 2023

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This chapter discusses commodum or ‘emolument,’ part of the ideology of libertas. The bill attached Pompey’s recent Asian gains (LA 1.6, 2.51–55). Before the people Cicero uses the semiotics of space and the proprieties of verbal address to depict a Pompey insulted by a Rullus acting legally under the bill. The tableaux, however unrealistic, symbolize lawful power abused and suggest that the bill will not augment but coopt commoda. The bill also authorized land purchases. Elements of Cicero’s treatment of the measure (LA 2.65–67, 2.71) have no correspondent in the senate speech; the insertions redefine Cicero and commodum. Invoking the language of the marketplace and rituals of colonization, he makes himself the true guardian of the people’s best interests, and he bends commodum toward the shared rights and pleasures of civic life that the urban populace already has.