SHIFTING GROUND, SOLID FOUNDATIONS: IMAGINING A NEW PARADIGM FOR CANADIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT by Nandini Ramanujam, Miatta Gorvie

“…The media as well as civil society organizations [CSOs] themselves have documented government attempts to undermine and stifle the voices of dissenting organizations, ranging from rhetorical attacks to the withdrawal of funding for ambiguous reasons. …”
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Compulsory enforcement of the fee for the transformation of the perpetual usufruct right into ownership of real estate by Paweł Majczak

“…There are both sentences in favour of the admissibility of administrative enforcement and dissenting opinions favouring the admissibility of compulsory recovery of the fee in question by way of judicial enforcement.The aim of the article is to indicate the decisive criterion demarcating the path of administrative and judicial enforcement and to determine the method of enforcement of the fee for the transformation of the perpetual usufruct right into ownership. …”
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The Ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesiaconcerning Children Age Limit and its Rights by Bagus Hermanto

“…In addition, it also intends to criticize the Justice’s Dissenting Opinion that was addressed against this Judgment. …”
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The After-life of Social Movements by Purbali Sengupta

“…Often alternate translational spaces showed possibilities of articulation from such indeterminacy and dissent. This paper’s crux is built on such collective activities like propitiating Corona Devi through religious rituals that draw precedent from similar subaltern community movements during the British Raj to counter epidemics by the worship of ‘Sitaladevi/Salabai’. …”
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Introduction: emerging approaches in the anthropology/primatology borderland by Vincent Leblan

“…The second part proposes a slightly different perspective on the conceptual fuzziness surrounding primate studies and their relation to anthropology by emphasizing epistemological rather than disciplinary gaps: anthropology itself is partly characterized by dissents similar to those usually described in its opposition to primatology, while a few voices internal to primatology may, for their part, be characterized as anthropological ones. …”
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The Irish Catholic Church under Charles II: the ‘Popish Plot’ and the Martyrdom of Oliver Plunkett by Marie-Claire Considère-Charon

“…The rivalry between the king, who issued a Declaration of Indulgence suspending all laws punishing Roman Catholics and other religious dissenters, and a strongly Anglican Parliament had reached its peak. …”
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المهالبة ودورهم في التاريخ العربي الإسلامي حتى قيام الدولة العباسية by محسن يونس

“…Bin Sagheera accomplished this mission perfectly well, silencing Al Khawarejs' dissenting voice and eliminated them. He also took part in the invasion of the countries situated beyond the River, thus deserving the Caliph's reward: appointment of Khurasan. …”
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Dialogue and Dignity - Linking Human Rights Education with Paulo Freire's "Education for Liberation" by Claudia Lohrenscheit

“…This article endeavours to link some of the core concepts of Freire's work to human rights education with a view to understanding education as a process of liberation involving dignity, dialogue and dissent. To this end, Paulo Freire's work is examined from the perspective of the German educational theorist and philosopher Gottfried Mergner who developed a theory on the social limits to learning and critically discussed Freire's work.…”
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Muzzling communication: sedition law as a tool to manage ethnic relations by Shuaib, Farid Sufian

“…However, there were also criticisms of abuse of sedition law in suppressing or inhibiting dissent against the government of the day. After 60 years of the Sedition Act 1948, it is timely to consider its usefulness and efficacy in managing ethnic relations. …”
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Fathoming the depths of Thoreauvian time by Manglis, A

“…As such, it argues that Thoreau’s infamous embrace of political and rhetorical dissent takes shape in his writings most strongly in his construction of time-frames that break with or stand against his contemporaries’ own use, sense, and measuring of time in antebellum New England. …”

Spirituality, tradition and gender: Judith Montefiore, the very model of a modern Jewish woman by Green, A

“…These paradoxes are easily conceptualised by the contrast between Judith's different worlds: the Jewish world that underpinned her marriage, structured her spirituality and infused her life with meaning, and the world of the English gentry and dissenting middle classes, with whom she mixed socially, and whose spiritual style, values, expectations, and mode of life shaped her in other, equally profound ways. …”

Is the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention decision on Assange ‘So wrong’? by Lazarus, L

“…The Washington Post has published only the dissenting opinion of the decision, which views Assange’s conditions as ‘self-confinement’ The Political Editor of Die Zeit, argued in the New York Times, that Julian Assange is destroying Wikileaks. …”

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Radishchev, A

“…Radishchev is perhaps the first in a long line of Russian writer-dissenters such as Herzen and Solzhenitsyn who created a singular literary idiom to express a subversive message. …”

Augustine and republican liberty by Lamb, M

“…One of the most controversial aspects of Augustine’s political thought is his use of imperial power to coerce religious dissenters. While scholars have sought to situate Augustine’s justifications of coercion within his historical, social, and political contexts, even the most helpful approaches do not alleviate concerns that Augustine’s defense of coercion violates individual liberty. …”

Intra-party democracy: a functionalist approach by Bagg, S, Bhatia, U

“…Taking this as the key function of IPD within broader democratic systems, we conclude that inclusionary party reform is less urgent in more flexible party systems, where dissenters are better able to resist this threat from within the framework of inter-party competition. …”

Beyond the “republican family”: intergenerational memory, biography, and politics in Ireland since 1969 by Hepworth, J

“…To maintain internal unity amid strategic reorientation, the Provisional movement leadership invoked a “republican family” within which misgivings and dissent could be contained and overcome. Conversely, Sinn Féin’s republican critics rejected the Provisionals’ attempts to delimit the “family.” …”

A legal study on the Sedition Act in Malaysia / Nor Hazwani Jasman by Jasman, Nor Hazwani

“…However, there were also criticisms of abuse of sedition law in suppressing or inhibiting dissent against the government of the day. After 60 years of the Sedition Act 1948, it is timely to consider its usefulness and efficacy in managing ethnic relations. …”
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Analysis on aspects of traditional (‘indigenous’) and western thinking in the classical and modern Burmese elites’ discourse concerning madness. by Myint Zan

“…The theories of Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz on mental illness can be considered as challenges to or strong dissents from the ‘main stream’ Western concepts of mental illness. …”
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THE IMPORTANCE OF CRITICAL THINKING IN THE LIFE OF THE MODERN SOCIETIES by Дієго Феліпе Арбелаес-Кампіло, Василь Якович Тацій, Магда Джулісса Рохас-Багамон, Олег Геннадійович Данильян

“…Totalitarian systems repress critical thinking, and although they do not cancel it due to the resistance of some dissenting voices, they prevent it from becoming generalized in the population. …”
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Shared energy parks as a solution to energy challenges for Dadaab Refugee Camps in Kenya by Salah Abdi Maalim, George Adwek, Moses Arowo

“…Efficient, economic, and reliable techniques perfectly deployed and amalgamated should minimize most of the potentially dissenting social impacts of necessitous refugee camp infrastructure engineering. …”
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