Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences

JAPSS VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2, MAY 2009

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CONTENTS:

Advisory and Editorial Boards
Table of Contents

Research and Analysis:

Sectarianism as a Modern Global Structure Magid Shihade
Derives and Social Aesthetics in the Cities: Urban Marks in El Raval de Barcelona, Spain María Gisela Escobar
From “Authoritarian Rule” to “Democracy” in Nigeria: Citizens’ Welfare a Myth or Reality Victor Ojakorotu and Fidelis Allen
The Future Neo-Industrial Society: A New View on the Intellect Nina Pestriakova and Michael Pestriakov
The Left Reacts: French Leftists and the 1989 Revolutions in Eastern Europe Michael Lejman
Poor-Rich Divide in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger A.J. Sebastian
Sayyid Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah: Muslim Cleric and Islamic Feminist Sophie Chamas
Contesting Zapata: Differing Meanings of the Mexican National Idea Patrick T. Hiller
Post Independence Indian English Poetry Shaleen Kumar Singh
Defense, Ideology or Ambition: An Assessment of Malawian Motivations for Intervention in the Mozambican Civil War David Robinson
Pilot Mobile Smoking Cessation Program Reaches Underserved: Increases Access Steven D. Cohn, Jeffery A. Friedman, and Gail Barouh
‘Our Darfur, Their Darfur’: Sudan’s Politics of Deviance and the Rising ‘Ethnic-Cleansing in an African Emerging Anarchy Isiaka Alani Badmus
Social Encounters between Frank Capra and Steven Spielberg Beatriz Peña Acuña
Costa Rica and the Two Chinas: A Constructivist Foreign Policy Analysis Otto F. von Feigenblatt
An Enquiry into the Functionality of the Dominant Ideology of Gender in Traditional Hindu Society Smarak Swain
Self-Esteem and Self-Motivational Needs of Disabled and Non-Disabled: A Comparative Analysis Bunmi Omolayo

Multiple Perspectives and Opinions

Ugly Face of Terror Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Human Rights and Globalization: The Myth of Corporate Social Responsibility? Delphine Rabet
How the George W. Bush Administration Made Conflict Resolution Obsolete Anthony P. Johnson
Hero vs. The Dragon Emperor: Discursive Struggle over China’s Place in the World Otto F. von Feigenblatt
Becoming Culturally Competent: Adapting Education to Contemporary Social Norms Vannapond Suttichujit
Nation and History: A Postcolonial Study of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) O.P. Dwivedi

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