Recent work on dictatorship has focused on how repression is used by dictators to eradicate political opposition. This article examines evidence from one of the most important dictatorships of the twentieth century to suggest that this may tell only half the story. As Stalin’s dictatorship progressed, repression was increasingly administered neither by the secret police nor the military—as …
In Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital and hub of cultural activity, two youth movements – Underground Hip Hop and Urban Grooves – are portrayed as, or lay claim to be, representing Hip hop. Yet, they espouse very different definitions of Hip hop. Although Urban Grooves is essentially an umbrella term for urban pop music that blends Afro-diasporic genres, mainly dancehall, r&b, and rap, with local…
While the social research of Henry Mayhew drew attention to the street seiiers of London in the nineteenth century, Mayheui only hinted at the full scope of the threat these sellers posed to Victorian capitalism and bourgeois society. Street seüing was taken up iry many different types of workers who had become unemployed or frustrated with their previous empbyment. Distinguished by the pe…