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- Back to Competitive Authoritarianism? Democratic Backsliding in Vučić’s SerbiaPublication . Castaldo, AntoninoDespite growing concerns expressed by international organisations about the deterioration of democracy in Vučić’s Serbia, the country has been neglected by the literature on the ‘crisis of democracy’. Using a combined qualitative/quantitative research strategy for detecting changes in regime types, including various V-DEM measures and over three dozen indicators provided by the competitive authoritarian framework, the analysis confirms the recent regression of Vučić’s Serbia to competitive authoritarianism. The peculiar features of the Serbian case—a double transition to and from democracy in less than two decades—appear to support a pessimistic outlook for the future of democracy.
- Representing the World, Weathering its End. Arthur Bispo do Rosário’s Ecology of the ShipPublication . Miguel, MarlonThis chapter explores the intrinsic relationship between weather/weathering and the imaginary of the sea having as central axis the work of the artist Arthur Bispo do Rosário. Bispo was a black man who spent most of his life in psychiatric institutions. There is an important nexus between his psychotic deliriums and the making of several hundreds of objects, many of them being ships or keeping a relationship to the sea. These objects open the path to a decolonial discussion on the marks left by the history of the transatlantic slave trade.