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León Poblete & H. Richard Nakamura

León Poblete, PhD candidate at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Currently working on his doctoral dissertation in which he studies the dynamics of business-to-business relationships and complex business networks in industrial markets. The Swedish defense and security industry is the main empirical context in his research.

H. Richard Nakamura, assistant professor at the Centre for International Business Studies at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, holds a PhD in International Business Studies from Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. His research concerns international business, management and entrepreneurship, especially regarding cross-border mergers and acquisitions and foreign direct investments in the Baltic Sea and East Asia regions.

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Articles by León Poblete & H. Richard Nakamura

  1. Cultural recolonization in the post- Soviet space

    This article examines how culture functions as a strategic instrument of recolonial power in the post-Soviet space, where imperial legacies, Soviet infrastructures, and contemporary authoritarian practices converge. Integrating postcolonial, decolonial, and recolonial frameworks, the study analyzes three emblematic cases – Gergiev’s 2008 Tskhinvali concert, the 2014 opera Crimea, and Sandro Sulaberidze’s 2023 protest in Tbilisi – to show how artistic production legitimizes territorial conquest, naturalizes hierarchical authority, and disciplines cultural autonomy.1 The article argues that recolonization today operates not only through military force but through performative, affective, and institutional mechanisms that render domination intelligible, emotionally resonant, and politically durable.

  2. A longitudinal study of Russophone conspiracy theories about Ukraine. Content and methodological insights

    This article, based on longitudinal ethnography of Russophone groups in Estonia, examines conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine as they emerged and evolved ever since the full-scale invasion. First, I explore the initial narratives and the underlying vulnerabilities driving conspiratorial thinking. I then discuss why these theories became taboo. Finally, I propose a novel approach to studying self-censored conspiracy theories – the metalevel analysis – and present preliminary findings from research on Russian-speaking adolescents in Estonia.

  3. Retreat but no surrender. Testaments from Georgian civil society under siege

    In the course of just a few months Georgia went from having one of the best working environments for civil society actors to one in which heads of the most prominent organizations are facing charges of treason. The civic space is rapidly shrinking as a result of strong and unprecedented orchestrated attacks on independent organizations and media through the weaponizing of legislation and a fierce propaganda machine set out to silence, stigmatize and practically leave no space for civil society actors. To illuminate how civil society actors are experiencing, interpreting, and adapting to this new climate of repression, we conducted four in-depth interviews with organizations active in different regions of Georgia. To this end, our paper aims to illuminate both the risks and the resourcefulness of Georgian civil society.

  4. Fredrik Bjarkö  (147) The Odyssey of Human Spirit: Historiography of Philosophy in the Post-Kantian Ag

     Abstract [en] In the 1790s, many post-Kantian German philosophers attempted to lay a new foundation for the historiography of philosophy. […]

  5. Gustav Sjöberg (146) Den levande materien: Naturfilologiska perspektiv på hylozoiska och panteistiska estetiker

     Abstract [en] In the classical Western aesthetic tradition, from Aristotle onwards, ’nature’ and ’art’ are conceptualised in relation to each […]

  6. Hamdija Begovic (145) Between Civic and Ethnic: The Party of Democratic Action and the Symbolic Struggle for a Bosnian-Herzegovinian State

     Abstract [en] This thesis examines the persistent political fragmentation of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the role of the […]

  7. Anna Nyquist (144) Creating, maintaining, and enhancing sustainable marketing credibility

    Abstract [en] This dissertation takes as its focus the question of credibility in sustainable marketing: why it is both necessary […]

  8. Agnes Käll (143) Inside the compliance puzzle: Dilemmas of supervisory agencies in anti-money laundering

    Abstract [en] This thesis unpacks the empirical puzzle that banks suspected of involvement in money laundering may nevertheless be deemed […]

  9. Oscar Nygren (142) Östersjöfrågan – En idégeografisk studie av svenskt utrikespolitiskt tänkande 1914–1945

     Abstract [en] This thesis argues that the Baltic Sea region was shaped intellectually, politically and geographically during the period 1914–1945. […]

  10. Martin Englund (141) Vi, de fördrivna. Historiska erfarenheter hos polska judar som kom till Sverige 1967-1972

     Abstract [en] We, the Expelled is a study of historical experiences communicated by the Polish Jews who came to Sweden as […]

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