Both niche networks preach tolerance, but reinforce an us-against-the-mainstream isolation.
Five years ago, he quit the liberal party Yabloko, frustrated with the liberals' infighting and isolation from mainstream Russian opinion.
This attitude is reminiscent of 19th-century arguments that the cultural achievements of Indian peoples depended on their isolation from mainstream society.
However, despite the wealth of experience accumulated from evaluating Information Retrieval (IR) systems, the evaluation of Semantic Web search systems has largely been developed in isolation from mainstream IR evaluation with a far less unified approach to the design of evaluation activities.
The Russian ministry of culture invited Wright to work on a new arts and culture programme designed to develop the contemporary arts in the country's more remote cities, which still suffer from Russia's decades-long isolation from mainstream western culture.
As such, the multicultural citizenship approach is mainly focused on marginalization, segregation, cultural isolation from mainstream society and the misrecognition of ethno-cultural minority identities.
It is perhaps because of this intellectual climate that early important developments in the theory of information took place in isolation from mainstream philosophical reflection.
Based on shared values and a sense of isolation from mainstream America, the connection was intensified by 9/11 and cemented by the Southeast Asia tsunami.
Critically, the establishment and scale-up of ART clinics in relative isolation from mainstream clinic operations in these four sites did little to strengthen the capacity or orientation of NHC members to invoke their nominal authority as a mechanism of social accountability.
Survival International were keen to point out that their stand against this kind of tourism was not an "argument between isolation and mainstreaming.
Further isolation from the mainstream could make it harder to claim such prominence.
