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Insolvency‐related foreign judgements in Nigeria: Contextualising English legal influence and comparative analysis of the UNCITRAL regime

open access: yesInternational Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has produced the most robust international insolvency regime applicable to countries around the world. The Model Law on Cross‐Border Insolvency (1997) is widely accepted and already very popular among African countries.
Pontian N. Okoli
wiley   +1 more source

The struggle against Neo-Colonialism: The Impact of Kwame Nkrumah’s Political Thoughts

open access: yesRevue d'Histoire Méditerranéenne, 2021
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the colonial trends of the eighteenth and nineteenth Century began to decline, and the Africans achieved their freedom.
Zohra GERYVILLE
doaj  

A Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Localization: The Case of HelpAge International

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many transnational non‐governmental organizations (TNGOs) are reevaluating their organizational forms and norms as they pursue localization. Localization itself is a contested and multifaceted concept, however, complicating the design, implementation, and evaluation of localization efforts.
Hans Peter Schmitz, George E. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

“There is a Place for Us Here”: Exploring Sex, Gender, Reproduction, Sexual Behavior, and Orientation Narratives Supporting Students With Queer Genders in Biology Courses

open access: yesJournal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Queer undergraduates describe a climate in STEM fields and classrooms that is both hostile to and silent on queer identities, leading to experiences of social exclusion, devaluation as a scientist, and discrimination. In the few studies that have specifically focused on trans and non‐binary undergraduates (i.e., students with queer genders ...
Sarah L. Eddy   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Baldwin This Time An Excerpt from Bill V. Mullen’s New Biography, James Baldwin: Living in Fire, and an Interview with the Author

open access: yesJames Baldwin Review, 2019
This excerpt from James Baldwin: Living in Fire details a key juncture in Baldwin’s life, 1957–59, when he was transformed by a visit to the South to write about the civil rights movement while grappling with the meaning of the Algerian Revolution.
Bill V. Mullen
doaj   +1 more source

Guerra à guerra. Violência e anticolonialismo nas oposições ao Estado Novo

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2010
During the 1960s, at a time when the world was witnessing the triumphant consolidation of anti-colonial independence movements, the Portuguese dictatorship was still bent on maintaining its overseas territories.
Miguel Cardina
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Critical Multilingual Language Awareness, Antiracism, and Raciolinguicized Subjectivities in Teacher Education

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Race and language collaborate in structuring educational inequities, creating urgency for teacher education to equip all teachers to equitably serve racialized multilinguals as antiracist language educators. Emphasizing the inseparability of racial and linguistic justice, this article examines teacher candidates' (TCs') learning journeys ...
Monica Shank Lauwo
wiley   +1 more source

What can we learn from disability policy to advance our understanding of how to operationalise intersectionality in Australian policy frameworks?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Intersectional theory recognises inequity is rarely the result of one social identity; social identities, and their interaction with context and power relations, offer some protective factors, while marginalises others. Taking an intersectional approach to social policy has the potential to provide deeper insights in terms of identifying and ...
Shona Bates, Rosemary Kayess, Ilan Katz
wiley   +1 more source

Trieste and Louis Adamic’s Transnational Identities

open access: yesDve Domovini, 2020
By examining Slovene immigrant to the United States and world-renowned author Louis Adamic’s effort to mediate between his Yugoslav and American identities, this article helps us to think what having a transnational identity means.
John Paul Enyeart
doaj   +1 more source

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