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Licensed Commoning and the Authoritarian Commons: Governing Participation in China's Community Gardens

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice.
Linjun Xie, Mengqi Shao, Gaohan Deng
wiley   +1 more source

Varieties of Local Implementation for Net Zero in China: Evidence From Three Cities

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since China updated its nationally determined contributions in 2021, achieving carbon peaking before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060—the so‐called “dual carbon” goals—has become the new guiding principle of China's climate governance. However, few studies have examined the implementation of China's dual carbon goals, particularly the ...
Ting Guan, Ziwei Gou, Yixian Sun
wiley   +1 more source

Race‐Based Rejection Sensitivity and Intergroup Anxiety Across the Adult Lifespan: Examining Age, Cohort, and Period Effects Among Ethnic Majority and Minority Groups

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergroup interactions are often fraught with fear of rejection and intergroup anxiety—emotional reactions that undermine efforts to build inclusive societies. The current research investigates how race‐based rejection sensitivity and intergroup anxiety evolve across the adult lifespan.
Kumar Yogeeswaran   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collective Grievance Promotes Collective Action and Aggressive Intergroup Inclinations Through Dehumanization Among Conservative Members of Dominant Groups

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous research has focused on disadvantaged groups seeking social change, overlooking how dominant groups mobilize to preserve the status quo. Across three studies (two correlational, one experimental), we explored how collective grievance—the feeling of being or having been collectively wronged by an outgroup—drives system‐preserving ...
Beatriz Alba, Alexandra Vázquez
wiley   +1 more source

Can Evaluation Policies Survive Democratic Erosion? Safeguarding Independence in International Organizations

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International organizations' (IOs) evaluation policies face unprecedented threats from post‐truth dynamics—delegitimization of expertise, nationalist framing against multilateralism, authoritarian overconfidence, and anti‐scientific sentiment. Despite institutional convergence on independence safeguards, methodological standards, and normative
Mita Marra
wiley   +1 more source

The Evaluation‐Systems Nexus: Opportunities for Co‐Creating New Social Possibilities Through Policy Enactment

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Evaluation (and evaluators) evolve and adapt their practices in response to societal changes. In recent years, substantial budget cuts and an increased recognition of post‐truth tactics undermining the credibility of scientific evidence have brought to the fore the limitations of a traditional rational‐objectivist program evaluation.
Catherine Kelly
wiley   +1 more source

How Far Dare an Evaluator go Toward Defending Democracy?

open access: yesNew Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conversations about democracy are everywhere in evaluation currently, prompted by a turbulent global political moment and a renewed reckoning with what evaluation owes to democratic life and vice versa. This closing article takes stock of the special issue's contributions, tracing three ideas threaded across them: models of democracy and what ...
Bianca Montrosse‐Moorhead   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

Stand Up, Speak Out: Stimulating Dissent in Social Justice Teacher Education

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Teacher education should not only prepare student teachers for their role in the existing educational system but also equip them to critically question and reform that system when confronted with injustice. We advocate for dissent in the future of teacher education.
Koen Hoondert   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Curating Structural Sense of Belonging Among Minoritized Students: A Case Study of the Performing Arts

open access: yesNew Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding collegiate norms and practices that promote sense of belonging among students who have traditionally been raced, gendered, stigmatized, and excluded as the ‘other’ in predominantly white institutions (PWI) is of paramount importance today as these efforts face increasingly antagonistic legislation, state policies, and ...
Nkenji K. Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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