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Towards reframing professional expert support [PDF]
, 2007 The paper addresses practical ways of reconfiguring professional expertise in development practice in moving away from the expert as a technocrat. Two projects associated with managing natural resource dilemmas suggest an alternative way of framing ...
Reynolds, Martin
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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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Odious Debt Wears Two Faces: Systemic Illegitimacy, Problems, and Opportunities in Traditional Odious Debt Conceptions in Globalized Economic Regimes [PDF]
, 2007 Backer examines how the traditional notion of odious debt as a method of repudiating sovereign debt may undergo a conceptual revolution as it changes focus from the illegitimacy of governments obtaining loans to the illegitimacy of the systems through ...
Backer, Larry Catá
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
wiley +1 more source
Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Gymnica, 2006 While it is difficult to classify an athlete's participation in sport as solely an individual or a collective act, it is easy to make the case that there are both public and private dimensions to sport. Similarly, one can view the athletes competing in a
Sarah Teetzel
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Researching Rupture: Engaged and Ethical Research on Extreme Nature–Society Disruption
Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanities research can make visible the experiences of those living through socio‐ecological “rupture”.
Sango Mahanty +5 more
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Thalassemia Reports, 2018 More than five decades ago, thalassemia major (TM) was fatal in the first decade of life [...]
openaire +3 more sources
The Ripple Effect: Guantanamo Bay in the United Kingdom\u27s Courts [PDF]
, 2010 The human rights abuses suffered by detainees held at Guantánamo Bay have dominated many of the cases before the United Kingdom’s courts. The Human Rights Act of 1998, still relatively new to the statute book, played a central role in the detainees ...
Murray, C.R.G.
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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Activism for Socialist Industrial Heritage in Romania: The Carbochim Project Controversy
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This study aims to better understand activism in the Romanian post‐socialist society during a struggle to preserve the socialist industrial heritage of Carbochim, in Cluj‐Napoca, Romania. From an urban activist perspective, we present a failed heritagisation process because of commercial‐oriented real estate development, but that enables
Oana‐Ramona Ilovan +3 more
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