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Complicity in democratic engagement with autocratic systems

open access: yesEthics & Global Politics, 2021
Autocratic control of civil society, including academia, can be extended to democratic societies and institutions in ways that pose threats to liberal-democratic values, such as academic freedom, for example through mechanisms and practices that lead to ...
Eva Pils
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Negotiating hegemonic masculinity: imaginary positions and psycho-discursive practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
In this paper we provide a critical analysis of the concept of hegemonic masculinity. We argue that although this concept embodies important theoretical insights, it is insufficiently developed as it stands to enable us to understand how men position ...
Edley, N, Wetherell, M
core   +1 more source

Partisan Complicity in Democratic Backsliding

open access: yes, 2020
Recent developments in Hungary and Poland have made democratic backsliding a major issue of concern within the European Union (EU). This article focuses on the secondary agents that facilitate democratic backsliding in Hungary and Poland: the European ...
Fabio Wolkenstein
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“I need to take care of myself as well”—self‐care strategies of abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores the emotional labor and self‐care strategies of feminist abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico. Operating within restrictive legal environments, acompañantes provide crucial support for self‐managed medication abortions (SMAs), engaging in significant, often invisible, emotional labor.
Bruna Alvarez, Suzanne Veldhuis
wiley   +1 more source

Mostly ‘black’ and ‘white’: ‘Race’, complicity and restitution in the non-fiction of Antjie Krog

open access: yesLiterator, 2016
This article analyses the role of ‘race’ in Antjie Krog’s non-fiction trilogy Country of My Skull (1998), A Change of Tongue (2003) and Begging to Be Black (2009). It explores her explicit use of terms such as ‘heart of whiteness’ and ‘heart of blackness’
Jacomien van Niekerk
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Reconstructing RFRA: The Contested Legacy of Religious Freedom Restoration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Almost every member of Congress voted to approve the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), a bill endorsed by an unprecedented coalition of dozens of religious and civil rights organizations spanning the political and ideological spectrum ...
Lederman, Martin S.
core   +1 more source

Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

Choice Poetics by Example

open access: yesArts, 2018
Choice poetics is a formalist framework that seeks to concretely describe the impacts choices have on player experiences within narrative games. Developed in part to support algorithmic generation of narrative choices, the theory includes a detailed ...
Peter Mawhorter   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement

open access: yesJournal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
wiley   +1 more source

Locating the Gap between Grace and Terror: Performative Research and Spectral Images of (and on) the Road

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2008
Marking the site of death on the road with a shrine is an increasingly popular, global practice, one that has become particularly unsettling in the US where they are illegal but the practice continues to proliferate, regardless of institutional attempts ...
Rebecca M. Kennerly
doaj  

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