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Intersex and Healthcare: A Narrative Review of Social Sciences Perspectives

open access: yesScience & Philosophy
Intersex individuals—those whose physical sex characteristics do not align with conventional male or female categories—encounter considerable challenges within healthcare systems, which often medicalize their bodies through invasive treatments aimed at ...
Davide Costa
doaj   +1 more source

Winners, Losers, and the Implications of Inequality in Biodiversity Conservation Policies: Insights From European Development Aid to Central Africa

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International aid for biodiversity conservation is expected to provide alternative livelihoods for forest‐dependent communities to offset restrictions on forest use. This aligns with the contemporary conservation discourse that promotes pro‐poor, human rights‐based, and sustainability principles.
Alexandra Rasoamanana   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between social control and conflict: an analytical framework for social movements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The main goal of this article is to attempt to determine the analytical framework of social movements that would constitute an essential element of this form of collective activity.
Baranowski, Mariusz
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Grassroots Innovations and Projectification: Diffusion Processes of the European Ecovillage Movement

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Grassroots innovations are increasingly recognized as crucial actors in sustainability transitions, offering localized, bottom‐up solutions to local and global challenges. These initiatives contribute to sustainability by diffusing sustainable innovations and practices to broader societal sectors.
André Girardi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Health Burden of Chronic Stress in a Transforming Society

open access: yesPsychological Topics, 2007
In this paper chronic stress is proposed as an integrating model that can be applied to the explanation of the suddenly changing patterns of premature mortality rates in transforming societies of Central-Eastern-Europe, especially in Hungary.
Mária S. Kopp
doaj  

Mapping the Ontology and Epistemology of Research Into Forest Carbon Offsetting in Developing Countries

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we consider knowledge cumulation in one of the most polarized areas of environmental governance research: forest carbon offsetting in developing countries. Our specific contribution is a critical review of the ontological and epistemological positioning of 31 studies published in the peer‐reviewed literature on forest carbon ...
Mark Purdon, Patrick Byakagaba
wiley   +1 more source

Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Holistic Justice on the Long‐Term Experiences and Wellbeing of Mass Human Rights Violation Survivors: Ethnographic and Interview Evidence From Kosova, Northern Ireland and Albania

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research highlights the long‐term collective effects of mass human rights violations (MHRVs) on survivors’ wellbeing. This multi‐method, multi‐context paper combines the social identity approach (SIA), transitional and social justice theories and human rights‐conceptualised wellbeing to propose a human rights understanding of trauma responses ...
Blerina Kёllezi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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