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Critiquing Cultural Relativism [PDF]
, 2013 Cultural relativism is the ever-popular theory claiming that, “any set of customs and institutions, or way of life, is as valid as any other” (Hartung,1954).
Kanarek, Jaret
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Relativism as a Challenge to Religion : Christianity, Truth and the "Dictatorship of Relativism"
, 2018 Why is relativism perceived to be a danger to Christianity and even to the whole Western world? What is it that the former pope, Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), in particular, thinks is so deeply problematic about relativism?
Stenmark, Mikael,
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1366-1383, September 2026.Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
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, 2018 We live an age of cultural relativism that asks how universal moral obligation can be justified. Immanuel Kant took up this challenge.
John N. Hooker (5357795)
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Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Expertise in schooling is shaped by the global crisis of expertise, the contested nature of teaching as a profession, and contemporary middle‐class parenting norms. The paper examines these influences by presenting cases of parents who became educators in alternative schools in Israel.
Amit Rottman, Deborah Golden
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Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, such as Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, pluriversality promises a world in which multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and lifeways coexist without
Ilan Kapoor
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Toward a Political Ecology of Mind: Reconciling the Role of Individuals and Systems in Social Change
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT The question of what motivates human behavior is at the heart of efforts to move communities and societies toward more sustainable, equitable, and just relations. Yet, theories of human behavior remain fragmented, contested, and often fail to fully explain why people do what they do.
Philip A. Loring
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1707-1719, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
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Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems
Journal of Family Theory &Review, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 479-491, September 2026.ABSTRACT The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is ...
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Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 452-473, September 2026.Abstract Corporate accountability remains marginal in transitional justice, despite growing evidence of economic actors’ complicity in armed conflicts. This article examines Colombia's transitional justice system to explain the persistent exclusion of corporate responsibility.
LINE JESPERSGAARD JAKOBSEN
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