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Agents of (un)sustainability: democratising universities for the planetary crisis

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023
As producers and gatekeepers of knowledge, and as providers of education and training, our universities play a key role in the reproduction of unsustainability.
Calum McGeown, John Barry
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Identity Documents and Gender Identity: Towards Inclusive Practices

Perspective Politice
In a world increasingly focused on inclusivity, addressing the challenges faced by gender nonconforming and transgender individuals is crucial. Identity documents are meant to represent us, but the current approaches of administrative systems in ...
Elisabeth-Gabrielle SATALAN
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Think Tanks and Democratisation in South Africa

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
As policy and research institutes, think tanks have advisory and monitoring mandates that could be channelled towards consolidating democracy. Yet, although South Africa has some well-established think tanks (WETT), their presence has not translated ...
Bright Nkrumah
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Ordinary People on Television: A longitudinal study of Swedish Television, 1982–2011

Nordicom Review, 2017
By using a longitudinal design and measuring television content and the occurrence of ordinary television and ‘ordinary’ participants at four different points in time from 1982 to 2011, this study investigates the alleged shift towards ordinariness in ...
Eriksson Göran, Camauër Leonor, Lakew Yuliya   +2 more
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The contribution of a ‘synergic theory of change’ approach to democratising evaluation

Research for All, 2022
This paper focuses on an evaluation of three projects working with young people in innovative ways to tackle societal alcohol misuse. Rather than presenting the findings of the evaluation per se, the paper presents learning from using theory-based ...
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Christian leadership in a South African township community: A reflection on nepotism and its impact on society

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The author reflects on the reality of nepotism in Christian leadership as he has observed in the township of Soshanguve and many other African poverty-stricken communities he has lived in.
Kasebwe T.L. Kabongo
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DEMOCRATISATION OF FOREIGN POLICY IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

International Studies Journal
Research Problem The political elite has significantly shaped Nigeria's foreign policy, especially during the prolonged military rule. However, since its return to democracy in 1999, there has been no correlation between democratic growth and foreign
GUY GOYEI FINEMAN, EMMANUEL JOHN ZWANBIN   +1 more
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Disruptive Democratisers? [PDF]

, 2019
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are described as disruptive and democratising. It is claimed MOOCs have characteristics that challenge traditional forms of education. This chapter critiques these claims, arguing that MOOCs do not always allow for the diverse motivations of masses of learners.
Nina Hood, Allison Littlejohn
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Non-Territorial Autonomy and Political Community in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]

Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 2013
The last two decades have seen the adoption of laws on non-territorial autonomy (NTA) by several states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), as well as debates on the applicability of this concept to other countries of the region. This development has in
David J. Smith
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Démocratisation.

EspacesTemps.net, 2007
Il est un terme dont l’usage est actuellement largement répandu aussi bien dans la société qu’en sciences sociales : celui de démocratisation. Utilisé à tout va, il y fait référence pour parler, par exemple, de la « démocratisation d’internet » dans les ...
Marc Dumont
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