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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
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Student activism and democratic quality in Ghana’s Fourth Republic

Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2013
Student activism has been pivotal in Ghana’s political and democratic history. Prior toGhana’s Fourth Republic, student activism was highly confrontational and entailed studentsupport or opposition to the various regimes depending on the extent to which ...
Ransford Edward Van Gyampo
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Towards the Design of an Active Grid [PDF]

, 2002
Grid computing is a promising way to aggregate geographically distant machines and to allow them to work together to solve large problems. After studying Grid network requirements, we observe that the network must take part in the Grid computing session to provide intelligent adaptative transport of Grid data streams.By proposing new intelligent ...
Jean-Patrick Gelas, Laurent Lefèvre
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley, Katie Wright, Kate O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated corporate governance and management control framework to reduce shareholder activism

Cogent Business & Management
Purpose paper Demonstrate how the instruments of corporate governance and management control, when used together, can mitigate the problems arising from shareholder activism. Research design, methodology and approach This study adopted an interventionist
Carlos Cristiano Poltronieri, José Carlos Tiomatsu Oyadomari, Octávio Ribeiro de Mendonça Neto, Daniel Magalhães Mucci   +3 more
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Buffering the adverse effects of social nonmarket strategy on corporate financial performance [PDF]

Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology
Purpose – Firms are advocating for social change to a growing extent, but the performance implications of corporate activism are not clearly understood.
James D. Doyle, John A. Parnell
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital citizenship among economics students: the synergy of internet political activism, technical skills, critical perspective and networking agency

Discover Education
This study examines digital citizenship among higher education Economics students, focusing on the interplay between technical skills, critical perspective, networking agency, and political activism on the internet.
Ernest Opoku, Emmanuel Quayson, Francis Arthur, Iddrisu Salifu, Stanley Asare-Bediako, Emmanuel Rungson Attom, Eric Boateng, Sharon Abam Nortey   +7 more
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