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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné +3 more
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“Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant”
Voices in Bioethics, 2014 End of life issues don’t always have to be so difficult to discuss, especially upon reading New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s new memoir, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant.” Now spending its eighth week at the top of The New York Times best ...
Randi Belisomo
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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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The Psychos Are Coming, the Psychos Are Coming … They’re Already Here
Voices in Bioethics, 2016 American director Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion wastes no time in laying out the context of his film on the contemporary interconnectedness of the earth’s inhabitants and the concomitant susceptibility to catastrophe that such relationships imply ...
Edmund Weisberg
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The Gonzo lecture: counterculture in the classroom [PDF]
, 2010 This paper argues that certain university teachers consciously struggle against authoritarian oppression in their jobs and that the emergence of a countercultural teaching communication, in the form of a ‘gonzo’ style, is one inevitable development.
Bladen, Charles
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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The Laughter in and around Treasure Tales
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic StudiesTraditional treasure tales can be interpreted as stories of success and failure. Based on the texts in the Estonian Folklore Archives, the current article focuses on the role of laughter within treasure tales and in their audiences.
Mare Kalda
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The Image of the “Promised Land” in Vladimir Lorchenkov’s Novel “We Will All Be There”
Филологический класс, 2020 The aim of the article is to analyze the image of the “promised land” on the basis of V. V. Lorchenkov’s literary work “We Will All Be There”. The Moldovan writer, writing in Russian, is actively experimenting with form, language and genre.
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PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies, 2017 'Home' as a multidimensional concept has been receiving increasing critical attention, especially, in Diaspora Studies. Shaped by a globalizing discourse, the word 'home' evokes multiple emotions and sentiments. Its signification not only changes when articulated from different locations but is also shaped by other determinants like ethnicity, class ...
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