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Struggles Against Bilateral FTAs: Challenges for Transnational Global Justice Activism
Studies in Social Justice, 2012 The past decade has seen major movements and mobilizations against the new crop of bilateral free trade and investment agreements being pursued by governments in the wake of the failure of global (World Trade Organization) and regional (e.g.
Aziz Choudry
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Studies in Social Justice, 2016 The dominance of medicalized “psy” discourses in the West has marginalized alternative perspectives and analyses of madness, resulting in the under-inclusion (or exclusion) from mainstream discourse of the firsthand experiences and perspectives of those ...
Stephanie LeBlanc +1 more
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Studies in Social Justice, 2016 In this article we argue that the university cannot fully contribute to democratic life without being both an institution whose governance is collegial and based on principles of equality, equity, inclusion, transparency, and accountability, and a vector
Dalie Giroux +2 more
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaSignificance The almost perfect proton selectivity of the human voltage-gated proton (hHv1) channels is a long-standing mystery. The extensive multiscale simulations in this paper offer quantitative insight into the mechanism behind the selective proton ...
Yu Liu +4 more
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Rethinking the Secular in Feminist Marriage Debates
Studies in Social Justice, 2010 The religious right often aligns its patriarchal opposition to same-sex marriage with the defence of religious freedom. In this article, I identify resources for confronting such prejudicial religiosity by surveying two predominant feminist approaches to
Ada S. Jaarsma
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Participants’ home as an interview context when studying sensitive family issues
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2013 This article considers the meaning of the participants’ home as an interview context when studying sensitive family issues. The article is based on two qualitative family studies by the authors on foster children’s perspectives on their home and their ...
Kati Hämäläinen, Susanna Rautio
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Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2013 This paper reports on a teaching experiment in which social work students (n=38) practiced problem solving through argumentative tasks. A teaching experiment was carried out at a Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences in Finland in connection with a ...
Kati Vapalahti +2 more
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Adult Workers in Theory or Practice?
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2012 This paper examines lone mothers’ participation in active labour market programmes in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV employment and welfare policy reforms, expectations that non-em- ployed parents receiving means-tested benefits should be ready for ...
Cordula Zabel
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Special rights within universal welfare
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2016 Over the past two decades, several measures have been developed to provide assistance to persons defined as victims of trafficking. This article describes and discusses the organization of barriers and access to assistance (such as housing, medical ...
Anette Brunovskis
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Are we right to blame it all on colonialism?
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2015 The study on the history school subject showed that any reenactment of the history discipline should include the reinterpretation of identities from a historical perspective, and this reinterpretation should start with colonial history because this is ...
Alinane Priscilla Kamlongera Katenga-Kaunda
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