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The Message of Amos on Justice and Righteousness and its Relevance to Nigerian Society

Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies
This paper examines the dilemma of the prophet Amos’ message in the Nigerian context amid oil wealth enjoyed by the few rich and political class and the life-threatening poverty of the masses courtesy of the bourgeois.
Manasseh Aasegh Anyamdoom , Daniel Bem Apuuivom   +1 more
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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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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

The Meaning of Urban Environmental Justice [PDF]

, 1994
Environmental justice is redress for the structures and situations arising from environmental discrimination and, particularly, environmental racism.
Gelobter, Ph.D., Michel
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Hermeneutical Injustice, (Self-)Recognition, and Academia [PDF]

, 2020
Miranda Fricker’s account of hermeneutical injustice and remedies for this injustice are widely debated. This article adds to the existing debate by arguing that theories of recog- nition can fruitfully contribute to Fricker’s account of hermeneutical ...
Hänel, Hilkje Charlotte
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Conferences and Symposia [PDF]

, 2008
Judging Genes; Constitutional Injustice; Contracts in IP Litigation; Documentary Film and Criminal Justice; Distinguished Visiting Professors; SARBOX Five Years Later; Diversity in Legal ...

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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

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, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support.
Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher, Julian Laurens, Alinka Fisher, Sabrina Forte, Katrina Reschke, Rosemary Kayess   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source