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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of environmental tax reform on industrial green development: evidence from China

Frontiers in Environmental Science
IntroductionThe transformation of environmental protection fees into environmental protection taxes in China reflects a broader commitment to ecological civilization.
Zhaoyang Lu, Diao Gou, Lanqin Yang, Ziyue Wu, Hailong Feng   +4 more
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Misjudging [PDF]

, 2007
article published in law journalJudging is difficult. This is obviously so in cases where the law is unclear or the facts are uncertain. But even in those cases where the law is as clear as it can be, and where the relevant facts have been fully ...
Guthrie, Chris
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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

Generative image steganography based on mapping-guided stable diffusion with enhanced robustness

Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
In recent years, diffusion models have exhibited remarkable capabilities in high-fidelity image generation. In this work, a robust image steganography framework is proposed, built upon diffusion models, to enable secure and controllable embedding and ...
Shengcai Zhang, Junkai Fu, Junxiang Xue, Dezhi An   +3 more
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The Bay'al-Wafa Contract from the Perspective of Hanafi Jurisprudence

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
The article discusses the contract of Bay' Wafa' (Sale with Promise) in the context of Islamic jurisprudence (Hanafi Fiqh). Bay’ al-Wafa is a term within a contract that allows the buyer to return the goods to the seller, typically in exchange for a loan,
Tariqullah Malakzai, Zahidullah Sahibzada, Abdul Basit Khedam   +2 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
wiley   +1 more source

AuDiffusion: multi-agent controlled text-to-image generation with attention-enhanced mamba blocks

Complex & Intelligent Systems
We present AuDiffusion, a diffusion framework that introduces a multi-agent design to improve controllability, semantic alignment, and efficiency in text-to-image generation. The system comprises three cooperating agents responsible for enriching textual
Dezhi An, Wanyao Zhang, Shengcai Zhang, Jun Lu   +3 more
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source