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

open access: yesAustralian 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   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Rights of Corporations in the United States and the European Union: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective

open access: yesGerman Law Journal
This Article offers a first comparative analysis of the evolution of U.S. corporate personhood doctrine and the “freedom to conduct a business” under Article 16 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Tim Horvat
doaj   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian 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

US AND THE OTHERS: NOTION OF PERSON IN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS DEBATES ABOUT INDIGENOUS INFANTICIDE

open access: yesEspaço Ameríndio, 2014
This essay reflects upon the contrasting conceptions of personhood which pervade the legal debate surrounding indigenous infanticide. For the defenders of the Muwaji Law - as the Project of Law 1057/07 became known, which proposes the criminalization of ...
Marlise Mirta Rosa
doaj  

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian 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

Anti-Abortion Discourse in Canada after the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

open access: yesGroundings
This study investigates the current (November 2023) discourse of anti-abortion activists in Canada to see if the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 has changed the prevalent themes.
Carys Thomson
doaj   +1 more source

In Defense of Property [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This Article responds to an emerging view, in scholarship and popular society, that it is normatively undesirable to employ property law as a means of protecting indigenous cultural heritage. Recent critiques suggest that propertizing culture impedes the
Carpenter, Kristen A.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

How Do I Answer This? A Queer Critique of Australian Census Forms and the Reification of Cisheteronormative Families

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a critical examination of Australia's 2021 household, individual and interviewer census forms. Using a form‐led analysis, this research scrutinises the underlying cisheteronormative logic that implicitly shapes the Census process, from data collection to distribution of findings.
Xavier Mills, Sal Clark
wiley   +1 more source

Complex Personhood as the Context for Intimate Partner Victimization: One American Indian Woman\u27s Story [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This qualitative case study explores one American Indian (AI) woman’s experience of intimate partner violence and the subsequent murder of her abusive partner.
Lemire, Lynne   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Natural Persons, Juridical Persons and Legal Personhood

open access: yesMexican Law Review, 2015
The study of commercial law can be divided into four basic categories: (a) individuals (natural persons); (b) objects of commerce; (c) legal instruments and (d) administrative and legal procedures. Business relations between individuals and business entities requires significant legal documentation, including atypical or nonstandard business contracts.
openaire   +2 more sources

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