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The Organizational Dynamics of Bureaucratic Resistance to Undemocratic Pressures: A Conjoint Experiment in Brazil

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure.
Mariana Costa Silveira, Gabriela Spanghero Lotta, Luciana Cingolani, João Victor Guedes‐Neto, Alexandre de Ávila Gomide, Pedro Masson Sesconetto Souza   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating ...
Ezenwa E. Olumba, Samuel Oyewole, Christopher Isike, Tony Onazi Oche   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retraction: Nexus of green energy, financial inclusion, militarization, and environmental sustainability: A global perspective. [PDF]

PLoS One
PLOS One Editors.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Stigmatizing bioterrorism as a public health concern: The case of anthrax in US media. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Dabezies JM, Freeman N, Muñoz Cassolis N, Rakowski JJ, Xu EJ, Gore ML.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

"They don't care about people; they only care about the money": the effects of border enforcement, commodification and migration industries on the mobility of migrants in transit through Mexico. [PDF]

Front Sociol, 2023
Willers S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Enacting Lived Sovereignty Amid Epistemic and Ontological Violence in the Settler‐Colonial Academy

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and the structural and institutional logics of the settler‐colonial academy. Critical scholarship suggests that higher education can regulate epistemic boundaries, discipline knowledge production, and shape the subjectivities of colonized students.
Nadera Shalhoub‐Kevorkian, Abeer Otman
wiley   +1 more source

Border militarization affects people's interactions with nature in Białowieża Forest. [PDF]

Ambio
Nowak K, Olszańska A, Pietrzyk-Kaszyńska A, Giergiczny M, Niedziałkowski K, Simonienko K, Jaroszewicz B.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns*

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
The ways in which public officials, citizens, and social institutions are held accountable for social problems, including police‐involved killings in the United States, reflect changing attributions of responsibility. Although news reports now rely less on official police narratives and less often stereotype police as heroes and victims as villains ...
Deborah A. Potter
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the patriarchy in conservation. [PDF]

NPJ Biodivers
Bossert L, Crompton T, Dutta A, Seager J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source