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Considering the animating ethos of designing digital first unemployment services: On the motivation of others

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development.
Ray Griffin, Antoinette Jordan, Aisling Tuite   +2 more
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Beyond administrative burden: Activation and administrative harm

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐
Michael McGann, Sarah Ball
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Confronting the Hidden Dimensions of the Moral Life: A Caribbean Catholic Contribution

Religions
This article contributes to the reimagining of Roman Catholic ethics in the twenty-first century, building on the research of Sweeny Block, who argues that the unconscious dimensions of the moral life play a decisive role in moral agency.
Anna Kasafi Perkins
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A scoping review of non‐binary research in “Australian” social sciences: Community, solidarity, resilience and resisting marginalisation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Non‐binary and genderqueer identities are increasingly discussed in public discourse and academia, but there remains a dearth of academic literature centred on non‐binary people's lives and experiences. When non‐binary people are included in research, it is frequently as an additive to explorations of trans identities and subsumed under the ...
Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark, Chloe Falzon
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Undoing one’s past

Filosofia Unisinos, 2018
In contemporary research on memory, the idea of mental time travel (MTT) has been connected, at the functional level, with planning and imagining what might occur in one’s future.
Eduardo Vicentini de Medeiros
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Moral diversification and moral agency: contesting business ethics among Chinese e-commerce traders

The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020
Scholarship on morality in contemporary Chinese society is divided. Some studies concur with the public discourse that a moral crisis is occurring. Others argue that there has been a continuity or revival of morality.
Linliang Qian
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Caring Futures: Australian Attitudes About the Desirability of Care Work

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid increasing public and policy attention on the care and support sector, which millions of Australians rely upon for essential services, care workers continue to advocate for better pay and fairer conditions. This article draws on the concepts of recognition, value and social distribution from feminist ethics of care scholarship to explore ...
Laura Davy, Ariadne Vromen, Serrin Rutledge‐Prior, Molly Saunders   +3 more
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Integrity Versus Ideology in Automated Assessment: The Jobseeker Snapshot

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the entanglement of political ideology and digitalisation in the Australian approach to online assessment of claims for income security, with a focus on job seeker classification. In the Australian social security system, the Job Seeker Classification Instrument (JSCI) has been used to screen and ‘score’ income security ...
Angelika Papadopoulos
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Cultural pathways and pitfalls in South Africa: a reflection on moral agency and leadership from a Christian perspective

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2010
The nature and importance of moral agency for the transformation of persons and society, particularly from a Christian perspective, are discussed in this article.
L. Kretzschmar
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