Precarious agency: The role of uptake
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
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Comparing Open, Laparoscopic and Robotic Liver Resection for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer-A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
J Surg OncolMkabaah LB +9 more
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how lawyers in China adapt to the “corporatization” of law firms, which limits their professional autonomy within bureaucratic structures. “Proletarianization” theory, which emerged in the 1970s, effectively explains employment relations and internal stratification within the legal profession, but it has been underestimated
Xinyi Shen
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The use of technology in cancer prehabilitation: a systematic review. [PDF]
Front OncolTay SS, Zhang F, Neo EJR.
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many third‐sector organisations (TSOs) deliver employability support for vulnerable groups, but can they address the quality of jobs their users enter? The question is timely in the UK, given structural constraints presented by its neoliberal labour market/welfare regime and the recently elected Labour Government's aim of moving job centres ...
Jonathan Payne +2 more
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On Community Development Research and Practice: Towards a Reflexive Approach
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The lack of an established policy framework by government in Northern Ireland for community development, within the contested objectives of an enforced coalition, mirrors theoretical perspectives that see community development as a contested concept. In contrast, a research programme working with community development organisations in Catholic
David Wall
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What Future for Protected Areas? Analysing the Mismatch between South Africa's Pre-existing Protected areas System and the Declared vision in Contemporary Conservation Policy. [PDF]
Environ ManageAlberts RC +4 more
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Evaluating the impact of enhanced recovery after surgery protocols following oesophagectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials. [PDF]
Dis EsophagusKennelly P +4 more
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