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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetorical Resolutions to the Tension Between Issue Ownership and Agency OR What do you do with an old social movement? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper will apply Gusfield’s theory of issue ownership to one specific social issue: domestic violence. It will briefly trace the evolution of the issue as a social problem, looking at the battered women’s movement.
Hirsch, Christine M, 9313586
core   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Love in Filipino Culture: An Examination of Indigenous Perspectives and Cultural Reflections

open access: yesConatus - Journal of Philosophy
This study explores Filipino cultural and political contexts through the lens of Filipino Indigenous thought, focusing on the philosophical underpinnings of the concept of "loob" and its influence on the understanding of love (pag-ibig).
Christine Carmela Ramos
doaj   +1 more source

Tolstoj tra anarchismo e nonviolenza (Tolstoj between anarchism and nonviolence) [PDF]

open access: yesPolis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2016
The study examines the philosophical, religious and political thought of Lev Tolstoy. Because of an existential crisis which brings him almost to suicide, the great Russian writer “converts” himself to a new conception of life, based on unconditional ...
Antonio VIGILANTE
doaj  

The Practice of Nonviolence: Teaching an Undergraduate Course in Nonviolent Communication

open access: yesJournal of Communication Pedagogy, 2019
This Best Practices article outlines 10 tips relative to teaching a course in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). It outlines suggestions for readings, activities, and projects throughout a semester-long undergraduate course.
Sharon Lauricella
doaj   +1 more source

Negotiating Responsibility: Professionals' Perspectives on Separated Parents' Protective Duties in the Swedish Context

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how social workers perceive and enact informal protective arrangements in the context of Swedish child protection. Drawing on group interviews with practitioners, the findings reveal that social workers underline parents' legal obligation and duty to protect their children, which means that the safe parent is expected to ...
Emma Rindeskog, Lupita Svensson
wiley   +1 more source

Education for Civil Disobedience in the Context of Democratic Decline

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I discuss the educational relevance of civil disobedience as a form of political dissent in contemporary democracies demonstrating signs of significant democratic decline. The article challenges the plausibility of the impactful Rawlsian understanding of civil disobedience in societies in a state of democratic backsliding.
Anniina Leiviskä
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Restructuring Dentistry Studies on Student Stress and Satisfaction Regarding the Curriculum and Educational Methods

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the potential impact of the hospital‐university restructuring implemented since 2016 on students' stress levels and their satisfaction with teaching, while considering other factors that might influence the results.
Camille Bergoin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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