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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Resources for Sale: Corruption, Democracy and the Natural Resource Curse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
A puzzling piece of empirical evidence suggests that resource-abundant countries tend to grow slower than their resource-poor counterparts. We attempt to explain this phenomenon by developing a lobbying game in which rent seeking firms interact with ...
Bulte, E.H., Damania, R.
core   +2 more sources

Erich Fromm and the Critical Theory of Communication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a Marxist psychoanalyst, philosopher and socialist humanist. This paper asks: How can Fromm’s critical theory of communication be used and updated to provide a critical perspective in the age of digital and communicative ...
Engels Friedrich   +42 more
core   +1 more source

Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism

open access: yesThe Journal of Peasant Studies, 2017
A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in howthis is constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise ofdistinct forms of authoritarian populism. In this opening paper of theJPSForum serieson‘Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World’, we explore the relationship betweenthese new ...
Borras, Jun   +6 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Dr. Hans Kohn and the political takeover of the Berlin Medical Society by the National Socialist regime in 1933

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
wiley   +1 more source

Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom in the Anthropocene: Bringing Political Philosophy to Global Environmental Problems

open access: yesFilozofia, 2023
In order to address the current global challenges, including climate change, it is helpful to connect environmental and technology ethics, and bring in political philosophy.
Mark Coeckelbergh
doaj   +1 more source

Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
wiley   +1 more source

Sustaining the teaching profession: Innovating the ‘golden thread’ in university‐led teacher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the implications of England's ‘golden thread’ policy framework for teacher education, which describes a state‐mandated, linear model of professional learning from initial teacher training and education through to continuing professional development.
Amanda Nuttall   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radical, reformist and aborted liberalism: origins of national regimes in Central America

open access: yesAmérica Latina Hoy, 2011
During the twentieth century, the countries of Central America were characterized by remarkably different political regimes: military-authoritarianism in Guatemala and El Salvador, progressive democracy in Costa Rica and traditional-authoritarianism in ...
James MAHONEY
doaj   +1 more source

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