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Beyond a Technocentric Transition: A Diverse Economies Perspective for Social Justice in Circular Economy Business Models

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing interdisciplinary understanding: Disciplinary crossroads in the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Assessing interdisciplinary learning within school curricula remains a persistent challenge in educational research. Difficulties in articulating shared assessment criteria, alongside differing disciplinary and pedagogical perspectives, have contributed to ongoing uncertainty around how interdisciplinary learning should be evaluated.
Hermione Paddle
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptual Metaphors in Political Discourse "Mimpi Prabowo Dan Politik Sepiring MBG": A Cognitive Semantic Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics Research
Makanan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) is an Indonesian government program initiated by Prabowo Subianto and has been implemented since January 6, 2025. The implementation of this government program has garnered many diverse comments, both supportive and critical.
Riandi Marcelino   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Opinion About Community Participation in Natural Resources Governance: A Population Survey in Indonesia and Malaysia

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The international conservation and natural resources communities have increasingly embraced the principle of community participation. This rhetoric around participation has gained power and influence in setting countries' agendas for natural resources governance, largely without a sound understanding of public opinion on the issues.
Rachel S. Friedman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphors in political tweets during national elections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The use of metaphors in political discourse has been constantly researched through the decades. Primarily, metaphors act as a rhetorical device in political discourse aimed at characterising political figures, opponents, events and citizens in persuading
Ramanathan, Renugah   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Analyzing metaphor patterns in COVID-19 news pictures: A critical study in China.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Drawing on Critical Metaphor Analysis, this study investigates major metaphors of the COVID-19 pandemic used by the Chinese government in the specific genre of news picture.
Fu Feifei
doaj   +1 more source

Self-organized bodies, between Politics and Biology. A political reading of Aristotle’s concepts of Soul and Pneuma

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2019
The idea of a self-organized system brings both political and biological discourses together, for they both aim at explaining how a certain compound can achieve self-unity out of plurality. Whereas biological metaphors in politics have been much examined,
Martin Grassi
doaj   +1 more source

METAPHOR IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

open access: yesLingua Montenegrina, 2010
The author has attempted to demonstrate the degree of the presence and function of metaphor in political discourse in the case of print media in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the last war (1992–1995). In that sense, she especially wants to show the frequency of conceptual metaphors and their influence on the formation of
openaire   +1 more source

Civil Society Advocacy and Climate Change in Kenya: The Question of “Local Voices” and Their “Amplification”

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in addressing climate change is acknowledged, but engagement with questions of voice remains limited, especially in the Global South. Addressing this, this paper zooms in on (International) nongovernmental organizations ((I)NGOs) and their collaborations with domestic CSOs in the Global South on ...
Margit van Wessel, Precious Akampurira
wiley   +1 more source

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