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U.S./European Summit on Missing & Exploited Children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In October 2005, representatives from 20 countries, the United Nations, European-Union institutions, and the Council of Europe participated in the first-ever U.S./European Summit on Missing and Exploited Children.

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Precarious agency: The role of uptake

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Porn: A Critical Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The impacts of pornography are varied and complex. Performers are often thought to be victims of abuse and exploitation, while viewers are regularly accused of becoming desensitised to sexual violence. Further, porn is held by some to perpetuate damaging
Collins, Rory
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SOME ASPECTS OF COMPARATIVE LAW REGARDING CHILD PSEUDOPORNOGRAPHY AND VIRTUAL CHILD PORNOGRAPHY [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society
The present study aims to bring to the fore domestic law provisions and their interpretation in national judicial practice in four (4) countries with a long democratic tradition, namely the United States of America, France, the Netherlands and Belgium,
Bogdan NICULESCU
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
wiley   +1 more source

Pornography and social ills: Evidence from the early 1990s [PDF]

open access: yes
Beginning from the hypothesis that private post office boxes accommodate consumption of pornographic magazines by lowering some aspects of the cost (risk of social stigmatization) associated with the purchasing of such items, I demonstrate that a ...
Winai Wongsurawat
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No One Mourns the Wicked: The Ethics of Mourning Morally Flawed Celebrities

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Carme Isern‐Mas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A shift in writer identity: teacher reflections on how their sense of self as writers informs practice

open access: yesLiteracy, Volume 60, Issue 2, May 2026.
Abstract This paper explores the experiences and reflections of primary teachers who participated in a UK collaborative professional development that focussed on developing teacher‐writer identity through online writing workshops. The notion that teachers who identify as writers better understand their pupils as writers is central to the study; however,
Kerry Assemakis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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