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A translated utopia: Embodied communication, media ideologies, and Star Trek's Universal Translator

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such a technology does not exist, taking its potentialities seriously as folkloric devices allows for an exploration of ideologies relating to ...
Sarah Shulist
wiley   +1 more source

Visibilizing the accountability web: ordinary courts, informal justice efforts, and alternative approaches for addressing mass human rights violations in Syria

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Accountability mechanisms are often perceived as the Achilles’ heel of human rights practice. As classic human rights institutions rarely provide adequate guarantees of accountability, justice actors are increasingly turning to alternative spaces to advance accountability.
BRIGITTE HERREMANS, TINE DESTROOPER
wiley   +1 more source

Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to cooperative firms, characterized by worker ownership and management, as a way for organizations to address the economic, societal and environmental problems posed by corporate capitalism. This renewed interest stems from the potential of cooperatives to foster an alternative economic system ...
Jon Las Heras   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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