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Exploring Discourses of Sustainable Development: A Flexible Framework

open access: yesMethodological Innovations, 2013
This paper outlines a research process that explores the relationship between Ulrich Becks reflexive modernity and sustainable development. Sustainable development is becoming increasingly prolific throughout society yet there remains a lack of empirical
Gregory Borne
doaj   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Understanding of Subjective Liveability for People With Disability

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern liveability frameworks aim to enhance health and well‐being through equity‐based measures across built, natural, social, and economic environments, yet they often overlook the perspectives of people with disability. This study explored expectations of liveable neighbourhoods among adults with diverse disability experiences in urban and ...
Maria Hobbs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representing the Unpresentable

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2009
Negar Mottahedeh’s book contains an important analysis of the relationship between Babism and modernity in Iran. The author argues that in order to understand “the historical conditions for Iranian perceptions of modernity” (p.
Elham Gheytanchi
doaj   +1 more source

Substantive and Reflexive Elements in Modern Law [PDF]

open access: yesLaw & Society Review, 1983
The most comprehensive efforts to develop a new evolutionary approach to law are found in the work of Nonet and Selznick in the United States and Habermas and Luhmann in Germany. While these theorists are concerned with a common problem—the crisis of formal rationality of law—they differ drastically in their accounts of the problem and their vision of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Early Endoscopic Repair of Traumatic Skull Base Dural Injuries: Challenging the Dogma of Conservative Management

open access: yesInternational Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Traditional management of traumatic skull base dural injury has often favored observation and conservative therapy, despite the risk of delayed intracranial complications. This paradigm originated when operative intervention required craniotomy and carried significant morbidity.
Jessica W. Grayson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Youth Homelessness in Late Modernity: Reflexive Identities and Moral Worth

open access: yes, 2016
Youth Homelessness in Late Modernity: Reflexive Identities and Moral ...
David Farrugia (14824903)
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Animal stroke models and outcome evaluation: A review

open access: yesAnimal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
Rodents are the preeminent stroke model species. Large animal models exist too, but are poorly standardized. Ischemic and hemorrhagic experimental models are available, with the intraluminal filament model being predominant. Outcomes are evaluated via quantifying subjects' sensorimotor impairment, cognitive memory faculties, degree of cellular ...
Solsa Cariba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A critical reappraisal of the carotid sinus and carotid bulb: Distinguishing neurohistological function from vascular geometry

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
This review redefines the carotid bulb (CB) as a variable geometric dilation shaped by hemodynamics and the carotid sinus (CS) as a conserved neurohistological baroreceptor field. Distinguishing these entities clarifies a century of anatomical confusion and links geometry, neurohistology, and clinical interpretation within a unified framework ...
Răzvan Costin Tudose   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intercultural Discourse, Critique, Emancipation and the Inclusion of the Other

open access: yesEthiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
This paper critically engages contemporary discussions in intercultural philosophy and critical theory in light of achieving a profound critique of grand ideological schemes, propounding a model for an emancipatory praxis and the inclusion of the other ...
Fasil Merawi
doaj   +1 more source

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