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Sublating Sinic Relationism

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2022
This paper aims to bring into the global ethics debate concrete alternative models of specific relational ethics developed in the context of Sinic traditions that have not yet been widely introduced into Western scholarship or integrated into the framework of global discourses on ethics and morality.
openaire   +2 more sources

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pandemic Realism: Exploring the Materialities of Covid-19 in Sarah Moss’s The Fell

open access: yesÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines
In her pandemic fiction, The Fell (2021), Sarah Moss highlights the paradoxes of COVID-19-related lockdowns or so-called periods of “self-isolation” which produced, on a social and mental level, the very asphyxiation that they were meant to prevent on ...
Katia Marcellin
doaj   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

The Body in the Posthumanist Perspective

open access: yesPhilosophies
This essay explores the posthumanist reconfiguration of the body, contrasting it with the humanist paradigm rooted in somatic appropriation and compensatory technology. While the humanist model views the body as incomplete and in need of external support,
Roberto Marchesini
doaj   +1 more source

‘Fit for change’: A preliminary exploration of the relationship between academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists as a complex system

open access: yesPerspectives in Education, 2013
At tertiary institutions in South Africa and internationally, academic literacy practitioners and disciplinary specialists have traditionally functioned as separate communities of practice.
Karin Cattell
doaj   +1 more source

Transition From Primary to Secondary School: Igniting Attendance and Engagement Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students Through National Policy Reform

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Closing the Gap reform aims to address disparities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There are specific targets focussed on key educational transitions; yet, the transition to secondary education is not a targeted priority.
Azhar Hussain Potia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relationality

open access: yes, 2006
The aim of this paper is to outline and briefly illustrate an approach to the analysis of ceremonial events largely inspired by the work of Gregory Bateson, in which ritual performances are envisaged as experiences afforded by the enactment of special relationships.
openaire   +2 more sources

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rights and relationality: A review of the role of law in the human/water relationship

open access: yesWater Alternatives
In this review, we use legal scholarship to explore the way that the law constructs and maintains discourses on both water rights and water relationality.
Erin O’Donnell   +2 more
doaj  

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