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Social Work and Domestic Violence in Croatia Through a Gendered Lens: Between Power and Precarity
This article examines the gender-blind perception of the social work profession in Croatia and its relation to domestic violence cases. In the past few years, the media and the public have routinely expressed outrage at social workers for not preventing ...
Jana Kujundžić
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Whiteness, Scapegoating, and Scarcity: Medicalizing ‘the US Opioid Crisis’
This paper characterizes the successful civil lawsuits brought by sub-national units of government in the US against multinational pharmaceutical companies to recover the costs of public expenditures (goods and services) incurred as they attempt to ...
Katherine Pettus
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Should we take sides?: Girard, Mouffe, et al on graceful divisiveness [PDF]
This paper interprets the rhetoric and social phenomena of “taking sides” and “scapegoating” amidst radical societal division. Exploring the social mechanics of unity and division, I visit the work of René Girard and Chantal Mouffe, who offer a lucid ...
Christopher Adam Haw
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Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These (2021) brings such notions as purity, impu- rity and scapegoating into discussion within the context of the convent laundries in Ireland.
Mümin Hakkıoğlu, Mustafa Güneş
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La collaboration chercheurs – praticiens à l’épreuve du mécanisme du bouc émissaire.
By applying a reflexive and experiential analysis, our paper questions the relationship between researchers and practitioners, specifically their developing interactions while carrying out collaborative research on the working practices of implementing ...
Rémi Casanova
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The Gentle People of Prejudice [PDF]
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Overstreet, H.A.
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Itinéraire d’un bouc emissaire: A Scapegoat’s Journey
Sacrifice is an important part of religious, ethical and political life. In addition, the term;sacrifice’ has several meanings; one of them denotes a victim of crime.
Erika Prijatelj
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Girard and Nietzsche's phenomenology of victims [PDF]
In this paper I argue that Nietzsche and Girard provide, for the first time, a phenomenology and genealogical account of the victim as both an ontological and moral category.
Duane Armitage
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Financial control, blame avoidance and Radio Caroline: Talkin’ ‘bout my generation [PDF]
This research examines the use of financial mechanisms that simultaneously impose controls and facilitate blame avoidance by public office-holders. A qualitative historical examination is used to examine legislation designed to prevent Radio Caroline, a
Aberdare LM +42 more
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Popular critiques of consultancy and a politics of management learning? [PDF]
In this short article, I argue that popular business discourse on the role of management consultancy in the promotion and translation of management ideas is often critical, informed by more or less implicit ethical and political concerns with employee ...
Andrew Sturdy +13 more
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