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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Translating Racial Slurs: A Comparative Analysis of Gran Torino Assessing Transfer of Offensive Language between English and Italian. [PDF]

, 2011
This dissertation focuses on the role played by translations in constructing a cultural product. It chooses the American film 'Gran Torino' (2008) as its source text and discusses the ideological and cultural implications of rendering racial slurs from ...
FILMER, DENISE,ANNE
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Slurs, een descriptief-expressief continuüm.

, 2021
Er is veel discussie ontstaan over de eigenschappen van slurs. Semantici hebben aangetoond dat slurs naast hun referentiële, descriptieve inhoud ook een expressieve, denigrerende component hebben. Slurs hebben volgens vele visies een neutrale tegenhanger.
Neuleman, M.E.M.
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“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Use of South African Ethnic and Racial Slurs on Social Media

International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, 2020
In this paper, I use discourse analysis as a framework to examine Facebook posts and understand how South African ethnic and racial slurs are used and responded to on social media platforms.
Sonia Mbowa
doaj   +1 more source

Erwin Schrödinger und die Versuchungen der (Wissenschafts‐)Biografik: Vorurteilsgefüge und Mechanismen der Skandalisierung

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
Since late 2021, serious allegations have been made against physicist Erwin Schrödinger, ranging from pedophilia to serial sexual abuse. These accusations have significantly tarnished the Nobel Prize winner's public reputation. The ongoing debate has repeatedly raised the question of whether, and to what extent, these grave allegations are justified ...
Magdalena Gronau, Martin Gronau
wiley   +1 more source

Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
wiley   +1 more source

Do Homophobic Slurs Reinforce Heteronormativity? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Homophobic Slurs and Epithets in Film [PDF]

, 2022
Homophobic slurs can reinforce the hegemonic view of heteronormativity, namelythat heterosexuality is the preferable sexuality (Peake, 2013). The aim of this study was toexamine whether a societal heteronormative ideal is strengthened or created by the ...
Du Rietz, Emelie
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Stereo‐electroencephalography–guided cross‐electrode radiofrequency thermocoagulation in focal epilepsy: A review of current methodologies and outcomes

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Advances in stereo‐electroencephalography–guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SEEG‐guided RFTC) have led to the development of cross‐electrode RFTC, which has been shown to result in significantly larger lesions and higher seizure‐freedom rates compared to standard RFTC methods.
Bethany Campbell, Andrew Neal, Emily Cockle, Genevieve Rayner, Rubina Alpitsis, Eliza Blomfield, Terence J. O'Brien, Matthew Gutman, Joshua Laing, Martin Hunn, Alissandra McIlroy   +10 more
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