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Women’s Agency through Fashion in North Korea’s Transition
International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2022 North Korean women’s fashion has changed in the context of women’s relatively recently assumed role as critical actors in North Korea’s market-dependent economy.
Kyungja Jung, Bronwen Dalton
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Who is an Actor? Analyzing Agency in a Lab's Social World [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 The notion of agency has a long history in the theorization of laboratory work. This study contributes to the conversation about agency by bringing insights from the ways in which scientists interact with the material and biological tools in the genetics laboratory.
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'Life is about choices, but external factors often affect outcomes': social work students' reasoning about the origins of social problems [PDF]
, 2014 It has been suggested that the emerging generation of social workers tend to be motivated primarily by a perception of the individual as the locus of 'social problems', ignoring the structural factors that shape and constrain the conditions of agency ...
Kirk, Guy +3 more
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Social movement organizations agency for sustainable organizing [PDF]
, 2021 Public outcry over environmental issues has taken on stellar proportions in the past few years. We currently witness an intense struggle over meaning around climate change between economic, political and civil society actors and it is not clear which ...
Delmestri Giuseppe +2 more
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Ecology and Society, 2022 Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) seeks to align the interests of local communities and conservation institutions. A significant challenge to this realignment is that CBNRM is often implemented in locations with colonial histories of ...
Julie L. Snorek, Douglas T. Bolger
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Campos Organizacionais: Seis Diferentes Leituras e a Perspectiva de Estruturação [PDF]
RAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 2010 The concept of the organizational field has been greatly dealt with in the literature on institutional theory in recent years. As the concept of field involves a relational and symbolic dimension, we propose that the theory of structuration, based on the
Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva +2 more
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Conceptualizing sustainability in the real estate development process
Sustinere: Journal of Environment and Sustainability, 2019 Operationalizing sustainability within the real estate development is a challenge as such development process is complex, multidisciplinary in nature and involves multiple agencies.
Upuli Perera, Collins Adjei Mensah
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African Agency in a Changing Security Environment: Sources, Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]
, 2013 This special issue contributes to the growing debate on the nature and limits of African agency. It does so by focusing on the possibilities of and constraints on agency in the security sphere.
Hammerstad, Anne
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Ideas, power and agency: policy actors and the formulation of language-in-education policy for multilingualism [PDF]
, 2022 The processes of formulation of language policies have not been researched thoroughly. This paper aims to explore the relationship between ideas, power and agency in language policy-making and specifically with reference to the formulation of language-in-
Erdocia, Iker +2 more
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Chapter 6 Extending agency [PDF]
, 2016 By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines.
Raithelhuber, Eberhard
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