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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution-Free Modal Logics: Sahlqvist–Van Benthem Correspondence

Logics
We present an extension and generalization of Sahlqvist–van Benthem correspondence to the case of distribution-free modal logic, with, or without negation and/or implication connectives.
Chrysafis Hartonas
doaj   +1 more source

Tool support for reasoning in display calculi [PDF]

, 2016
We present a tool for reasoning in and about propositional sequent calculi. One aim is to support reasoning in calculi that contain a hundred rules or more, so that even relatively small pen and paper derivations become tedious and error prone.
Balco, Samuel, Frittella, Sabine, Greco, Giuseppe, Kurz, Alexander, Palmigiano, Alessandra   +4 more
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The ubiquity of conservative translations

, 2012
We study the notion of conservative translation between logics introduced by Feitosa and D'Ottaviano. We show that classical propositional logic (CPC) is universal in the sense that every finitary consequence relation over a countable set of formulas can
da Silva, D’Ottaviano, D’Ottaviano, D’Ottaviano, D’Ottaviano, EMIL JEŘÁBEK, Galatos, Lau, Post   +8 more
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau   +2 more
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Wasta and Gender Inequality in the Workplace: A Conceptual Framework for Social Network Influence in the Middle East and North Africa

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although organizational social networks are extensively researched, the gendered implications of informal networks embedded in distinctive socio‐cultural contexts remains underexplored. This conceptual paper focuses on wasta, a pervasive form of informal network and social capital in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which ...
Maryam Aldossari, Sara Chaudhry, Btissam Aboubichr, Amna Chaudhry   +3 more
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Generalized quantification as substructural logic [PDF]

Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1996
AbstractWe show how sequent calculi for some generalized quantifiers can be obtained by generalizing the Herbrand approach to ordinary first order proof theory. Typical of the Herbrand approach, as compared to plain sequent calculus, is increased control over relations of dependence between variables.
Alechina, N.A., van Lambalgen, M.
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A cognitive view of relevant implication [PDF]

, 2015
Relevant logics provide an alternative to classical implication that is capable of accounting for the relationship between the antecedent and the consequence of a valid implication.
Masolo, Claudio, Porello, Daniele
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Gender and Innovation During a Business Crisis

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research investigates the relational construction of gender and innovation within small and medium enterprises (SMEs) during systemic business crises. Moving beyond essentialist, trait‐based perspectives, this study adopts a processual feminist lens to explore how gendered organizational practices shape innovative capacity during ...
Timothy Kiessling, Jane F. Maley, Sandeep Yadav, Marina Dabić   +3 more
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Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
wiley   +1 more source