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L’hypothèse de l’autonomisation des grands sous-systèmes et les risques pour la démocratie

open access: yesRevue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, 2017
Luhmann thinks that the "large under-systems" of modern societies have become autonomous. Each one works for itself, everything else (other under-systems) belonging to context. This hypothesis meets Baudrillard’s. Institution theory allows to improve the
Jean-Claude Sallaberry
doaj   +1 more source

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Philosophy behind Quantum Gravity

open access: yesTheoria, 2010
This paper investigates some of the philosophical and conceptual issues raised by the search for a quantum theory of gravity. It is critically discussed whether such a theory is necessary in the first place, and how much would be accomplished if it is ...
Henrik ZINKERNAGEL
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‘Giving Back to Our Community’: The Retention of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Workforce in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia require culturally responsive services. The Australian government has committed to establishing strategies to increase the size of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability workforce; however, there is scant research on the factors influencing retention.
J. Gwynn   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘We Are Australia’: Unpacking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Understandings and Experiences of Australian Identity

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest living custodians in the world. However, Australian identity has been purposefully established to exclude Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contributing to systemic oppression and harmful consequences. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres
Jack Farrugia, Jonathan Bullen
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Death as Rising Entropy: A Theory of Everything for Postmortem Interval Estimation

open access: yesForensic Sciences
Determining the postmortem interval remains one of the most persistent and fragmented challenges in forensic science. Conventional approaches—thermal, biochemical, molecular, or entomological—capture only isolated fragments of a single physical reality ...
Matteo Nioi, Ernesto d’Aloja
doaj   +1 more source

‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Informational Birth of the Universe: A Theory of Everything from Quantum Complexity

open access: yesQuantum Reports
We propose a unified theoretical framework grounded in a Primordial Quantum Field (PQF)—a continuous, non-local informational substrate that precedes space-time and matter. The PQF is represented by a wave functional evolving in an abstract configuration
Gastón Sanglier Contreras   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adipocytokines: Are they the Theory of Everything? [PDF]

open access: yesCytokine, 2020
Maximus PS   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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