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Precarious agency: The role of uptake
Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
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Public health experts agree that sexual violence constitutes a significant public health issue. Yet criminal law dominates rape law almost completely, with public health law playing at best a small supporting role.
Kaplan, Margo
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More Than Regulation: Challenging Habermas on the Future of the Public Sphere
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Bernardo Ferro
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“One Is a Frontier”: Settler Migration as Transmogrification
ABSTRACT This paper explores the trajectories and framing strategies of American Jewish migrants to Palestine–Israel. Drawing on original in‐depth interviews with immigrants who migrated between 1976 and 2021, alongside interviews with and observations of an “aliyah” agency, it examines meaning‐making around spatial relocation in relation to the ...
Joseph Kaplan Weinger
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ABSTRACT This study examines how lawyers in China adapt to the “corporatization” of law firms, which limits their professional autonomy within bureaucratic structures. “Proletarianization” theory, which emerged in the 1970s, effectively explains employment relations and internal stratification within the legal profession, but it has been underestimated
Xinyi Shen
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Linguistic composition based modelling by fuzzy networks with modular rule bases [PDF]
Arabikhan, Farzad +2 more
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SPARC 2017 retrospect & prospects : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts [PDF]
Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2017 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also the 50th anniversary of Salford as a University, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have received a
Abba, MK +129 more
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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