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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Can the Legal System Bring Justice to Survivors of Sexual Abuse in Spiritual Communities?

open access: yesJournal of Global Buddhism
In this piece, Carol Merchasin reflects on her work as a lawyer investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse in American Buddhist communities over a six-year period.
Carol Merchasin
doaj   +1 more source

Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Democracies often struggle to contain police violence, which undermines the rule of law and reproduces inequality by targeting marginalized citizens. Yet, scholars have shown that repressive policing enjoys considerable public support. Focusing on Brazil, we demonstrate that attitudes toward police violence mirror polarization between left ...
Yanilda María González, Natán Skigin
wiley   +1 more source

Structure and agency in emancipatory reform: A blueprint from a Black union

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The National Labor Convention of 1869, the first of its kind for African American workers, yielded a grand strategy for achieving full emancipation, in which those long subjected to domination might attain durable independence. Drawing upon decades of Black republican thought, this agenda combined macro‐level reforms targeting agrarian and ...
Benjamin T. Lynerd
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and Age Differences in Using Apology Strategies in Saudi Arabia

open access: yesSAGE Open
Apology has been an important topic in personal relationship studies over the past three decades. This study is based on Sugimoto’s empirically derived characterization of apology strategies and explores how Saudis of both genders and of different ages ...
Munira Ali Al-Azraqi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Structural Problems are Solvable Problems: Working Together to Prevent Health Inequities With a Structural Vulnerability Approach

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropologists have long grappled with how to analyze the structural production of harm. Foundational formulations of structural violence demonstrated how social forces became embodied as disparities in health and survival but were difficult to operationalize across anthropological subdisciplines.
Meredith G. Marten   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perceived neighborhood social disorder and attitudes toward domestic violence against women among Latin-American immigrants

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 2009
In the present study we explore the relationship between perceived neighbourhood social disorder (perceived crime and insecurity in residential areas) and attitudes toward domestic violence against women in Latin-American population in Spain (N =350 ...
Asur Fuente   +3 more
doaj  

Worldmaking and Victim-Blaming in Nabokov’s Lolita

open access: yes, 2023
This study explores the intentions of the character Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, as well as the outcome of his words. It also examines the intended as well as the unintended effects on the reader. Humbert’s attempt to lure in the reader by twisting the truth and deflecting blame is analyzed by using worldmaking and victim-blaming ...
openaire   +1 more source

REPRESENTASI VICTIM BLAMING DALAM FILM TO KILL A TIGER [PDF]

open access: yes
Penelitian ini menganalisis victim blaming dalam Film Dokumenter To Kill A Tiger menggunakan semiotika Roland Barthes. Dengan metode kualitatif deskriptif dan studi pustaka, mengidentifikasi bagaimana film ini membangun serta mereproduksi mitos-mitos ...
EDWARD SIHOMBING, -
core   +1 more source

The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Defense of Post‐Viability Abortion

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is often thought that Thomson's Violinist argument is only applicable before the point of viability. In this paper, I propose that this is not the case, offering a novel defense of post‐viability abortion utilising Thomson's self‐defense framework. I first set out Thomson's Violinist argument and how it interacts with viability.
Jina Kim
wiley   +1 more source

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