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Rethinking knowledge production through standpoint, decolonisation and inters…
This chapter explores the methodology and epistemological interventions of standpoint theory, specifically focusing on the work of feminist philosopher Sandra Harding. The chapter introduces the development of Harding’s standpoint theory and shows how it has engaged in dialogue with and contributed to feminism, decolonial theory and intersectionality.
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Reaching the unreachable: how to recruit those forcefully returned due to cri…
Both deportation and criminal convictions carry a heavy social stigma and can have a significant effect upon people who have had contact with the deportation machine and criminal justice system, as well as upon their families. Finding people who have experienced conviction and deportation and are willing to share their difficult stories poses a particular challenge to researchers.
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Modelling transition-related shocks in the green economy
Limiting global temperature increases to 2°C above pre-industrial levels will necessitate a transition away from fossil fuels and towards low-carbon forms of energy production. While an energy technology transition is necessary to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change, the transition and its drivers may also generate a number of transition risks, including asset stranding
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Chapter 2: MEDICAL INFORMATION COMMONS: CONCEPTUAL, LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDE…
The practice of medicine, the delivery of health care and public health services, and biomedical research have all become more data-intensive. The importance of managing information has become apparent, and with it attention to building knowledge commons. This chapter describes factors that influence the creation and use of diverse sets of data that enable biomedical advances. First, we charact…
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Economics or politics? Assessing immigration as a challenge to the welfare state
Two main theoretical accounts understand immigration as an economic challenge for welfare states. The first is the fiscal burden hypothesis, which posits that the net economic effect of immigration is negative
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Decoupling and redistribution in realising the Sustainable Development Goals
The negotiations to form the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) based on the 2012 Rio +20 Conference outcome document, “The Future We Want” (UN, 2012), was in many ways a widely inclusive multistakeholder effort that resulted in multilateral consensus around 17 goals with 169 targets.
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Celtic Spells and Counterspells’ from Book: Understanding Celtic Religion: …
This is a chapter from Understanding Celtic Religion: Revisiting the Pagan Past, edited by Katja Ritari and Alexandra Bergholm. Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre-Christian and Christian elements, the challenges involved in the understanding of these different strata have not been subjected to critical examination
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Chapter 2: A state-of-the-art review and future directions in gender and migr…
The objective of this chapter is twofold. It aims on one side to resolve definitional ambigu- ities on the research of gender and migration, and on the other to provide an integrated and synthesized overview of the current state of knowledge in order to offer a pathway for future research
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Steps towards decolonising contact improvisation in the university
To begin the work of anti-oppression and anti-racism is to start from an acknowledgement of positionality and privilege or oppression. Mine is a privilege of a mobile life lived in many countries as well as the complexity of a multi-lineage family, with traumatic histories of migration and displacement, as well as arrival and settlement
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Fostering attentional awareness for connectedness, with agility and empathy a…
Attitudes and methods of dance training and education today are more varied than ever before and young people encounter a wide range of approaches
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