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Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation Open
Paradigmatic transition is the idea that ours is a time of transition between the paradigm of modernity, which seems to have exhausted its regenerating capacities, and another, emergent time, of which so far we have seen only signs. Modern…
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Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation Open
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of …
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What is Racism? Open
This article provides a definition of racism inspired in the work of Frantz Fanon, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and contemporary Caribbean Fanonian Philosophers. It discusses racism in relation to zone of being and zone of non-being. Racism …
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Emancipation through digital entrepreneurship? A critical realist analysis Open
Digital entrepreneurship is presented in popular discourse as a means to empowerment and greater economic participation for under-resourced and socially marginalised people. However, this emancipatory rhetoric relies on a flat ontology tha…
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The Mediating Role of Emotions Open
Emotions play an important role in explaining why news framing has effects on opinions about immigration. Yet, our knowledge regarding which emotions are relevant for different types of news frames is limited. This survey experiment ( N = …
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The “migrant with poor prospects”: racialized intersections of class and culture in Dutch civic integration debates Open
The recent trend towards selective immigration policies is based on the racialization of certain categories of migrants into irretrievably unassimilable Others. In Europe, this trend has materialized largely through the application of inte…
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Open
"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring …
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Entrepreneurship among the Displaced and Dispossessed: Exploring the Limits of Emancipatory Entrepreneuring Open
This paper explores the links between entrepreneurship, emancipation and gender within the international development arena. Through a longitudinal analysis of a micro‐enterprise development project in which intermediary organizations contr…
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Social entrepreneurship as emancipatory work Open
Building on the 'entrepreneuring as emancipation' perspective, I explore the emancipatory potential of social entrepreneurship as a means to disengage individuals enthralled to ideology and trapped by their own past behavior. I studied two…
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<i>‘And now I’m free</i>’: Women’s empowerment and emancipation through entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia and Sweden Open
Critical perspectives have called for the study of women’s entrepreneurship as a route to social change. This ‘social turn’ claims women are empowered and/or emancipated through entrepreneurship with limited problematisation of how these i…
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The case for reinvigorating quality of working life research Open
The quality of working life became an important topic in the 1960s and 1970s, helping to stimulate an early approach to evidence-based policy advocacy drawing on interdisciplinary research by social scientists. Over the years it fell out o…
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Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism Open
Acknowledgements I Introduction to the Issues 1. Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism John Holloway. Fernando Matamoros, Sergio Tischler 2. Why Adorno? John Holloway 3. Pied Pipers and Polymaths: Adorno's Critique of Pr…
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Global citizenship education at the crossroads: Globalization, global commons, common good, and critical consciousness Open
This article-dialogue addresses current criticisms of global citizenship and challenges frequent misinterpretations of Global Citizenship Education (GCE), while discussing what it means to educate for critical global citizenry in an increa…
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Accounting as differentiated universal for emancipatory praxis Open
Purpose: We seek to add to efforts to treat the relationship between accounting, democracy and emancipation more seriously, giving recognition to difference in this context. To open up space for emancipatory praxis vis-à-vis accounting, we…
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Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Global South: Empowering and Emancipating? Open
This paper addresses the following questions: Are women entrepreneurs empowered by entrepreneurship, and critically, does entrepreneurship offer emancipation? Our theoretical position is that entrepreneurship is socially embedded and must …
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans Open
The roots of white supremacy lie in the institution of negro slavery. From the 15th through the 19th century, white Europeans trafficked in abducted and enslaved Africans and justified the practice with excuses that seemed somehow to recon…
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Don’t be fooled by ignorant schoolmasters: On the role of the teacher in emancipatory education Open
The question I address in this article is how we might understand the role of the teacher in education that seeks to promote emancipation. I take up this question in conversation with German and North-American versions of critical pedagogy…
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Architecture and Empire in Jamaica Open
Architecture and Empire in JamaicaLouis P. NelsonThrough Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. A…
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The Entrepreneurial Story and its Implications for Research Open
Research is not merely report-writing; it also involves elements of storytelling. In this essay, we reflect on two narrative archetypes in entrepreneurship research: the stories of entrepreneurship as a road to salvation and means to emanc…
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‘Strategic (dis)obedience’: Female entrepreneurs reflecting on and acting upon patriarchal practices Open
It has been suggested that entrepreneurship is a form of emancipation and social change for women. We adopt a more comprehensive view by considering micro‐emancipation at the level of both agency and identity of women entrepreneurs in patr…
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The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century Open
A product of the groundbreaking, collaborative work of the Colored Convention Project (CCP), a series of essays edited by Gabrielle P. Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, in concert with the book’s “digital components . . . is a …
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Association between domestic violence and women's quality of life Open
Objective: to analyze the association between domestic violence against women and quality of life. Method: a cross-sectional population-based household survey conducted with women 18 years and older, using a stratified sample by neighborho…
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The double-edged sword of digital self-care: Physician perspectives from Northern Germany Open
Increasingly, patients are expected to take initiative and care for themselves through practices of digital self-care: by generating data, by looking for people who can help them make sense of the information, and by being the main actors …
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The Social Imaginary of Emancipation in Entrepreneurship Open
This article contributes to the research agenda of emancipatory entrepreneurship by developing the understanding of emancipation as a social imaginary in entrepreneurship. In particular, we draw on fiction and philosophical hermeneutics to…
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Byron and the Poetics of Adversity Open
A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badl…
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Enhancing children’s literacy and ecological literacy through critical place-based pedagogy Open
This article advocates a holistic approach to education concerning literacy and ecological literacy development and builds on data from two different case studies in compulsory school classes in Sweden. The study is built on action-based r…
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The Politics of Ambiguity: Conditional Manumission, Labor Contracts, and Slave Emancipation in Brazil (1850s–1888) Open
Although it seems that slaves in Brazil in the nineteenth century had a better chance of achieving freedom than their counterparts in other slave societies in the Americas, studies also show that a significant proportion of manumissions th…
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Taking the trouble: science, technology and security studies Open
A multitude of new research themes and objects, especially technological innovations and knowledge practices, have come to populate international relations and security politics. Many critical security scholars are engaging theoretical res…
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The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology Open
The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation of the widely acknowledged failings of social sciences, not least of modern economics, thi…
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Why AI Ethics Is a Critical Theory Open
The ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) is an upcoming field of research that deals with the ethical assessment of emerging AI applications and addresses the new kinds of moral questions that the advent of AI raises. The argument presen…