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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Denialism"”.
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Structural Injustice and the Responsibilities of the Oppressed: The Case of Denialism
Leading accounts of responsibility for structural injustice endorse the idea that all members of an unjust social structure—including those who are oppressed—bear a forward-looking responsibility to help combat structural injustice. Importantly, this idea assumes that all oppressed agents are …
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Afneitunarstefna í opinberri umræðu um stríðsglæpi japanska hersins í seinni heimsstyrjöldinni
… Hugtakið afneitunarstefna (e. historical denialism) er hugtak úr smíði sagnfræðingsins Henry Rousso sem notaði það upphaflega yfir þá sem hafna því að helförin hafi átt sér stað. Hugtakið er notað hér til þess að greina á milli þeirra sem aðhyllast endurskoðunarstefnu í fræðilegum …
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Spaces of contestation: the everyday experiences of ten African migrants in Cape Town
… were called xenophobic acts. It is the recurrent denialism of xenophobia on an everyday basis that this project has explored through the narrative accounts of ten African migrants in Cape Town. The lived everyday experiences of ten African migrants have brought forward the central argument of this …
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Invisible sexual predators & their silent crimes: exploring media constructions of female teacher sex offenders
… of female sex offenders (FSOs), and the trend of denialism surrounding the phenomenon, is the social issue that foregrounds this research. Sex offending continues to be regarded as male dominated and, as a result, research has focused almost exclusively on male sex offenders (MSOs). Recent …
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Facilitating educational access for children with learning disabilities: The implementation of inclusive education in South Africa
… classrooms. Negative attitudes and cultural denialism towards children with learning disabilities as well as financial constraints were also found to be factors that prevent these children from attending school like their non-disabled peers. Other factors that continue to impede access to …
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The prevention of mother to child transmission programme (PMTCT) experiences of HIV positive mothers at Tonga hospital in Nkomazi East
… South Africa, for example, there was element of denialism by government on the fact that treatment could assist in reducing the likelihood of transmitting the virus to the baby. It was only in 2001 after the Treatment Action Campaign took the South African government to court that they were …
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Towards just uncertainties: A mixed method study of environmental crises
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Defeating Cap-and-Trade: Contrarian Access, Organised Disinformation, and the Influence of Fossil Fuel Money in Congress
This dissertation examines how the fossil fuel industry and the broader climate change counter-movement influenced the U.S. congressional debate over cap-and-trade legislation between 2003 and 2010. While extensive scholarship has traced the ideological and institutional foundations of climate …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …