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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Economic justice"”.
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Recognition, Normative Reconstruction and Economic Justice: National and Transnational Perspectives
… approach to the theory of justice for the economic sphere, reflecting domestic and transnational perspectives. In the first part, I first reconstruct and critically evaluate how Honneth’s views on justice in the economic sphere have evolved from Struggle for Recognition to …
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GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
… are activists engaged in working for social and economic justice (the ultimate goal of my work). This intentional genre-fluidity in the text is queer (open to new forms and to possible failure) and feminist (multi- vocal and praxis-oriented), and it is both personal and political. Drawing on …
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Beyond the Psychological Contract: Ideology and the Economic Social Contract
… for assessing differential expectations of economic justice within the economic social contract of the United States. I argue that distinct views of such a contract grounded in the tradition of individualism and communitarianism manifest in people's judgments about economic justice. We …
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Information without power? Exploring the challenges and opportunities in the usage of the Promotion of Access to Information Act no 50 of 2000 (PAIA) as a potent tool for advancing socio-economic justice in South Africa Langton Miriyoga.
… culminating in the realisation of their socio economic rights. Conversely, in spite of the opportunities for the usage of ATI law as a tool for advancing social justice, the state often retains the power to defy requests for access to information hence power to deny access thereto. This …
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International Trade: A Justice Approach
… redress. It largely ignores concerns for global economic justice, and fails those most in need of a strategy to help them move out of extreme poverty. It exacerbates inequalities, both between states in global society and within individual countries. It also creates a competitive pressure on …
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The American Community College's Obligation to Democracy
… in order to empower citizens, support justice and create more sustainable communities. My call for reform involves a multicultural integration of philosophy into terminal/vocational programs as well as evolving the traditional liberal arts course to exist in a multicultural setting. …
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A Machine Learning Approach to Recognize Environmental Features Associated with Social Factors
… this thesis we aim to supplement the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CE JST), which assists federal agencies in identifying disadvantaged census tracts, by extracting five environmental features from Google Street View (GSV) images. The five environmental features are garbage bags, …
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Essays on Criminal Justice and Inequality
… three essays on policing and criminal justice, algorithms and inequality. The first two essays examine the efficacy and equity implications of data-driven algorithms that are increasingly used in important life-altering decision-making contexts. The third essay investigates when crime …
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Shattered windows: The story of Genora Johnson Dollinger, Eva Stone, and the women of Michigan
… rising meat prices, further uniting women in economic activism. This work examines the unique contributions of these women, situating their efforts within a broader labor history and highlighting their lasting impact on labor rights and women’s activism. Utilizing primary sources and archival …
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Beyond ethical reflections : neo-liberalism, idolatry and Canadian catholic social teaching
… laissez-faire capitalism, a form of economics that asserts the free market, unencumbered by government restraint, is the only path to human social and economic fulfillment. Canadian Catholic social teaching has approached neo-liberalism through the door of social ethics. However, some …
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Generations Apart: A Mixed Methods Study of Black Women's Attitudes About Race and Social Activism
… that fought for political, social, and economic justice. Historically, Black women have engaged in the struggle for group survival while at the same time fighting for institutional transformation to eliminate or change discriminatory policies, practices, and procedures. With each passing …
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Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
… It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of markets in labor and land. Through this reconstruction, I demonstrate how the normative foundations of early free market thought were contested throughout the …
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Reinterpreting The Moral Economy – Building on the Economic Possibilities of Selflessness
… communities with shared values and practices of economic justice. Its reinterpreted form, which this dissertation has arrived at, reflects a social system realising the economic potential of selflessness, which economies above subsistence levels, and at any scale, have the capacity to evolve …
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Racialized Fields: Asians, Mexicans, and the Farm Labor Struggle in California
… The study investigates how the battle for economic justice, in which farm workers engaged, did not center solely on issues of class. Instead, I utilize the sociological lens of race theories to examine how farm workers confronted historically rooted forms of racism that acted differently …
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A Fresh Start Comes from God
… acts, both the Holiness Code and Deuteronomy set economic justice as a cornerstone of their theology. They serve as a culmination of what it means to be the people of YHWH. Analyzing the biblical clean-slate acts in light of the larger tradition shows that the Year of Jubilee and the Šemittah Year …
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Gender and community: Womanist and feminist perspectives in the fiction of Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, and Louise Erdrich
… within the context of movements for racial and economic justice, recognizing the multiple forms of oppression that they live under. The feminism that is articulated by women of color and working class women recognizes the complex interrelations among patriarchy, racism, and the class structure, …
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A Discourse Analysis of the Centered and Critical Scholar-Activism of Martin Luther King Jr.
… of themes, which include eight major foci: (1) Economic Justice; (2) Racial Equality/Integration; (3) Existentialism; (4) Social Activism/Service; (5) Theology/Activism; (6) Revolution/Leadership; (7) Black Ideology/Liberation/Black Theology; and (8) Anti-Militarism/Anti-Poverty. This author …
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leadership and early childhood education for sustainability: a multiple case study
… life, (b) ecological integrity, (c) social and economic justice, and (d) democracy, non-violence, and peace. The aim of this study was to describe leadership traits and leadership experiences of leaders in early childhood settings that demonstrated sustainability principles. Purposeful sampling …
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Intersections of Welfare and Child Welfare Systems and Single Mothers' Activism in the U.S.
… struggle to demand welfare rights as social and economic justice. This study highlighted that patriarchal gender orders have been institutionalized through the implementation of social welfare policy, and mothers have organized activism to challenge such gender orders.
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Islamic Insurance A modern approach with particular reference to western and Islamic Banking
… prohibition of Ribä (usury) as incompatible with economic justice, also the objection by Muslims to Gharar (risk ) and Qimar (gambling), the legitimate grounds for making money, and achieving harmony between the material and the spiritual (4) Medieval Christian and Islamic doctrine regarding usury …
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