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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Inequality and injustice"”.
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Urban housing constraints and civil society engagement in Cape Town, South Africa : an analysis of the N2 Gateway project
… were anticipating improved living conditions and a better quality of life. Instead, over fifteen years later, many still reside in informal settlements, waiting for their government to rectify decades of inequality and injustice. The housing backlog continues to grow as planners reevaluate …
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The criminal disparity between African American and Caucasian males: Police use of excessive and deadly force in the United States, 1991 - 2014
<p>This research focuses on the use of excessive and deadly force executed by law enforcement agencies in the context of a racial bias operating throughout the United States and its criminal justice systems. America's criminal system past and present, openly displays an enormous amount of …
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The struggle to afford adequate energy : different ways of knowing fuel poverty
… knowing fuel poverty – statistical, procedural and experiential – how they interrelate and interact and the implications that follow for the opportunities and challenges of tackling what has proved a persistent inequality and injustice in UK society. There has been significant policy attention …
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<i>Relative Poverty</i>: Documentary photography, public engagement and making change
… of concerns first highlighted by Allan Sekula and Martha Rosler in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These concerns can be summarised as the usefulness of the public exhibition of social documentary artworks when aiming to affect public opinion. If we want our photography to change the world we …
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The effectiveness of codes of conduct of selected South African mining companies in regulating labour standards: window dressing or genuine regulatory instruments?
Inequality and injustice are deeply rooted within the South African mining industry, and have been since at least the discovery of commercially viable diamonds in 1868, followed by gold in 1886. From the labour policies of the past, the effects of globalisation, and the dysfunctional labour …
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The political ecology of indigenous movements and tree plantations in Chile : the role of political strategies of Mapuche communities in shaping their social and natural livelihoods.
… timber plantations controlled by national and multinational forest corporations have expanded significantly on traditional indigenous territories. Chile’s forestry sector began to expand rapidly in 1974, the year following the military coup, owing to the privatization of forest lands and …
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Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism
… the premise that Eurocentrism, in philosophy and many other areas, continues to be a problem. It comes from the belief in teleological history, which itself rests on hierarchical, anthropocentric metaphysics. To combat the negative effects of Eurocentrism, we must establish alternatives to the …
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Toward a Biblical and Missiological Framework for Transformational Advocacy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
… have been inconsistent in dealing with inequality and injustice in society, swaying between silence, accommodation, positional statements, and direct advocacy approaches. Although advocacy has become more prominent among Adventist thinkers since the end of the twentieth century, there is …
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Engaging high school students in the development of more peaceful communities : a case study in Honduras
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Public Administration: Peace Studies, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2023.