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Showing 1 to 20 of 337 for “"Injustices"”.
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Social Injustices Portrayed in Dickens' Novels
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Confronting Founding Injustices: Reconstructive Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Legitimacy in Postcolonial States
<p>Why do some postcolonial constitutions achieve higher constitutional legitimacy than others? Across the Global South, constitutions have proliferated while legitimacy remains uneven and contested. Existing scholarship explains variation in constitutional legitimacy in postcolonial states through …
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Addressing Injustices through MOOCs: A study among peri-urban, marginalised, South African youth
… cultural-epistemic, political, and geopolitical injustices they face. To evaluate what South African peri-urban youth desire in their education and futures, as well as the challenges they experience, a seven-part survey was conducted with 250 youth from five townships in South Africa. Responses …
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Using Community Engagement to Address Injustices: A Case Study of San Francisco Tobacco-Free Coalition
<p dir="ltr">This case study research examined the San Francisco Tobacco-Free Coalition (SFTFC)’s fight to remove menthol and flavored tobacco products from the marketplace. The SFTFC relies on grassroots infrastructure to guide and shape tobacco control efforts in African American communities. …
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Blue economy investments and injustices around marine protected areas: the case of Mtwara coast, Tanzania
This thesis explores Blue Economy investments and injustices around marine protected areas. It examines whether fishing communities are gaining or losing from investments in the marine park areas; and unpacks the dilemmas that authorities face when they promote investments while protecting …
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Blue economy investments and injustices around marine protected areas: The case of Mtwara Coast, Tanzania
This thesis explores Blue Economy investments and injustices around marine protected areas. It examines whether fishing communities are gaining or losing from investments in the marine park areas; and unpacks the dilemmas that authorities face when they promote investments while protecting …
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Illustrating adolescent awareness: Teaching historical injustices and promoting agency through picture books in secondary classrooms
… and seize their agency against contemporary injustices.</p>
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Using Enviromnetal Science Education to Empower Urban Youth to Overcome Environmental Injustices and Become Engaged Eco-Citizens
<p>Science education, especially the discipline of environmental science, carries the unique opportunity to engage and empower urban youth of diverse backgrounds. Environmental science education helps establish a connection between youth and the natural world and helps youth engage in …
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Animal ethics and contemporary art : an exploration of the intersections between ethics and aesthetics, humans and animals, human and animal injustices
… aesthetics, humans and animals, human and animal injustices. It is dualistic and anthropocentric thinking that underlies both human and animal oppression. A Derridean approach invites us to think about the shared vulnerability among all beings through the presence of the animal other, calling our …
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Implementing the UNDRIP into the Province of British Columbia: The Impact of BC’s Declaration Act on Buck-Passing and Injustices of Misframing
… governments to pass the buck and misframe injustices. Institutional practices of buck-passing and misframing have historically led to the province completely ignoring or imposing settler colonial frames of justice as means of addressing injustices of Indigenous sovereignty and land …
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The role of jus cogens in resolving the intertemporal problem in Mau Mau torture claims and other historical injustices: a theoretical exploration
… chief obstacle in the resolution of historical injustices in international law is the inter-temporal question, summarized as the requirement that positive substantive international law, as it stood at the time in which an injustice occurred, ought always to apply over latter laws. Jus cogens, …
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Contextualising energy justice in low-income built environment: Towards data-driven policy interventions for addressing distributive injustices in slum rehabilitation housing of the Global South
… capture the grounded narratives of distributive injustices objectively. This research highlighted the significance of contextualisation in planning for energy justice in slum communities and the role of digital tools like natural language processing in objectively integrating grounded narratives …
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The (Non)normative Administration of Justice by the Crowd: An Adaptation and Application of Hirschman's Exit, Voice and Loyalty Framework
… that crowds undertake in response to perceived injustices using a sequential exploratory research design. The dissertation uses multicase research to investigate the injustices against which crowds (broadly defined) are fighting and provides nuances into each type of injustice. Focusing on these …
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Politics of pride : why do people participate in civil society in South Africa?
… and reproduce many of the pathologies and injustices of the wider society. Sometimes it works to benefit a specific ethnic group or political group, and also reflects some unsatisfactory aspects of culture to which the constituents of civil society belong. In this study, both qualitative …
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Environmental justice
… workers are compelled to act on environmental injustices because of their ethical mandate to address social injustices (Erickson, 2012:184). This study adopted green social work (Dominelli,2012) as a theoretical framework. The goal of the study was to explore and describe the role of social …
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“I can’t imagine you being a social worker without upholding social justice:” an exploration of how social justice is modeled in an MSW program
… by promoting social change and challenging injustices through their work with the most vulnerable and oppressed populations in our society. Hence, social work education has a unique responsibility to adequately prepare social workers for their work. Social justice is implicitly and …
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Truth Commissions: Did the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission serve the purpose for which it was established?
… came into power, they had to confront these injustices that were perpetrated under the predecessor regime. This was necessary to create a culture of human rights; promote a respect for the law and access to justice. Many confronted these injustices in different ways, some granted amnesty, …
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‘Exploring the potential of the law of delict in South Africa to address climate harms caused by private actors'
… constitutional directive and the grave social injustices worsened by climate harm, this research explores whether delict, and its elements (damage, conduct, fault, causation, wrongfulness), can evolve to enable those most affected by climate harm to pursue claims for damages against polluters …
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Epistemic Overload as Epistemic Injustice
Epistemic injustices are the distinctly epistemic harms and wrongs which undermine or depreciate our capacities knowers. This dissertation develops a theory of epistemic injustice and justice which accounts for excesses in epistemic goods as a source of epistemic injustice. This is a theory of …
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The role of social workers in promoting environmental justice for sustainable communities from non-government organisations' perspective in Tshwane
… development by responding to social and economic injustices (Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development, 2012). The goal of this research study was to explore and describe the role of social workers in promoting environmental justice for sustainable communities from a non-government …
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