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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Theories of Justice"”.
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An investigation into how the application of the processes and procedures are perceived by the UK Taekwondo community through the lens of Rawls’ theories of justice, fairness and equality
… discovered to have a major impact on the sport of Taekwondo. The investigation will consider, under five functions central to Taekwondo -team selection, sanctions (bans), issues concerning licensing and memberships and biased refereeing- as defined by World Taekwondo and British Taekwondo. These …
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(In)Justice in Nonideal Social Worlds
While there is an abundance of philosophical literature on justice, there is far less literature within political philosophy on the topic of injustice. I think one common assumption these approaches share is that injustice is simply the absence of justice; call this the absence thesis. This …
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Community health insurance as a viable means of increasing access to health care for rural households in Uganda
This study investigated the viability of community health insurance (CHI) as a means of increasing access to health care for rural households in Uganda. This was against the background that health care is a basic need and right and that, despite this, households especially in the rural parts of …
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The Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL)
This research arises as a result of my personal experience of the 11 year civil war in Sierra Leone, and an interest in the Sierra Leone Government (SLG) and the International Community’s (IC) commitment to render international standard of justice in post-conflict Sierra Leone. The aim of this …
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Restorative justice and campus sexual harm: A qualitative study of the views of victim advocates
Restorative and transformative justice are divergent theories of justice representing critical departures in the framing and redress of harm and wrongdoing. Restorative justice is rooted in the philosophy that violence and wrongdoing should be approached in a way that centers harm and its impact on …
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Justice and the demands of realism
… examines how concerns about the demands of realism should be addressed in political theories of justice. It asks whether the demands of realism should affect the construction of principles of justice and, if so, how principles should respond to those demands. To address the problems posed …
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A theory of economic democracy
… justifies it? This thesis argues that liberal theories of justice are objectionable insofar as they emphasize the distribution of resources, having little to say about how production is governed. The commitments central to liberal democracy call for some degree of workplace democracy as well as …
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Dislocating the Body and Transcending the Imperial Eye (I): The role of Abaphantsi, through iiZangoma, as pioneers for transformative research methodologies and organic intellectualism
… I use the literal and figurative interpretations of the word ‘body' to discuss how canonical epistemological paradigms, through their construction of indigenous knowledge systems, construct African bodies and how this impacts knowledge and research methods. I discuss how the corporeal bodies of …
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The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage
… however, by paying attention to repertoires of resistance that connect Marikana with a longer history of collective resistance in South Africa. To do this, I read specific testimonies given during the Marikana commission inquiry and focus on subsets of acts, symbols, languages, phrases and …
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Reconstituting empire in the decolonisation era: taxation sovereignty and the development of the British virgin islands as a dependent tax haven
… havens are denounced for eroding the sovereignty of states to tax in their jurisdictions. Using a critical interrogative lens of Empire and Imperialism, the aim of this investigation was to understand what the developmental history of the British Virgin Islands reveals about the function of tax …
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The Infrastructures of Occupation: Iraq, 2003 – 2012
… and reshape Iraq's infrastructure networks, most of which had been severely damaged during the 2003 invasion, the United Nations sanctions, and previous wars. This dissertation is a critical history of the efforts of the US occupation to produce new infrastructures in Iraq. Drawing on a specific …
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Rights and climate change mitigation - why the individual rights approach to climate change mitigation is not the right approach
This dissertation examines the arguments of rights recently invoked in lawsuits addressing duties to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. It asks whether these arguments correspond to how rights are typically understood in terms of philosophical ideas of rights. This question is not examined from a …
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Towards a just future of Islamic finance: from a new historical comparative east-west perspective
… state regulators and clientele about the ability of banks and others financial institutions to survive. One of the fastest growing and significant parts of the world financial system is Islamic finance, which extends worldwide and exploits a highly sophisticated financial products and procedures …
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NGOs Embodying Decoloniality: Towards Emanticipatory Psychological Practice and Pedagogy in Palestine
… Palestinian need for aid is entirely a result of a decades long conflict with Israel. Western funders to Palestinian NGOs working in psychological services may have good intentions, but their traditional approaches to therapy and well-being may be inconsistent with a collective Palestinian …
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From Alienation to Self-Realization: Pathologies of Late Modernity, Work, and the Successful Life
The “promise of modernity”—the capacity of individuals to lead successful lives comes under severe strain in late modernity. Adopting a formal “appropriative” model of alienated labour which is responsive to individuals’ own conceptions of the good, desires, goals, ground projects, and needs, I …
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Justice for children: The development of autonomy
Most contemporary theories of justice pertain primarily to the world of adults, and so provide only implicit or vague suggestions as to how various ideals and norms of justice might apply to children. In this dissertation I attempt to remedy this gap or imbalance. To do so, I focus upon the norm of …
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Individual responsibility, justice and access to health care
The aim of this thesis is to examine whether it is morally defensible to use lifestyle as one of the criteria for rationing health care. I argue that it is not justifiable to use former lifestyle to select patients for treatment. Chapter one outlines the principles of the NHS and discusses the …
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Cripping Justice: Enabling Theory on Disability
… have, over the last half-century, evolved theories to understand disability and operationalise justice for disabled people. Historically, the starting point is the Medical Model, where disability is a bodily ‘defect’, and therefore the responsibility of the disabled person to address or …