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Showing 1 to 20 of 548 for “"injustice"”.
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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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Epistemic Injustice Toward Women in Engineering
… on epistemic interactions, aptly named epistemic injustice. This work offers a research design to examine a possible explanation for women's underrepresentation and oppression in the field: the devaluation of women's knowledge uncovered by the theory of epistemic injustice. The consequences of …
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Japanese American Internment: A Great Injustice
… further examined by analyzing the constitutional injustices that detainees were subjected to, and whether their constitutional rights were violated.
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Epistemic Emancipation: Essays on Learning about Injustice
… constraints typically mask themselves and the injustices that produce them. But epistemic emancipation from such constraints must be possible. Were it not, it would be very mysterious how radical political philosophy and feminist epistemology have been able to do their analysis. So how is …
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Incredible Injustice: Lynching in the Southern United States
Fear illuminated by competition legitimized lynching. This practice unequivocally altered the mindset, character, and spirit of the African American male. A societal hierarchy was built off of this practice which owned roots in hatred and fear. It’s by products were racism and “Jim Crow” …
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Punishment, Injustice, and Modernity: Incarceration in Argentine Cinema
This thesis explores how cinematic engagements with imprisonment in Argentina have reflected on and participated in changing experiences, discourses, and projects of modernity from the 1930s through to the present day. Canonically, punitive modernity has been theorised as the result of punishment …
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Uneven mobility : injustice in accessibility and urban experimentation
… of the disadvantaged, continues to be a profound injustice. A long history of automobile-oriented and engineering-focused transportation planning has been dominated by powerful political and economic actors to continue to perpetuate this status quo. Taking accessibility as the major outcome of …
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Testimonial Injustice and the Puzzle of Hearer Culpability
… in Miranda Fricker's account of testimonial injustice, the puzzle of hearer culpability: how is it possible for hearers to be culpable for beliefs they form on the basis of stereotypes and prejudices that regularly bypass conscious thought? In trying to solve this puzzle, I consider one way …
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Reproductive Injustice: Abortion Restrictions and Maternal Mortality Rates
… and abortion restrictions from a reproductive injustice perspective, integrating the theory of necropolitics. Using a time-series cross-sectional analysis of all 50 U.S. states from 2009 to 2019, this study highlights the impact of restrictive abortion policies during a period of intensified …
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Implications of Perceived Interactional Injustice: A Meta-Analytic Approach
<p>When attempting to understand the antecedents of job performance, organizational justice has received much examination (Cohen-Charash & Spector, 2001; Colquitt, Conlon, Wesson, Porter, & Ng, 2001; Devonish and Greenidge, 2010). The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between …
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Exploring Systemic Injustice and Wellbeing among Uyghurs in Australia
… research has explored the impact of systemic injustice on wellbeing for this group, despite the fact that many will have faced such injustices, and that they are often unresolved. As such, the aims of this thesis were: (1) to explore the understandings of justice among refugees and asylum …
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Juvenile Injustice: Disproportionate Minority Contact in Oklahoma's Juvenile Justice System
<p>Statistics show that minority overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system is not a new phenomenon. The problem, however, is not going away and might even be getting worse. In 2008, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report showed that 52% of juvenile Violent Crime Index arrests, and 33% of juvenile …
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The Effects of Perceived Injustice on Deference to the Law
… salient, the relationship between perceived injustice and compliance was affected by group identity.
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New problems in queues--social injustice and server production management
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1987.
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The politics of injustice rhetoric and poverty in Reagan's America
During the Reagan years the poverty rate in America rose dramatically. Simultaneously, the rich got richer at the expense of the working and middle classes. Despite this trend towards greater economic inequality, the public expressed its sympathy for the Reagan administration and the conservative …
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Multiscalar Toxicities: Mapping Environmental Injustice in and Beyond the Nail Salon
The dissertation attends to the entanglement of toxicities at multiple temporal and spatial scales from bodies to workplaces to homes to communities as well as across generations. This work centers the nail salon a site of potential environmental and occupational health harms due to routine …
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Decolonizing the YA North: Environmental Injustice in Sherri L. Smith’s Orleans
… exposes the intersections of environmental injustice with racial and gendered based oppression in order to critique the local North/South divide in present-day New Orleans. Smith’s novel also advocates for the reconciliation of the divide through its dramatization of ecofeminist principles, …
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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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