“Justice Has a Bad Side”: Figurations of Law and Justice in 21st-Century Superhero Movies by Nicole Maruo-Schröder

“…Hence, the article argues, it is fruitful to read current superhero movies as both reflections of and comments on the post-9/11 legal and political landscape characterized by an ongoing state of exception and the resulting suspension of certain laws and civil rights. Analyzing Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Captain America: Civil War (all released in 2016) in terms of genre, narrative as well as characters and their symbolic implications, the article shows how the films comment in ambiguous, even contradictory ways on the current terrain of justice. …”
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Un-quaring San Francisco in Milk and Test by Clayton Dillard

“…Milk conceals difference through its spatial depiction of an emerging gay civil rights, where not only “gay” but also a coherent social space for queer people comes to be synonymous with whiteness. …”
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Border Gothic - history, violence and the border in the writings of Eugene McCabe by Éamonn Ó Ciardha

“…As well as producing a rich body of novels, novellas, short-stories and plays spanning throughout seventy years of the century of partition, Eugene McCabe charts the broad trajectory of Irish history and politics from the Elizabethan Conquest and Ulster Plantation of the 16th and 17th centuries to the recent 'Troubles' which spanned the thirty years between the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement (1968) and the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (1998). …”
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Quand l’économie écologique dé-nature la justice environnementale by Laurie Gagnon-Bouchard

“…As a first step, this article presents an historical reminder of the emergence of the notion of environmental justice alongside the civil rights movement in the United States. Next, I propose to examine the conceptualization of nature within the two major approaches of the environmental justice literature (ecological economics and socioecology) to see if they participate in the imposition of a Western-centered definition. …”
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The fight for power: historical women’s movements of Russia and Great Britain in comparison by Eva Maria Hinterhuber, Jana Günther

“…The range of topics that were on the national and international agenda included, alongside the access to education and the enforcement of equal civil rights, as well as the fight for political participation, with the women’s right to vote taking center stage.1 The political, social, and cultural contexts, in which women raised their voices, varied. …”
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Podróż do emancypacji. O ambiwalentnym znaczeniu motywu drogi na przykładzie tematu rasy w kinie amerykańskim by Patrycja Włodek

“…Akurat w tych trzech momentach filmowcy hollywoodzcy ze zwiększoną intensywnością sięgali właśnie po te tematy, wpisując je zarówno w dystynktywne zjawiska filmowe (np. civil rights cinema), jak i w topos podróży.   …”
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Third World Alliances: Arab American Activists at American Universities, 1967–1973 by Pamela Pennock

“…The article seeks to weave the story of Arab American activism into the broader narrative about American civil rights and anti-imperialist activism in the 1960s and 1970s.…”
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The Olympic “Revolt” of 1968 and its Lessons for Contemporary African American Athletic Activism by Douglas Hartmann

“…At a basic level, the exercise reminds us that sport-based activism is not unprecedented and, when it emerges, tends to be connected with the larger social movements of the day (the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and Black Lives Matter more recently). …”
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Is it possible to defeat right-wing populist authorities by winning elections? The erosion of democracy and the system of the triple-masters class in Poland by Piotr Żuk, Anna Pacześniak

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Prosumers in Action: The Analysis of Social Determinants of Photovoltaic Development and Prosumer Strategies in Poland by Piotr Zuk, Paweł Zuk

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Pengurusan Penjualan Saham Sebagai Objek Harta Kekayaan dalam Boedel Afwezigheid by Shela Natasha, M. Taufik Rahman

“… The protection of civil rights for every citizen, including those who are absent (afwezigheid) is one of the rights that must be fulfilled by the government. …”
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On the reimbursement of pre-trial costs in legal proceedings by Vicko Prančić

“…In legal proceedings, the court offers protection to violated or threatened subjective civil rights. Offering such protection creates material costs of which a part is borne by the parties because the government does not offer free legal protection in the area of civil judiciary. …”
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Surface rights by Regina Célia Corrêa Landim

“…The current article compares two laws that govern the principle of surface rights and provides a brief history of the evolution of the state based on illuminism and the consequent change in paradigm affecting individual rights, including property and civil rights, and their interpretation under the Constitution. …”
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Sex Discrimination in Schools: The Law and Its Impact on School Policies by Suzanne Eckes

“…Specifically, statutes, constitutional provisions, and the outcomes of court cases can impact the civil rights of students, which, in turn, can presumably lead to policies that prohibit discriminatory practices. …”
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Performing Dissent: Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson before HUAC (1955-1956) by Jodie Childers

“…While Seeger’s testimony in August 1955 championed individual liberty and freedom of speech, using the First Amendment as the foundation for his position, Robeson’s testimony delivered in June 1956 invoked an internationalist sense of social justice, linking left-wing politics, the civil rights movement within the United States, and decolonization efforts around the world.…”
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Neutrosophic Analysis of the Determinants of the Restoration of Democracy by Ingrid Joselyne Diaz Basurto, Janneth Ximena Iglesias Quintana, Víctor Hugo Lucero Salcedo, Mónica Alexandra Salame Ortiz

“…As a result of the study, the deterioration of civil rights was determined as a key neutrosophic factor in the stability of democracy in society. …”
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Guerre sainte dans le Cône sud latino-américain : pentecôtistes versus umbandistes by Alejandro Frigerio, Ari Pedro Oro

“…It is argued that the intensity of their struggle is related to the degrees of social visibility and legitimation that these religions enjoy in each society as well as to the extent of organization that Umbanda devotees have attained – the existence of a collective action frame emphasizing their civil rights being particularly important in this regard. …”
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From Harlem with Love by Leonardo Cascão

“…This essay intends to explore the ways in which The Sweet Flypaper of Life depicts a representation of the neighbourhood of Harlem at a time when the Civil Rights Movement was just beginning. It will look at the power that DeCarava’s photographs and Hughes’ text have on creating a specific visuality of African American life, based on the Harlem community, rendering itself to be seen as a family album. …”
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Privacy and Security in Multi-User Health Kiosks by Harold Takyi, Valerie Watzlaf, Judith Talbot Matthews, Leming Zhou, Dilhari DeAlmeida

“…This paper provides a guide, based on the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) audit protocol, for creating and maintaining an audit checklist for multi-user health kiosks. …”
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Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities by Robert Manduca

“…More than 50 years after the Civil Rights Act, black–white family income disparities in the United States remain almost exactly the same as what they were in 1968. …”
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