The psychiatric profession and the Australian government: the debate over collective depression syndrome among asylum-seeking detainees by William W Bostock

“…However, they have also been complicit in some gross atrocities. Over several years there has been debate over the Australian Government’s treatment of asylum seekers, and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists took the unusual step of publicly criticizing the Australian Government’s policy on grounds of its toxicity leading to a diagnosis of collective depression syndrome, particularly among child detainees, but also adult detainees. …”
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Liberal Articulation of Islamophobia: Politics of Multicultural Recognition in Pearl Abraham's American Taliban by Amal Sayyid

“…This is unpacked through a fissure in Abraham’s narrative which, on the surface, draws upon the Hegelian principle of intersubjective recognition in order to critique the illiberal paradigm of Islamophobia and its concomitant framework of the clash of civilizations. Yet, it remains complicit with anti-Muslim racism through the generation of another Manichean frame that shifts reductive constructs of dangerous alterity to the Muslims who follow the normative tradition of Islam. …”
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Reporting an Unsettled Countryside The News Media and Rural Protests in Britain by Michael Woods

“…The news media had been complicit in maintaining the previous discursive construct of the countryside as a settled and almost apolitical space, but the emergence of major rural protests forced a shift in the representation of rural life. …”
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Surviving Persia: Esther’s Scroll, Anti-Black Racism and the Propaganda of Peace and Progress by Janice P. De-Whyte

“…Inherent within this Jewish survival account is an indictment of complicit and culpable individuals and institutions that enable, fund and sanction violence against marginalized members. …”
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Reporting an Unsettled Countryside: The News Media and Rural Protests in Britain by Michael Woods

“…The news media had been complicit in maintaining the previous discursive construct of the countryside as a settled and almost apolitical space, but the emergence of major rural protests forced a shift in the representation of rural life. …”
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SOME LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE JUSTICE AGAINST SPONSORS OF TERRORISM ACT by W. Fahmy

“…As a result, the Act entered into law, risking a real revolution in international law with potentially very serious political consequences.While it may be anticipated that those countries directly complicit in terrorism will see their assets – including their sovereign assets in the United States – seized to finance the compensation of the victims, such prosecutions will undoubtedly also involve European countries, many of which have themselves been targeted by terrorism. …”
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The Vices and Virtues of Instrumentalized Knowledge by Job Siegmann, James Grayot

“…Yet, we contend, mainstream epistemic authorities (MEAs) are <i>also</i> complicit in practices resembling IK; we refer to these practices as instrumentalized knowledge* (IK*). …”
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Female Medical Students’ Experiences of Sexism during Clinical Placements: A Qualitative Study by Darya Ibrahim, Ruth Riley

“…Attitudes and practices which are complicit in sustaining sexism need to be challenged and changed.…”
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Il boom dell’Italia in Giappone: riflessioni critiche su Occidentalismo e Italianismo by Toshio Miyake

“…In spite of post-colonial engagements aimed to de-naturalize the notions of “the West” and “the East”, little critical attentions has been paid so far to the inter-relational and complicit processes between Occidentalism, Orientalism and self-Orientalism.             …”
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Tasteful Bunkers: Shades of Race and ‘Contamination’ in Luxury Design Sectors by Inna Arzumanova, Maciej Stasiowski

“…In this article, I argue that these luxury industries are complicit in renewing a post-pandemic racialization of urban space. …”
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Crime and Its Aftermath: New Inroads in the Study of Violence and Public Safety by Marcelo Bergman

“…Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America. By Deborah J. Yashar. …”
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Outsourcing the border within: private citizens as border guards, state sovereignty, and civil peace by Zedner, L

“…This creation of a ‘border within’ disperses controls across the territory of the nation state, and makes private citizens complicit in policing migration. Although the UK government formally ended the Hostile Environment policy in 2017, its successor, the ‘Compliant Environment’, continues to co-opt private citizens as collaborators in immigration control. …”

Alienation from nature and the role of forgotten tradition in Keris Mas' Jungle of Hope and K. S. Maniam's Between Lives by Zainal, Zainor Izat

“…This estrangement resonates with current environmentalism as it is seen as complicit in conditioning humanity’s thinking that they are not a part of nature, causing them to take the anthropocentric and utilitarian attitudes that contribute further to environmental woes. …”
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Modern, yet “full of forms, figures, shapes, objects” by Michael Andrew Albright

“…To make visible the troubling implications of so-called “modern” or “contemporary” translations of Shakespeare’s works, I will look to Shakespeare’s most academic play, Love’s Labour’s Lost, to propose how today’s students are complicit in dismissing Shakespeare for his words as much as audiences of Shakespeare’s time laughed away Holofernes. …”
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Holy Terror!: Islamophobia and Intermediality in Frank Miller’s Graphic Novel by Frank Mehring

“…I will turn to the medium of graphic novels to first reveal how Miller’s narratives and silhouette aesthetics of (super)heroes have become complicit with Islamophobic responses to the crisis of 9/11; second, to trace the discourse of Islamophobia in post-9/11 America in Miller’s work; and, third, to reveal how this discourse interlinks with the patriotic logic of the fight against terrorism.…”
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Considering Fraud Vulnerability Associated with Credence-Based Products Such as Organic Food by Louise Manning, Aleksandra Kowalska

“…However, in some cases considered in the study, the guardians themselves were complicit in the illicit behavior, further increasing consumer vulnerability. …”
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American Studies as a Contemporary Disciplinary Practice by Stipe Grgas

“…He goes on to contend that American Studies was complicit with the capitalist system of production and that one can speak of it as being a part of an ideological apparatus. …”
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Political Participation of Minors in India: A Critical Perspective from the Prism of the UNCRC by Rongeet Poddar

“…State functionaries and judicial authorities in India have also been complicit in adopting an infantilising stance. In this paper, the author makes a case for recognising the agency of children such that they can exercise their ‘autonomy’ right to political participation. …”
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Reading the Entrails: The Extractive Work of a Fence by Sue Hall Pyke

“…I find myself in uncomfortable territory, complicit in the actions of my settler relatives in this region of Central Queensland, but to not examine this informal archive of possession feels like a lie. …”
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Enlightenment Ireland and the Concept of World Peace by CONRAD BRUNSTRÖM

“…To what extent is Ireland complicit in the entrenched injustices of a Pax Britannica and to what extent does a projected demilitarised world offer prospects for genuine self-determination? …”
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