Kok Kosor and the Struggle for Cultural Survival, Human Rights, and Religious Freedom for the Montagnards of the Central Highlands by Joe P. Dunn

“…The story of the dramatic history of these tribal peoples caught in the midst of war and its aftermath and the continuing oppression of a largely forgotten people is conveyed through the career of this extraordinary military warrior, activist, international human rights spokesman, and religious leader. …”
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Pussy Power: A Contemporaneous View of Indigenous Women and Their Role in Sex Work by Corrinne T. Sullivan

“…In the context of Indigenous Australia, sex work often produces narratives of victimisation and oppression reinforcing the patriarchal power and colonial dominance that is rife in Australia over Indigenous women’s bodies and behaviours. …”
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The Jihadi Discourse of the Terrorist Propaganda on the Internet by Filip Fuxa

“…The main part of this study focuses on the jihadi discourse, through which jihadists present the Islamic world as suffering under the oppression of the West to persuade a passive Muslim audience to join the jihad. …”
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I coloni si lamentano: sottomissione e resistenza in alcune iscrizioni del III secolo d.C. by Mario MAZZA

“…The colonists were helpless against this oppression.…”
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The dangers of Utopia by Larry Hufford

“…Camus makes a distinction between a rebel and a revolutionary, and concludes that a rebellion will try to end the specific oppression, whereas the revolution will try to create a “new man,” with common values throughout the world. …”
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Experiencing depersonalised bullying: a study of Indian call-centre agents by Premilla D'Cruz, Ernesto Noronha

“…This article uses the concept of depersonalized bullying to explain the way in which call-centre agents employed in international call centres in Mumbai and Bangalore, India experience their work as an oppressive regime. The characteristics of this bullying regime can be attributed to the service level agreement between employers and clients which determines organisational practices. …”
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Past Is Prologue: Dismantling Colonial Legacies to Advance Black Health Equity in the United States

“…We present four recommendations for addressing its health consequences: (1) Investments in epigenetic research to improve our understanding of how systemic oppression becomes biology. (2) Centering Black experiences and knowledge traditions in education, practice, and policy. (3) Support for Black scholars, trainees, and practitioners when they critic disciplinary tenets and practices. (4) Expansion of preventive care. …”
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Dystopia in the Skies: Negotiating Justice and Morality on Screen in the Video Game BioShock Infinite by Stefan Schubert

“…I contend that it is not so much the game’s ludic elements but its visuality that most forcefully makes a compelling argument against the oppression and discrimination found in the game’s fictional world, the city of Columbia. …”
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Nocet esse feracem: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Pseudo-Ovidian Nux by Leah O’Hearn

“…It aims to demonstrate that the Nux figures the domination of nature and the oppression of women as outcomes of the same harmful ideology.…”
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Insular Contemporary Poetry in Dialogue: Glocal Alliances Against Mass Tourism by Maria Grau-Perejoan

“…This study identifies resemblances in Caribbean and Balearic island spaces' poetic responses to tourism and recognises local emancipatory alliances that not only bring to the surface shared forms of oppression, but also propose alternatives beyond the (hotel) chains of global capitalism.…”
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Intersectionality Gets Fashionably Fat by May Friedman, Calla Evans, Ben Barry

“…This article seeks to consider the ways in which innovative arts-based practice with a deep focus on justice and anti-oppression can allow for a thickening of intersectionality research. …”
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Le Prince d’Albert Memmi, une tentative théâtrale sur le pouvoir et la domination by Hervé Sanson

“…The principal problems raised in Memmi’s works are present in this draft : domination relationships first of all ; then class ones, but moreover : gender relations and therefore – female oppression. This theatrical attempt offers also a reflection about power’s nature – central theme of the novel Le Désert which is synchronic to Le Prince. …”
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The Prostitution in Classical Marxism: Critique of Capitalism and Bourgeois Double Standard of Sexual Morality by Clarisse Goulart Paradis

“…The article aims to examine how the traditions of classical Marxism and anarchist feminism of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century understood the issue of prostitution, connecting it with specific views on gender relations, on sexual autonomy and on ways to overcome the oppression of women workers. Recognizing the diversity of perspectives and relative limits, the critique of the institution of prostitution will be developed based on the need to overcome the capitalist system of production, the dismantling of bourgeois institutions like family and marriage, the construction of egalitarian social relations, based on solidarity and as a form of female emancipation.…”
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The cinema of Rithy Panh: everything has a soul by Andrew Philip

“…Not only does Panh expose the role cinema plays in reifying structures of oppression, he also shows how it might also produce a measure of redemption. …”
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Return to Paris: by Manoel Silvestre Friques

“…What are the obstacles to achieving these goals when the focus rests on the intersection of the axes of oppression through race, class and gender? This essay investigates the contradictions inherent in Ostermeier’s self-declared sociological realism, reflecting on the plays Retour à Reims [Return to Reims] (2019) and Histoire de la Violence [History of Violence] (2020), based on the homonymous literary works by Didier Eribon and Édouard Louis, respectively.   …”
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Disrupting Dichotomous Traps and Rethinking Problem Formation for Rural Education by Amy Price Azano, Catharine Biddle

“…Using Paulo Freire's theories of oppression and critical awareness, the article delineates a theoretical framework designed to explore a reframing of rural education. …”
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Les femmes du Sahara algérien : rencontres, représentations et discours dans les récits viatiques et de séjour féminins français (1860-1900) by Daniel Lançon

“…The women travellers reveal the oppression suffered by women; the euphemisation of the many servitudes, particularly persistent slavery; the presuppositions and reveries about “races”; a certain confusion about the Ouled Naïl phenomenon; the superiority of Western women’s lifestyles and of colonisation.…”
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TRACES OF JOAN OF ARC IN LITERATURE AND BRAZILIAN THEATER by Helciclever Barros da Silva Vitoriano, Sidelmar Alves da Silva Kunz, Anarcisa de Freitas Nascimento

“…Thus, we conclude that the marks left by the figure of Joan of Arc at the National Theatre were not accidental, they symbolically represent a reading of repressive processes occurring in Brazil and the situation of woman who remains curtailed their rights and fighting tirelessly towards the overcoming of adversity and oppression in family, social, political and economic context.…”
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Combating Racism in the Geosciences: Reflections From a Black Professor by Vernon R. Morris

“…This commentary is not intended to be fodder for the oppression‐porn industry that stokes the passions of the “recently woke.” …”
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The Woman in White: Marian Halcombe, or Checkmate on Women’s Empowerment by Belén Fernández Crespo

“… Wilkie Collins’s fraudulent rhetoric of protest against patriarchal Victorian oppression is manifested through his manipulation of Marian Halcombe’s character: she does not represent an attainable example of women’s empowerment but rather of women’s subordination. …”
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