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Forgotten Neighbour
Published 2019-08-01“…The Gottscheers left their homeland because of the oppression they experienced during the wars but also because of a certain fascination with the powerful rebirth of the country from which they had come centuries previously. …”
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PAST EFFACED. PAST RECOVERED. DREAMS AND MEMORY CONTROL IN RECENT DYSTOPIAN CINEMA
Published 2022-02-01“…Instead of granting liberty and promoting free thinking, it is a space of surveillance and oppression. The techniques the ones in control use to exercise power and impose order are manifold. …”
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Socio-political Foundations of the Movement of Imam Hussein in the Quran
Published 2015-05-01“…This article adopted descriptive and analytical methods to examine some of the socio-political foundations of Imam Hussein’s movement through examination of such Quranic concepts as reform, the fight with Oppression, migration for Allah, promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, war and justice. …”
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19th and 20th-Century Islamic Scholars’ Approaches to Miracles
Published 2024-01-01“… The Islamic modernists, led by Abduh, Afghani, Rashid Reza, and Sayyid Ahmad Khan, attempted to establish a direct parallel between the values produced by the Enlightenment and Islamic beliefs as an expression of a sense of oppression against the West. Their modernist stance profoundly affected Qurʾānic interpretation in the new age, and serious ruptures were experienced in issues such as “the dominance of revelation over reason”, “the use of early narrations as a source of interpretation”, and “preserving the issues related to the realm unseen”, which have been emphasized by the classical Islamic scholarly tradition. …”
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Offending White Men: Racial Vilification, Misrecognition, and Epistemic Injustice
Published 2018-12-01“…Such misrecognition preserves the cultural imperialism of Australia’s dominant social imaginary—a means of oppression that perpetuates epistemic insensitivity. …”
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Dalit Theology and Indian Christian History in Dialogue: Constructive and Practical Possibilities
Published 2021-03-01“…My explorations—touching on India’s Thomas/Syrian, Catholic, Protestant, and Pentecostal traditions—reveal the persistence and complexity of caste oppression throughout Christian history in India, and they simultaneously draw attention to over-looked, empowering, and liberative resources that are bound to Dalit Christians lives, both past and present. …”
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Escaping to Nature: Ecofeminism in the Children’s Book Bridge to Terabithia
Published 2023-06-01“…The Terabithia Kingdom is where the main characters can escape from all oppressions they experienced in social life.…”
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The Emotional Context of Higher Education Community Engagement
Published 2022-07-01“…Higher education community engagement has an emotional context, especially when it focuses on people who have been traumatized by oppression, exploitation, and exclusion. The emotional trauma may be multiplied many times when those people are also dealing with the unequally imposed consequences of disasters. …”
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Toward Buddhist Womanism: Tonglen Practice in <i>The Color Purple</i>
Published 2022-07-01“…In addition, the article suggests that the fight for the survival of the oppressed is a type of Buddhist practice in Walker’s Buddhist womanism.…”
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Gender, Identity, and Islam
Published 2010-01-01“…Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007; Ida Lichter, Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices against Oppression. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009; Wahida Shaffi, ed., Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women’s Voices. …”
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American Power: Mary Parker Follett and Michel Foucault
Published 2011-02-01“…Some commentators have found Dewey’s notion of habit to be a resource for taking up issues of power while others have argued that pragmatism does not provide a sufficiently critical tool to challenge systematic oppression. Still others have proposed to shore up pragmatism by using resources found in post-structuralism, particularly in the work of Foucault. …”
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Embodied Political Influencers: How U.S. Anti-Abortion Actors Co-Opt Narratives of Marginalization
Published 2024-04-01“…We build upon the concept of identity propaganda from Reddi, Kuo, and Kreiss, but crucially reveal the ways in which these influencers mobilize their own experiences of oppression as members of marginalized communities themselves. …”
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Ousmane Sembène : entre cinéma et littérature, l'épopée africaine de la résilience et de la révolte
Published 2024-03-01“…Le travail examine comment Sembène, en tant qu'écrivain-cinéaste engagé, réécrit l'histoire africaine à travers la littérature et le cinéma, tout en abordant des thèmes tels que le racisme, l'oppression coloniale, la résilience féminine, et le néocolonialisme. …”
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Researching the Ethics of Data Collection in Post-conflict Acholiland (Northern Uganda): The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Published 2022-08-01“…This points to the inconspicuous persistence of colonialism, oppression, and domination in systems of western research training and seek to include such an ethical understanding in their research practice.…”
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From Apes and Thick Micks to the Fighting Irish
Published 2015-12-01“…Ironically, the team name came just six years after the Irish finally gained independence from Great Britain after hundreds of years of oppression. This paper, using comparative historical analysis, analyzes the history of the Irish in America as well as the University of Notre Dame to better understand whether the Fighting Irish symbolism is a form of cultural imperialism in use at one of America’s premier educational institutions. …”
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Models of disability and the people with disabilities in Bangladesh: A review
Published 2023-04-01“…The paper identifies significant social and structural barriers that Bangladeshi PWD in face in their typical daily lives includes poverty and deprivation, low level of education, employment and wage discrimination, health care and treatment, social security measures, social stigma and community attitude, housing, transportation, water and sanitation issues, gender disparity and oppression. Therefore, some critical policy implications are pointed out for breaking down those social and structural barriers. …”
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Pleknaamsverandering in Suid- Afrika: bevestiging van ANC mag, gesag, wettigheid en ‘selfrespek’
Published 2007-12-01“… Power and authority appear to underlie changes in nomenclature resulting from a need to assure and convince the supporters of a new rregime that names which previously symbolised their oppression and domination have become unacceptable and must be replaced by names suiting the ethos of the new, liberating dispensation. …”
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Becoming a Yam: Healing Narratives as Political Resistance in the Time of COVID-19
Published 2021-03-01“…Choosing wellness, self-recovery, and self-care during the global pandemonium surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic serves as an act of political resistance in the face of oppression and violence. The purpose of this essay is to explore the authors’ embodied uses of personal narratives centering the work <i>sisters of the yam: black women and self-recovery</i>, feminist theory, and African-centered social work paradigms as coping strategies and healing work during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”
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SCHOLARSHIP AND ACTIVISM TOWARD VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Published 2017-06-01“…Scholarship provides an analytical framework and guidance for activism in understanding the social injustice and oppression. It also help activism to develop strategies to address the problem. …”
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Decalibrating the Language. J. H. Prynne’s Biting the Air
Published 2015-12-01“…Despite the difference of socio-linguistic and temporal context, both DeLillo and Herbert show that language, as Prynne implies in the ending of Biting the Air, is a “calibrated” mechanism of oppression that, unbeknownst to most people, keeps man fixed within the field of binary rhetoric. …”
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