Water Grabbing, Capitalist Accumulation and Resistance: Conceptualising the Multiple Dimensions of Class Struggle by Andreas Bieler, Madelaine Moore

“…Through a historical materialist engagement with social reproduction theorists, post-colonial interventions and eco-socialism, we argue that capitalist reproduction not only depends on the exploitation of wage labour but also the expropriation of nature and people along different forms of oppression. By focusing on historical processes and the intertwined dynamics necessary for capitalist reproduction, we reveal the internal relations of these struggles to each other and to global capitalism. …”
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PERDAGANGAN PEREMPUAN INDONESIA DALAM SITUS PENGANTIN PESANAN: PERSPEKTIF FEMINISME SOSIALIS by Wabilia Husnah

“…This study concludes that the oppression of women on mail-order bride websites is caused by long-standing patriarchy in Indonesia and China reflected in daily practices, cultural manifestations, and literary works in both countries. …”
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Populist Narratives from Below: Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party by Rachel Meade

“…Contrary to theorists who claim that populism is incompatible with pluralism, I show that the left populist narrative of oppression by the “1%” allows for both difference and unity within the “people”.…”
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MENYOAL IZIN POLIGAMI BAGI PNS by Nur Khoirin

“…As polygamy was illegal, the outbreak of the household, the absence of economic security and justice, oppression of women, and displaced children. However, the regulations concerning polygamy (UUP-1/1974, PP-9/1975, and PP-10/1983) are relatively obsoloete. …”
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Critical Race Feminism: A Transformative Vision for Service-Learning Engagement by Begum Verjee

“…It utilizes counter-storytelling as methodology and legitimizes the voices of women of colour in speaking about social oppression. Through counter-storytelling, women of colour students, non-academic staff, faculty, and non-university community members relayed their experiences at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, which formed the basis for a transformative vision of service-learning engagement. …”
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The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Exile and Counterpoint in Farah's Maps by Tayseer Abu Odeh

“…More concretely, building on Said's secular and humanist examination of counterpoint, late style, and exile as embodying a form of musical, aesthetic and sociopolitical criticism and resistance, this essay examines the way in which Nuruddin Farah addresses the aesthetic and home in Somalia as a counterpoint to the dictatorial masculine oppression of the regime from a contrapuntal and exilic perspective. …”
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La fabrique d’une communauté transnationale au prisme des réseaux sociaux by Paul Nicolas, Virginie Baby-Collin

“…In their country, Jummas suffered centuries of oppression. The article combines a micro-scale analysis of individual trajectories, observed in the evolution of a few personal networks over a 25-year period, in order to understand the logics of belonging between here and there; and a meso-scale analysis of the social networks’ extensions that over time build a transnational community. …”
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Refugee, Shelter and Threat: Nature Represented in f. Sionil Jose’s Dusk by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…He explores the journey of a Philippines’ clan who migrates from Northern Luzon into Central Plains to escape the Spanish oppression. Through the presentation of an omniscient narrator who narrates the journey of Istak Samson and his clan, F.Sionil Jose depicts the lushness of Philippines’ wilderness. …”
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<em>No Se vende</em> (Not for sale). An anti-gentrification grassroots campaign of Puerto Ricans in Chicago by Ivis García

“…In this sense, the idea of Puerto Ricans renting in Humboldt Park or simply deciding to stay has become an instrumental right of resistance to the perceived oppression. The campaign has played a key role in the construction of a new sense of legitimacy in the recent housing struggles after the financial housing crisis. …”
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Beyond the Margins: The Novel of Protest and Production by Stacey Berry

“…In focusing attention specifically on the power of text to influence systems of oppression on a large cultural scale, MAO II provides examples of the ways in which texts record and respond to unique oppressive situations. …”
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Alienation, reification and the banking model of education: Paulo Freire’s critical theory of education by Nathisvaran Kumarasen Govender

“…Pedagogy of the oppressed offers a means of overcoming the state of social oppression through a total social liberating praxis. …”
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Pleknaamsverandering in Suid- Afrika: bevestiging van ANC mag, gesag, wettigheid en ‘selfrespek’ by Johan Moll

“… 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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Theorising multiply disadvantaged young people’s challenges in accessing higher education by Melanie Walker, Faith Mkwananzi

“…Drawing on Sen’s and Nussbaum’s capability approach, complemented by a theorisation of vulnerability by Misztal and of oppression by Young, the study illustrates how the concepts should be interconnected to generate a framework for understanding the experiences of multiply disadvantaged youth, as well as issues of equity for them in accessing HE. …”
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The Teaching of Book-Keeping in the Hedge Schools of Ireland by Peter Clarke

“…This paper argues that knowledge of practical book-keeping methods was an important skill, along with the related usage of the English language, in gaining employment for Irish Catholics during the period of oppression that was the eighteenth century.  These skills were also valuable to Irish emigrants.    …”
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Evaluation Warriorship: Raising Shields to Redress the Influence of Capitalism on Program Evaluation by Nicole Robinson

“…This paper argues that more evaluation warriorship is needed to resist this particular system of oppression. It presents examples of how evaluators reproduce neoliberal logic (e.g., in landscape analyses and collective impact assessments), which ultimately undermines transformative change. …”
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“God does not algebra”: Simone Weil’s search for a supernatural reformulation of mathematics by Roberto Paura

“…Weil's reflection starts from a critique of Bourbaki's programme, led by her brother André: the "mechanical attention" Bourbaki considered an advantage of their treatment of mathematics was for her responsible for the incomprehensibility of modern algebra, and even a cause of alien-ation and social oppression. On the contrary, she developed her pivotal concept of 'atten-tion' with the aim of approaching mathematical problems in order to make "progress in another more mysterious dimension". …”
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Queering Jesus: LGBTQI Dangerous Remembering and Imaginative Resistance by Robert E. Shore-Goss

“…Building upon the deconstructive work of Johannes Baptist Metz and the notion of the dangerous memories of Jesus’s suffering and death (memoria passsionis), this article tries to make sense of the deconstruction of heteronormative and cisgender constructions of a white, male Jesus that supports the exclusion and oppression of queer folks. Queer constructions of Jesus in biblical interpretation and popular media are accused of being blasphemous fictions, while the same charge can be levied against the constructions of heteronormative and cisgender Christian churches who marginalize and stigmatize LGBTQI people. …”
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Learn about hahoe tal the Korean mask. by Song, Song-I.

“…It is known that people with stress and oppression in the pressure of society, express their emotions and feeling in the mask dance when they wear the masks. …”
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Policing gender : queer-women and hetero-normative politics in Singapore. by Muhammad Kamal Jauhari Zaini.

“…Yet, despite experiencing hetero-normative constraints, respondents are still able to work within these constraints to create viable lives for themselves and others –concomitantly opening up a discussion on women‟s agency, which has been at the core of liberal feminist discussions on women‟s oppression.…”
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The moral psychology of trust

“…The chapters apply theoretical perspectives on trust to a number of issues of current concern, including how trust can and should function in conditions of social oppression, trust and technology, trust and conspiracy theories, the place of trust in medical ethics, and the ethics of trust in a variety of interpersonal relationships.…”