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Child Labour in Iran: Problems and Solutions
No full textThe confusion of domestic laws in integration with international laws, the incorrect implementation of laws, and the economic crisis are among the most important factors of child labour in Iran. Examination of the current situation in Iran is impossible due to a lack of transparency. The first step should be to take control of working conditions. By creating special places to work and implementing measures such as recording information about child labour status and planning to improve children’s health and education, activists can help improve children’s working status
Framing Imaginaries of Anarchism in Argentina Across Space and Time
No full textGeoffroy de Laforcade is Professor of Latin American, Caribbean and World History at Norfolk State University. In addition to co-editing a special issue of Anarchist Studies (2020) focusing on “Indigeneity in Latin American Anarchism,” he has co-authored The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor (2022); Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape (2020) and In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History (2015). He has also published numerous articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics, including “Anarchism and Syndicalism in Argentina” (2023) and “Resistance, Gender, and Indigeneity: Critique and Contemporaneity of Bolivian Anarchism in the Historical Imagination of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui” (2020)
Comparing Public Sector Innovation in Cross- Border Cooperation: A Set-Theoretic Approach
No full textThis article analyses innovation by developing and empirically applying the concept of public sector innovation in cross-border cooperation. The focus on intra- as well as inter-institutional characteristics provides a conceptual framework for identifying empirical differences and shared characteristics revealing different types of innovation. The proposed typology is operationalised with six dimensions and empirically applied to 24 cases in the two border regions on the island of Ireland and on the Upper Rhine. On an organisational level, four ideal types are developed, i.e. (1) managers of the status quo, (2) relational innovators, (3) organisational innovators, and (4) public sector innovators in cross-border cooperation. The results reveal empirical diversity of public sector innovation in cross-border cooperation and can be regarded as a starting point for the development of a systematic and generalisable description of public sector innovation in cross-border cooperatio
Attending to the Full Moral Landscape : The Role of Affect in Revealing Obligations to the Other-Than-Human World
No full textThis article explores the potential of recognizing ethical obligations to the other-than-human world. In particular, I emphasize how emotional responses to other-than-human beings reflect a proper apprehension of the moral landscape, which then allows ethical insights into our obligations towards others. Although this article overlaps with other work in environmental ethics, I specifically relate Margaret O. Little’s moral epistemology to our emotional experiences with the other-than-human to illustrate how a gestalt shift from “humans as apart from” to “humans as embedded within” complicates the moral picture of how we live with and in this world. I argue that when humans attend to our experiences with nature in an open and caring way, we can more easily and accurately ascertain the moral significance of the other-than-human parts of nature. Affective responses reveal important details of the moral landscape. Recognizing a reality of deep interrelatedness with the other-than-human world, our emotional responses to other-than-human beings enable us to appreciate moral obligations to care for the rest of nature and consider our relationality with the other-than-human world as a moral issue
A Trans, Autistic, and Neurogender Jewish Monster: The Story of the Golem
No full textThis critical commentary revisits the Jewish story of the Golem and reads it as a transgender text. Some say that the Golem inspired Mary Shelley\u27s Frankenstein, a story famously interpreted by Susan Stryker as an allegory for her own trans experience: living on the edge of society, her humanity debated, defined by a morally questionable medical establishment. But there are important dierences between Frankenstein and the Golem. The Golem is brought to life through language, particularly the Hebrew word ‘emet,’ and is an animated clay tasked with protecting Jewish marginalized communities. Today, questions of language and truth are at the center of many debates regarding the validity and nature of transgender people. The concept of protecting marginalized communities, even while being rejected from them, is also painfully relevant. Unlike Frankenstein, though, the Golem is nonverbal, which is linked to autism. Thus, I argue that a neurogender analysis of their story that accounts for both gender and neurodivergence is critical. This reading focuses on these points of relation and what they may bring to light
The Future of General Linguistic Theory
No full textThis paper argues that contemporary theories of language do not adequately account for the relationship between human language and cognition. It begins with an overview of generative linguistic theory and its connection to modern cognitive science, focusing on the role and status of linguistic description. This connection is then refined by outlining the major goals of theories of language, specifically, theories that purport to account for the human language faculty. I claim that theories meeting such goals ultimately account for nothing of substance, since generative linguistic theory maintains an unfeasible conception of mind, along with unreliable methods of investigating it. If our goal is to understand human language in general, we must change how we look at the relation between language and thought. This entails a change in how we view the data comprising language-particular theories, and the construction of a new sort of general linguistic theory
“You\u27re Not A Real Cop!”: Examining the Powers and Limitations of Campus Security in Public Canadian Universities
No full textCampus security is an integral part of life on university campuses, but what they can or cannot do remains a mystery to the general public. Given their quasi police-like status on university campuses, this uncertainty is particularly concerning. This article seeks to provide some clarity on the role of campus security on university campuses by collecting publicly available information on campus security at public Canadian universities and synthesizing the data with relevant jurisprudence and legislation. Based on this analysis, this article concludes that there is a lack of judicial clarity on the powers and limitations of campus security and contends that expanding Charter applicability to public Canadian universities provides the most fulsome solution to protecting the Charter rights of university community members
PARENTAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS PREDICT THRIVING DURING THE TRANSITION TO UNIVERSITY
No full textThis study investigated, through an attachment theoretical lens, the relationship between first-year university students’ personal and academic adjustment and 3 psychosocial resources: parental attachment, student resources (parental support, social support, ways of reducing loneliness, emotion regulation, coping strategies, locus of control), and gender. Participants answered questionnaires relating to their psychosocial resources and post-secondary adjustment in first and second term. These data were analysed using a planned regression analysis. In Term 1, paternal attachment predicted students’ emotional adjustment, with social and personal resources accounting for this relationship, and was related to academic adjustment via locus of control. Maternal attachment predicted academic adjustment. Gender and locus of control predicted academic performance (as measured by grade point average [GPA]). In Term 2, parental attachment predicted emotional adjustment, with social support accounting for this relationship, but academic adjustment was no longer related to paternal attachment. Overall, gender and locus of control predicted academic success. Suggestions are made for developing transitional theoretical models that address psychosocial processes that will help shape responsive institutional programming and planning in support of incoming college students. These recommendations include designing more personalized programs to match students and their family systems where possible and keeping parents/guardians informed of helpful supports for students’ experiences when needed