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Human Dignity Through Action: Transformative Human Rights Education and Social Work
This article explores the need for social action and activism in order to realise and implement human rights. This is done in light of multiple...
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Architects, Planners, and Social Activists as Transformative “Spatial Agents”: Prospects and Limitations
Using American and global examples, the last chapter examines the role of architects, planners, and citizen-activists as “transformative spatial...
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Studying Critical Disability: A Transformative and Inclusive Agenda for Social Change – Introduction
Disability studies has grown as an emerging discipline since the 1980s across mainstream disciplines in academic, which has influenced policy...
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Studying Critical Disability – A Transformative and Inclusive Agenda for Social Change: Introduction
Disability studies has grown as an emerging discipline since the 1980s across mainstream disciplines in academic, which has influenced policy...
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Beyond tokenism and objectivity: theoretical reflections on a transformative equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda for higher education in Canada
Universities, the sites for objective knowledge, apolitical and legitimized to contribute to human and intellectual capacity, find themselves in a...
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Technology and Action. A Theory of Action Analysis
The article contains a theory of action analysis of the interaction of human and artifactual contributions to action. The aim of the analysis is a...
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A Transformative Social Sustainability (Pillar Four)
Pillar four recognizes that the social dimension is instrumentally important for successful low carbon, sustainability transitions. The social...
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For a new Sociology of Social love
Love is a theme at the centre of all our lives, including those of sociologists and social scientists. It has been widely addressed and described in...
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The Public Role of Italian Sociology: Among Institutions, Universities and Social Engagement
Sociology has played an important role in Italy, although its centrality in public debate has fluctuated, and it has been supported or opposed by...
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Partnership in Social Work Education Along the New Silk Road: Towards a Transformative Cultural Inclusion Model
We live in a world of disruption aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In view of the highly divisive global discourse, we envision a different way of...
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The Transformative Potential of Transfeminist Social Work Practice
There is scant literature regarding the application of transfeminist theory in social work practice despite high rates of discrimination and violence...
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Architecture, Urban Planning and Social Justice: The Role of Transformative Design in Achieving Spatial Justice
Chapter two sets the theoretical tone for following chapters, by first briefly tracing the historical evolution of architectural design and urban...
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COVID-19 and the Environmental Crises: Knowledge, Social Order and Transformative Change
In this chapter, we critically analyse how the pandemic caused prior assumptions across both spatial and temporal boundaries to become questioned and...
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What shapes local health system actors’ thinking and action on social inequalities in health? A meta-ethnography
Local health systems are increasingly tasked to play a more central role in driving action to reduce social inequalities in health. Past experience,...
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Education for Inclusive and Transformative Urban Development
This chapter explores the importance of education in enhancing inclusive and transformative urban development. Education is one of the most important...
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Exploring Archaeological Sites and the Transformative Power of Local Practices of Heritage in the Caribbean: A Haitian Case
This article combines ethnographic and anthropological research with archaeology to explore the significance of archaeological sites as historical...
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Conclusion: Releasing Knowledge for Practice Advancement Through Transformative Action
Practice in human services incorporates at least three principal ways of knowing. It is those three sources that I outline in this final chapter....
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Resonance as a medio-passive, emancipatory and transformative power: a reply to my critics
This is a response to a critique of my theory in the Journal of Chinese Sociology. In this response, I take the relationship between resonance theory...
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Work, waste and cleanup: narratives about a global/local social action to “clean up” the planet
Over the last half century, social practices and relationships have changed but human labor has maintained a central role. In the global south,...
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Spaces of Transformative Practice: Co-producing, (Re)Making and Translating Fractional Urban Space in Gugulethu, Cape Town
Reimagining neglected urban space offers the potential for social cohesion, integration, and connectivity. The intimate, interstitial or fractional...
