Maladjusted to injustice? Political agency, medicalization, and the user/survivor movement

the translators agency and ideological manipulation in translation: the case of political texts in translation classes in iran

در این تحقیق به نقش واسطه ای مترجم در ایجاد تغییرات ایدئولوژیک در ترجمه متون سیاسی پرداخته شده است. بدین منظور محقق متنی سیاسی در خصوص ادعاهای آمریکا در مورد برنامه هسته ای ایران را انتخاب کرد. این متن از سایت spacewar.com انتخاب شد که دارای ایدئولوژی مغرضانه در مورد برنامه هسته ای ایران است. سپس یک گروه 30 نفره از دانشجویان کارشناسی ارشدرشته مترجمی زبان انگلیسی دانشگاه شیخ بهایی انتخاب شدند. ا...

Political Philosophy and Racial Injustice: From Normative to Critical Theory

Trust and Political Agency

Trust is both a human passion and a modality of human action: a more or less consciously chosen policy for handling the freedom of other human agents or agencies. As a passion, a sentiment, it can be evanescent or durable. But as a modality of action it is essentially concerned with coping with uncertainty over time (Luhmann 1979: 30; Luhmann, this volume). A human passion, let us agree with Da...

Health and the Political Agency of Women

This paper investigates whether improvements in women’s political representation are associated with higher child survival, and whether any improvements are greater for girls. It also differentiates the caste of both the child and the political leader. We use within-district variation in electoral outcomes for 286 districts across 31 years and within-mother variation in survival outcomes for 0....

Gender, ageing, and injustice: social and political contexts of bioethics.

There has been considerable work in bioethics addressing injustice and gender oppression in the provision of healthcare services, in the interaction between client and healthcare professional, and in allocation of healthcare services within a particular hospital or health service. There remain several sites of continued injustice that can only be addressed adequately from a broader analytical p...