In this article we examine women-specific adventure sport skills training courses in the UK utilising a feminist new materialist approach. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's (1987) concepts of ‘assemblage’, ‘lines territorialisation’, flight’, apply lens to ask: what type(s) material-discursive assemblages are produced through human non-human, discursive, non-discursive intra-action...

This article defends the democratic ideal of inclusive public discourse, as articulated in Democratic Speech Divided Times, against critiques offered by Billingham, Fraser, and Hannon. Specifically, it considers responds to three core challenges. The first challenge argues, notably, that “shared reasons” constraint should either apply everywhere or not at all, that, if this is divided circumsta...

Moral decision procedures such as principlism or casuistry require intuition at certain junctures, as when a principle seems indeterminate, or principles conflict, or we wonder which paradigm case is most relevantly similar to the instant case. However, intuitions are widely thought to lack epistemic justification, and many ethicists urge that such decision procedures dispense with intuition in...

Mainstream psychology can often be criticized for turning the liberal concerns of psychologists into conservative practices focusing on the individual. In the United Kingdom, the discursive turn in social psychology has been marked by an audacious body of work critical of cognitive attempts to theorize the social. A particular psychodiscursive strand has emerged, which combines discourse analys...

Different academic disciplines have deployed a diversity of approaches to European identity, Europeanism and Europeanisation, with often strong emphasis on their material-structural components. This article uses discursive-material analysis, that acknowledges the importance material, but places it in non-hierarchical relation discursive. Grounded an extensive literature review first highlights ...

background: triple negative breast cancer (tnbc) is reported to be associated with a high risk of recurrence, poor overall survival (os), and disease-free survival (dfs) rates. this study evaluated the clincopathological features and survival of non-metastatic tnbc women in the capital of iran compared with other areas of the world. methods: in a retrospective study, 119 women with tnbc based o...