Anti-gender actors in East-Central Europe (ECE) too claim that gender is an ideological colonization. In this article, contrasting these accusations with actually existing power relations of the global and European architecture, I discuss whether they are – at least to some extent based on social realities. Neither anti-gender campaigns nor rise illiberal forces ECE phenomena per se should not ...

Purpose Taking a communication perspective, the paper explores management's rhetoric in profit warnings, whose sole purpose is to disclose unexpected bad news. Design/methodology/approach Adopting close-reading approach text analysis, authors analyse three warnings of now-collapsed Carillion, contrasting with contemporaneous investor conference calls discuss and board minutes recording boardroo...

Abstract Given the recognised role of blanket extension advice in low uptake productivity‐enhancing technologies among developing country farmers, personalised or site‐specific approaches are gaining attention. Focusing on case plant clinic model which provides crop protection services to smallholder we investigate what extent and how accurately farmers adopt advice, implications for agricultur...

While the relation between the individual and the state belongs clearly to one of the most complex issues in Western political philosophy, the relation between the Socrates of the Apology and that of the Crito ranks, accordingly, as one of the most contentious problems in the entire Socratic scholarship. This is due to the fact that in the Apology (29 c–d) one is confronted with a defiant rebel...

Variation in emotional processes may contribute to aggressive and defiant behavior. This study assessed these problem behaviors in a large sample of children and adolescents in relation to the volume of two cortical regions with prominent roles in emotion processing, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). One hundred seventeen participants (61 boys, 56 g...