This paper focuses on the use of emancipatory research principles in archival and contends with suitability academic conventions that characterise ethical practice when goal is to elevate voices marginalised historical groups. Drawing a case study Le Court Cheshire Home, England (1948-1975) address critical gap literature, I highlight some dilemmas encountered working at nexus geography geograp...

This paper argues that Freire 's pedagogical ideas stand in marked reaction against a process of education characterised by prescription. In Freire 's view, such a process consolidates sharply defined power relations and therefore perpetuates oppressive social forms. It argues that contained in Freire 's pedagogy are the e lements for a model of an alternative society. In the first section, at ...

The relations between survivors and disability and between the survivors' and disabled people's movements are complex and there is little agreement about them. For example, there was only one mention of survivors in Jane Campbell and Mike Oliver's major examination of disability politics and the only organisation referred to is an organisation for mental health service users (Campbell and Olive...

With increased attentiveness to social justice and the social and economic inequities that shape health, well-being, and health care access, nurse researchers, particularly those positioning their work as emancipatory, negotiate the dialectic of analysis and advocacy. Drawing on postcolonial feminism, we explore this dialectic and associated ramifications for scientific integrity. Staying true ...

The notion of social possibility is, in many respects, central to the conceptual foundations of modern social theory. This thesis draws upon results from possible worlds semantics and modal logics of knowledge to develop a framework for reasoning about social possibility and the epistemic states of social agents. The framework is then used to reason about the cognitive structure and emancipator...

Children’s participation is increasingly ambiguous and contested. Such complexity emerges in response to its emancipatory possibilities as well as unresolved tensions and power practices. The authors argue that closer attention must now be given to the interpretative milieu of children’s participation, that is, to the act of dialogue that has emerged as central to the participatory process. The...

Wide tensions regarding the organization of nation-state power have been triggered over last years in UK and Spain. By contrast, UK, (i) plebiscite on Scottish Independence has characterized since 2014 so far by a regular hegemony SNP Scotland, (ii) more recently, distinct resilient responses to tackle COVID-19 dramatically shifted perceptions about potential constitutional arrangements Wales p...