the article includes two discourses: first discourse, discusses about modernity and two of its main foundations; rationalism and humanism, and then explanes their impacts on the formation of the modern world, society and human being. second discourse, considers the postmodern critical approach to modernity and its principles. postmodernism, totally rejects the modern reason and deconstructs all...

This study aims to produce empathic budgeting models that are built through the concept of altruism. With this model, regional budgets into a result social construction is full values, empowering, emancipatory, and dedicated welfare community. uses content analysis approach find out or explain community interests in Tana Toraja Regency. The results indicate that; (1) formulation vision mission ...

Henry Bernstein has criticized the research agenda of Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), and publications linked to it, for, among other things, not having specified which classes are supposed comprise proposed emancipatory rural politics. The Journal Agrarian Change organized a special issue (published in January 2023) that takes Bernstein's critique as its point departure. It emph...

Feminist, Southern, and decolonial thinkers have long argued that epistemological questions about how knowledge is produced whose valued actioned are crucial in addressing inequalities, a key challenge for planning. This collaborative article interrogates mobilised urban planning practice, discussing three experiences which actively centred often-excluded voices, as way of disrupting hierarchie...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in Thailand as well as other countries. Evidences from studies in Asia show that alcohol consumption has been linked to an increased risk for various types of cancer. In the qualitative participatory action research presented here, the possibilities of a volunteer women's movement to reduce harmful alcohol consumption by facilitating the creation of ...

Feminists have drawn attention to, and rightly criticized, the tendency of dominant groups unthinkingly to universalize their own values and practices. In so doing, however, many feminists have appeared inclined to criticize almost any practice of generalizing, a development that has proven problematic for feminist epistemological and emancipatory projects. Such considerations invite a question...

Some soft and critical emancipatory systems approaches have relied on some version of the idea that in knowing, humans organise the content of experience by means of conceptual schemes. Based on this, they have further proposed ways of describing particular views and beliefs of persons involved in a situation of concern, with the purpose of proposing understanding and/or critique. Furthermore, ...

This study is based in a social-constructivist framework, interpreted through the lens of feminist and other emancipatory writing. The researchers combine ethnographic and action research methods to explore the activity of a teacher working in what she views as a ‘constitutively oppressive’ context. The focus is on examining how successful the teacher can be in recognising and valuing a variety...