The introduction maps the emerging field of critical fashion studies, whereby ‘critical’ in this context marks networks influence and overlap between Cultural Studies Fashion Studies...

If academics and intellectuals are to play a meaningful part in addressing the urgent issues that humanity faces in the twenty-first century—those of war and peace, social justice, democracy, cultural diversity, and ecological sustainability—it is incumbent upon us to gain an analytical understanding of globalization as the underlying structural dynamic that drives social, political, economic, ...

decisions in healthcare should be based on information obtained according to the principles of evidence-based medicine (ebm). an increasing number of systematic reviews are published which summarize the results of prevalence studies. interpretation of the results of these reviews should be accompanied by an appraisal of the methodological quality of the included data and studies. the critical a...

Education, by regarding the social and critical elements can be traced back to the 20th century. Critical pedagogy was started out of the need of reforming education in a way that it would acknowledge the influence of the present social and political elements in each and every educational context. Some critical theorists applied ideas in critical theories to education in the society....

Taking children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) as an example, the article seeks an understanding of children with disabilities that connects neuropsychological theories of neural development with the situated cognition perspective and the child as an active participant in its social practices. The early brain lesion of CP is reconceptualised as a neurobiological constraint that exists in the relation...

algebra. After the first page or so, group theory is not concerned with the features common to all models of the group axioms, but rather with relationships among different models of those axioms, which is to say, different groups, especially those relationships established by certain kinds of functions, called homomorphisms. This makes it difficult even to imagine what a structuralist interpre...

This paper explores the trajectories of food and how culinary practices evolve over time in relation to a migrant’s experience. Our focus is on international mothers adjusting to life in London. We identify a connection between eating practices and evolving identities. In line with a stream of research in cultural psychology, we consider food as a symbolic resource mobilized by migrants to prov...

This chapter focuses on the relationship between critical legal studies as an intellectual movement in American law schools, and law and economics, in both Chicago and other forms. The critical legal studies critique of law and economics can reasonably be understood as an effort to foster alternative, radical approaches to law and economics that acknowledge and proceed from politically-charged ...