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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 228: Abuse in Chilean Trans and Non-Binary Health Care: Results from a Nationwide Survey
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040228
Authors: Miguel Roselló-Peñaloza Lukas Julio Izaskun Álvarez-Aguado Maryam Farhang
Abuse in health care (AHC) is an emerging concept used to describe healthcare practices and conduct that health services users find belittling and degrading. Such experiences, whose causes are not always voluntary but systematic and structural, have been described as one of the main barriers to the trans and non-binary population’s acce ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 227: Theorising Digital Afterlife as Techno-Affective Assemblage: On Relationality, Materiality, and the Affective Potential of Data
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040227
Authors: Anu A. Harju
In the ongoing academic discussion regarding what happens to our data after we die, how our data are utilised for commercial profit-making purposes, and what kinds of death-related practices our posthumous data figure in, the notion of digital afterlife is attracting increasing attention. While the concept of digital afterlife has been approached in different ways, t ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 225: The Teachability of Global Citizenship to Children through Empirical Environmental Education: Reflections from a Horticultural Project in a Spanish School
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040225
Authors: Pérez-Ortega González-Fuente
In a context defined by the internationalisation of educational policies and the supranational nature of school programmes, we highlight the desirability of promoting local strategies for teaching environmental sustainability in order to contribute to the formation of global citizenship in children. Based on the experience o ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 226: Rethinking Sporting Mystification in the Present Tense: Disneylimpics, Affective Neoliberalism, and the Greatest Transformation
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040226
Authors: Junbin Yang
While questioning the universalization, naturalization, neutralization, and idealization of sport and physical culture, this paper examines the ultimate mystification process of sport and physical culture by expanding upon two conceptual frameworks: Jules Boykoff’s celebration capitalism and Lawrence Grossberg’s affective landscape. It firs ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 218: Protecting Protection Programmes or Engaging with People? Conditional Inclusion and Evolving Relational Dynamics in Anti-Trafficking Programmes
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040218
Authors: Michela Semprebon
Anti-trafficking programmes in Italy have been implemented for more than two decades. Yet, little empirical evidence is available regarding their functioning. This paper draws on 56 semi-structured interviews carried out in the period of 2019–2021 with practitioners and beneficiaries of the N.A.Ve anti-trafficking programme. The int ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 220: “Making Sure the Path Is Safe”: A Case Study of the Influence of Aboriginal Elders on Non-Aboriginal Organisational Leadership
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040220
Authors: Tiana Culbong Uncle Albert McNamara Aunty Irene McNamara Uncle Peter Wilkes Aunty Sandra Wilkes Adrian Munro Anne-Marie Eades Margaret O’Connell John Fielder Michael Wright
The question of how Aboriginal Elders influence the leadership of non-Aboriginal led service organisations when working biddiya to biddiya (boss to boss) emerged while conducting a qualitati ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 222: Effectiveness of School Violence Prevention Programs in Elementary Schools in the United States: A Systematic Review
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040222
Authors: Ie May Freeman Jenny Tellez Anissa Jones
School violence remains a major concern for scholars, policymakers, and the public in the United States. Despite the implementation of various school violence prevention programs, information regarding their effectiveness in the United States is outdated and limited. This systematic review identified current elementary school programs that effectivel ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 223: Migrant Organisations on the Rise after 2015/2016? Between “Projectitis” and the Formation of New Structures and Types
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040223
Authors: Kirsten Hoesch
The paper departs from the observation that the role of migrant organisations (MOs) in Germany has changed significantly since the strong influx of refugees in 2015/16. As a result of this specific historical situation, it seems that MOs were able to strengthen their position as important civil society and integration policy actors and reduce reservation ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 224: An Assessment of Socio-Economic Status of Women on Family Farms: Slovenian Case Study
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040224
Authors: Jernej Prišenk Urška Vesenjak Črtomir Rozman Jernej Turk Karmen Pažek
The question of gender equality is increasingly being raised today and is present at all levels of society. The topicality of the issue on farms is particularly evident, due to the particular inheritance processes on farms, the clear division of labour, and intergenerational cooperation that characterise the agricultural sector. In this research, a mul ..read more
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Social Sciences, Vol. 13, Pages 215: The Punishable Child in Sweden—The Tidö Agreement from a Children’s Rights Perspective
Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci13040215
Authors: Jeanette Sundhall Sandra Hillén
The discourse that has so far dominated in Sweden, and which has manifested itself in various legislation concerning children who commit crimes, is going to change soon. We argue that this discourse is set to be replaced by one that does not consider the subordinate position of children as a result of their age but rather equates them with adults, thus making ..read more