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  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,599 Views
13 Pages

4 August 2021

The Exodus played an explicit and implicit role in sustaining the policy and practice of apartheid in South Africa and in various other places that went through the pains of colonization. Interestingly, the same Exodus also played a central part in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,131 Views
16 Pages

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global issue that is particularly prevalent among women of color. Many providers in GBV-based organizations are also survivors of GBV, which affects the way these providers lead social service and social justice organ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,001 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2024

This article contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of memory and historical justice studies by analyzing one, particularly troublesome kind of competitive comparison that sometimes happens in memory politics in the so-called age of apology. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,305 Views
27 Pages

18 April 2019

Child abuse in youth custody in England and Wales is receiving an unprecedented degree of official attention. Historic allegations of abuse by staff in custodial institutions which held children are now being heard by the courts and by the Independen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,062 Views
21 Pages

The legal and social perception of sexually motivated crimes has undergone profound transformations in the Czech lands from the Middle Ages to the present. Acts once considered grave moral transgressions, punishable by death, have been gradually decr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,424 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2025

Dark tourism sites serve as powerful spaces where history, memory, and emotion intersect, shaping both individual experiences and collective narratives. The aim of this paper is to investigate how dark tourism narratives are constructed around post-S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,084 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2025

Racial justice rhetoric is approached via collaborative auto-ethnography and oral interpretation, demonstrating how race, place, and faith intersect in a community devoted to religion and education. Community narratives wield immense power, but they...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,538 Views
27 Pages

6 January 2021

The contemporary social moment in the United States has affirmed the critical importance of racial justice, and especially claims to justice informed by the contributions of structural and institutional forces connected with the nation’s origin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,711 Views
17 Pages

Environmental reproductive justice is increasingly being utilized as a framework for exploring how environmental exploitation and pollution contribute to reproductive health and reproductive injustices. However, little research explores how settler c...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,695 Views
25 Pages

Nutritional Criminology: Why the Emerging Research on Ultra-Processed Food Matters to Health and Justice

  • Susan L. Prescott,
  • Alan C. Logan,
  • Christopher R. D’Adamo,
  • Kathleen F. Holton,
  • Christopher A. Lowry,
  • John Marks,
  • Rob Moodie and
  • Blake Poland

There is mounting concern over the potential harms associated with ultra-processed foods, including poor mental health and antisocial behavior. Cutting-edge research provides an enhanced understanding of biophysiological mechanisms, including microbi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,189 Views
23 Pages

14 June 2024

Allocating fish quota is a hotly disputed issue across the world, and many different criteria have been employed to achieve it. However, little attention has been devoted to examining the fairness of those criteria. This study aims to fill this gap b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,131 Views
23 Pages

Socio-Ecological Controversies from Chilean and Brazilian Sustainable Energy Transitions

  • Axel Bastián Poque González,
  • Yunesky Masip Macia,
  • Lúcia da Costa Ferreira and
  • Javier Valdes

18 January 2023

Chile and Brazil have been historically recognised in South America for having a high share of renewable sources in their primary energy matrices. Furthermore, in the last two decades, aligned with the global efforts to conduct a sustainable energy t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,800 Views
21 Pages

30 April 2025

This article explores the dynamic interplay between theological and secular paradigms in shaping contemporary political movements and social justice discourse, with a particular focus on the Culture War surrounding reproductive rights and gender iden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
37,548 Views
10 Pages

10 February 2021

Historically, countries such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand have witnessed an increased over-representation of minority groups who are exposed to the criminal justice system. For many years in Australia, young First Nations males have been over...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,698 Views
17 Pages

I use critical family history to investigate: (a) my British/Scot ancestors who engaged in slavery and have a history of oppressive treatment of indigenous peoples, and (b) my Acadian and Mi’kmaq indigenous origins. My family’s conflictin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,359 Views
15 Pages

Liberal political philosophy has traditionally maintained that history is irrelevant to justice, focusing instead on the present and the future. This perspective renders liberalism largely indifferent to historical injustices, as it prioritizes abstr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,584 Views
18 Pages

31 October 2024

In accordance with their constitutional prerogatives, members of the Church engage in activities that align with their designated roles and responsibilities. A review of both the history of the Church and the documents in force reveals that the Churc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,416 Views
16 Pages

10 December 2024

The environmental justice (EJ) movement has evolved over five decades, encapsulating diverse theories, principles, frameworks, and practices. Despite considerable advancements in this field, the nuances of EJ in the Anthropocene era, along with its m...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,894 Views
9 Pages

12 February 2025

Within the fields of oncology practice and research, cancer has historically been and continues to be understood as primarily biologically produced and physiologically driven. This understanding is rooted in biomedicine, the dominant model of health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,016 Views
17 Pages

8 February 2025

On 16 November 1965, three weeks before the end of the Second Vatican Council, about forty conciliar bishops gathered to celebrate the Holy Eucharist in the Catacombs of St. Domitilla. The Mass was presided over by Msgr. Charles-Marie Himmer (1902&nd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,752 Views
19 Pages

13 January 2023

Municipalities, their utilities and resource managers are designing and implementing policies and programs toward climate adaptation, which means governing urban water resources differently. Urban water managers are thus expanding their roles and res...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,920 Views
11 Pages

A Literature Review: Bias Detection and Mitigation in Criminal Justice

  • Pravallika Kondapalli,
  • Parminder Singh,
  • Arun Malik and
  • C. S. A. Teddy Lesmana

9 September 2025

The use of algorithmic models or systems in criminal justice is increasing day by day, yet the bias in these algorithms can perpetuate historical inequities, especially in predictive tools like COMPAS. This literature survey examines 30 studies addre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Views
11 Pages

21 January 2026

Since 2017, more than a dozen civics institutes have been founded at America’s public universities, marking a renaissance in civic education. Grounded in the liberal arts, these institutes rightly restore the pursuit of knowledge for its own sa...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,910 Views
10 Pages

23 February 2022

Media accounts of hundreds of unmarked graves of children at the sites of residential schools in Canada in 2021 is one more urgent call for all Canadians to start walking the path for reconciliation, decolonization, and anti-racism. In this explorato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,292 Views
27 Pages

8 May 2025

In the spirit of global governance, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause saw the Masonic Brotherhood as the first historical seed for the realization of a global, participatory, Human League; to establish and maintain a state of true humanity. And he saw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,924 Views
26 Pages

17 November 2022

The four principles of Western medical bioethics, i.e., autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice, published by Beauchamps and Childress in their seminal ‘Principles of Biomedical Ethics’, are understood as universal. However, Non...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,913 Views
19 Pages

6 March 2020

This study aims to provide new knowledge for the governments to enact more effective policies to proceed housing redevelopment programs. We conducted a survey on local urban villagers in Hangzhou city of China. Overall, our results provide valuable t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,395 Views
19 Pages

9 July 2025

This paper is based on our engagement in a cross-sector network in Leeds, UK, taking local climate action. It draws on in-depth engagements with participants in this network, to explore how they negotiate being in, while at the same time wanting to p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,569 Views
16 Pages

Co-Powering Solutions to Truck Pollution in South Stockton

  • Catherine Garoupa,
  • Nahui Gonzalez Millan,
  • Bianette Perez,
  • Taylor Williams and
  • Todd Sax

2 August 2023

Despite decades of literature and practice with community-engaged research along with advancements in the recognition of environmental injustices, the application of equity-/justice-based and collaborative approaches between government agencies and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,598 Views
34 Pages

9 December 2025

Despite vast wind energy potential, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has historically lagged in installed capacity due to socioeconomic and technical barriers. The emergence of hydrogen as an alternative energy carrier has tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,178 Views
22 Pages

31 January 2023

Spatial planning based on environmental justice is a key activity in the process of the provision of equal rights to live in a safe environment and possess the opportunities of using it. Irrational development of land containing historical earth surf...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,323 Views
12 Pages

31 August 2022

Nature provides multiple physical, mental, and social health benefits to children. Although green spaces in cities can provide these health benefits, in many Western societies, children are spending less time outdoors and access to green spaces and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,127 Views
12 Pages

2 October 2023

With the 2015 publication of his encyclical letter Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis emerged as a leading religious voice (alongside Patriarch Bartholomew) advocating for ecological justice and environmental sustainability....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
15,696 Views
25 Pages

14 March 2022

Black children have never been exempt from the violence and abuse that have beset Black adults. Any comprehensive attention to and understanding of systemic racism, anti-Blackness, and intergenerational Black trauma must consider the historical viole...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,200 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2024

Historical thinking plays a key role in the education of critical citizens who are committed to the world in which they live. Socio-cultural sustainability promotes respect for one’s own cultural roots (and those of others), averts the conseque...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,468 Views
23 Pages

14 November 2020

While a growing body of literature explores tourism impacts in search of sustainable outcomes, research on justice in diverse tourism settings is nascent. Theoretically informed studies drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives are just beginning t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,712 Views
17 Pages

Exploring Science Teachers’ Reflections on Using Identity and Criticality to Design Social Justice-Oriented Environments

  • Elizabeth Idowu Ayano,
  • Jennifer M. Bateman,
  • Leigh Kohlmann and
  • Emily C. Adah Miller

Recognizing that traditional science education materials often overlook students’ cultural and social contexts, this research examines the teacher-driven design of science teaching enactment—specifically, how teachers reflect on and adapt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,388 Views
17 Pages

A Systematic Review on the Path to Inclusive and Sustainable Energy Transitions

  • Oluwafemi Awolesi,
  • Corinne A. Salter and
  • Margaret Reams

17 July 2024

This paper surveys the energy literature and systematically reviews the path to an inclusive and sustainable energy transition by exploring factors that drive the current energy transitions, countries with advanced energy transition programs, and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,802 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2021

This article contributes a critical study of efforts to internationalize the investigation and prosecution of corruption. The efforts to internationalize anticorruption enforcement are visible, for instance, in calls for an International Anticorrupti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,637 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2019

The Libyan Muslim Brotherhood needed to manoeuvre underground for several decades, just as most opposition groups in Libya had to—because of the repression from the Qaddafi regime. In 2012, however, the political wing of the Libyan Muslim Broth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,529 Views
17 Pages

23 March 2021

Myanmar has been suffering from ethnic conflicts for approximately 70 years. The instability remains ongoing, and villagers in ceasefire areas are vulnerable. To ensure that no one is left behind, sustainable development in these areas should conside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
19,752 Views
14 Pages

28 December 2022

This article provides an analysis of the concept of karma and related concepts, such as rebirth, merit, and transfer of merit, along with a historical survey focusing on classical texts. The attractiveness of the belief in karma lies in two main reas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,658 Views
26 Pages

13 September 2024

The seventeen UN SDGs address critical global challenges. Among them, Goal 10—reducing inequality—and Goal 16—promoting peace, justice, and strong institutions—serve as foundational pillars in democracies, enabling the achieve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,074 Views
11 Pages

6 August 2024

Formal language: This paper discusses inclusive research and epistemic justice by using an example of a published study the authors conducted on intellectual disability and sexuality in supported living environments. Our study addressed taboos and pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,665 Views
13 Pages

25 December 2023

An orange shirt is synonymous with truth and reconciliation in Canada. How did this symbol spread from a personal story about surviving a residential school, to a children’s book by author Phyllis J. Webstad, to a national symbol of Indigenous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,454 Views
11 Pages

30 July 2025

One of the core sources for Christian justification or critique of social justice matters is the Bible. One would think that a leading historic Christian figure, like John Wesley, whose theology was closely bound to biblical interpretation, would hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,554 Views
17 Pages

9 December 2021

This article analyses the educational role of historical memory in Spain in the context of Education for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals. The main objective is to show the utilitarian value of historical memory as an ena...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,049 Views
23 Pages

20 March 2025

Environmental challenges have become essential to study in today’s world because of the technical advancements and human achievements that have promoted an overestimation of human capabilities. This study explores the evolving relationship betw...

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