PROBLEMS OF INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN THE TRANSITION OF EASTERN BLOC COUNTRIES TO MARKET ECONOMY: EXAMPLES FROM SELECTED REGIONAL COUNTRIES by Yrd. Doç. Dr. Remzi Bulut

“…The most important of these problems are; inflation, unemployment and injustices in income distribution. In this work, theoretical information is provided about transition economies, transition periods and transition reforms. …”
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Les Femmes anishinaabeg (Canada), la santé et l’eau : des savoirs traditionnels aux mobilisations contemporaines by Castelli Tania, Thinel Myriam, Cantin Alex-Andrée, Patrick Cloos

“…Despite Canada's wealth of fresh water, many First nations, including the Anishinaabeg, regularly face inequitable access to quality drinking water, a situation that has health, spiritual and cultural consequences. These injustices are a direct result of colonization and the unequal relationship between the Canadian government and First Nations, which has greatly contributed to restricting the traditional role of Anishinaabeg women as water protectors, despite their spiritual and identity connection to water. …”
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Bias in adjudication: Investigating the impact of artificial intelligence, media, financial and legal institutions in pursuit of social justice. by Kashif Javed, Jianxin Li

“…We conclude that successfully integrating AI requires a supportive global policy environment that embraces technological innovation, financial backing, and robust regulation to prevent potential disruptions that could reinforce inequalities, perpetuate structural injustices, and exacerbate human rights issues, ultimately leading to more biased outcomes in social justice.…”
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Untapping the potential of Indigenous water jurisdiction: perspectives from Whanganui and Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Macpherson, Hayden Turoa

“…Still, legal and policy frameworks routinely include only tokenistic acknowledgements of Indigenous water ‘values’, while ongoing injustices related to the allocation and governance of water resources remain unresolved. …”
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Legitimacy of Social Justice in the Terrorism Regulations: Insight from Several Countries by Ali Masyhar, Rohadhatul Aisy, Akhmedova Mehrinigor Bahodirovna, Gaini Mukhanova

“…Indonesia continues to experience recidivist terrorism regularly as a result of the injustices it faces. As a result, it is critical to prioritize the legitimacy of social justice for both victims and perpetrators, as well as adopt a humanitarian approach to non-criminal terrorism to mitigate and avert criminal acts of terrorism. …”
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Can Conflict Be Planned Away? A Critical Assessment of Participatory Land Use Planning in Swedish Forest Governance by Annette Löf, Rasmus Kløcker Larsen, Felicia Fahlin

“…We therefore conclude that, in absence of institutional reform, the tool is likely to perpetuate conflicts and continue to reproduce the injustices embedded in Swedish forest and land use governance. …”
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Food: God’s Gift to All People. Case Study from Croatia by Martina Ana Begić

“…The second part presents church’s guidelines, aimed to overcome today’s injustices in the world and provide everyone with access to food, and highlights the importance of producing healthy food for the protection of health. …”
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The potential for justice through tourism by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

“…Future topics to consider include structural issues of mobility in a precarious world, climate injustices, justice for non-human others in the era of the Anthropocene and diverse paradigms and worldviews for thinking through justice tourism.…”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…This is in the hope that the questions might enlighten and reify contemporary concerns in these respective geographical and intellectual locations, complicating the site and probing the intellectual divide between the Global North and the Global South in area studies, to see how Indigenous concerns globally are aligned in the face of a global climate crisis, as they are disproportionately affected due to historical injustices of empire, settler colonial enterprise, caste orders and religious nationalisms. …”
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Decolonial Spectatorship and Performances of Contemporary Dance in South Africa:Mamela Nyamza’s Choreographies of Embodied Politics of Race and Gender in Place by Sarah DAVIES CORDOVA

“…Performed through de-centered corporeal positionalities and dance vocabularies that carry her conceptual signature use of words, cloth and clothes, everyday objects, and spaces, moving and flexing across dance genres, language paradigms, relational exchanges, her works call out the violence and wounds that injustices perpetuate by challenging representations of women, human relations and race and gender positionalities in place, historically and within postapartheid South Africa and beyond.…”
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The shadow side of occupational therapy: Necropower, state racism and colonialism by Pier-Luc Turcotte, Dave Holmes

“…To prevent the recurrence of these injustices, history must be unveiled and occupational therapists urged to come to terms with their own involvement and responsibility.Objective and Method Utilising Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics, this academic essay blends select historical and philosophical perspectives to explore occupational therapy’s concealed role in manifestations of institutionalised violence.Results By examining its roles in World War II and France’s colonisation of Algeria, we make visible the development of occupational therapy’s distinct ‘shadow side’. …”
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Living with Gorillas? Lessons from Batwa-Gorillas’ Convivial Relations at Bwindi Forest, Uganda by Christine, Ampumuza

“…This is a welcome development because most of the injustices and failures of fortress conservation arose from neglecting local communities’ view of being with nature, and knowledges of nature (plural of knowledge highlights that there are multiple ways and types of acquiring and transmitting knowledge through generations). …”
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The Symbolic-Compliance Gap and Public Perceptions of Sharia Law Enforcement in Aceh, Indonesia: Insights from Becak Drivers by Maskur, Irman, Lukmanul Hakim

“…Thematic analysis identifies key concerns, including superficial compliance, inconsistent enforcement, and perceived injustices, which collectively undermine public confidence in the law. …”
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Liberating the open and distance learning model from the chains of oppressive education theories by Mackenzie Ishmael Chibambo, Joseph Jinja Divala, Aggripa Chingombe

“…While some scholars may find these parallels unremarkable, the reality remains that existing ODL policies and practices continue to perpetuate epistemological injustices, stifling human agency, and curtailing various freedoms. …”
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Disruptively regional: How women in Regional, Rural and Remote communities ‘imagine’ with and through digital and social media by Tara BRABAZON, Jacqueline EWART

“…Certainly, analogue injustices overlay digital inequalities. However, the opportunities and potential for resistance and interventions are revealed and disseminated the courage, direction and gumption of women summoning a different mode of media leadership that is critiques and transforms traditional models of ownership, production, and consumption.  …”
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Conservation data infrastructures: From carbon accounting to multiple biodiversity and social measures by Danilo Urzedo, Nikki P. Dumbrell, Catherine J. Robinson

“…Yet, the growing reliance on data‐driven approaches raises concerns regarding biases, uncertainties, and injustices in environmental decision‐making processes. …”
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What we talk about when we talk about decentralization? Insights from post-revolution Tunisia by Lana Salman

“…At stake in this comparison are two discourses of decentralization that call forth diverging development models: one model focuses on the financial, administrative and political autonomy of municipalities from the central government, while the other calls for reparations and a desire for a state that restores past injustices. This language forces us to rethink the mode of politics undergirding decentralization policies, and accordingly to re-theorize decentralization from a particular place on the map, from Tunisia.…”
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Making Hidden Sustainable Urban Planning and Landscape Knowledge Visual and Multisensorial by Carlos J. L. Balsas

“…This paper analyzes how four educational and research programs implemented at the University at Albany built upon visual and multisensorial research methods to augment educational outcomes, bolster scholarly significance, and provide up-to-date knowledge to empower concerned stakeholders to help change unsustainable urbanization practices, social inequities and injustices in cities, car dependence and sedentary lifestyles, protect natural resources and livelihoods, while reducing environmental and social harm. …”
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Cultivating Well-being, Community Cohesion, and Sense of Purpose through African Contemplative Practices by Lucy Draper-Clarke, Caryn Green

“…The global decline in mental health provides increased relevance, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of perpetuated historical injustices that have rendered individuals and communities isolated and disconnected. …”
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Water security reframed using Water System Justice and Earth system boundaries, foundations, and corridor by Joyeeta Gupta, Joyeeta Gupta, Hilmer J. Bosch, Luc van Vliet

“…This in turn can lead to practices such as water grabbing creating and perpetuating injustices for the poor and marginalized. To counter this, we propose to conceptually link water security to water justice through an operationalized framework for Water System Justice (WSJ). …”
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