Towards democratised psychiatry: building metacommunities for inclusive and equitable global mental health by Yansen Alberth Reba, M. Zaenul Muttaqin, Yovian Yustiko Prasetya

“…A number of challenges continue to emerge in the public sphere, highlighting the need for psychiatry to adapt to society's evolving demands for inclusivity, equity and ethical governance. …”
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Determinants of Public Sector Innovation: The Example of Capacity Development in Public Procurement by Nils Otter, Mike Weber

“…Following the insight that the state and its agencies are important players in any system of innovation, we take a closer look at the innovative action in the public sphere. Therefore, we propose an analytical tool that allows a more detailed explanation of relevant determinants of innovative behaviour: (1) property rights, (2) capabilities, and (3) motivation. …”
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The voiceless generation by Vanessa Malila

“…The aim is to examine whether the media are fulfilling two key functions in their role as facilitators of popular empowerment in the public sphere: Do they provide citizens with the information they require to engage in issues that affect them (such as education), and secondly, do the media provide a space for citizens to voice their concerns and debates about those issues? …”
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When home and work are not enough. The challenge of international migrants’ agency in the Italian Alps by Andrea Membretti, Fabio Lucchini, Monica Gilli, Mia Scotti

“…Difficulties in accessing public space and public sphere, scarce social recognition, low status, housing isolation (as is the case of those who live in small mountain villages), professional ghettoisation: these are factors that, even in presence of an acceptable working and housing inclusion, make it difficult for international migrants to exercise their rights, to have their skills recognised, and, ultimately, to develop an agency genuinely linked to their capabilities. …”
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Sujeitos políticos da economia solidária e comunitária na Bolívia: tendências e modelos do setor camponês-indígena by Isabelle Hillenkamp

“…It points to a State-based conception of the public sphere in the case of the agrarian unions and the OECOMs that aims at political and institutional recognition but can also lead to a loss of autonomy. …”
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Being ‘excluded from the world of sound’: Deafness, Invalidism and Resilience in Harriet Martineau’s Writings (1834–1855) by Manuela D’Amore

“…Before she lost her hearing as a young adolescent, she enjoyed singing and ‘was never out of tune’: it was only after she became fully aware of her disability that she urged her ‘fellow sufferers’ to trust even experimental science to gain ‘every breath of sound’ and play an active role in the public sphere. An eclectic and prolific writer, Harriet Martineau contributed to a thorough rediscussion of the nineteenth-century cult of invalidism in England. …”
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The digital age students: Exploring leadership, freedom, and ethical online behavior: A quantitative study by Mohamed Mekheimer, Walid Mohamed Abdelhalim

“…This highlights the importance of empowering students within the public sphere to foster ethical digital practices. The study underscores the need for a comprehensive approach that cultivates both leadership capabilities and responsible civic engagement to promote ethical and sustainable digital citizenship. …”
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Enhancing Women’s Participation in Turkey through Digital Storytelling by Şimşek Burcu

“…In the resulting dissertation, I examined the potential of Digital Storytelling workshop practice as a means to promote agency and self-expression in a feminist activist organization (such as Amargi Women), focusing in particular on whether or not Digital Storytelling can be used as a change agent – as a tool for challenging the idea of a single public sphere in ways that make it more inclusive of women’s participation. …”
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Participations by Mariekie Burger

“…In so doing, the article suggests that universities should critically consider the following aspects when embarking on development-oriented community engagement: 1) evaluate the main assumptions of the framework, 2) consider the complex interplay between internal and external factors that cause problems of development, 3) consider the epistemology of knowledge, 4) reflect on the purpose and nature of community participation, and 5) consider aspects related to expressions of voice and identity in the public sphere instead of focusing only on measurable and material aspects as outcomes. …”
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Les configurations de l'espace économique et la crise politique en Belgique by Christian Vandermotten

“…Even if a very large majority of Brussels' population is French-speaking (at least in the public sphere), working-class Wallonia took long to become aware of the importance of an economic and political solidarity with the capital, seen as “the city of capitalists”. …”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…This paper argues that the Judeo-Christian grand narrative is fundamental to the narrative structure, thematics and ethical arguments of Dombey and Son, and that it actively engages with other influential narratives in the topical public sphere. In a progressive unfolding of the great scroll, from Genesis, the law, the prophets and the Psalms, through the Sermon on the Mount to the Book of Revelation, Dickens reads the signs of his times in the light of the biblical time-line from Creation to Apocalypse. …”
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La mujer y el mar en Cataluña by Eliseu Carbonell

“…At this point, women disappeared from the public sphere of artisanal fishing. In the collective imagination only remains the representation of the role of women in traditional coastal society through literature, art and folklore. …”
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Becoming Homebaked by Jones Samantha

“…The paper questions if artists and biennial, with their local and international communities, are capable of creating an ‘agonistic public sphere’ (Mouffe, 2007), where they can address one another in the co-production of new cultural and economic infrastructures to create social change.…”
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"They never appear on TV and if they have, I might have missed that moment." How publics in South Africa and Germany view visible scientists. by Simone Rödder, Lars Guenther, Marina Joubert

“…In conclusion, we suggest that "visibility" (rather than "celebrity") is the more appropriate term to refer to the temporary phenomenon of scientists who become visible in the public sphere.…”
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The Minangkabau Woman Against Discrimination: Rahmah El Yunusiyyah's Islamic Education Thoughts (1900-1969) by Agus Mahfudin Setiawan, Nurul Hidayati, Uswatun Hasanah, Briliant Windy Khairunnisa

“…This study also found that Rahmah El Yunusiyyah's Islamic education thoughts were not only campaigned in the public sphere but also realized by establishing particular educational institutions for women based on Islamic principles. …”
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INFORMACIJOS VISUOMENĖS SAMPRATA: SENŲJŲ VYNMAIŠIŲ GNIAUŽTAI by Marius P. P. Šaulauskas

“…An article also puts under critical comparative scrutiny the usage of information society's concept in the public sphere of nowadays Lithuania. Keywords: information society, ideology, info-pesimism, info-optimism, rational choice theory, existential-axiological assumption. …”
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Municipal public spending in environmental management: efficiency and determinants by Vanderléia de Souza da Silva, Johan Hendrik Poker Junior, Marco Antonio Milani Filho, Ieda Kanashiro Makiya, Denise Rugani Topke

“…The preservation and care of the environment are becoming increasingly relevant in society and organizations. The public sphere manages and regulates this issue, being a key factor for public policies at all management levels. …”
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From the Ocean to the Gulf: One Region’s Identity in the Context of Neomodernity by V. A. Kuznetsov

“…The author approaches the issue of a new world order emergence within the framework of fundamental changes taking place in the public sphere. In the paper these processes are considered in terms of transition from postmodernity to neomodernity. …”
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Masculinité et relations de genre dans la société secrète abakuá by Géraldine Morel

“…This article offers an analysis of the abakuá commitment from the perspective of gender and its representation in a public sphere. Belonging to this secret organization is a source of prestige in deprived Havana neighbourhoods and among an entire fringe of the urban population referred to as ‘the surroundings’ (el ambiente). …”
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The Motives behind the Skepticism of Conventional Medicine Advocates towards Traditional Persian Medicine: An Expert Opinion by Majid Nimrouzi, Zahra Salehi, Faranak Alembizar

“…The objective of this viewpoint is to enhance health awareness in both academia and the public sphere. …”
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