This article examines how Facebook groups in Sweden, that focus on the environment, address issues of sustainability. The research, conducted over a one-year period (May 2019–April 2020) combines mapping analysis, which identified population 152 environment-focused groups, and quantitative content gives overview these represent sustainability human-nature relations. analysis pointed to an overw...

Will China's rise lead to Chinese hegemony? Most International Relations scholars would answer in the negative, contending road a global hegemony remains well beyond Beijing's interests and capabilities. In Asia, however, formidable economy, technological advancement, rapidly modernizing military forces, recent geopolitical moves look outright hegemonic - fact that United States attempts "pivot...

How does major policy change come about? This article identifies and rectifies weaknesses in the conceptualization of innovative policy change in the Advocacy Coalition Framework. In a case study of policy belief change preceding an innovative reform in the German subsystem of old-age security, important new aspects of major policy change are carved out. In particular, the analysis traces a tra...

This article examines the narratives of men who purchase sex from street-level providers in a mid-sized city in Western Canada. We explore what men’s stories tell us about how masculinity is constructed in relation to street sex work. These men narrated their purchase of sex as attempts to exercise or lay claim to male power, privilege, and authority; at the same time, research reveals how tenu...

This paper will address the need for gender issues and the discourses of power to be explored within resilient frameworks for successful outcomes for at-risk males in intervention programs. Due to the western valorisation of traditional masculinities, the 'backlash politics' debate internationally constrains the challenges to the existing gender order within intervention programs. The discussio...