Environmental injustice is part and parcel of the fundamentals international domestic environmental law. In South Africa, section 2(4)(c) National Management Act 107 1998 (NEMA) establishes justice (EJ) as management principles to direct decision-making. This particularly relevant because country’s legacy continuing injustices inequalities, especially concerning natural-resource dependent servi...

Slum rehabilitation housing (SRH) are critical transitional spaces in urban informality that has deep-rooted implications on poverty alleviation efforts. However, current literature reports systemic injustices SRH access to essential services, including energy injustices. This study investigated distributive the across three cities, Abuja, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, developing ‘energy cultures’...

Being woke, that is, being aware of the appalling injustices borne by many in American society because certain identities or features and wanting to act redress these injustices, seems put one a quandary: either can accept role struggle against injustice obviously inefficacious or, if insists on doing more, must, it seems, engage epistemic imperialism, thereby wronging some those is endeavoring...

This is the Introduction to special issue on Covid-19 and cultural constructions of a global crisis. Contextualizing understandings pandemic in relation concepts ‘event’ ‘crisis’, especially idea that modernity itself condition perpetual crisis, it proposes crisis-event catalyses new possibilities for making visible endemic inequalities injustices across highly variable social domains, from per...

This article examines the social acceptability and governance of emotional artificial intelligence (emotional AI) in children’s toys other child-oriented devices. To explore this, it conducts interviews with stakeholders a professional interest AI, toys, children policy to consider implications usage AI services. It also demographically representative UK national survey ascertain parental persp...

This special section of Transcultural Psychiatry explores the local-global spaces of engagement being opened up by the Movement for Global Mental Health, with particular emphasis on the need for expanded engagement with local communities. Currently the Movement places its main emphasis on scaling up mental health services and advocating for the rights of the mentally ill, framed within universa...

Social injustices toward minority groups are pervasive around the world, and further exacerbated by global threats such as COVID-19 climate change. Prosocial tendencies, empathy, moral reasoning, helping behaviors directed only members of one's own social groups, discriminate against outgroups, can perpetuate an unjust status quo. Yet, recent meta-analyses point to effective intervention progra...

Bureaucratic discourses informed by legacies of slavery and colonisation create traumatising experiences among African Canadian youth in social, educational law-enforcement institutions Canada. These the already-known-people paradigm are then exacerbated effects neoliberal policies managerialist administrations to produce an unfortunate social condition which system professionals discount what ...

The story of my face intertwines concepts of social semiotics and discourse analysis to explore how a simple type of printed media (flyer) can generate stigmatization of informal recyclers, known as binners in Western Canada. Every day, media exposes humans to signifiers (e.g., words, photographs, cartoons) that appear to be trivial but influence how we perceive their meaning. Amongst the signi...

This article discusses racial prejudices and discrimination in perceptions, attitudes and practices among health personnel in the municipality of Camaçari. The survey’s methodology included racist statements in questionnaires distributed to 634 health workers, as well as socio-determinants of health, family and work characteristics. Results indicate how masked racism is reproduced through ambig...