Writing in 1965, Mario Tronti’s claim was that the greatest power of working class is refusal: refusal work, capitalist development, and to bargain within a framework. One can see how this "strategy refusal" has been utilised all sorts instances by social movements, but does play out now context wider struggles over autonomy today – not just terms labour struggles; also intersectional feminism ...

A. Introduction Our aim in this paper is to consider two related questions, which go to the heart of the larger concern of confl ict between a patient’s choice and a medical professional’s judgment about the proper course of treatment and care. First, how should a medical professional respond to a patient’s refusal to conform to medically necessary dietary advice? Second, having been confronted...

Few studies have presented the use of hypnosis in the treatment of school refusal. These studies haven't approached the problem of self-hypnosis during the stressful morning hours. This paper introduces a therapeutic approach, which utilizes known hypnotic techniques, but rehearses them via the telephone, while the patient is at his/her house or on the way to school and the therapist is at the ...

Mexico has a history of power struggles and culture bad governance. Corruption in is deeply rooted very difficult to deal with. This fully supported by most politicians people various sectors. trapped long-term case corruption that become political system normalized its citizens. article explores the dynamics cases Latin America. explains level corruption, type causes. continues run rampant bec...

Surveys based on scientific sampling methods began in the mid-1930s with market research studies and public opinion polls. The public's response to such efforts was one of enthusiastic participation, perhaps reaching a peak during World War II for government-sponsored surveys as part of the patriotic zeal attending the war [3: I0-ii]. However, for the years since World War II there has been a s...

the purpose of this study was to examine cook’s (2003) ‘multiple competence’ by investigating backward pragmatic transfer (from l2 [english] to l1 [persian]) in refusals to invitations. it explored participants’ frequency and content of refusal strategies in l1 regarding the status (i.e., power and distance) of interlocutors and the proficiency level of efl learners. the participants were persi...

in this article, the author deals with the critical study of rorty and gadamer's doctrines on truth through analyzing its undesirable epistemological and political consequences. rorty denies truth and believes that it is merely the indicator of sentences specification. but gadamer does not deny truth and believes it is as event of appearance which flourishes from within the dialogue and ma...

In this forum, we focus on the possibility and necessity for active refusal in research, complexities of refusal. We offer four different perspectives, based our shared concerns understanding harms caused by some field driven engagement with membership communities experiencing harmful fieldwork peace, (post)conflict security settings.Drawing feminist, queer, indigenous, anti-racist decolonial l...

BACKGROUND Neonatal Vitamin K prophylaxis is an effective intervention for reducing vitamin K deficiency bleeding. A recently published report of parental refusal of vitamin K prompted an investigation of the prevalence and characteristics of this group, and exploration of whether these same parents were likely to subsequently refuse immunization for their children. METHODS We conducted a ret...