Innovation and entrepreneurship are no longer two words that only assist in describing societal phenomena of “newness”, “change” and “diffusion”; they have also grown into important policy areas for assisting the European Union Member States to establish conditions for creating economic growth, new jobs and social cohesion. Our interest lies in understanding the gender dimension of innovation a...

The relevance of the study is underpinned by modifications Russian society gender canon, worldview transformations and growth importance communicative linguocultural Internet space that constitutes field spontaneous social, psychological linguistic experiments also representative sources information on Russian-speaking men women’s speech practices. research aimed at revealing describing derivat...

Beliefs and customs surrounding death, funeral rites, and mourning provide a window into a society’s most deeply held values. In the monotheistic faith of Islam, eschatology – belief in the Day of Judgment (Yawm al-din) and resurrection (al-qiyama) – underlies many practices. Public mourning rituals that commemorate the deaths of saints and martyrs are closely linked to the concept of salvation...

Does promoting weight loss improve health? This paper draws on diverse writings in empowerment, social justice, critical obesity literature, feminism and stress biology to challenge the appropriateness of the continued reliance on a reductionist metaphor of ‘energy balance’ in understanding fatness. It examines some of the scientific and philosophical premises underlying mainstream UK dietary a...

INTRODUCTION This article explores the complex, dynamic and contextual frameworks within which men working in a mining community and their live-in long-term partners or spouses (termed "couples" in this study) respond to the introduction of HIV into their heterosexual relationships; the way in which partners adopt gendered positions in enabling them to make sense of their illness; how they nego...

Violent youth crime generates significant media and public attention, particularly “gang”, or group, related crime and gun and knife crime. When young women are involved in violence, as perpetrators or instigators, this receives disproportionate coverage, drawing on a discourse of girls being “just as bad as the boys” (Burman et al.:2003, Miller:2001). Alongside this interest in girls’ particip...

Translation provides both an analytical tool and conceptual model for feminist legal research. Drawing on translation studies, theory, scholarship gender language, we show how assists in identifying gendered points of difference friction law are articulated communicative practice. The article moves from as the mechanical movement meaning across linguistic boundaries to a sociocultural conceptio...

This paper investigates the representation of gendered social actors in a specialised corpus 10.9 million words, collected from five Reddit communities associated with so-called ‘manosphere’: incels (involuntary celibates), Men Going Their Own Way (male separatists), pick-up artists, men’s rights activists, and group dedicated to wider discussions ‘red pill’ philosophy. Thirty-four actor terms ...