The media has been employed to increase uptake of Family Planning through behaviour change communication (BCC). Understanding the barriers encountered in effectively undertaking this function would increase the strategy's effectiveness. Sixty journalists from East Africa participated in trainings to enhance their BCC skills for Family Planning in which a qualitative study was nested to identify...

This paper identifies how the different ideologies of patriarchy, technology, capitalism, race and feminism shape how we see breastfeeding and the breastfeeding mother with child. Ultimately, while we can make good strong arguments for breastfeeding from the perspective of health, of outcome, of good scientific data, we need to appreciate that they are only rationalizations for a shared belief ...

Historical and archaeological studies of Australian convictism have embraced a variety of themes and directions, from exploration of the ideologies and mechanisms of punishment and reform (e.g. Kerr 1984, 1988), to investigations of convicts as part of broader colonizing strategies and a means of creating industrial workforces (e.g. Blair and Claoué-Long 1993). It is increasingly apparent that ...

According to the system justification theory (SJT), stereotypes can be conceptualized as tools of system justification. Because relatively few studies have directly examined this assumption, we conducted two studies in which the relationships between stereotype endorsement of various disadvantaged groups (i.e. women, Arabs, the poor and Gypsies) and system justification ideologies were explored...

This study draws on a comparative framework to evaluate the translation of political implications in three Persian translations of the novellaAnimal Farm (by George Orwell), using  Fairclough’scritical discourse analysis (CDA) model. The study regards political implications and ideologies as a mode of background knowledge shared by writers and audiences in the source language. Fairclough’s mode...

Terror management theory posits that people are motivated to affirm cultural meaning systems, including political ideologies, to avoid the awareness of mortality. Accordingly, studies show that increasing mortality salience (MS) intensifies people’s attitudes toward political issues and figures. However, whereas in some studies MS increases affirmation of preexisting political ideologies, be th...

This article explores the concept of reverse discourse, as suggested by Foucault and Butler. It is argued that Butler's subject formation overly determinist, Foucault's discourse. Following Scott's critique, it there a strong weak conceptualisation dominant ideology. Discourses are in competition for authority, where ideology discourse more powerful decision-makers, while subaltern ideologies p...