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• Explores the relationship between circular economy and jobs, crucial for sustainable transitions. • Three distinct labour futures in the circular economy, revealing how strategies shape labour. • Links hierarchically organized circular strategies to labour outcomes. • Insights inform policy balancing between incremental and radical transitions. • New skills and policy frameworks, shaping a resilient workforce in the transformative journey to a circular economy. The circular economy (CE) and its impact on the labour market has received increasing attention in both academic and practitioner circles over the past decade. The CE aims to close material and energy loops through various transition pathways or strategies, which are often ranked in a waste hierarchy based on their contribution to the CE. Using discourse analysis, this paper examines how labour market actors in Flanders understand the role of labour in the transition to the CE. We find three distinct future-visions of labour in a CE, closely related to which circular strategies are imagined to become dominant. The findings show that specific storylines shape incremental change through engendering low-ranked strategies which do not require significant shifts in worker skills or policies. On the other hand, alternative discourses show that more radical changes require new or marginalised skills and more fundamental changes in policies and systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Engagement as access to school, the wellbeing of the child, and curating diversity. • Parental actions both bridged and distanced the spaces of homes and schools. • The home-school language divide was upheld. • Reasons reflected complex language ideologies and notions of a parent and a family. • Insights are given to revisit theorisations of parental engagement. Persisting divides between 'multilingual homes' and 'monolingual schools' exist around the world, including Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Applying the lens of space production, we explore how 'parental engagement' is established, and the role it plays in shaping language separation. Discourse analysis on interviews with 24 parents of multilingual children revealed parental engagement as striving for parental access to schools, facilitating the schooling, learning and wellbeing of the child, and curating cultural and linguistic diversity. Parental actions both bridged and distanced 'schools' and 'homes', marking these spaces as intertwined and/or separate based on parents' motivations, reasons and opportunities to become engaged or not. However, the home-school language divide was upheld. Besides reflecting conformity with schooling and the language of schooling, parental rationalisations presented with a drive to preserve the family as independent from schools. These findings provide insights to revisiting theorisations of parental engagement, and its role in reconciling home- and school languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Repair's limited success is often explained through barriers, policies and user acceptance. • The study finds four competing political choices related to repair, requiring attention to facilitate systemic thinking. • A focus on barriers, policies and user acceptance may downplay these political choices and limit systemic thinking. • To facilitate such thinking, reflection of repair scholars, practitioners and policymakers is needed on these choices. • Reflection process raises difficult questions about barriers, policies and acceptance for whom and what mode of repair. Policies intended to promote circular economies have recently gained momentum, but the potential of repair, as a key circular strategy, remains untapped. To explain this issue, repair scholars have focussed on three factors: overcoming barriers, developing better policies and identifying user acceptance. However, this paper argues that these approaches may downplay the tensions and choices involved in repair and, consequently, limit the systemic and transformative thinking required for a shift to repair. It therefore illuminates these choices through an empirical analysis of the discourses of electronics repair in Flanders. Four competing discourses are identified, highlighting the difficult, political choices that need to be made. Two discourses of powerful actors, promoting narrow modes of repair, are gaining influence and reproduce specific, established producer-consumer and labour relations. If repair scholars, policymakers and practitioners neglect such political choices, their analyses may embed and incite impoverished modes of repair. To facilitate systemic and transformative thinking, they need to reflect on these choices by asking difficult questions about barriers, policies and user acceptance for whom, for what repair discourse and for what kind of circular repair economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Care theory and critical discourse analysis were utilized to examine bilingual reference interactions extracted from 20 h of observations in a U.S.-Mexico border town public library. The researchers identified three types of caring discourse, including commiseration, soothing, and expressions of condolence. They also associated five conversation devices with caring discourse: humor, idiomatic expressions, interjections, lexical intensifiers, and whispering. Notably, librarians' infrequent production of elements of care were primarily in English regardless of community members' language choice. Further analysis revealed that linguistic expressions of care frequently masked unintentional, deficit-based perceptions about community members. Other salient themes that emerged include camouflaged community members' needs, clashes between intersectional and shared identity(ies), and librarians' dismissal of community members. Ultimately, bilingual caring discourse in this setting was often an interpersonal and institutional illusion. • Care theory is a valuable framework to investigate reference discourse in public libraries. • Critical discourse analysis illuminates forms of linguistic care in bilingual reference interactions. • Indicators of commiseration, soothing, and condolence masked unintentional, deficit-based stereotypes. • Librarians produced caring discourse infrequently and primarily in English regardless of community members' language choices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 outbreak has prompted the growing recognition and reevaluation of vulnerability theory as proposed by Fineman (2008), which emphasizes the central role of the state in protecting citizens from their 'vulnerability' by providing their access to 'resilience'. It challenges the traditional construction of 'vulnerability' and 'resilience' in liberal discourse, which has typically emphasized individual capabilities over community roles. To investigate the impact of this recognition on the construction of 'vulnerability' and 'resilience' in liberal feminism discourse during COVID-19, discourse analysis was conducted among nine COVID-19-related briefings from the Fawcett Society website. Two main changes in liberal feminism discourse were revealed in this research. First, there has been a shift from a focus on self-resilience among women's groups to an acknowledgement of their weakened resilience in front of COVID-19. Second, liberal feminists delve into the passive characteristic of 'vulnerability' during COVID-19, recognizing the susceptibility of women's groups to their inner mental issues. The discourse constructed by liberal feminists during COVID-19, as evidenced by the collected briefings from the Fawcett Society website, also reveals the 'hidden social inequality' that existed in the long-standing undervaluation of socially reproductive workers, which has been exposed by the pandemic and necessary the need for increased social recognition of their role in maintaining daily social functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent escalation of the farmer-pastoralist conflicts in Nigeria has seen a resurgence in the scholarly inquiry into the conflicts. Discourse analysis approaches to the study of the conflicts have emerged, but existing studies have not examined the transformation and adaptation of the conflicts' discourse. This study uses constructivist grounded theory to examine the transformation and adaptation of the farmer-pastoralist conflict discourse based on interviews in the Benue Valley of Nigeria's Middle Belt region. In addition, it develops a novel and sophisticated analytical framework to explicate this process, which previous studies have not done. Thus, this paper advances the existing studies of farmer-pastoralist conflict discourse by explaining how discourses interlink, transform and adapt to various social conditions. It shows how Islamization discourse external to farmer-herder conflict discourse assemblage becomes integrated into the resource competition discourse of the latter through relations of exteriority, transforming the discourse and adapting it to reflect the socio-political conditions of wider Nigerian society. It explains this articulation of Islamization discourse through a novel framing of relations of exteriority, where elements are transferred between discourse assemblages without detachment. It transforms the farmer-herder conflict discourse by retaining the element of land grabs within the resource competition discourse while disarticulating other elements. The paper demonstrates this by conceptualizing discourses as dynamic and interconnected, drawing on articulation and assemblage thinking concepts. The territorialization and deterritorialization of elements from different discourse assemblages, desires, and narrative framing contribute to this transformation and adaptation of the discourse process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]