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Reflecting on narratives collected as part of the Apartheid Archive Project, a memory project of "ordinary" experiences of living under apartheid, this paper engages with stories that articulate white South Africans' shame/ful relationships with Black female domestic workers. It is increasingly of concern that the dominant response to apartheid abuses are to consider them "in the past" in order to avoid discomforting reminders. Shame and its silencing effect, as feminist and other critical literature shows, is bound up with relations of power, legitimating privilege and subjugation. Yet, shame may also be deployed as narrative strategy to deal with subjective discomfort and guilt by those seeking to disentangle themselves from association with social privilege and its abuses. How do we respond to narratives that may have both effects? Drawing on contemporary critical pedagogies, such as the work of Zembylas that specifically engage with the affective turn, and guided by Probyn's argument that shame is a powerful resource of social critique, this paper suggests productive possibilities of such narratives in contemporary South Africa. While acknowledging contestations, an argument is made for the value of stories of shame/shaming towards troubling the erasure of apartheid and its continuities in the present while also disrupting the denial of historical and current complicity with power and privilege. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We need new ways of making the everyday world visible through disruptive empirical methodologies that privilege social justice and utopian acts of critical imagination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we argue against influential analyses of neoliberalism that prioritize variegation and the role of ideas as key theoretical foci relevant to understanding neoliberalism's diffusion into myriad national and political settings. Rather, we contend that crucial to understanding neoliberalism is the role of politically-produced convergence around market rationality that reflects two core processes: the reorganization of production and the ascendency of financialization. We present a theorization and analysis of neoliberalism's political production and diffusion over time, explaining its contested evolution and impact across diverse settings (both 'North' and 'South') and emphasizing its ever-intensifying symbiotic relationship with the consolidating world market in which the former has increasingly come to serve as the latter's operating system (OS). Further, we posit that neoliberalism's form, function and impact demand analytically prioritizing the leverage of constellations of ideological and material interests within the contradictory context of consolidating relations of production and financialization. Our analysis thus challenges many previous expositions of neoliberalism for their failure to locate neoliberalism's manifestation as arising out of social conflict within particular junctures that privilege certain social forces and ideas over others. We also distinguish our position by highlighting how manifestations of neoliberalism in various settings have combined to yield a greater world market in which variegation has gradually given way to ever-intensifying disciplinary pressures towards market-policy conformity (mono-policy). While current populist movements may well turn out to be important counter movements to neoliberal hegemony, especially if they can internationalize, the disciplining effect of the world market renders many nationally-oriented policy alternatives costly and politically fraught. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A half century after he developed it, Gordon Tullock's idea of rent seeking is more relevant than ever. Though the concept has gained widespread acceptance among academics, it has yet to make an impression on public discourse. But with favoritism, corruption, and the power of special interests in the headlines, the idea deserves broader attention. In this special issue of Public Choice we commemorate Tullock's insight. Contributors examine the making of this classic piece and its effect on economic theory, empirical analysis, and economic teaching. Original papers also develop new insights into questions of development, the control of violence, corruption, culture, equity, regulation, rent extraction, the Political Coase Theorem, and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One might obtain special favor or avoid disfavor by winning a competitive contest, a socially wasteful process that has been studied extensively in the rent-seeking literature. But favor or disfavor might also be uncontestable. In that case it will be efficient along some dimensions but grossly inequitable. The rent-seeking literature, in focusing on contest success functions, has tended to ignore the institutional roots of uncontestable rent-creation and rent-extraction. But casual observation suggests that institutional rules and cultural norms often ensure that favor and disfavor cannot be easily contested. Understanding that observation helps to resolve the Tullock paradox and explains the evolutionary persistence of inequitable social arrangements. It also illuminates economic and philosophical tradeoffs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study analyzes discourse about journalists' privilege and libel law from 1894 to 1897 to explain how the press articulated the public policy rationale for legal protection at a pivotal moment in journalism history. To illuminate the relationship between emerging professional values and ideas about law, it applies the analytical lens of institutionalism. The study argues that the public policy rationale that appeared in the legal discourse surrounding these key legal issues was both a function of principled professional identity–building and a means of "institutional maintenance" intended to protect the press's social status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the inequity and privilege in the Ivy League Athletic departments in the U.S. Topics discussed include group of university coaches accused of facilitating the admission of wealthy White applicants by designating them as recruits for sport teams; raising important questions about race, class, access and representation within Ivy athletic departments; and lack of enhancing gender and racial diversity in participation rates or hiring practices.

In this century Chinese tourists in Australia have rapidly become the most numerous national source. Relatively little is known about their socio-economic status, their geographical origins and expectations of tourism, and their attitudes to and perceptions of Australia, although every Australian state has devised a specific Chinese tourism strategy to tap into this market. Chinese tourism is concentrated in metropolitan areas in the eastern states, has evolved from group tours to individual plans, and is relatively high spending. Unless geographical and tourism research on Chinese tourism aligns with contemporary theoretical developments in tourism studies, the type of knowledge being produced will be limited. Whilst there is value in extending existing knowledge, important social insights into the Chinese tourists' experience of Australia will not emerge. Although Chinese tourism is similar to earlier waves from East Asia, it constitutes a distinct component of the contemporary Australian market. A deeper understanding of this phenomenon requires the adoption of practice theories that privilege social practices as the entry point for theorising and conducting research. In advocating such an approach, we highlight challenges of linguistic and cultural differences, scale and governmentality in providing a qualitative research agenda for geographical and tourism studies' engagements with Chinese tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

People with disabilities are sometimes described as an invisible minority group, one that frequently encounters ableism in the course of daily life. Ableism entails biased ideas and assumptions, as well as prejudicial attitudes and discriminatory acts, aimed at people with disabilities. This article examines how and why ableism poses distinct social and psychological privileges for outsiders (the nondisabled) and resulting disadvantages for insiders (people with disabilities). Four theories accounting for outsiders' ableism directed at insiders are presented: just world theory, mourning, suffering and meaning, and the fundamental negative bias. The consequences of ableism for people with disabilities are then discussed, including internalized ableism, deindividuation, stigmatization and stereotyping, and the problems posed by benign ableism. I argue that sometimes ableism represents a form of outsider privilege, one allowing nondisabled people to feel, think, and act in ways that often unknowingly promote their social and psychological interests over people with disabilities. I then conclude the article by calling for efforts to better educate nondisabled people regarding guidelines for constructively engaging people with disabilities as a matter of social policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Allegations of bribery and corruption in admission to prestigious American colleges brought academics and athletics into the public forum in March 2019. This paper distinguishes illegalities from inequities in the decisions that elite college admissions offices make about student applications. Typically special admission allowances tend to favor outstanding athletes whose academic record may be marginal. The incidents in Varsity Blues indicated a different imbalance: namely, that athletic admission slots, especially in so-called "country club" sports tended to give an admissions edge to applicants who did not show great athletic achievement or potential. These episodes put into bold relief new examples of advantage and privilege in going to college as part of American society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There has been a growing interest in academia regarding the term 'social innovation', including in disciplines such as sociology, administration, history, management, psychology, and economics. The literature highlights the lack of scientific clarity in the use of the term, and some scholars argue that the term is no more than a 'buzzword' or a 'fad'. This article focusses on the analysis of the conceptualizations of social innovation, contrasting sociological and economical approaches, and adopts an integrative approach to propose a categorization scheme of social innovation projects based on three distinct variables, namely the level of policy support, the profit orientation and the geographical scale. We argue that government support and the scalability of social innovations should be carefully pondered depending on the characteristics of the social innovation initiatives. We conclude that policy support should privilege social innovation initiatives that, while having the potential to deliver social good, are constrained by market failures. In addition, we also argue in favour of policy support for small bottom-up initiatives that have a profit-logic but are not sufficiently robust to survive on their own due to the liabilities of smallness and newness. Finally, we advise caution in public policies supporting scale-up strategies and highlighted the inherent challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study amplifies the voice of social influencers and the challenges they face. We specifically look into the facilitating role of the newsfeed algorithm in Instagram. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted with women social influencers between the age of 18 and 29. The results show how these influencers experience many negative side effects that are caused by the news-feed algorithm. In line with Bucher (2012) we argue trough algorithmic restructuring of information flows, visibility has become a privilege on social media which imposes a 'threat of invisiblity' on the part of social influencers. Our conversations with influencers show how the growth of their profile does not reflect the energy and time they have invested. To cope with the latter they participate in so-called 'Instapods'. In the discussion we further outline how algorithmic obscurity and the practices in Instapods are at odds with the authentic role social influencers attribute themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Algorithmic discrimination has become one of the critical points in the discussion about the consequences of an intensively datafied world. While many scholars address this problem from a purely techno-centric perspective, others try to raise broader social justice concerns. In this article, we join those voices and examine norms, values, and practices among European civil society organizations in relation to the topic of data and discrimination. Our goal is to decenter technology and bring nuance into the debate about its role and place in the production of social inequalities. To accomplish this, we rely on Nancy Fraser's theory of abnormal justice which highlights interconnections between maldistribution of economic benefits, misrecognition of marginalized communities, and their misrepresentation in political processes. Fraser's theory helps situate technologically mediated discrimination alongside other more conventional kinds of discrimination and injustice and privileges attention to economic, social, and political conditions of marginality. Using a thematic analysis of 30 interviews with civil society representatives across Europe's human rights sector, we bring clarity to this idea of decentering. We show how many groups prioritize the specific experiences of marginalized groups and 'see through' technology, acknowledging its connection to larger systems of institutionalized oppression. This decentered approach contrasts the process-oriented perspective of tech-savvy civil society groups that shy from an analysis of systematic forms of injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through curse the addresser expresses his/her inner feelings and attitudes towards the hearer, when s/he is angry or dissatisfied of the behavior of the hearer. Curse by its nature are associated with one's culture, tradition and religion. This study attempts to look into the characteristics and functions of the curse utterances in Meiteilon, the language of Meiteis in Manipur. Few examples of Meiteilon curse are examined through the concepts from Speech Act theory and Ethnography of communication, and try to find out the underlying social and cultural principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay contends that honors education should seize the opportunity to expose our students to the horrors of our society such as "the violence against those among us with the least amount of power." We can affirm our curricular foundation (writing, reflection, and critical thinking) by supplementing it with histories of oppression in order to better equip our students with the tools necessary to become change agents. Such a shift in curricular content and pedagogies could engender changes in our institutional practices that model successful collaboration across races, cultures, and disciplines for our students, ultimately leading the way to a more just university. Our investment in our students' ability to take the lead in interrupting oppressive patterns, challenging the status quo, and becoming change agents will lead to a more just society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops geographical work that is attentive to, and critical of, how safety is lived and narrated. In contrast to previous work on safety that focuses on fear, the paper looks at safety as something more than aspiration for women. To do so, the paper utilises the metaphor of the "expatriate bubble" to explore how safety is constructed and experienced by privileged migrants in Singapore. Utilising research from two projects, we argue that we need to think about how gender and Othering intersect to construct safety. In doing so, we explore how we can use conceptualisations of privileged migrants to research how safety can be understood and therefore practised more widely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay traces the phenomenon of revelation beginning with the humblest (sports), to the most personal (love), to the most exalted (religion). Through this analysis, we discover several qualities of revelation: it reveals itself from itself, reveals a new world to me, and reveals another me to myself and to others. Turning to divine Revelation, a further set of concepts is uncovered: the witness who encounters a Revelation without understanding it, a resistance to the testimony of the witness, and a paradox that provokes this resistance by exceeding expectations. These qualities make Revelation both more intelligible and meaningful. For, while holding an exceptional privilege, divine Revelation nonetheless remains in continuity with phenomenality in general and, in arriving from elsewhere by its own initiative, it opens my eyes to the unfolding of its unseen reserves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores projects of art and biology as joyful acts of insurrection. It presents critical and creative perspectives to generate alternative structures of subjectivity. These alternative structures gain relevance when intersectional variables of privilege and discrimination as political tools are set in crisis by a postanthropocentric awareness. The thesis of this article is that in order to understand and develop postanthropocentric intersectional positions, the microbial posthuman joins the cartographies of the posthuman as a material possibility from microscopic biological matter and philosophical and artistic thought. This microbial posthuman also allows for a reframing in the light of microbiopolitics, a redistribution of pain, life and death within a broader notion of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on novel "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens in which Dickens also rejected the notion that his text would serve as a "vehicle" for Robert Seymour's pictures. It mentions dead man's images haunt the text and subterranean engagement with a previous pictorial series for which Seymour furnished both the pictures. It also mentions breach of privilege and charges of servility and falsehood and public persuasion.

Clinical social work supervision is not immune to enactments of racial and social injustice, prejudice, power and privilege rampant in our social environment and institutions. These dynamics are active in all social interactions. Most often felt on impact, these remain underground and unevenly experienced—though predominantly by people representing intersecting marginalized identities. Such real enactments can be misunderstood or avoided in social work supervision. Negative consequences not only impede learning for the supervisee and supervisor, and affect clinical understanding of client care they also perpetuate injustice based on power and social locations. Social work supervision provides space for critical analysis to identify and alter dynamics of power, privilege, and social oppression. The critical conversations (CC) model provides a framework to illuminate and examine power dynamics in order to produce change with parallel insight and action—supervisee, supervisor, and client care. Supervisee and supervisor gain capacity to engage in reflection, examine personal and professional values, hold tension and tolerate ambiguity, use one self critically, articulate ideas and insights thoughtfully and effectively, as well as inform clinical understanding of clients. The need for critical dialogue in social work supervision regarding dynamics of sameness, differences, intersectional identities, power and privilege is emphasized. Theoretical grounding is offered to elucidate how complex structural forces of oppression and privilege, cultural patterns and narratives are internalized. A definition of CC, its theoretical underpinnings and the CC model are presented with a case scenario to illuminate the application of the CC model in clinical supervision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Once a feminist voice emanates from a person, it enters the public domain and illuminates others. Its endeavor is to emancipate and empower women and achieve gender equality. This article reads some feminist voices from India, especially those of Ruth Manorama, a Dalit feminist, and two Northeastern feminists, Vinatoli Yeptho from Nagaland, and Ninglun Hanghal from Manipur. These lead us to view certain common issues that bind them together. This article also looks into the different priorities of each of these feminists, in order to understand the contexts, cultures and experiences that have shaped their primary concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author shares her experience of discussing privilege and oppression through texts with her White American students. She reports the use of the essay "Peculiar Benefits" on privilege by Roxane Gay in her teaching strategies to discuss the issue of privilege with her students. She recommends reading of literature by teachers along with the students for social change.

The paper is focused on a powerful discursive configuration: the diagnosis that boys are nowadays tremendously suffering from being de-privileged in relation to girls. The hermeneutic analysis of the dominant patterns of interpretation that are characteristic for this dramatized discourse-configuration shows how the gender order of the modern society is constructed as instable and seriously endangered. The narrative pattern of the boy being fundamentally disadvantaged – not least by lacking male interfaces – is in this paper discussed as a 'supportive narrative' for (re)stabilizing difference and distinction within a clearly structured gender order. However, the open question will remain as to whether the overdetermination that structures the discourse as a whole points in the direction of a persisting or a changing social and symbolic order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aspirations of young people provide a lens to examine the performance of gendered and classed privilege. While current research tends to focus on working class men, the role of privilege in shaping aspirations, understood as a socially and economically mediated navigational capacity, often remains unmarked. Drawing on aspirations articulated by boys attending elite private schools in Auckland, New Zealand, this paper explores narratives of young people's aspirations for the future in terms of education, employment, and social networks. A belief in a right to aspire to achieve emerges, revealing how the performance of gender and class norms contributes to the reproduction of privilege. The intersectional nature of privilege is also highlighted, as while discourses of masculinity pervade understandings of being and becoming, class is an overriding factor influencing the performance of privilege through aspirations. The paper concludes by outlining a notion of nascent elite masculinity. It is contended that examining the performance of nascent elite masculinity at elite private schools is a means to expose the operation and reproduction of systems of privilege. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chapter 7 of the book "Nonviolence: Critiquing Assumptions, Examining Frameworks" by author Harry van der Linden is presented. It analyzes the privilege of combatants with regard to their involvement in unjust wars and presents a detailed description of the concept. Topics discussed include moral equality of combatants, the matter of non-culpable ignorance and modification of their privilege.

Microaggression is defined as subtle and often unconscious or automatic actions or statements made towards a discriminated group. It causes distress, anxiety and isolation. Microaggression can often lead to demoralisation and a feeling that one is in a constant psychological warfare. It is also ubiquitous in nature. This paper is a reflection on my experiences of microaggression as a black female academic gathered from working in six universities across five countries and two continents. I use autoethnography underscored by critical race theory thinking. The reflection has a multicultural face and is done in light of the extant literature on gendered, racial and non-native microaggression in the academic world. I find close similarities in my experiences with others. I conclude that microaggressions are ubiquitous and are inevitable in a multicultural setting. Victims need to acknowledge microaggressions and be assertive in order to mitigate the associated negative effects. Further, counterspaces provide a very useful platform for challenging the inaccuracy of victims’ lived experiences and serve as a source of validation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Variations in the economic recovery rate across the United States have led to even greater chasms that separate the employed, unemployed, and underemployed (DeSilver, ). Therefore, understanding and supporting the career development of future generations is critical—especially for those who live outside the context of social privilege. The authors examined the applicability of the integrative contextual model of career development (ICM; Lapan, ) to a sample of 220 adolescents (129 boys, 91 girls) from a high‐poverty urban area. Results indicated that a canonical variate comprising foundational ICM skills (e.g., career exploration, goal setting) predicted a variate composed of ICM outcomes (e.g., self‐efficacy, vocational identity), thus supporting the usefulness of the ICM framework for this population. The skill of setting viable career goals was an especially strong predictor of outcomes. Implications for career counseling with adolescents living in high‐poverty urban areas and directions for future research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is a normative reason for acting? In this paper, I introduce and defend a novel answer to this question. The starting-point is the view that reasons are right-makers. By exploring difficulties facing it, I arrive at an alternative, according to which reasons are evidence of respects in which it is right to perform an act, for example, that it keeps a promise. This is similar to the proposal that reasons for a person to act are evidence that she ought to do so; however, as I explain, it differs from that proposal in two significant ways. As a result, I argue, the evidence-based account of reasons I advance shares the advantages of its predecessor while avoiding many of the difficulties facing it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through this theoretical essay, we conceptualize what constitutes dominant group theory. We review existing literature on two essential aspects of dominant group theory: (1) power, privilege, and communication, and (2) co-cultural theory. Drawing from data from two recent studies, we then use the conceptual framework of co-cultural theory to generate an extension that explores the communicative strategies of majority group members. More particularly, we describe five premises, six factors of dominant group communication, nine communication orientations, and twenty-one specific dominant group strategies, all of which represent the key building blocks of dominant group theorizing. Finally, we conclude by offering strengths, limitations, and heuristic implications of this new line of theorizing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research examines the new divides and changing structure of the modern city and metropolis. Since the classic Chicago School models, the urban form of the metropolis has been conceptualized as a divided space, where affluent suburbs surround a less-advantaged and denser urban core. More recently, the concept of a great inversion has been advanced to capture the return of more advantaged groups to the urban center and the outward shift of poverty and disadvantage to the suburbs. To gain insight into contemporary urban form, we undertake a descriptive mapping exercise of the residential locations of three major classes—the advantaged class of knowledge, professionals and creative workers, the declining blue collar working class, and the less advantaged service class of workers—across a dozen of America’s largest metro areas and their core cities. We find a pattern of class division and urban form that we refer to as the “patchwork metropolis,” where class divides cut across city and suburb alike. These divides appear to be conditioned by the location of the advantaged class that occupies and clusters around the most functional and desirable areas of the metropolis—close to the urban core, around transit, near knowledge institutions, and along areas of natural amenities. The less-advantaged classes are shunted into the spaces leftover or in between—either traditionally disadvantaged areas of the inner city or the fringes of the suburban and exurban periphery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the impact of word privilege on the society. Topics include the use of privilege in the book "Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution" by Simon Schama, the impact of privilege on the politics, and an example of the book "The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century" by Francois Furet. It offers information on the inequality in the French society.

This article discusses the category of foreigner in the context of academia. In the first part I explore this category and its philosophical significance. A quick look at the literature reveals that this category needs more attention in analyses of dimensions of privilege and disadvantage. Foreignness has peculiarities that demarcate it from other categories of identity, and it intersects with them in complicated ways. Devoting more attention to it would enable addressing issues affecting foreigners in academia that go commonly unnoticed. In the second part of the article I argue that current efforts to make academia a more inclusive environment should address the disadvantages that many foreign academics face. I focus on two senses of foreigner: working and living in a country that is not your country of origin, and being a nonnative speaker of the language in which you work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines four newspaper reports and analyses the ways that “dirt,” “waste” and “garbage” function within a range of intersecting sanitation and social contexts where people and materials figure as disposable objects. My main premise is that when scoop reports in newspapers deal with the issue of “dirt” and sanitation, they often leave undertones that reveal or imply a contest for power in which actual dirt and contamination or their images and vocabularies are employed to justify exclusion from certain social privileges and positions and also to protest such exclusions. I argue and then proceed to show that when “dirt,” “waste” and “garbage” are stretched beyond the domain of health, they can offer a lens with multiple focal positions from which we may view and analyse complex political, social and economic behaviours and make sense of them. I focus on Nigerian urban spaces and analyse the reports to show how the terms have come to mark ways that literal and figurative entropy commingle to reveal the dynamics of power and social relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Daring to challenge the status quo impacts innovation. Yet, successful outcomes depend on individual risk-taking and choice to influence others to support new ideas. This Challenging the Status Quo exercise illustrates how leaders use power and influencing tactics to challenge norms by analyzing Donald Trump's journey as the 45th U.S. President to defy experts and successfully influence followers to support his non-traditional candidacy: businessman lacking political experience becoming leader of the free world. Through integrating videoclips and polls, instructors make power visible, relevant, and thought-provoking as students apply power theory and influencing tactics perspectives to analyze (a) how leaders impact followers' perceptions, (b) students mutual-influencing strategies, (c) power's relationship with social identity and privilege, and (d) social impact on innovation via activism and free speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, a white female tenured professor and an African American female graduate student reflect on their personal, post-election experiences with students enrolled in an undergraduate diversity course for preservice teachers at a predominantly white institution in the Deep South. Centered on a singular politically-driven and racialized interaction, we organize our reflections as a narrative collage. For our purposes here, we drew on our own writing and recollections as well as the voices of our students and our colleagues. We have explored what this interaction, and the ramifications thereof, mean for our ongoing work as teacher educators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The fallacy of the absolutist nature of attorney-client privilege owes much of its legacy to Lord Taylor's articulation in R v Derby Magistrates' Court, Ex parte B.¹ In this 1995 English case, the House of Lords, constituted by Lord Taylor of Gosforth CJ, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Mustill, anchored the doctrine to a 16th-century paradigm which held that, once attorney-client privilege attached to a certain communication, the privilege was absolute and could not be breached by any court for any reason. This result left no opportunity to balance the needs of other competing interests against the interest in preserving the confidentiality of privileged communications.² Lord Taylor of Gosforth CJ announced: If a balancing exercise was ever required in the case of [attorney-client] privilege, it was performed once and for all in the 16th century, and since then has applied across the board in every case, irrespective of the client's individual merits.³ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of Black male privilege has become popular in Black gender discourse. Often used by Black feminists as a conceptual tool, the theory accuses Black males of enjoying so-called privileges in society over Black women and girls. This essay assumes that privilege, if genuine, should be detectable by material standards and thus be empirically measurable. It is argued that research can not only detect whether or not privilege exists, but assess the extent to which it provides its benefactors with power, opportunities, and resources. Hence, White men and women's privilege is measurable in a variety of socioeconomic contexts. To assess the materiality of claims regarding Black male privilege, this essay tests the theory by focusing on several general areas: leadership, domestic violence/rape, leading causes of death, income, and employment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her comment on Shirin Rai's article "The Good Life and the Bad: Dialectics of Solidarity", Ina Kerner addresses the complexities of acts of solidarity that aim at transgressing difference lines of privilege without dethematizing the power relations such difference lines mostly come with. She focuses on three aspects: the context of a good life, the relation of solidarity and charity, and the problems of what Rai calls a "hands-off approach" in the realm of global feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes a group work process designed to both privilege and document the skills and knowledges of parents whose children are in out-of-home care as a result of statutory intervention. The group focused on salvaging preferred territories of identity. It was designed to enable the contribution of participants by linking their narratives with those of other parents facing similar circumstances, and providing opportunities to inform the work of a local organisation developing practices for family inclusion. As part of this group project, parents were able to identify steps they need to take to redress the actions and ideas that led to child removal, and, in doing so, to develop their practices for caring for and protecting children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]