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1. Introduction: Mapping Questions of Power and Ethics in Media Activist Research Practices -- 2. Research Ethics: Critical Reflections on Horizontal Media Activism Research Practices -- 3. Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas in Activist Research on Social Movement Media -- 4. Challenges for Social movement Research in the Context of Inequality: The MST in Brazil -- 5. Denaturalizing Research Practices: (Re)signifying subject positions through decolonial theories -- 6. Disrupting Settler Colonialism and Oppression in Media and Policy-Making: A view from the Community Media Advocacy Centre -- 7. Wearing Multiple Reflexive Hats: The ethical complexities of media-oriented Community Engaged Learning -- 8. The Ethics of Reciprocal Communication -- 9. Researcher Ethics: Between Axiological Reasoning and Scientific Discussion -- 10. Difficult Choices: Application of Feminist Ethics of Care in Action Research -- 11. The Ethics of Media Research with Refugees -- 12. Challenges of Ongoing Conflict Research: Dialogic autoethnography in studies of post-2014 Ukraine.

Liberal welfare states promote a human rights approach to disability policy that in practice has been constrained by neoliberal reforms. This research examines employment policy for people with disabilities in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom through a framework of Nancy Fraser's theory of social justice. It employs a qualitative cross-national comparative methodology including focus groups and interviews with stakeholders of active welfare to work programs. The results suggest that neoliberal/individualized approaches are dominant within contemporary welfare to work programs and social justice/human rights need to be more effectively built into employment policy.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to utilize a newly constructed index for social justice, with its two versions SJI-1 and SJI-2, to measure new values for the indexes in 35 countries in two periods, 2005-2010 and 2011-2015, in an attempt to assess quantitatively how less developed countries developed through time in terms of social justice.


Design/methodology/approach
The paper obtained data for 35 developing countries in the six subindicators used to quantify the six dimensions of the social justice index. The values of the subindicators were then normalized and aggregated to form SJI-1 and SJI-2, each of which assigns different weights for its subindicators, for the 35 countries in the two periods 2005-2010 and 2011-2015.


Findings
Results of the new values of the index in its two versions were close in showing how 31 countries (according to SJI-1) and 29 countries (according to SJI-2) managed to improve their levels of social justice, while the indexes of only three countries (according to SJI-1) and six countries (according to SJI-2) worsened. Nevertheless, the index depicted that some countries performed better than others by improving their ranks at the expense of others. Comparison of the study's quantitative results with qualitative research seems to provide some support for SJI-2 in echoing social justice compared to SJI-1.


Originality/value
The study is a vital tool for policymakers for appraising the levels of social justice in their respective countries, both in absolute terms by highlighting the scores of their countries with respect to social justice, and in relative terms by clarifying where their countries stand through cross-country comparisons, in addition to identifying dimensions of social justice which are in need of intervention for further enhancement.

Around the world, particularly in North America and Australia, urban sprawl in low-density urban and suburban cities has contributed to transit mobility barriers for persons who do not drive. Consequently, older nondrivers may experience limited access to health care and find themselves isolated from familiar lifestyle habits, social networks, and obtaining goods and services. Such social exclusion can undermine quality of life, diminish intellectual stimulation, and accelerate declines in personal health, leading to difficulties in independent living. As part of a community-based participatory research (CBPR) study of the age-friendly domains of an ethnically diverse metropolitan U.S. city, we explored the experiences of adults age 55 and older about their transit mobility needs and its impact with respect to 'aging well.' Using inductive and deductive methods and Atlas.ti software, we analyzed qualitative data collected (N = 60) from six ethnically diverse focus groups and individual interviews of homebound older adults. Four themes emerged specific to the influence of contextual factors on transit mobility barriers among older drivers and nondrivers. Findings suggest that local historical, political, and cultural attitudes combine with the 'built' environment to further marginalize older adults' access to adequate, affordable transportation options. The reciprocal fit between transit mobility needs and the environment is critical to freedom, independence, and healthy aging for older adults in settings of urban sprawl. Research at the intersection of aging and transit mobility requires equal grounding in a range of justice principles (environmental, social, economic) in the pursuit of sustainable transit options for aging populations.

This collection offers a multi-faceted investigation of the critical issue of the creation and place of the "Other" in Ireland. The extraordinarily rapid recent economic development of Ireland has effected a profound transformation in the island's social and cultural life. In the process, old verities and assumptions concerning the nature of Irish society and culture have been called into question, with a whole variety of new challenges coming to light. The developments of the last two decade

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1) The Encyclicals -- 2) Sanctifying Life on the Land -- 3) Sanctifying Industrial Labor -- 4) Sanctifying American Capitalism -- 5) Catholics and Right-to-Work Laws -- 6) Industry Councils -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

This book looks at the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. The various authors examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. Co-published with Edward Elgar.