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The Possibilities Are Assessable: Using An Evidence Based Framework To Identify Assessment Opportunities In Library Technology Departments, Rick A. Stoddart, Evviva Weinraub Lajoie

Rick A Stoddart

Objective – This study aimed to identify assessment opportunities and stakeholder connections in an emerging technologies department. Such departments are often overlooked by traditional assessment measures because they do not appear to provide direct support for student learning. Methods – The study consisted of a content analysis of departmental records and of weekly activity journals which were completed by staff in the Emerging Technologies and Services department in a U.S. academic library. The findings were supported by interviews with team members to provide richer data. An evidence based framework was used to identify stakeholder interactions where impactful evidence might be …

Negative Leakage, Kathy Baylis, Don Fullerton, Daniel Karney

Don Fullerton

Our analytical general equilibrium model solves for effects of a small increase in carbon tax on leakage – the increase in emissions elsewhere. Identical consumers buy two goods using income from endowments that are mobile between sectors. Usually an increase in one sector’s tax raises output price, so consumption shifts to the other good, causing positive leakage. Here, we find a new negative effect not recognized in existing literature: the taxed sector substitutes away from carbon into clean inputs, so it may absorb resources, shrink the other sector, and reduce their emissions. This “abatement resource effect” can offset most or …

Can A Unilateral Carbon Tax Reduce Emissions Elsewhere?, Joshua Elliott, Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton

One country or sector that tries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may fear that other countries or sectors will get a competitive advantage and increase emissions. Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models such as Elliott et al (2010a,b) indicate that 15% to 25% of abatement might be offset by this “leakage.” Yet the Fullerton et al (2012) simple two-sector analytical general equilibrium model shows an offsetting term with negative leakage. In this paper, we use a full CGE model with many countries and many goods to measure effects in a way that allows for this negative leakage term. We vary elasticities …

Social, Economic, And Ethical Concepts And Methods, Charles Kolstad, Kevin Urama, Don Fullerton, Et Al

Don Fullerton

This framing chapter describes the strengths and limitations of the most widely used concepts and methods in economics, ethics, and other social sciences that are relevant to climate change. It also provides a reference resource for the other chapters in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), as well as for decision makers.

Beyond Bad Behaving Brothers: Productive Performances Of Masculinities Among College Fraternity Men, Frank Harris Iii, Shaun R. Harper

Frank Harris III

Research on fraternity men focuses almost exclusively on problematic behaviors such as homophobia and sexism, alcohol abuse, violence against women, sexual promiscuity, and the overrepresentation of members among campus judicial offenders. Consequently, little is known about those who perform masculinities in healthy and productive ways. Presented in this article are findings from a qualitative study of productive masculinities and behaviors among 50 undergraduate fraternity men from 44 chapters across the US and Canada. Findings offer insights into participants’ steadfast commitments to the fraternity’s espoused values; their acceptance and appreciation of members from a range of diverse backgrounds; strategies they employed …

Emerging Geographies Of Conservation And Indigenous Land In Australia, Heather Moorcroft, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

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Caught In The Net Of Life And Time, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

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Climate Change And Australia, Lesley Head, Helen Mcgregor, Stephanie Toole, Michael Adams

Michael Adams

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Conflict In Common: Heritage Making In Cape York., Nick Skilton, Michael Adams, Leah Gibbs

Michael Adams

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Rattling The Binary: Symbolic Power, Gender, And Embodied Colonial Legacies, Shiera S. Malik

Shiera S el-Malik

In 2009, the 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya was accused of being male and forced to undergo gender testing. After much obfuscation and misreporting, Semenya was cleared to compete as a woman. Semenya’s experience exposes the problematic ways in which masculinity and femininity are harnessed to the categories of male and female as well as the ways in which they are embodied by men and women. This paper contemplates how binaries are mobilized and boundaries maintained – as is contemporarily evident in responses to Semenya’s gender troubles. It reads Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic power against an example of …

Bicultural Identity And International Careers, Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

The possibility of achieving a bicultural identity, that is, an individual successfully identifying with two cultures and internalizing the associated cultural schemas (Brannen and Thomas, 2010) has not always been supported. Two initial second-culture acquisition models (assimilation and acculturation), negated the possibility of successfully combining origin and host cultures (LaFromboise et al, 1993). These approaches inevitably implied the marginalization of the individuals that retained their cultures or the elimination of the minority culture. To overcome these negative effects, three integrative models (multiculturalism, alternation and fusion) were conceived and have been developed over the years.

Organisational Theory, The Crown And Large Corporations, Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

Large corporations have a major role in the economy and their activity cannot be neglected by public authorities. Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations and only 49 are countries (Anderson and Cavanagh, 2000). As Burns and Stalker (1961) have noted, the activity of these large corporations and their role in technological change might have long-term effects in society overall. The innovation process is not the product of isolated geniuses: it is at the core of economic development and it is the consequence of the overlapping action of different forces of the society (corporations, government, educational …

Work-Life Interface And Self-Control, Javier Agudo

Javier Agudo

The main purpose of work-life balance practices is to reduce work-life conflict and thus increase organizational performance. However, research has not been able to prove univocally that work-balance practices reduce conflict (Beauregard & Henry, 2009). As argued by these authors, literature shows that work-life balance does indeed increase performance, but this might be due to other parallel effects such as reduced overheads or productivity increases due to employees working at their peak hour, not reduced conflict.

Growing Food To Grow Cities? The Potential Of Agriculture For Economic And Community Development In The Urban United State, Laura Wolf-Powers

Laura Wolf-Powers

Review Of Local Protest, Global Movements: Capital, Community, And State In San Francisco, By Karl Beitel, Laura Wolf-Powers

Laura Wolf-Powers

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New York City's Community-Based Housing Movement: Achievements And Prospects, Laura Wolf-Powers

Laura Wolf-Powers

A contribution to the book about the relationship of community-based activism to planning, this paper, highlights the experience of community-based not-for-profit housing organizations in New York City and their relationship (from the 1970s through to the present) with that city’s elected officials and executive agencies. I argue that in New York City, community-based organizations have unambiguously added strategic value in the social housing arena, becoming part of the production system and governance framework for the city's affordable housing. Moreover, their political participation and advocacy have helped to bring about many of the policies that currently structure this system. Their role …

Libertad, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

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Structuring Big Data To Facilitate Participation In International Law, Roslyn Fuller

Roslyn Fuller

This is an interdisciplinary article focusing on the interplay between information and communication technology (ICT) and international law (IL). Its purpose is to open up a dialogue between ICT and IL practitioners that focuses on the ways in which ICT can enhance equitable participation in international legal structures, particularly through capturing the possibilities associated with big data. This depends on the ability of individuals to access big data, for it to be structured in a manner that makes it accessible and for the individual to be able to take action based on it.

It’S The Science Policy, Stupid! Over Wetenschapsfraude Als Bliksemafleider, Serge Gutwirth, Jenneke Christiaens

Serge Gutwirth

Indigenous Knowledge, Sam Grey

Sam Grey

Indigenous knowledge (IK) includes the expressions, practices, beliefs, understandings, insights, and experiences of Indigenous groups, generated over centuries of profound interaction with a particular territory. Its iterations and mechanisms are unique to each community, even where it shares certain features across groups by virtue of being embedded in a wider, common culture. In all locations IK is the foundation of Indigenous governance, ecological stewardship, social, ethical, linguistic, spiritual, medical, food, and economic systems, so that the continual production and reproduction of local, land-based knowledge is the basis of Indigenous identity and sense of place in the world, as well as …

Dick Allen Preferred Not To: A Reconsideration Of Baseball's Bartleby, Mitchell J. Nathanson

Mitchell J Nathanson

During the course of his major league career, Dick Allen did a lot of things: he was the 1964 NL Rookie of the Year and the 1972 AL Most Valuable Player; his 351 home runs are more than Hall of Famer Ron Santo, his 1119 RBI’s are more than Hall of Famer Rod Carew, and, for those who pray to the alter of sabermetrics, his “adjusted OPS+” is higher than the greatest slugger of all time, Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. Because of all that he did, the MLB Network in 2012 ranked him as a member of its “Top …

Some Facts About Smart Cities, Roberta De Santis, Alessandra Fasano, Nadia Mignolli, Anna Villa

Roberta De Santis

Gauging And Engaging Deviance 1600–2000, Nicos Trimikliniotis, Ari Sitas, Wiebke Keim, Sumangala Damodaran, Faisal Garba

Nicos Trimikliniotis

Gauging and Engaging Deviance is at once a creative and challenging work. It is not just a critique of the sociological canon, but an imaginative reconstruction that is generous to all nooks and crannies of the planet. It is also a memorial to modernity’s victims, whether they were perceived to be deviant or not. Its broad historical range, its geographical spread, and its attention to race and power create a conceptual grammar through which we can speak of the key challenges, traumas and violence of the contemporary period. Through its pages the Maroon and the Pirate meet Don Quixote, the …

Incorporating A Class Analysis Within The National Question: Rethinking Ethnicity, Class And Nationalism In Cyprus, Umut Bozkurt, Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

This article has two main aims. Firstly, it aims to challenge the widespread narrative in Cyprus studies that presents ethnic identities as historically inevitable and natural. Rather, identities need to be conceptualized as socially constructed. The second aim of this article is to problematize the argument that ethnic or national groups are homogenous actors. It underlines the need to deconstruct these supposedly unitary actors by making use of a class-based conceptualization of the state. By using such a conceptualization, the article will focus on the period between 1878 and 1974. It will start with a concrete analysis of the class …

Greece, Financialization And The Eu: The Political Economy Of Debt And Destruction Vassilis K. Fouskas And Constantine Dimoulas Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2013), Xxv + 245 Pp. Isbn: 978-1-137-27344-4, Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

This is a book review of a splendid book by Fouskas and Dimoulas. The shifts the story from the micro to the macro, from geopolitics to the economy, and from class to political protagonists. Overall, this greatly adds to the book’s depth of analysis and the shifting is successful as the authors integrate and synthesise their text by presenting the whole book as a constant shifting game. The book unfolded like a novel with a vast amount of empirical data – economic and sociological. The crisis in Greece, or better, the crisis of Europeanism and global financialization as experienced in …

Can We Learn From Comparing Violent Conflicts And Reconciliation Processes? For A Sociology Of Conflict And Reconciliation Going Beyond Sociology, Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

This paper examines the potential for a sociology of ethnic conflict and reconciliation in ethnic divided societies. It provides the basic framework to address barriers and conceptual difficulties in connecting knowledge across disciplines and paradigms, bridging the knowledge gap from the fact that the study of conflict is often detached from the study reconciliation processes. It critiques conflict resolution and liberal peace models with their Eurocentric biases and envisions a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. It proposes a sociology of conflict/reconciliation that is global, contextual, universal and particular to treat violent conflicts and reconciliation processes as distinct dynamic modes within …

Birds Of A Feather Deceive Together: The Chicanery Of Multiplied Metadata, David M. Cook

Dr. David M Cook

Twitter Deception And Influence: Issues Of Identity, Slacktivism, And Puppetry, David M. Cook, Benjamin Waugh, Maldini Abdipanah, Omid Hashemi, Shaquille Abdul Rahman

Dr. David M Cook

Identity Multipliers And The Mistaken Twittering Of 'Birds Of A Feather', David M. Cook

Dr. David M Cook

New Media usage has expanded in unexpected directions. This qualitative study pulls together two new media phenomena that demonstrate widespread engineered influence through Twitter dispersion. The first aspect is the practice of sock-puppetry deception that occurs when social media identities are used without proof of identity. The relative ease in creating a single invented online identity is overshadowed by the more recent practise of harnessing thousands of created identities to accentuate the standing of a single identity. The second aspect is the use of metadata to fetch and find increased nodes of commonality. This promulgates the perception of connectivity and …

Don't Waste A Good Disaster: A Systems Approach To An Ethics Of International Institutional Failures, L. Stapleton, Peter Kopacek, Anita Kealy, Edmond Hajrizi

Edmond Hajrizi