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No full textThis chapter advocates for understanding connection as a vital method in world politics, highlighting its role in revealing the intertwined histories of colonialism and fostering resistance against oppressive structures. It critiques dominant scholarly practices that rely on separation, particularly within International Relations (IR), and argues for a connected approach that incorporates historical and relational complexities. Through examples of contemporary protests, such as those commemorating Joy Gardner and Mark Duggan, the chapter illustrates how connected practices can unite diverse struggles against racialised violence and colonial dominance. It further emphasises the potential for solidarity among disparate movements, asserting that such connections can challenge the alienations imposed by colonialism. The chapter concludes that connection is essential not only for rethinking world politics but also for enabling political movements aimed at creating an alternative, equitable world
Race/Economy
No full textThis chapter examines the interplay between race and economic structures, arguing that the brutal fictions of race have become tangible economic realities. It categorises the literature into three frameworks: racial capitalism, colonial capitalism, and plantation economies, each elucidating a political economy that acknowledges the complexities of race. By highlighting the contradiction of racialised labour, the chapter reveals how those who invest most in capitalism often remain propertyless and unstable, reflecting plantation-like hierarchies. Furthermore, it emphasises the significance of anti-racist resistance, illustrating how collective struggles have challenged oppressive systems and contributed to the reformation of social and economic structures. Lastly, the chapter seeks to broaden the discourse on race and economy beyond a US-centric focus, integrating perspectives from Global South intellectuals to enrich the analysis
Trust Matters: The governance of private and public services organizations' external relationships
No full textThis chapter focuses on the external relationships of private and public sector organisations and puts trust in the focus of a comparative analysis. It starts with identifying the function of trust and suggests that it is a governance mechanism that ensures cooperation and coordination of expectations in social interactions. Trust is then examined in more detail with regard to how it can fulfil this task, and it is compared to functionally equivalent social mechanisms for governing organisations’ external relationships, such as power and the market principle. Furthermore, this chapter looks at the key actors and their mutual relationships in the private sector and in the context of public service organisations. Thus, the overarching goal is to elucidate what is known about trust in inter-organisational relationships in the private sector and apply it to the relationship between public sector organisations and citizens. It will be argued that accountability plays a central part in how these relationships can be governed and that the latter can only release its full potential when complemented by trust
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting
Get PDFFocusing on management consulting firms, this study scrutinizes a core group of knowledge workers revealing the complexity and diversity of meanings attached to their trust-related decisions, emotions and behaviours. Drawing on 50 interviews utilizing critical incident technique with management consultants working in leading UK and US consulting firms, the study offers insights into the complex nature of human interactions and their embeddedness in social contexts. The study provides context-specific insights into an environment that, despite its claims to nurture trust, is inherently riddled with tensions arising from internal competition. Three main constituents are highlighted: (1) trusting trustors and trustworthy trustees; (2) the cruciality of giving and receiving support; and (3) building relationships and developing networks. This study draws on social exchange theory and critically assesses its heuristic explanatory power in the context of the management consulting industry. Further implications for future theory and practice are discussed
Can Econometrics Incorporate a Critical Pedagogy Praxis?
Get PDFTeaching radical economics requires a pedagogical approach that challenges the existing status quo. Most critical pedagogy studies in economics teaching focus on political economy, economic principles, and macroeconomics. We argue that critical pedagogy praxis can also be implemented in quantitative methods education. This article reports the application of critical pedagogy in teaching econometrics, using a case study of a year 3 undergraduate module in the United Kingdom. Grounded in a problem-posing education philosophy, we discuss collaborative learning and democratic classroom practices. We use comparative data from before and after the implementation of critical pedagogy praxis, as well as students’ and educators’ perceptions. We find that critical pedagogy is likely to increase students’ grades, attendance, and engagement and could potentially foster action beyond the quantitative training
Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh
No full textOver the past decades, Ladakh in northwest India has experienced a museum boom with the creation of exhibitionary spaces in many of the key Buddhist monasteries. While small, single-room displays were set up in the 1990s, the first major ‘Western’ style museum opened at Ladakh’s largest monastery, Hemis, in 2007. Monastery museums have been established in Ladakh for a range of reasons – protection, security and education, as well as to make money by attracting the increasing numbers of both domestic and international tourists. This chapter focuses on a particular case study – that of Chemrey monastery museum in Ladakh. It explores the role of the monks in devising the original museum display, which opened in 2009, as well as the collaboration between a team from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and the monastic community in developing a new gallery between 2017 and 2019. The chapter draws, in particular, on Christina F. Kreps’ work on comparative museology, by describing and analysing local Tibetan Buddhist practices of collections care and display
Mindless happiness: presentism, utopia and dystopian suspension of thought in Psycho-Pass
No full textContemporary Japanese popular culture is particularly rich in representations of utopian social imaginations that often reveal dystopian scenarios. The anime series Psycho-Pass (2012–2013), especially, is overtly aware of its everyday utopia, and of its inscription in the history of utopian/dystopian representations, in and outside Japan. In 22nd-century Japan, citizens live in a ‘perfect’, stable society, where a powerful government-managed network called ‘Sibyl System’ measures each person’s characteristics and assigns them to their appropriate job and social role. In a system where Japan has reached autarchy, crime rates have plummeted, as Sibyl can calculate the probability of individuals committing crimes, allowing for pre-emptive police apprehension and termination. However, the promise of this utopian society guaranteeing happiness and security is actualised on the citizens’ uncritical acceptance of the roles assigned to them. This suspension of critical thought, concomitant with a general presentism where the characters only concentrate on their repetitive present routines, is at the core of Psycho-Pass. The article investigates how these elements illuminate the anime’s dystopian side, finally highlighting its critical relevance vis-à-vis contemporary Japan
The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets
Get PDFBy recognizing interconnectedness in the coexistence of multiple forms of life and by supporting the distinction and singularity of identities, models of ecological consciousness have been defining fruitful frameworks to analyze not only the relationship between human and nature, but also the uneven relationship between marginalized communities and settler colonialists, animalism and anthropocentrism, local economy and global capitalism. This is an exploratory paper about the ecology of language in relation to racialized subjects of ethnic communities in mainland China. I refer to works by two poets from the Yi ethnic group Aku Wuwu (1964–) and Jidi Majia (1961–) to show the inextricable concerns for the loss and preservation of the linguistic, cultural, and natural environment. My aim is not to simplistically romanticize China’s ethnic minorities and their environment, nor is it to highlight their ethnic identity or nationalism. Rather, on the axiom of a relational politics of language, within which their poetry fulfills the purpose of keeping alive the cultural ecosystem, I aim to better understand how linguistic, cultural, and environmental protection combines with human ontology
Podcasts and Digital Diasporic Identities: A Case Study of Iranian Diasporas
Get PDFThe present work explores the formation and expression of digital identities within Iranian diasporas, with a particular focus on podcasts. While Iranian diasporas remain underexplored within diaspora studies, this study addresses this gap by analysing four podcasts from different Iranian diaspora communities to illustrate the diverse roles that these digital platforms can play in shaping the interconnected identities of Iranian migrants. Through this analysis, the study seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of how digital media contributes to the expression of complex diasporic identities
Unpacking Voices of Forced Migration: Personified Significations of the Ubiquitous Plaid Bag in the Works of South African Artists Nobukho Nqaba and Dan Halter
Get PDFThis research examines how South African artists Nobukho Nqaba and Dan Halter interpret the ubiquitous plaid bag in their artworks to reflect the ineluctable entanglements between migration and identity. Utilising Ferdinand de Saussure’s sign formula, the research exposes the bag’s lack of a universal name due to its complex association with migrant communities. When the bag is further deconstructed using theorist Irit Rogoff’s rematerialisation of the sign formula when examining luggage and suitcases, the bag is shown to have a paradoxical definition of both ‘displacement’ and ‘home’. Isolating and deconstructing the intricacies of the artist’s portrayals of the bag within this context reveals how the bag exists as more than just as a metaphor for arrival or departure. Instead, it resides in a sort of spatial-temporal transmission, thus interpreting the concept of identity as something that exists in constant motion
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