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Huber, M., Jabot, M., & Heath, C. (2024). Experiential learning and community partnerships for sustainable development: A foundational model for climate action. Routledge
No full textDoes Boardroom Ethnic Diversity Shape ESG Performance? Insights from the US Banking Sector
No full textThis research investigates the relationship between ethnic diversity in the boardroom and the ESG performance of US banks during the 2016-2021 period. To this aim, we implement the 2-step system GMM estimation technique, which addresses endogeneity issues that have posed challenges in many studies. Our findings indicate that boardroom ethnic diversity negatively influences ESG performance. Moreover, in a nonlinear analysis, we provide evidence of a U-shaped relationship between boardroom ethnic diversity and the ESG performance of banks. These results remain robust when, instead of ESG performance, we examine the social and corporate governance performance of banks. We also demonstrate that the impact of boardroom ethnic heterogeneity on ESG performance varies with bank size. Furthermore, we reveal that during the pandemic, the previously negative impact of ethnically diverse directors on ESG performance shifts and ultimately becomes positive. Consequently, our conclusions serve as an important source of information to lawmakers and regulators and enrich the corporate governance research concerning the nexus between board characteristics and ESG performance
New Information Literacy Model for Identifying Mis/Disinformation Falls Short of Determining and Addressing a Need. John, K., & Tater, B. (2025). Reframing the information literacy framework to identify misinformation and disinformation. Serials Librarian, 86(1/2), 29–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2025.2459765
No full textCaring for Images: Anonymization as Feminist Sensory Accompaniment
No full textThe expanding criminalization of political participation and dissent in the United States, especially in connection to non-citizens, warrants the use of creative experiments through which we can reorient how we apprehend, depict, and/or document marginalized groups. Drawing on my involvement in a campaign advanced by a Massachusetts immigrant rights collective and ethnographic research on the biometric industry, I interrogate how to creatively engage dilemmas of visibility and recognition experienced by illegalized groups engaged in dissenting practices. I examine the potential of AI-generated anonymization as a refusal of recognition politics. How might the use of computational anonymization disrupt how we apprehend images of the illegalized? In what ways can such anonymization techniques be complementary to anti-carceral imaginaries? And what kinds of compromises, if any, can we consent to when pursuing such “creative-critical” experiments in connection to surveilled and criminalized groups (Alvarez, Dattatreyan, and Shankar 2021)? This creative experiment, grounded on liberatory abolitionist commitments, argues for the productive potential of computational anonymization as a temporary and imperfect experiment in fugitivity and refusal. Conceived as a channel for sensory accompaniment, it aspires to motivate a shift in journalistic, ethnographic, and other documentation practices engaging the struggles of illegalized and otherwise criminalized groups
On Assemblages and Surveillantization: Thinking and Rethinking Surveillance Theory
No full textIt has been over a quarter of a century since I wrote The Surveillant Assemblage with my colleague Richard Ericson. In it, we advance a theoretical model for understanding key aspects of surveillance, aiming to move beyond portraying it as a form of totalitarian “Big Brother” or Foucauldian panopticism. Inspired by Gilles Deleuze and others, we detailed how surveillance operates by integrating heterogeneous practices and technologies, contributing to the production, combination, and movement of data flows. Among other dynamics, we accentuated fluidity and processes of emergence, integration, and the proliferation of data doubles. Scholars in fields as different as media studies, criminology, anthropology, critical race studies, data science, gender studies, architecture, law, and sociology have applied the model or debated its relevance to a wide range of empirical settings. But no model is fully comprehensive, and developments in surveillance now move rapidly. As such, it has been invigorating to revisit this article and rethink how to adequately theorize surveillance. My comments here set out to do three things. First, I use this opportunity to briefly introduce the notion of “surveillantization,” which I see as a valuable way to conceive of some of the “big picture” developments and trajectories in surveillance. Second, I return to the surveillant assemblage to offer a few thoughts on the commentators’ essays in this forum. The concluding section is a coda that provides background on writing the original surveillant assemblage article. It offers a glimpse into one small part of the early history of surveillance studies
Intégration des approches pédagogiques autochtones dans l'enseignement de la philosophie occidentale : une interrogation critique face à l'appel de décoloniser nos pratiques d'enseignement universitaire
No full textCet article a pour but de montrer comment des approches pédagogiques autochtones peuvent être intégrées dans l’enseignement de la philosophie occidentale. Plus précisément, en mettant l’emphase sur la pratique et la réflexion, l’article cherche à présenter, à partir d’une courte présentation de la méthodologie et de ce qu’est la philosophie occidentale, certains principes qui devraient animer l’enseignement de cette discipline, et certains exemples concrets de pratiques utiles. D’autres pratiques possibles sont aussi discutées, ainsi que certaines contraintes qui restreignent la mise en action de celles-ci. Se plaçant dans une position d’humilité, les auteurs, non-autochtones, désirent répondre à l’appel à décoloniser les pratiques pédagogiques colonialistes, pour cheminer authentiquement vers la réconciliation.Calls to decolonize postsecondary education invite reflection on how disciplines grounded in Western intellectual traditions might engage Indigenous pedagogical approaches with care and responsibility. In considering the integration of Indigenous pedagogies into the teaching of Western philosophy at the university level, we are confronted with questions of practice, reflexivity, and humility, particularly given philosophy’s long-standing emphasis on rationality, Logos, and abstraction. Through a narrative and reflective orientation, Western philosophy is situated within its historical and conceptual context, while attention is given to the ways these commitments have supported critical inquiry as well as contributed to exclusion. Drawing on examples from philosophy teaching in a francophone minority context in Canada, we examine pedagogical practices that emphasize relationality, dialogue, embodied learning, engagement with place, and multiple ways of knowing. Rather than seeking to decolonize Western philosophy as a disciplinary tradition, emphasis is placed on the decolonization of pedagogical practices through openness to other epistemologies, critical self-examination, and sustained relational engagement. Such an approach is offered as a meaningful pathway toward reconciliation and more inclusive philosophy education.Los llamados a descolonizar la educación postsecundaria invitan a reflexionar sobre cómo las disciplinas arraigadas en tradiciones intelectuales occidentales pueden relacionarse con enfoques pedagógicos indígenas con cuidado y responsabilidad. Al considerar la integración de pedagogías indígenas en la enseñanza de la filosofía occidental a nivel universitario, nos enfrentamos a preguntas de práctica, reflexividad y humildad, especialmente dado el énfasis histórico de la filosofía en la racionalidad, el Logos y la abstracción. A través de una orientación narrativa y reflexiva, la filosofía occidental se sitúa en su contexto histórico y conceptual, al tiempo que se atiende a las maneras en que estos compromisos han sostenido la indagación crítica y, a la vez, han contribuido a la exclusión. A partir de ejemplos tomados de la enseñanza de la filosofía en un contexto minoritario francófono en Canadá, examinamos prácticas pedagógicas que enfatizan la relacionalidad, el diálogo, el aprendizaje corporizado, la vinculación con el lugar y la pluralidad de formas de conocimiento. En lugar de buscar la descolonización de la filosofía occidental como tradición disciplinar, se pone el acento en la descolonización de las prácticas pedagógicas mediante la apertura a otras epistemologías, el autoexamen crítico y un compromiso relacional sostenido. Este enfoque se presenta como una vía significativa hacia la reconciliación y una educación filosófica más inclusiva
Langages mutants : hybridité linguistique et identités posthumaines dans la culture populaire
No full textLe langage mute. Il ne se limite plus à accompagner les transformations identitaires : il les inscrit, les façonne, les rend possibles. Dans un corpus de récits où l’humain devient instable, où les frontières du vivant et du technique se brouillent, la parole n’est jamais acquise. Reprogrammée, contournée ou déplacée vers d’autres formes d’échange, elle affecte la communication, mais aussi la perception, la pensée, le monde. L’article explore trois lignes de mutation langagière – codification, effacement, reconfiguration cognitive – et interroge ce qu’il reste de notre manière d’exister lorsque le langage, à son tour, commence à vaciller.Language mutates. It no longer merely accompanies transformations of identity : it inscribes them, shapes them, and makes them possible. In a corpus of narratives where the human becomes unstable and the boundaries between the living and the technological blur, speech is never a given. Reprogrammed, circumvented, or displaced into other forms of exchange, it affects not only communication but also perception, thought, and the world itself. This article examines three trajectories of language mutation – codification, erasure, and cognitive reconfiguration – and asks what remains of our ways of being when language, in turn, begins to falter
Se mettre au vert dans un monde queer : Mutation, épidémie et régénération dans Verts et « Les Neuf derniers jours sur Terre »
No full textLe roman graphique Verts (2024) de Patrick Lacan et Marion Besançon, et la nouvelle « Les Neuf derniers jours sur Terre » (2020) de Daryl Gregory, mettent en scène la transformation du monde au contact d’une épidémie végétale. Les comparer me permet d’interroger des topoï de la science-fiction depuis le point de vue queer de leurs personnages. Dans ces œuvres, le mutant importe moins que la mutation, et les parentés sont ouvertes aux Autres qu’humains pour défendre une futurité queer. Face aux crises, la culture populaire semble ainsi développer une esthétique posthumaine fondée sur une appréhension renouvelée de la pandémie.The graphic novel Verts (2024) by Patrick Lacan and Marion Besançon, and the short story “The Last Nine Days on Earth” (2020) by Daryl Gregory, depict a world reshaped by a vegetal epidemic. Placing these works in dialogue allows me to examine key science-fiction topoi from the queer perspectives of their characters. In these narratives, the mutant matters less than mutation itself, and kinships open toward nonhuman Others in order to sustain a queer futurity. In the face of crisis, popular culture thus appears to be developing a posthuman aesthetic grounded in a renewed understanding of pandemic experience
Adoption des BASI-coins en Afrique. Une analyse SWOT
No full textL’objectif de cet article est d’analyser les forces, les
faiblesses, les opportunités et les menaces des monnaies numériques
décentralisées en Afrique, une région qui sert d’incubateur pour les innovations
dans le secteur de la finance décentralisée, mais qui sur ces mêmes questions,
demeure relativement en marge du champ de la recherche académique. En plus de
dresser un panorama assez complet de l’état actuel du marché des cryptomonnaies
(notamment en ce qui concerne les catégories et les technologies sous-jacentes),
cet article s’appuie sur une analyse SWOT qui permet de dégager des
enseignements et des perspectives de long terme, tout en respectant la diversité
des préoccupations locales et internationales. Il en ressort que la popularité
des BASI-coins s’est bâtie sur une triple illusion : celle de la
désintermédiation, celle de la sécurité et celle de l’indépendance : les mineurs
sont incontournables et les oligopoles se reconstituent dans la cryptosphère
qui, de ce point de vue, ne diffère pas de la finance traditionnelle. En outre,
même si le cadre macro-financier des pays africains semble de facto se prêter à
l’adoption des cryptomonnaies et que cette dernière offre des opportunités en
termes d’inclusion et d’innovation dans la sphère financière, un usage efficient
des monnaies numériques nécessite de relever plusieurs défis ; tant sur les
plans infrastructurel (accès à l’électricité/Internet) et technologique
qu’institutionnel. Par ailleurs, les BASI-coins pourraient faire concurrence aux
(futurs) monnaies numériques souveraines (Govcoins) et leur adoption généralisée
pourrait déstabiliser les systèmes financiers en raison d’une pression sur les
réserves de change.The goal of this paper is to discuss the strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the decentralized digital
currencies in Africa, a region that serves as an incubator for innovations
in the decentralized finance sector, but remains somewhat excluded from the
field of academic research on these same issues. In addition to providing a
comprehensive overview of the current state of the cryptocurrency market
(particularly with regard to the categories and underlying technologies),
this article relies on a SWOT analysis that draws some lessons and long-term
perspectives while respecting the diversity of local and international
concerns. It emerges that the popularity of the BASI-coins is built on a
triple illusion: that of disintermediation, that of security and that of
independence: miners remain essential, and oligopolies are being
reconstituted in the cryptosphere which, from this point of view, does not
differ from the traditional finance. In addition, even if the
macro-financial framework of African countries seems de facto to lend itself
to their adoption, it should be noted that their implementation requires
addressing several challenges: both in terms of infrastructure
(electricity/Internet access) and technology as well as institutional.
Moreover, BASI-coins could compete with (future) sovereign digital
currencies (Govcoins), and their widespread adoption could destabilize the
financial systems due to pressure on foreign exchange reserves