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Get PDFReview of Peter Cole, David Struthers, and Kenyon Zimmer, Wobblies of the World. A new edited collection on the global history of the Industrial Workers of the World.
 
Archives, Museums and Copyright Law: Reconciling the Traditional with Contemporary Practices
Get PDFBy preserving and providing accessibility to cultural heritage, archives and museums have a crucial role in civil society. "Culture" is not a static concept; ideally, the practices of contemporary archives and museums should adapt to meet the changed expectations and cultural values of society. However, the limited permitted exceptions for archives in the Copyright Act 1994 are an obstacle to archives and museums attaining this goal. For example, the provisions are drafted from a traditional, analogue perspective, albeit with more recent minor changes in an attempt to acknowledge digital technologies. Furthermore, the permitted exceptions are confined to not-for-profit and state archives– a somewhat contentious limit in the 21st century when the Internet promises the means for cultural democracy. Museums are not mentioned at all. In addition, there is no legislative process permitting uses of orphan copyright works. This article explains how the permitted exceptions for archives could be amended in the upcoming review of the Copyright Act to better acknowledge and support cultural heritage institutions. It examines recent amendments in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (UK) and suggests that while some of these amendments would be useful for New Zealand to emulate, additional changes should also be considered
‘Life of Lola’: A commentary on graphic anthropology
Get PDFIn this paper I present an ethnographic comic that illustrates two points: the social life of diagnosis following newborn screening for the metabolic disorder MCADD, and the concept of ‘shadow habitus’ in relation to chronic illness. I then deconstruct and interrogate the process of creation behind the comic, asking what this reveals about knowledge creation and ethnographic practice. Using a three-part framework, I argue that a graphic narrative can show complex theoretical concepts in medical anthropology, that it is collaborative and relational, and that it is a tool for thinking critically through and about ethnography. I use this example to show how graphic anthropology opens and makes accessible new ways of thinking and framing illness, health and dis-ease – to ourselves, to our peers and to a non-academic audience
Introduction: Labours of Collaboration
Get PDFThe four pieces in this section are innovative collaborations at various levels, ranging from anthropologists collaborating with communities to collaborative presentations as a way to subvert hierarchies and Euro-centric modes of being with/in academia. These papers engage with the relationship between collaboration and commoning, some explicitly and others implicitly, as ways to shape knowledge production and practice for a much more egalitarian ethnographic engagement within and beyond the academy. In this Special Section of Volume 2 of Commoning Ethnography, we share four papers that engage with the changing nature of ethnographic collaboration on multiple levels
Marco Sonzogni and Harry Thomas translate Primo Levi
Get PDFMarco Sonzogni and Harry Thomas translate Primo Lev
Portfolio Managers’ Inertia towards published information: The Case of Intermediation Companies on the West African Regional Stock Exchange
Get PDFPurpose: This paper investigates the portfolio managers’ behavior in the Regional Stock Exchange (BRVM) of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).Design/Methodology/Approach: This is field survey of a population of 22 intermediation companies (and responses obtained from 11 fund managers) using a questionnaire and Likert-scale type questions.Findings: The results show that companies listed on the Regional Stock Exchange do not communicate sufficiently. The results also identify two (2) major profiles (styles) in the behavior of portfolio managers working in intermediation companies: a lack of information from listed companies and an inertia of portfolio managers toward information disseminated on the market.
Implication: As part of their investment decision, a greater portion of the portfolio managers of the management and intermediation companies focus more on the publication of information as regards to the financial health and performance of the company publishing it, and pay less attention to the company’s capacity for innovation and its mode of governance as well. They are relatively indifferent regarding the information based on the company’s business sector and the performance of its stock market shares and its financial communication, but they favor it more than the information based on the capacity for innovation and the mode of governance.Originality: The results are the first to offer a portrait of the behavior of portfolio managers in management and intermediation companies of the Regional Stock Exchange
Indigenous Peoples and the State - International Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi
Get PDFJust over thirty years ago, in the High Court decision Huakina Development Trust v Waikato Valley Authority, Justice Chilwell famously stated: “There can be no doubt that the Treaty is part of the fabric of New Zealand society”.[1] At a symposium celebrating 30 years of the Huakina decision, Tom Bennion described the judgment as “a marker, a significant new structure sticking out in the legal landscape, indicating the shape of arguments to come.” This collection of work brings together a range of arguments for our time as to the meaning and importance of the Treaty of Waitangi shaped by different perspectives as to its context and history.
[1] [1987] 2 NZLR 188, at 210. As a result of that case, the Treaty is now part of the context in which legislation which impinges upon its principles is to be interpreted, even where a statute is silent as to the Treaty or its principles. 
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