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RSPCA assurance of CO₂ killing – market failure, promotion of pig consumption and inhumane slaughter
No full textIn this article I argue that RSPCA assurance of CO₂ killing contributes to market failure in pig slaughter policy in Britain
Digital policy analysis: a methodological toolkit
Get PDFThis toolkit provides researchers with a step-by-step guide detailing a systematic methodology for evaluating if and how digital policies represent certain groups and their rights. The methodology underpinning the toolkit facilitates an in-depth understanding of how policies consider diversity and inequalities, identifying opportunities for improvement in policies that are shaping not just the present, but also the future. This toolkit can be adapted and applied across different political, legal and cultural contexts and policy domains. It can be used to analyse policies at the global, regional, national, local and institutional level, to uncover commonalities and divergences between and within policies at these levels and between and within countries. This toolkit is borne out of research conducted for the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC).1 The DFC project analysed the representations of children, their rights and inequalities between them in over 300 digital policies across 35 intergovernmental, regional and national governing bodies. For a detailed description of the findings, please read the accompanying reports: Left out and misunderstood: Children in digital policies. A global review2 and Left out and misunderstood: Children in global, regional and national digital policies.
Situating the body in digital migration research: embodied methodologies for analysing virtual reality films on displacement
Get PDFSparked by my experience of nausea while watching virtual reality (VR) films on displacement, this chapter proposes a multi-level analysis of such films. The affective dimensions of VR films on displacement-which, according to advocates, make VR films superior to other forms of media in raising awareness and funds-can be best captured by pursuing explicitly embodied methodologies that conceptualize embodiment as "being a body" rather than "having a body." I argue that such methodologies make three main contributions: they expand the boundaries of what is considered "valid" knowledge and centre the geopolitics of knowledge production; foreground how researchers bring with them their relations, experiences, and histories into the virtual encounter; and can lead to thicker conceptual understanding
Ten statements on technics
Get PDFTo understand how preeminent scholars and creative practitioners approach the topic of technology today, Nicholas Baer and Annie van den Oever invited them to reflect on a series of questions: What drew them to technology as a matter of inquiry, and how have developments of the past decade extended, shifted, or even challenged their thinking? What is a recent media-technological development that bears on their work, and how does the contemporary mediascape realign the relations between technē, technique, and technology? Which theoretical, historiographical, and methodological approaches are especially generative, and which texts warrant further attention? Finally, how does their work think through (geo)political issues such as power, access, and accountability; participation, engagement, and activism; and racial, social, and environmental justice?
Self-determination theory applied to physical education: the role of self-regulatory processes in facilitating high-quality student motivation, engagement, and well-being
No full textPhysical education (PE) can facilitate lifelong physical activity (PA), fitness, and holistic development in children and adolescents. Yet, global evidence shows a gap between recommended and actual PA levels among youth. Understanding student motivation (viz., why they are moved to act) is essential to addressing this public health issue. To this end, researchers have increasingly employed self-determination theory (SDT; (Ryan, R.M., & Deci, E.L., Self-determination theory: Basic psychological needs in motivation, development, and wellness. The Guilford Press, New York, 2017)) to understand the conditions that foster high-quality motivation and thriving in PE and those that contribute to a lack of motivation, ill-being, and disengagement. This chapter overviews SDT’s core propositions, focusing on those most extensively tested in PE settings. Here, we synthesise empirical work that has explored (1) the nature and supports of intrinsic motivation, (2) SDT’s multidimensional perspective of motivation, reviewing why regulatory styles of varying ‘quality’ are differentially associated with adaptive and maladaptive student outcomes, (3) the proposition that three basic psychological needs (viz., for autonomy, competence, and relatedness) are essential for student wellness and thriving in PE, whereas frustration of these needs are linked to greater student ill-being and diminished functioning, (4) the impact of need-supportive and need-thwarting teaching practices and social environments on engagement, well-being, and thriving; and (5) practical strategies to foster high-quality motivation in PE settings. The chapter concludes with key recommendations for advancing research, including the development of innovative, culturally relevant interventions, the use of longitudinal methodologies, and improved psychometric tools to deepen understanding of motivation and well-being in PE contexts
For the sake of simplicity: no China, no context
Get PDFGenerations of China anthropologists have complained about the marginality of Chinese research in general debates in anthropology. One reason for this malaise may be that anthropologists of China did not get the balance of context and substance right. Either they adopted context created by other disciplines (for instance, to describe the setting of a village ethnography), or they focused merely on context (when providing commentaries on social change). Both approaches typically fail to capture social complexity. To approach social complexity, we need to bracket the problem of 'context', and instead follow actors in their own practices of attention, through the resonances that background and foreground action. Such an approach is not necessarily related to 'China' and never exhaustively given in 'texts', but it requires the analyst to attend to the forces of simplification in action and in analysis, against which it is possible to measure complexity
Indexes, currencies, and the political economy of sovereign bond market access
Get PDFInclusion in bond indexes improves emerging market (EM) government access to capital. Under what conditions do EMs enter indexes and gain the market access benefits? We find that borrower features affect index inclusion differently in domestic currency versus foreign currency bond contexts. In the higher-risk domestic currency bond context, indexes are designed to include only a small, low-risk subset of bonds, leading borrower political, institutional, and policy characteristics to significantly affect inclusion probability. In the lower-risk foreign currency bond context, indexes are designed to depict more of the market, so these same borrower features do not significantly affect inclusion probability. The study shows why EM entry into indexes and the corresponding access to capital vary across domestic currency and foreign currency bond markets, providing a nuanced picture of how contemporary sovereign debt markets operate. We provide historical index inclusion data for future research
Submission to Bank of England consultation CP10/25 — Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing climate-related risks — Update to SS3/19
Get PDFThis report consists of a submission by the Earth Capital Nexus initiative, hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, made in response to the open consultation by the Bank of England CP10/25 — Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing climate-related risks — Update to SS3/19. This consultation represents an important step forward in safeguarding the stability and competitiveness of the UK financial system in the face of accelerating environmental change
Moving up, reaching back: how family ties shape upward mobility
Get PDFIs upward mobility a solo journey – with career success driven by talent and hard work? Or is it a relational process, shaped by enduring connections to one’s class and family origins? Malik Fercovic investigates, drawing on 60 in-depth interviews with Chilean professionals in law, medicine, and engineering