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On the political ontology of making things up in political ecology critique: responding to Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)
Get PDFI engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexities might be distilled into the idea that how 'the world' is socially known also shapes how the world is known to be. I explore three key issues worked through in these papers, partly with reference to work of mine, namely: 1) conservation struggles around biodiversity offsetting; 2) debates regarding plural and relational ontologies, particularly representations of 'flatness' and 'depth' in ontological considerations; and 3) critical realism, specifically distinctions between perspectives on transitive and intransitive dimensions in qualifying understandings of reality. I highlight a pernicious problem of dismissive approaches towards analysts trying to ask difficult and subtle questions about 'onto-epistemology.' This situation seems surprising given the effort in political ecology towards recognising and respecting plural knowledges, particularly knowledges often overridden by discourses emboldened by structures of power. My overall aim is towards clarity in ongoing political ecology debate on these issues, alongside the pursuit of respectful praxis in this burgeoning area of engagement
Continuing ‘reforming’ policies in teacher education internationally: what can we learn from current accounts?
No full textThis article discusses common geopolitical issues, such as globalisation, decolonialisation, and economic pressure that affect the development of teacher education policy in England, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Russia, Israel, Jamaica, Portugal, Japan, Poland, and China. It goes on to describe these nations’ responses to these pressures and the challenges that they have and continue to face in developing their teacher education systems and building the profession. The article concludes with consideration of the ongoing struggle for the soul of teacher education, especially in England
The relationship between team diversity and team performance: reconciling promise and reality through a comprehensive meta-analysis registered report
No full textWorkforce diversity is increasing across the globe, while organizations strive for equity and inclusion. Therefore, research has investigated how team diversity relates to performance. Despite clear arguments why diversity should enhance (some types of) performance, and promising findings in individual studies, meta-analyses have shown weak main effects. However, many meta-analyses have failed to distinguish situations where diversity should have a positive impact from those where its impact is more likely to be negative, leaving boundary conditions unclear. Here, we summarized the growing literature across disciplines, countries, and languages through a reproducible registered report meta-analysis on the relationship between diversity and team performance (615 reports, 2638 effect sizes). Overall, we found that the average linear relationships between demographic, job-related and cognitive diversity, and team performance are significant and positive, but insubstantial (|r|< .1). Considering a wide range of moderators, we found few instances when correlations were substantial. However, context matters. Correlations were more positive when tasks were higher in complexity or required creativity and innovation, and when teams were working in contexts lower in collectivism and power distance. Contrary to expectations, the link between diversity and performance was not substantially influenced by teams’ longevity or interdependence. The main results appear robust to publication bias. Further research is needed on how diversity climates and team cultures affect these relationships, and when there may be non-linear relationships—yet for the moment, promises of wide-spread performance increases may not be the strongest arguments to promote diversity initiatives. We discuss further implications for researchers and practitioners, and provide a web app to examine subsets of the data: https://lukaswallrich.shinyapps.io/diversity_meta/
Addressing corporate human rights violations and environmental harm: advancing a holistic remedial framework through tort law and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
Get PDFThis research investigates solutions for instances of corporate human rights
violations and environmental harm, with a focus on applying the ‘Eggshell Skull
Rule’. It suggests a three-step method for determining liability and stresses the
importance of restoring victims to their pre-violation condition. The study
examines legal remedies, emphasising the significance of aggravated and
exemplary damages in addressing corporate wrongdoing. It supports the use of
exemplary damages to penalise misconduct and prevent future offences,
addressing challenges in applying legal frameworks to corporate behaviour.
Furthermore, it assesses the difficulties and debates surrounding exemplary
damages in civil cases. This study contributes to discussions on corporate
accountability and aligns with the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence
Directive by advocating for a comprehensive remedy structure. It underlines the
necessity of both compensatory and punitive measures to maintain
accountability and fairness in cases of corporate misconduc
Touch Type
No full textFor the Ludic Territories exhibition, artist collaborators Squires and Dunseath present an iteration of Touch Type, an interactive artwork. As we look at the screen, only the touch of our fingers on the keyboard connects our bodies. Are we emulating a non-human presence which in turn, emulates us? Touch-Type tries to understand the disembodied experience of communication through digital mediation. The keyboard acts as a sensual touch pad, allowing fingers to extend into letters which when touched haunt the adjacent screen. The dissociatiedness in digital communication dwells in the intra-action of the human and non-human, of presence and absence of passivity and action. This interaction creates hiccups, stutters, and confused breakdowns, allowing mis/communications to splinter off
Attuning to processes of affective sociomaterialisation: exploring subjectivity and identity in outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK
Get PDFThis paper examines the formation of children’s subjectivities, related to the metaphysical conditions of being and becoming a subject, within outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland. It applies a sociomaterial metaphysical framework to propose an alternative way of understanding how subjectivities come to form in early childhood environments, bringing together Spinozist monism in relation to Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of assemblage and affect. Methodologically, an ethnographic approach inspired partly by the postqualitative field of scholarship is employed to gather data on children’s subjectivities at Wood Fire, a primarily outdoor early childhood setting. The data produced in this study affords an opportunity to understand the materiality and relationality of primarily outdoor early childhood provision through which subjectivities are in-formed. Thus, they demonstrate a more expanded understanding of how we, humans, are produced as individuals in specific encounters through processes of ‘affective sociomaterialisation’. Practically, this carries implications for how researchers might attune to the child’s sense of self on more expansive terms through processes of affective sociomaterialisation
Consumer collective redress in Turkey: the need for reform in light of the EU regime
Get PDFOver the past 25 years, since the beginning of the process of Turkey’s accession to the European Union (EU), the Turkish Republic has expanded its consumer protection strategy and adopted legislation in compliance with EU law. Still, full harmonisation has not been attained yet, particularly in the field of consumer disputes. One example is EU Collective Redress Directive 2020/1828 with which Turkish domestic law is still incompatible. The underlying objective of the introduction of the Collective Redress Directive is to establish effective and efficient collective action for consumers in order to provide injunctive relief and compensation to those harmed by the same or a similar infringement. The regime of collective actions in Turkey is, however, fragmented and in need of reform in order to protect the collective interests of consumers. The relevant legislation not only lacks the necessary elements required for the well-functioning of a collective action mechanism, but also does not allow the filing of a collective action for certain infringements of consumer law and for claiming damages for any infringement. This article therefore evaluates the EU collective redress regime to seek lessons to be learnt by Turkey, and, in light of this evaluation, aims to design a new legal framework for consumer collective redress in Turkey
Landscape detectives: developing a palimpsest approach to fieldwork
No full textUnderstanding the composition and meaning of landscapes is a fundamental skill of being a geographer. This article examines how students can become ‘landscape detectives’ using a palimpsest approach to unravel the form and processes that can be obscured within a landscape. Observing, recording and interpreting a landscape from multiple perspectives can lead to a deeper academic understanding as well as facilitating a maturing of perspectives about a sense of place and the students’ positionality with that place. The palimpsest approach provides a framework that supports teachers, enriches the field learning experience for students, can be applied to a variety of landscapes and can be adapted for most levels of education. This article outlines the palimpsest approach based on coastal fieldwork involving a small group of 16- and 17-year-old students studying A level geography in the UK and provides practical suggestions for its inclusion
