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Diamond in the rough? An ‘empty review’ of research into ‘neurodiversity’ and a road map for developing the inclusion agenda
Get PDFNeurodiversity broadly refers to naturally occurring diversity in human cognition (Singer, 1999). It is frequently used as an umbrella term for a range of neurocognitive developmental disorders (Doyle, 2020; Kapp, Gillespie-Lynch, Sherman, & Hutman, 2013) including Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder or Dyslexia. Recent public dialogue has shifted to the term ‘neurominority’ to sign post that relevant individuals are disadvantaged regarding a range of life outcomes including systemic social exclusion in education and inferior employment outcomes (Carter, Austin, & Trainor, 2012; Snowling, Adams, Bowyer-Crane, & Tobin, 2000). Subsequent restriction of opportunities for a fulfilled working life and career (Holliday, Koller, & Thomas, 1999; Taylor & Walter, 2003) is in contrast to emerging popular narratives about the talent potential of neurodiversity for modern workplaces (Austin & Pisano, 2017; Sniderman, 2014): the ‘diamond in the rough’ (Doyle, Patton, Fung, Bruk-Lee, & Bruyere, 2020).
In this paper, we highlight the inadequate scope and focus of academic attention on neurodiversity and employment to date across the fields of applied psychology and management studies. We contextualise the neurodiversity paradigm from a medical, social and legal perspective in the wider workplace equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Through a series of ‘Empty Reviews’ defined as a targeted analysis of literature gaps through systematic literature review principles (Schlosser & Sigafoos, 2009; Yaffe, Montgomery, Hopewell, & Shepard, 2012), we illustrate the dearth of tangible evidence. Through due diligence in our conceptualization including definition of gaps in knowledge, we outline a future research and practice agenda to facilitate informed inclusion for a marginalized minority. In other words, it is our aim to support evidence-based practice in this emerging field guiding Human Resources (HR) and employment policy to mitigate labor force exclusio
The power of Parwanas: Indo-Persian grants and the making of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Southern India
Get PDFThis article examines Persian-language orders—parwanas—issued by regimes that succeeded the Mughal Empire in South Asia, to European trading companies. Focussing in particular on the mid-eighteenth-century exchanges between the Nizam of Hyderabad; the Nawab of Arcot; and the French Compagnie des Indes, we see how Mughal-style parwanas, or sub-imperial orders, previously used to give instructions or to make or withdraw grants, were transformed into a form of political currency. They were now used to exchange military and fiscal resources between South Asian state-builders and militarised European corporations, and to secure political legitimacy for all within a putative Mughal imperium. Moreover, the legal fiction of Mughal sovereignty led to a grants race, such that rivals—European and South Asian—sought more and more parwanas, while also querying the legitimacy of authorities that issued them. The very fragility of the Mughal empire and the lability of the political landscape in eighteenth-century South Asia was thus generative of prolific Persian legal documentation, as well as its rewiring to novel uses. European empire-builders negotiated this legal landscape with only partial literacy, consequently fetishizing the material aspects and ceremonial accompaniments of Persian legal documents, and according them power beyond their immediate substance
To see and be seen: technological change and power in deforestation driving global value chains
Get PDFNew digital tools for monitoring forest- and land-cover change
have made it easier for civil society actors to call firms
to account for deforestation. In response, companies in
deforestation-linked global value chains (GVCs) have turned to
these technologies themselves. In contrast to many case analyses of technology in GVCs, which focus on how technology
changes production processes, forcing governance to adapt,
forest-monitoring technologies change governance directly.
Synthesising work on transaction characteristics and power
relations in GVCs to address this novel situation, we argue that
monitoring technologies’ effects on GVCs will likely depend on
their accessibility. Proprietary technologies favour large-scale
operations and already established lead firms, while open technologies could support democratization. Treating forest- and
value-chain information as a public good could support more
inclusive, equitable and sustainable value chains
Book of proceedings: 15th Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, 'supporting knowledge comparison to promote good practice in occupational health psychology'
No full textThe question of personal identity
No full textThis chapter explains how a hierarchical and gendered opposition between mind and body is at work in philosophical discussions of personal identity within the analytic tradition. It focuses on a prominent tendency to center the question of what constitutes survival of a self from t1 to t2 and goes on to show that imaginary examples of character transplant are designed to demonstrate that survival is a matter of psychological continuity. On these accounts, bodily continuity seems irrelevant for personhood or its survival. Drawing on feminist research into the effects of bodily trauma, the chapter proposes that, in hypothetical cases of transplant, psychological continuity could be shattered. Insofar as a trauma victim’s sense of self can only be restored through the recognition of others, personal identity is socially constructed.
Book synopsis: This is the first collection of essays to focus on feminist philosophy of mind. It brings the theoretical insights from feminist philosophy to issues in philosophy of mind and vice versa. Feminist Philosophy of Mind thus promises to challenge and inform dominant theories in both of its parent fields, thereby enlarging their rigor, scope, and implications. In addition to engaging analytic and feminist philosophical traditions, essays draw upon resources in phenomenology, cross-cultural philosophy, philosophy of race, disability studies, embodied cognition theory, neuroscience, and psychology.
The book's methods center on the collective consideration of three questions: What is the mind? Whose mind is the model for the theory? To whom is mind attributed? Topics considered with this lens include mental content, artificial intelligence, the first-person perspective, personal identity, other minds, mental illness, perception, memory, attention, desire, trauma, agency, empathy, grief, love, gender, race, sexual orientation, materialism, panpsychism, enactivism, and others.
Each of the book's twenty chapters are organized according to five core themes: Mind and Gender&Race&; Self and Selves; Naturalism and Normativity; Body and Mind; and Memory and Emotion. The introduction traces the development of these themes with reference to the respective literatures in feminist philosophy and philosophy of mind. This context not only helps the reader see how the essays fit into existing disciplinary landscapes, but also facilitates their use in teaching. Feminist Philosophy of Mind is designed to be used as a core text for courses in contemporary disciplines, and as a supplemental text that facilitates the ready integration of diverse perspectives and women's voices
Raphael (National Gallery, London, 9 April – 31 July 2022). Raphael, exh. cat., David Ekserdjian and Tom Henry, with Matthias Wivel and contributions by Caroline Elam, Arnold Nesselrath and Thomas P. Campbell, National Gallery Global, London, distributed by Yale University Press, 2022, 328pp, 200 colour illustrations. ISBN: 978 1 85709 658 3 1048789
Get PDFBy the old gods and the new: the effect of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and Enjoyment Congruence on Self-Perceived Proficiency
Get PDFThe negative emotion of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety (FLCA) and the positive emotion of Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) have both been linked to foreign language (FL) learners’ Self-Perceived Proficiency (SPP). In linear correlational studies, SPP has been found to be negatively affected by FLCA and positively affected by FLE. However, linear correlational research methods are limited in the extent to which they can depict these interrelations. In this study, we examined how different levels of FLCA and FLE influenced SPP in concert in a sample of n = 1039 FL learners by utilising polynomial regression with response surface analysis. The response model generated visually depicted a complex SPP pattern as a result of differing levels of FLCA and FLE. This three-dimensional model provides considerable insight into the interaction of positive and negative emotions above and beyond what could be derived from ‘classical’ methods of correlation and linear regression
When you come at the King you best not miss
Get PDFA tournament is an orientation of a complete graph. We say that a vertex x in a tournament ⃗ T controls another vertex y if there exists a directed path of length at most two from x to y. A vertex is called a king if it controls every vertex of the tournament. It is well known that every tournament
has a king. We follow Shen, Sheng, and Wu [ 8] in investigating the query complexity of finding a king, that is, the number of arcs in ⃗ T one has to know in order to surely identify at least one vertex as a king.
The aforementioned authors showed that one always has to query at least Ω(n4/3) arcs and provided a strategy that queries at most O(n3/2). While this upper bound has not yet been improved for the original problem, Biswas et al. [3] proved that with O(n4/3) queries one can identify a
semi-king, meaning a vertex which controls at least half of all vertices.
Our contribution is a novel strategy which improves upon the number of controlled vertices:
using O(n4/3 polylog n) queries, we can identify a ( 1/2 + 2/17 )-king. To achieve this goal we use a novel structural result for tournaments
Decolonial queer knowledges: aesthesis, memory and practice
No full textDecolonial queer knowledges enact the practice of visual aesthetics through an embodiment of desire, memory, and non-normative sexualities. Traversing the transnational continuum of queer decolonial aesthesis, this chapter engages with the conceptualization of pluri-knowledges that artists excavate through their memory and familiar archive of language, body, and performance. It attempts to define how decolonial queer knowledges emerge through artistic practices in global-local circulations. The resignification of queerness through the site of invisibilised production of Queer and Trans People from the global South is crucial to fully comprehend the import of decolonial queer knowledges. Centring on specific examples of artists and performers from the global South and its diasporas, this chapter attempts to delineate the queer knowledges analytic that is being articulated in disparate transnational locations as both critique of hegemonic queerness and extension of decolonial politics
Outrage: the problem with gender-segregated prisons is not trans people's bodies, but incarceration itself
No full textAn opinion piece about recent debates about trans prison policy
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