1,043 research outputs found
Reorienting Critical Geographies of Global Development: A Conversation with Han Cheng, Patricia Daley, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, Diana Vela-Almeida, and Joseph Awetori Yaro
No full textThis roundtable on reorienting critical geographies of global development was organized in
response to “The Critical Geography Conversations: ACME’s 20+ Year Anniversary.” It
brought together scholars from diverse backgrounds —including Han Cheng, Patricia Daley,
Jospeh Yaro, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, and Diana Vela-Almeida—to reflect on significant
shifts in global development geographies, such as the rise of the Global South, the
consolidation of BRICS, especially China’s role, and the need to question established spatial
categories. The conversation created a space for collective reflection on the possibilities and
challenges of reshaping how we teach, research, and engage with the world. In an era where
unlearning and rethinking are vital to envisioning alternative futures, this dialogue
emphasized the importance of forging new ways of being, feeling, and thinking about
development and geography
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The Theories of the State/the State of Theories
No full textAbout the book: The Politics of Transition comes out of a new Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) series of multidisciplinary readers, organized as teaching texts around themes central to African studies and development
Placing social capital
No full textThis paper reviews the contribution that the concept of social capital might make to geography, and the contribution geography might make to the analysis of social capital. We begin by summarizing the conceptual origins and dimensions of social capital, in the process of which we distinguish it from several other social properties (human and cultural capital; social networks). We then summarize key criticisms of the concept, especially those levelled at the work of Robert Putnam. The core of the paper is a discussion of the issue of whether there might be a geography of social capital. We consider links between geographical debates and the concept of social capital, and we assess the difficulties of deriving spatially disaggregated measures of social capital. We illustrate this discussion with reference to literature on three sets of issues: the question of 'institutional tissue' and its effects on regional development; the understanding of health inequalities; and the analysis of comparative government performance. In conclusion, we argue that the popularity of the concept reflects a combination of academic and political developments, notably the search for ostensibly 'costless' policies of redistribution on the part of centrist governments. We therefore conclude with a discussion of the practical applications of the concept in different contexts
Factorization of isometries of hyperbolic 4-space and a discreteness condition:
No full textGilman's NSDC condition is a sufficient condition for the discreteness of a two generator subgroup of PSL(2,C). We address the question of the extension of this condition to subgroups of isometries of hyperbolic 4-space. While making this new construction, namely the NSDS condition, we are led to ask whether every orientation preserving isometry of hyperbolic 4-space can be factored into the product of two half-turns. We use some techniques developed by Wilker to first, define a half-turn suitably in dimension 4 and then answer the former question. It turns out that defining a half-turn in this way in any dimension n enables us to generalize some of Gilman's theorems to dimension greater than or equal to 4. We also give an exposition on part of Wilker's work and give new proofs for some of his results.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-53)by Karan Mohan Pur
MOHAN, LAMPERT, TAN-MULLINS, CHANG (2014), Chinese Migrants and Africa’s Development. New Imperialists or Agents of Change ?, lu par Iginio Gagliardone
No full textMOHAN (Giles), LAMPERT (Ben), TAN-MULLINS (May) et CHANG (Daphne), Chinese Migrants and Africa’s Development. New Imperialists or Agents of Change ?, Londres, Zed Books, 2014, 192 pages. Compte rendu paru dans la Revue des Livres du N°138 de Politique Africaine. Après l’ouvrage d’Howard W. French, China’s Second Continent, également publié en 2014, Chinese Migrants and Africa’s Development représente une nouvelle tentative importante de remise en cause des grands récits sur les relations ent..
Bibliographics for the 983 eprints in the live archives of E-LIS : trends and status report up to 7th July 2004, based on author-self-archiving metadata
No full textThe priority for ideas and philosophy related to "Network Theory" have been traced back and documented by Braun(2004),and credit goes to Karinthy(1929).The IT has empowered to realise it, as the most practical phenomena and it is no more a humour. The OAI (Open Archives Initiatives)and ACIS (Academic Contributor Information System)are progressive in the direction ,which may lead to realise the "Collective Genius" at global level. Focus of present study is on Author-Self-Archiving (A-S-A)Metadata of the 983 Eprints in the Live Archives of the E-LIS (EPrints of Library and Information Science),which were approved till 7th July 2004.The A-S-A Metadata was used for librametric analysis. Self-explanatory bibliographics are illustrated.The highlights include: Conference papers (34%); highest approval, June 2004 (28%); published archives (76%);not refereed (52%); not in public domain (60%); highest self-archiving-author (De Robbio, Antonella).The Nos. of EPrints having single JITA domain specifications were: Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information(27); Information use and sociology of information(80);Users,literacy and reading(13);Libraries as physical collections(30);Publishing and legal issues(57);Management(13);Industry, profession and education(36);Information sources, supports, channels(113) ; Information treatment for information services, Information functions and techniques (101); Technical services libraries, archives and museums(25); Housing technologies(1); Information technology and library technology(92); and Inter-domainery (395) i.e. having specifications of two or more than two JITA classes
Designing a successful library school field experience
No full textTo share the library school field experience paradigm that the authors developed after their successful participation as a supervisor and student.
Design/methodology/approach – A review of field experience literature is provided. The field experience paradigms and perspectives pertaining to the supervisor and the student are explained. The paradigm is suggested as a model for field experience participants and their supervisors.
Findings – The field experience paradigm for the supervisors elucidates the stages – planning, training, mentoring and evaluation. The paradigm for students explains the phases – awareness, interests, planning and participation.
Research limitations/implications – The focus of the field experience, from which the paradigm emanated, was to train and prepare the student for agricultural librarianship in an academic library. The application of the paradigm may vary for different situations.
Practical implications – The paradigm is expected to be useful for supervisors and students of field experience programs.
Originality/value – This paradigm stems from the participation of the authors as a field experience supervisor and student. The steps and methods the authors followed will help advance future field experience programs
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The restructuring of intellectual activity: a response to Pratt, and Barnett and Low
No full textThe critical responses (Barnett and Low 1996; Pratt 1996) to my observation (Mohan 1994) centre upon my understanding of theoretical development and the nature of commodification. Pratt (1996, 3) asserts that my analogy of the product cycle model fails to capture the fact that "knowledge does not arrive pre-formed" while "Much of this theoretical development is outstripping its application". In a similar vein Barnett and Low (1996, 1) argue that "there is no consideration of just what sort of commodity "Theory" actually is" and that my criticism of the pace of theoretical innovation "serves as a means of acknowledging the economic ground of academic work while also disavowing one's own contamination by those same conditions". In general I found these to be useful comments. However, there are a number of points I would like to contest in re-addressing my original ideas.
My original observation was polemical and hurriedly-written following a conference which I felt was an insult to the notion of "social justice". Having been brought up in an academic family I recall that in my pre-teen years hardly a weekend went by that I wasn't taken on some demonstration or there was a political meeting at our house. Back in the 1970s I was well aware that politically academics did not have to stay in academies. My frustration echoes Cornel West's (1992, 689) question of "what it means to be a political intellectual at the moment. Is it any longer a credible notion?" This reply is the first step in answering these questions
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