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- Feminist Data Studies, Critical Data Studies, Feminism and Social Justice, Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, Social Network Analysis (SNA), and 14 moreSocial and Political Theories of Justice & Human Rights, Humanitarian Logistics, Immigration and Bulgarian Diasporic Writing in the USA and Canada, Beat generation writers, Supply Chain Management, European integration, Ancient numismatics (Archaeology), Economic History, Balkan History, Journalism, Media Research, Python Programming, Secondary Data Analysis, and Stataedit
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This panel argues a paradigm shift is needed in library and information science (LIS) to move the field toward information equity, inclusion, relevance, diversity, and justice. LIS has undermined knowledge systems falling outside of... more
This panel argues a paradigm shift is needed in library and information science (LIS) to move the field toward information equity, inclusion, relevance, diversity, and justice. LIS has undermined knowledge systems falling outside of Western traditions. While the foundations of LIS are based on epistemological concerns, the field has neglected to treat people as epistemic agents who are embedded in cultures, social relations and identities, and knowledge systems that inform and shape their interactions with data, information, and knowledge as well as our perceptions of each other as knowers. To achieve this shift we examine epistemicide—the killing, silencing, annihilation, or devaluing of a knowledge system, epistemic injustice and a critique of the user‐centered paradigm. We present alternative epistemologies for LIS: critical consciousness, Black feminism, and design epistemology and discuss these in practice: community generated knowledges as sites of resistance and Indigenous data sovereignty and the “right to know”.
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A burgeoning stream of sustainability research explores the role of companies’ top management team (TMT) characteristics in corporate sustainability efforts, while another stream investigates the effect of a company’s supply chain... more
A burgeoning stream of sustainability research explores the role of companies’ top management team (TMT) characteristics in corporate sustainability efforts, while another stream investigates the effect of a company’s supply chain position on its likelihood of engaging in sustainability. This study shows the importance of integrating the two research streams by demonstrating that supply chain position moderates the relationship between TMT characteristics and sustainability and thus establishes boundary conditions for this relationship. By matching 758 corporate sustainability initiatives with control observations, our results show that the size of the top executive team and the average age of its members, two well-known predictors of corporate sustainability, are distinctly moderated by supply chain position. While business-to-business (B2B) companies are less likely to report a sustainability initiative compared to business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations, we found that B2B TMT si...
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Page 1. A Brief History of the World Part I Professor Peter N. Stearns THE TEACHING COMPANY ® Page 2. ©2007 The Teaching Company. i Peter N. Stearns, Ph.D. Provost and Professor of History, George Mason University ...
Research Interests: Ethics, Feminist Theory, Marxism, Feminist Philosophy, Sexuality, and 15 moreJurgen Habermas, Continental Philosophy, Gender, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Lacan, Émmanuel Lévinas, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Lacanian theory, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Kristeva, Antiglobalization Social Movements, and Latin American feminisms
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Social media, particularly Twitter, is a powerful medium for expression and discussion across regions and communities in the world today. Using hashtags, a powerful and popular affordance of Twitter, several forms of civic engagement and... more
Social media, particularly Twitter, is a powerful medium for expression and discussion across regions and communities in the world today. Using hashtags, a powerful and popular affordance of Twitter, several forms of civic engagement and online social campaigns emerge and inform public discourse. Although several prior studies have investigated the rhetorical impact of such narrative movements on Twitter, an important consideration lies in understanding the structural forms that such narratives take depending on the context and regional culture where the movement originates. To this end, this study embarks on a preliminary analysis of 150 tweets related to calls of action and social justice in the aftermath of the death of a popular Indian movie star. The analysis reveals a diverse spectrum of themes ranging from expressions of loss and grief to critiques of institutions and mechanisms of power. Parallel but powerful themes also demonstrate attempts to nurture and embolden the campaign. The aim of this analysis is to provide insights into how such channels of discourse might be designed to create a medium of freedom of expression and foster safe spaces for civic engagement.
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A burgeoning stream of sustainability research explores the role of companies' top management team (TMT) characteristics in corporate sustainability efforts, while another stream investigates the effect of a company's supply chain... more
A burgeoning stream of sustainability research explores the role of companies' top management team (TMT) characteristics in corporate sustainability efforts, while another stream investigates the effect of a company's supply chain position on its likelihood of engaging in sustainability. This study shows the importance of integrating the two research streams by demonstrating that supply chain position moderates the relationship between TMT characteristics and sustainability and thus establishes boundary conditions for this relationship. By matching 758 corporate sustainability initiatives with control observations, our results show that the size of the top executive team and the average age of its members, two well-known predictors of corporate sustainability, are distinctly moderated by supply chain position. While business-to-business (B2B) companies are less likely to report a sustainability initiative compared to business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations, we found that B2B TMT size has a greater positive effect on sustainability initiative likelihood than B2C TMT size. Conversely, average B2C TMT age has greater predictive power in explaining sustainability initiative likelihood than average B2B TMT age. The implications of these findings in advancing corporate sustainability and organizational change are discussed.
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In her article “The Uniqueness of Persons”, Linda Zagzebski aims at showing that people are both infinitely valuable and irreplaceably valuable and at the same time at demonstrating that these two aspects of dignity cannot be...
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Back to Anscombe. In the center of her work “Under Description”, seems to be the search for a proper definition of intention and intentionality. From her I’d like to borrow the concept of “potential” and make the following statement:... more
Back to Anscombe. In the center of her work “Under Description”, seems to be the search for a proper definition of intention and intentionality. From her I’d like to borrow the concept of “potential” and make the following statement: intentions (no matter if conscious or subconscious [for, I am convinced that often times we might think we are sure of the motives behind an act of ours when in fact we may be mistaken]) are a certain form of power. This stance necessitates the employment of at least a generic description of the different kinds of power. In my opinion, there are several different levels, each characterized by the degree of its realization. For instance, an intention of killing someone but not actually doing so, constitutes a certain stage of power even though it doesn’t amount to any “practical” results. That is why I’d like to call such unrealized acts that exist only in the form of intentions “unrealized power”.
Research Interests: Ethics, Feminist Theory, Marxism, Feminist Philosophy, Sexuality, and 20 moreJurgen Habermas, Continental Philosophy, Gender, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Lacan, Émmanuel Lévinas, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, Lacanian theory, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Social and Political Philosophy, Solidarity Economy, Anscombe, Elizabeth, Kristeva, Theories of Socialism, Antiglobalization Social Movements, and Latin American feminisms
M1: “Through estranged, alienated labor, then, the worker produces the relationship to this labor of a man alien to labor and standing outside it. The relationship of the worker to labor creates the relation to it of the capitalist (or... more
M1: “Through estranged, alienated labor, then, the worker produces the relationship to this labor of a man alien to labor and standing outside it. The relationship of the worker to labor creates the relation to it of the capitalist (or whatever one chooses to call the master of labor). Private property is thus the product, the result, the necessary consequence, of alienated labor, of the external relation of the worker to nature and to himself.
Private property thus results by analysis from the concept of alienated labor, i.e., of alienated man, of estranged labor, of estranged life, of estranged man.
True, it is as a result of the movement of private property that we have obtained the concept of alienated labor (of alienated life) in political economy. But on analysis of this concept it becomes clear that though private property appears to be the reason, the cause of alienated labor, it is rather its consequence, just as the gods are originally not the cause but the effect of man’s intellectual confusion. Later this relationship becomes reciprocal..." (Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844)
Private property thus results by analysis from the concept of alienated labor, i.e., of alienated man, of estranged labor, of estranged life, of estranged man.
True, it is as a result of the movement of private property that we have obtained the concept of alienated labor (of alienated life) in political economy. But on analysis of this concept it becomes clear that though private property appears to be the reason, the cause of alienated labor, it is rather its consequence, just as the gods are originally not the cause but the effect of man’s intellectual confusion. Later this relationship becomes reciprocal..." (Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844)