Conceptions of Sovereignty

This paper explores conceptions of sovereignty held by Canada’s Indigenous and Western cultures. It seeks to determine what sovereignty entails and how the Crown- Indigenous relationship is affected by the judgments of Canada’s courts. The study makes no attempt to compare the relative merits of Indigenous and Western sovereignty conceptions. Similarly, it does not examine nor attempt to reconcile sovereignty-related tensions that may exist between the Crown and Indigenous peoples. The research is framed by a two-part question: (1) What are the defining characteristics of Indigenous and Western conceptions of sovereignty; and (2) what impact do the sovereignty-related judgments of Canada’s courts have on the Crown-Indigenous relationship? I investigate sovereignty from the perspectives of theoretical first principles, contemporary interpretations, and Canadian jurisprudence, principallyDelgamuukw v British Columbia, a landmark case that established key legal principles pertaining to Indigenous title, evidentiary rules, and the powers of extinguishment. I conclude that the lack of political will is the principal impediment to achieving a just, harmonious relationship between the Crown and Canada’s Indigenous peoples, regardless of their respective conceptions of sovereignty

All Together Now: How Perceptions of Unity Guide Consumer Judgments and Behavior.

A group of individuals can be seen as a tight group or category with a core essence or as a loose collection of relatively unrelated entities. This dissertation explores how the perceived unity or entitativity of a group or category can be affected by relatively subtle cues, yet has significant effects on consumer judgments and behavior. First, perceived unity can be employed to counteract the historically meager donations to large groups of victims. Entitative groups elicit strong judgments and emotional reactions, so presenting victims in need of charitable support as a tight group (e.g. by calling six children a family or showing endangered butterflies moving in unison) increases donations relative to non-unified but otherwise identical victims. Collections of employees at a company can also vary on whether they seem like a tight category or a loose collection of people. Employees who wear uniforms seem more categorized and unified with each other and with the company, which causes i) more attribution of responsibility to the company for the employee’s behavior, ii) an assimilation of judgments, where one employee’s negative behavior lowers judgments of other employees, and iii) stronger judgments of the company following a service encounter. Theoretical and managerial implications of the antecedents and consequences of perceived unity are discussed.PHDBusiness AdministrationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/99945/1/robwill_1.pd

Fashion, unsustainability issues, from consumer identity to sustainable fashion consumption and brand design

Starting from the 00s, the fashion industry has caused severe damage to the environment, society and the people working in the industry. To stop the unsustainable behaviours from consumers and unethical fashion companies, awareness must be raised among the public to put pressure on the production side. Many fashion brands were built based on the concept of sustainable development and many large fashion companies are making sustainable-oriented adjustments in their businesses. However, with the rising concern about sustainability issues, many companies claim their effort toward sustainability as a marketing tool without real work contributing to sustainability, which leads to consumers’ confusion about the trustworthiness of the information provided by the fashion companies. As such, this study aims to determine the motivations of consumers in fashion consumption, and from those results, investigate what could be effective practices for building attractive sustainable fashion brands with integrity and for helping consumers to understand, demand, and consume sustainable products. This research follows the quantitative research approach of Grounded Theory; to understand these issues, semi constructed intensive interviews were conducted with relevant stakeholders including fashion researchers, fashion designers, fashion marketers and fashion consumers. The data analysis is performed through coding, memo-writing, sampling, saturation and sorting

Strategic business management : from planning to performance

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Parenting the Self: Welfare, Family, and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century France.

This thesis studies the rise of the modern self in France from the aftermath of the French Revolution until the eve of the First Wold War. Building on the work of Michel Foucault, the modern individual is understood as the result of collective practices and beliefs that change across time and space, as well as being inseparable from the problem of governing and shaping the conduct of oneself and others. The focus is placed on how the experience of being a nineteenth-century self was structured, by considering, on the one hand, the explicit discourses and logics that naturalized specific forms of selfhood and made it possible to identify oneself and others as modern subjects and, on the other, the rise of techniques and technologies aimed at producing and reproducing this modern self. These included practices of the self such as moral analysis or self-mastery strategies, as well as the mechanisms for instilling selfhood in others, such as education or domesticity. In particular this thesis considers the mutually-supportive role of the nuclear family at the micro level and social assistance programmes at the macro level. The home and charity office participated in a new form of governing and understanding of authority called guardianship or tutelle. This was a conceptually non-coercive way of moulding those not yet able to govern themselves and others in accordance with freedom, but whose effects extended far beyond the pauper or child. Through mobilizing, sensationalist and threatening images of non-normative subjectivity and family breakdown, social reformers and administrators generated a troubling narrative of both lack and ideal against which poor and rich alike could contrast, measure, and correct the normativity of their own habits and domestic arrangements. This thesis therefore contributes to our understanding of how the modern individual was produced and reproduced as the normative subject of modern collectives

Language and Belonging

In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories – indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collectively shared narrative practices. Using conversation analysis and an analysis of narrative as practice bolstered with ethnographic knowledge, the author shows how belonging is tied to locally contextualized use of deictics and to collectively shared narrations of the past in a Guatemalan community. The book examines the understudied phenomenon of belonging at the intersection of pragmatics and linguistic anthropology

European Regions: Perspectives, Trends and Developments in the 21st Century

At the beginning of the 21st century, the EU is facing deep political, social, and economic changes. The benefit of supranational organization is no longer obvious to European citizens and questions of legitimacy have accompanied the EU's development over the last decades. Regions - albeit often deemed "obsolete" - present themselves as stable and reliable partners in this turbulent environment: in being important objects of identification to their citizens, but also relevant political and legal entities in the EU's multilevel governance system. This edited volume asks about the role of regions and regional identity in a European Union that is perhaps struggling more than ever about its future