An intellectual genealogy graph: affording a fine prospect of organizational learning

Abstract: The word of "learning", in a wide sense, is used as a part of the social system of education and it has been attracting researchers' interest in our research area of educational systems. The goal of this research is to support creation and inheritance of organizational intellect, that is, "learning" in an organization. In this paper, we will propose an "Intellectual Genealogy Graph," which is a model representing chronological correlation among persons, activities, and intellect in an organization. The intellectual genealogy graph is a basis of intelligent functions which is useful for surveying current learning conditions and clarifying the intellectual role of individuals, organizations, and documents in the organization

Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field

The first book to test the claim that the emerging field of Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary and also examines the boundary work of establishing and sustaining a new field of stud

落ちそむる梧桐(あおぎり)の葉 : 稲賀恵四郎（南畝, 1865-1901）の漢詩

The heart of this piece is a series of annotated translations of kanshi (poems in Chinese) by Inaga Keishirō (Nanpo, 1865–1901), an educator and amateur poet from Tottori prefecture. Eighty-six of Nanpo’s poems were rediscovered in 2000. The translators have deciphered the holograph poem texts and placed the poetry in context. Their introductory essay offers a biography of the poet and an outline of Meiji kanshi practice, and comments on developments in the world of kangaku. Kanshi during this period experienced its final flowering, remaining popular despite the trend toward modernity and Westernization and Japan’s gradual retreat from its Sinitic traditions. The kanshi renaissance of the Meiji era produced a large volume of appealing and lively poetry and reflected kanshi’s broadened demographic appeal. Several factors were at work, including educational reform and growth in the literacy rate, the reopening of contacts with China, expansion of the media, and a conservative reaction against modernization that set in during the 1880s. Much of Nanpo’s verse, like late Edo kanshi generally, displays a distinctively Japanese flavor; Chinese allusions are infrequent, as are conspicuous efforts to imitate past poets. His kanshi tend to be more conventional than novel or political in theme; in tone, the poems range from grave or melancholy to contented, even jocular. The introduction concludes with an analysis of Nanpo’s poetic style, topoi, diction, and his poetic persona. Despite the profusion of socio-political changes occurring around them, many kanshi poets in Meiji Japan remained content with traditional themes, even while giving the occasional nod to modernity. Nanpo was among these poets, who outnumbered the better known modernists of the kanshi world

Civilization and Progress

Historical and systematic in its treatment, this work reviews the idea of progress in Western thought as it relates to civilization, in a more comprehensive survey than is to be found in previous writings on the subject. In the author’s view, the history of civilization reveals an increasing range of human capacity, both for good and for evil, depending upon men’s choice between contending values. From this standpoint, the work proceeds to the exploration of such fields of social activity as the evolution of the family, the emancipation of women, economic conditions and technology, intellectual and aesthetic values, moral and religious experience. Civilization and Progress is marked by balanced and judicious treatment, very broad learning, and a lucid and forceful style. The author asks us to consider the alternatives we face and to reflect on the choices which men have made in the past, which confront us in the present world crisis, and on which our destiny hangs in the future. Seminal in scholarship and creativity, this work will interest those concerned with the Western intellectual tradition and with the condition of mankind. Radoslav A. Tsanoff is the author of numerous books on philosophy. He is McManis Professor of Philosophy at Rice University.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_philosophy/1003/thumbnail.jp

One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894

What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barney\u27s sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in 1894, but Barney\u27s tale represents a living evocation of some of the most significant themes in American history. Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier shaped our national character, but Lewis Barney\u27s life stands as a testament to the real impact of the westering experience on a man and his family. Ron Barney\u27s detailed biography of Lewis Barney provides a participant\u27s view of Mormonism\u27s first six decades of controversy, hardship, and triumph, viewed from the bottom of the social heap. Despite his wide-ranging experience and endless sacrifices, Lewis Barney was a worker in the Mormon vineyard, not one of the princes of the Kingdom of God whose lives have been so exhaustively celebrated. Barney\u27s lack of status in this complex hierarchy adds tremendously to the value of this study, since so much nineteenth-century LDS biography has ignored the lives of ordinary people to celebrate a surprisingly small elite whose experiences were far different from those of the general Mormon population. —Will Bagley, editor of the series Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier and editor of The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846-1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1040/thumbnail.jp

Citizen-Subjectivity, Experiential Evaluation, and Activist Strategies: Explaining Algerian Violence and Polish Peace under Authoritarian Rule

This project explains Polish non-violence and Algerian violence under martial law following peaceful protests against comparable material deprivation and authoritarian political exclusion. From narratives of state formation, institutional performance, and social movement evolution in postwar Poland and postcolonial Algeria a conditional model derives violent and non-violent opposition strategies from divergent practical citizenship regimes in formally similar autocratic systems. It argues that distinct regimes of citizen-subjectivity under authoritarian governance foster divergent practices of resistance and evaluations of states before and during emergency conditions that reduce activists to biological life, tempting violence. Where citizenship regimes differentiate social resources (means of protest) from state resources (means or sovereignty), affording regime opponents actual or immanent systemic subjectivity, social agitation remains non-violent despite objectively comprehensive political and social dispossession; in contrast, by subordinating social to state resources, undifferentiated citizenship regimes under martial law wholly eliminate systemic subjectivity, provoking violence. Neither the formal political regime-type nor the immediate experience of social suffering or political abjection distinguishes violent from non-violent responses to despotism; rather, violent versus non-violent protest strategies express discrepant evaluations of regime coercion, reflecting the elimination versus endurance of the citizenship regime that formed the iterated systemic subjectivity of regime opponents. Poland's worker-based citizenship regime endured fiscal crisis and martial law because it provided differentiated social resources: regime opponents had means independent of state solvency to compel policy concessions by withdrawing labor power from industries pivotal to ruling-elite incumbency. But Algeria's client-based citizenship - based on undifferentiated resources - tied activists' systemic means of compulsion to state largesse. Differentiated citizenship regimes endure state crises because citizens retain the social resources, however suspended, of systemic-subjectivity that ground their evaluations of state actions, minimizing incentives to violent pressure on ruling classes. Undifferentiated citizenship regimes perish under state bankruptcy or force, eradicating social resources and channeling the recuperation of subjectivity to anti-systemic acts. In short, Polish workers could strike and threaten the state under martial law; Algerian clients were effectively expelled from political status. In forming opposition strategies, citizens judge state policies or legitimacy, but also their status as systemic subjects. Evaluations of systemic subjectivity reflect experiences in using social resources, not merely immediate material or political conditions. The research design does not test a general theoretical model linking citizenship-subjectivity regimes to experiential evaluations of objective dehumanization, but its conceptual and causal variable analyses may complement other studies of state institutions and social agitations by promoting subject formation over abstract human universals as the key mechanism in reliable social explanation

Radical Roots

While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble of scholarly discourse, relying on social networks, political goals, practices, and habits of mind that differ from traditional historians. Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism theorizes and defines public history as future-focused, committed to the advancement of social justice, and engaged in creating a more inclusive public record. Edited by Denise D. Meringolo and with contributions from the field’s leading figures, this groundbreaking collection addresses major topics such as museum practices, oral history, grassroots preservation, and community-based learning. It demonstrates the core practices that have shaped radical public history, how they have been mobilized to promote social justice, and how public historians can facilitate civic discourse in order to promote equality