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Discussing the Importance of Ontology and Epistemology Awareness in Practitioner Research.
This paper uses the focus of identity and acculturation within schools as the basis for a reflection on the ways in which researchers ground their investigations. It identifies the necessity for researchers to ensure that their own ontological perceptions, epistemological
stances and methods for data gathering and interpretation are closely aligned. By investigating the ways in which a diversity of methodological approaches are used to
address the issue of identity formation, as reflected in three school-based studies (Houlette et al, 2004; illbourn, 2006; Nasir et al, 2009), the paper facilitates a teasing out of ontological and epistemological issues. The practical implications are that, through a deeper awareness of the ontological substructures informing their studies, researchers will be more clearly positioned to iteratively reflect upon, and define how best to engage with, their research projects
Construction of Readership in \u3cem\u3eEbony\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eEssence\u3c/em\u3e, and \u3cem\u3eO, the Oprah Magazine\u3c/em\u3e
Miller et al examine the construction of readership in Ebony, Essence and O, The Oprah magazine, three popular magazines that purport to be a vehicle of identity and awareness for their target audience. Upon evaluation, they found that Ebony and Essence both challenge the hegemonic process with the incorporation of cultural artifacts that call upon collective memory to form reader association
Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities
This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, âEconomies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.â Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and differential racialized valuations that continue to underwrite particular forms of subjection, property, commerce, and territoriality. The conception of economies of dispossession introduced in this essay draws attention to the overriding importance of rationalities of abstraction and commensurability for racial capitalism. The essay problematizes the ways in which dispossession is conventionally treated as a self-evident and circumscribed practice of unjust taking and subtractive action. Instead, working across the lethal confluences of imperial conquest and racial capitalist predation, this essay critically situates the logic of propriation that organizes and underwrites predatory value in the historical present. Against the commensurabilities and rationalities of debt and finance capitalism, conditioned through the proprietary logics of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, the essay gestures toward alternative frameworks for building collective capacities for what the authors describe as a grounded relationality
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Introduction: Reflections on nancy abelmann's legacy
Nancy Abelmann passed away on January 6, 2016, at the age of fifty-six. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, after completing her dissertation under Nelson Graburn. That same year, she was hired by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she worked for two and a half decades. She was a beloved teacher, mentor, and colleague to many, and she was a key figure in multiple departments and centers. At the time of her death, she held the Harold E. Preble Professorship in Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women and Gender Studies and was also Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Trans-national approaches to locally situated concerns: exploring the meanings of post-socialist space
The need to examine critially existing understandings of processes of societal change in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has formed a key area of debate in recent years. Suggested means for furthering this debate include an examination of the meaning and usefulness of the post-socialist category, a critique of the conceptual and practical divides between East and West, attention to the various impacts of change at the local level, and an active engagement with a wide range of actors (academics, policymakers and practitioners) working both in the UK and in the regions in question
Energy and Economy: Recognizing High-Energy Modernity as a Historical Period
This introduction to Economic Anthropologyâs special issue on âEnergy and Economyâ argues that we might find inspiration for a much more engaged and public anthropology in an unlikely placeâ19th century evolutionist thought. In addition to studying the particularities of energy transitions, which anthropology does so well, a more engaged anthropology might also broaden its temporal horizons to consider the nature of the future âstageâ into which humanity is hurtling in an era of resource depletion and climate change. Net energy (EROEI), or the energy âsurplusâ on which we build and maintain our complex societal arrangements, is a key tool for anthropologists as we bring our trademark cross-cultural, ethnographically grounded knowledge and perspectives to bear in examining the complex interplay of material infrastructures, energy flows, social organization, and culture. We are now mindful of the always already cultural nature of such circuitry and interactionsâin ways obviously unavailable to our nineteenth-century forebears. And yet even as our energy futures are neither predetermined nor inevitable, neither are they as unfettered by material constraints as many have come to think. A robust anthropology of energy informed by awareness of the energetic basis of the historically specific moment in which we find ourselves seems poised to help us get beyond the developmentalist ideas of Morgan and Tylor and to overcome a seeming inability to think comprehensively about the human predicament in simultaneously general and particular terms. We have a chance in the space now opening to get beyond the antinomiesâmaterialistâmentalist, infrastructureâsuperstructure, agencyâstructure, objectiveâsubjective, and so onâthat dominated much of twentieth-century anthropology
Toward More Equitable Outcomes: A Research Synthesis on Out-of-School Time Work with Boys and Young Men of Color
This article contributes to a growing conversation by identifying trends in an expanding body of research on practices used to support BYMOC. As the field moves toward clearer recognition of what constitutes "effective" practice, afterschool professionals are playing an important role in empowering and organizing BYMOC to achieve more equitable educational, economic, health, and life outcomes
Open education: common(s), commonism and the new common wealth
Open Education, and specifically the Open Education Resources movement, seeks to provide universal access to knowledge, undermining the historical enclosure and increasing privatisation of the public education system. An important aspect of this movement is a reinvigoration of the concept of âthe commonsâ. The paper examines this aspiration by submitting the implicit theoretical assumptions of Open Education and the underlying notion of âthe commonsâ to the test of critical political economy. The paper acknowledges the radical possibility of the idea of âthe commonsâ, but argues that its radical potentiality can be undermined by a preoccupation with âthe freedom of things rather than with the freedom of labourâ. The paper presents an interpretation of âthe commonsâ based on the concept of âliving knowledgeâ and âautonomous institutionalityâ (Roggero, 2011), and offers the Social Science Centre in the UK, as an example of an âinstitution of the commonâ1. The paper concludes by arguing the most radical revision of the concept of âthe commonâ involves a fundamental reappraisal of what constitutes social or common wealth
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