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    Contextualizing Native Resistance: Precedents for the Movement Against the Dakota Access Pipeline

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    In 2016, news of the Standing Rock resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline swept through the social media sphere. Although many young people had never seen anything like it, this article shows that the “water protectors” are part of a long tradition of Indigenous resistance on the North American plains

    Incorporating languages into histories of war: a research journey

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    This article discusses the ways in which languages can be integrated into histories of war and conflict, by exploring ongoing research in two case studies: the liberation and occupation of Western Europe (1944–47), and peacekeeping/peace building in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1995–2000). The article suggests that three methodological approaches have been of particular value in this research: adopting an historical framework; following the “translation” of languages into war situations; and contextualizing the figure of the interpreter/translator. The process of incorporating languages into histories of conflict, the article argues, has helped to uncover a broader languages landscape within the theatres of war

    Contextualizing Indian Gaming for the National Gambling Impact Study Commission

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    This paper discusses the Indian Gaming Subcommittee of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC). It illustrates the efforts tribes made to educate members of the NGISC about the positive impacts of Indian casino gaming, and it also highlights the resistance tribes faced from the NGISC

    Holes in the Archive - to fill or to leave, that is the question...

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    The essay features in an issue of Bright Light dedicated to the idea of the substrate, and began as a paper in one of three symposia exploring the various interpretative investigations of the substrate, and how it impacts on, and informs different practices. Abstract: Holes in the archive - to fill or to leave, that is the question facing the researcher. The archive contains holes caused by lack of information. The dilemma of what to do when there is a missing link or a hole in evidence, generates new lines of thinking for knowledge production. Lacking hard facts leads to different research tactics, following hunches, reflexive and critical stock taking, asking questions and undertaking interviews. In conducting this process anecdotes surface. These accounts are often perceived to be trivial and of marginal research interest. In contradistinction, I assert the reverse, these hand-holds conjure the possibility of new animations. Penetrating the substrate or as I prefer 'substrata', is like plummeting the archive. This paper presents case studies from Peter Townsend's editorial archive of Studio International magazine where I have employed tactical and dynamic investigative processes

    Enabling Creativity and Innovation

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    [Excerpt] The capacity to harness intellectual and social capital and to convert it into novel and useful things has become the critical organizational requirement of the age. Organizations need to frame tools, methods, and approaches that boost creativity and innovation, particularly in the public sector. Creativity is as scarce as it is important—many organizations are simply short of it. In tandem with innovation, which creates unexpected value, creativity is now recognized as central to organizational performance. Creativity does not materialize exclusively in a person’s head but in interaction with a social context. It flourishes in organizations that support open ideas; the rest stifle creativity with rules and provide no slack for change. To be sure, most managers do not suppress creativity on purpose. Yet, in the pursuit of productivity, efficiency, and control, they frequently undermine it. The agenda for change is great

    On Knowledge Behaviors

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    Where large organizations make an effort to boost knowledge sharing, the solutions they fabricate can aggravate problems. Designing jobs for knowledge behaviors and recruiting people who are positive about sharing to start with will boost knowledge stocks and flows at low cost

    Public Innovations in the Future

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    Taking off the past, the future always starts today. The capacity to harness intellectual and social capital and to convert it into novel and useful things has become the critical organizational requirement of the age. Organizations must frame tools, methods, and approaches that boost creativity and innovation, particularly in the public sector. The agenda for change is great: we need future solutions now

    Towards a situated media practice: Reflections on the implementation of project-led problem-based learning

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    In the field of media practice education, project-based learning is utilized as a major pedagogic paradigm with the aim of mirroring professional practice within the curriculum. However, if the use of project-based learning is to be considered as more than just a way of administrating student activity, then educators need a critical understanding of how problem encounters order practice within the life cycle of a project. The drawing together of practice-based, project-based and problem-based approaches allows us to see the overlapping nature of these approaches and also differentiate them as unique pedagogies in their own right. It is argued here that this tension between similarity and difference requires a new way of thinking about mirroring professional practice within higher education, one which offers a theory of project-based learning as a productive pedagogy which places problem encounters at its heart
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