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Citizenship, democracy and social justice: A conversation with Maria Olson
Maria Olson is a researcher and lecturer in Education at Stockholm University and the University of Skövde, Sweden. Her areas of interest include democracy and citizenship in relation to education. Her major fields are educational theory and educational philosophy. Her current publications include most recently a series of papers that develop themes of citizenship, democracy and social justice, including: âCitizenship Education without Citizenship? The Migrant in EU Policy on Participatory Citizenship â Toward the Margin through âStrangification,ââ in R. Hedke and T. Zimenkova (eds.), Education for Civic and Political Participation: A Critical Approach (pp. 155â170). London: Routledge, 2012; âCitizenship âin Betweenâ: The Local and the Global Scope of European Citizenship in Swedish Educational Policy,â in S. Goncales and M. A. Carpenter (eds.), Intercultural Policies and Education (pp. 193â203). New York: Peter Lang, 2012; âThe European âWeâ: From Citizenship Policy to the Role of Education,â Studies in Philosophy and Education 31(1), 77â89, 2012; âOpening Discourses of Citizenship Education: Theorizing with Foucaultâ (with Nicoll, K., Fejes, A., Dahlstedt, M. & Biesta, G. J. J.), Journal of Education Policy, 2013 (forthcoming); âDemocracy Lessons in Market-oriented Schools: The Case of Swedish Upper Secondary Education,â Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, online first, Doi: 10.1177/17461979134836842013 (with Lundahl, Lisbeth), 2013; âWhat Counts as Young Peopleâs Civic Engagement in Times of Accountability? On the Importance of Maintaining Openness about Young Peopleâs Civic Engagement in Education,â in M. Olson (ed.), Theme: Citizenship Education under Liberal Democracy. Utbildning & Demokrati [Education & Democracy] 21(1), 29â55, 2012
Applying the real options theory for identifying flexibility in project delivery of health organisations
Healthcare is influenced by many uncertainties. Uncertainties affecting health organisations also influence real estate since this facilitates the primary process. Within real estate management, decisions have to be made today while there is little knowledge about the future. Therefore, flexibility is needed in the process of designing, constructing and operating real estate. A case study has been done to gain insight about how health organisations deal with flexibility. The real options approach is used to show what types of flexibility have been used, and that uncertainty can also generate opportunities. Of the five types of flexibility, only in two types real options were identified in the case study. These were stage, abandon, defer and scale within process flexibility and the options growth and switch within product flexibility. This is partly a result of the fact that the project in the case study is not further advanced than the preliminary design phase. Nevertheless it can be concluded that project managers already act as using real options. Consciously using this concept might create even more real options to be used in project management
E-topia: Utopia after the Mediated Body
open access journalA custom-made media installation, diplorasis, will be used to explore the body in digital media. This mediated body attempts to re-think how the Deleuzian time-image is translated from its cinematic confinement to the space of new media. In diplorasis the digitized time-image becomes more directly incorporated with-in the bodily schema. Consequently, the thinking of the virtual and actual space of the body in diplorasis enables a questioning of bodily space-time, and particularly the relation between self and digitized self-image. It is thus crucial to re-frame how this digitized mediated body is distinct from a conventional notion of a metric and habitual spaceâone that is reinforced by, for example, the medium of linear perspective. The articulation of the mediated body will be used to in-form and extend Elizabeth Groszâs paradoxical reading of embodiment and utopia, by revisiting the notions of utopia as eu-topic/ou-topic. The spatio-temporality of the topos must be re-considered before utopia. Foucaultâs analogy of the mirror will then serve to superimpose the dual and slippery relations between utopia and the heterotopic. The digitized mediated body will thus seek to explore emerging ways by which to consider the utopic by conflating embodiment, time and space within an electronic topos. It is argued that as the sensing and cognitive body becomes increasingly pliable in relation to technological mediations, our very understanding of space-time is changing
A goal programming methodology for multiobjective optimization of distributed energy hubs operation
This paper addresses the problem of optimal energy flow management in multicarrier energy networks
in the presence of interconnected energy hubs. The overall problem is here formalized by a nonlinear
constrained multiobjective optimization problem and solved by a goal attainment based methodology.
The application of this solution approach allows the analyst to identify the optimal operation state of the
distributed energy hubs which ensures an effective and reliable operation of the multicarrier energy
network in spite of large variations of load demands and energy prices. Simulation results obtained on
the 30 bus IEEE test network are presented and discussed in order to demonstrate the significance and
the validity of the proposed method
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Russian Political Economy from Utopia to Social Engineering: An Introduction
In September 2009, the editors of this special issue organized at Lausanne University a Workshop on the History of Russian Political Economy and Statistics at the turn of the 20th century. When preparing a call for paper for this journal, the editors realized that papers presented at the Lausanne Workshop addressed implicitly or explicitly questions about how to combine Economic Theory, Social Engineering and Utopia. The contributions contained in this issue suggest various possible configurations between these three categories of scientific inquiry
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