Liberating Knowledge at the Margins: Towards a Discursive-Transactional Research Paradigm in LIS

This paper proposes an LIS research paradigm by which the transactional relationships between knowledge organization systems (KOS) and external scholarly discourses may be identified and examined. It considers subject headings as discursive acts (or Foucauldian “statements”) unto themselves—in terms of their materiality, rarity, exteriority, and accumulation—arising from such discourses, and which, through their usage in library catalogues and databases, produce their own discursive and non-discursive effects. It is argued that, since these statements lead through their existence and discovery (or absence and neglect) to the creation of further texts, then potentially oppressive discursive formations may result where marginalized knowledges are concerned. The paper aims to better understand these processes in scholarly discourses—and the role of libraries therein—by examining recent examples in the LIS literature regarding matters of race and gender, and which are suggestive of this emergent paradigm.https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/2990

Religion, Migration and Identity

In Religion, Migration and Identity scholars from various disciplines explore issues related to identity and religion, that people - individually and communally -, encounter when affected by migration dynamics; the volume foregrounds methodology as its main concern. Readership: All interested in issues related to religion, migration and identity and anyone concerned with missiology, mission studies, world Christianity and the history of Christianity, theology or mission worldwide

Strategic corporate responsibility orientation for sustainable global health governance: pharmaceutical value co-protection in transitioning economies

siirretty Doriast

Characterising and modeling the co-evolution of transportation networks and territories

The identification of structuring effects of transportation infrastructure on territorial dynamics remains an open research problem. This issue is one of the aspects of approaches on complexity of territorial dynamics, within which territories and networks would be co-evolving. The aim of this thesis is to challenge this view on interactions between networks and territories, both at the conceptual and empirical level, by integrating them in simulation models of territorial systems.Comment: Doctoral dissertation (2017), Universit\'e Paris 7 Denis Diderot. Translated from French. Several papers compose this PhD thesis; overlap with: arXiv:{1605.08888, 1608.00840, 1608.05266, 1612.08504, 1706.07467, 1706.09244, 1708.06743, 1709.08684, 1712.00805, 1803.11457, 1804.09416, 1804.09430, 1805.05195, 1808.07282, 1809.00861, 1811.04270, 1812.01473, 1812.06008, 1908.02034, 2012.13367, 2102.13501, 2106.11996

30 years of culture, art, and metamorphoses : the Modern Art Centre of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the reshaping of Lisbon's culturalscape

Esta dissertação analisa o papel do Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM) da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (FCG) na remodelação da paisagem cultural de Lisboa desde o início da década de 1980 até ao início da década de 2010, estabelecendo um diálogo entre as actividades do CAM e os contextos socio-políticos, educacionais e artistíco-culturais lisboetas. A pesquisa, levando em consideração o aspecto transitório desses contextos ao longo do tempo, delineia uma trajectória do desenvolvimento de Lisboa (e de Portugal) nos campos da acessibilidade, democratização, consumo e fruição artísticas e culturais. Esta delineação, que inclui uma revisão dos respectivos desenvolvimentos Europeus e Norte-Americanos como forma de contextualização, começa por abranger o período do regime dictatorial do Estado Novo – realçando o papel da FCG na concepção de novas políticas culturais e no iniciar de um processo de modernização – e o período da Revolução de 1974 em Portugal – sublinhando a relevância das contra-culturas na redefinição das práticas artísticas e académicas –, de forma a retratar as realidades culturais portuguesas e internacionais que precederam (e em grande medida influenciaram) os processos de construção mental, social e material do CAM. A análise procura explicar como o CAM, enquanto reflexo dessas realidades e resposta às mesmas, se tornaria um elemento de mudança de paradigma dentro das paisagens artísticas e culturais lisboetas, bem como uma característica chave do necessário curto-circuito entre os objectivos da modernidade e os valores simbólicos da pós-modernidade (v. Santos, 2013[1994]). A pesquisa centra-se, então, em explorar o papel do CAM no estabelecimento de um complexo exibicionário (v. Bennett, 1999) conducente ao apoio de uma transição cultural entre a modernidade tardia e a pós-modernidade na década de 1980 e útil na mediação dos processos de globalização a partir do fim da década de 1990. Esta dissertação tem, assim, como objectivo perceber e demonstrar a forma como a acção do CAM no campo artístico-cultural remodelou indelevelmente a paisagem cultural de Lisboa, i.e., a forma como o CAM encarnou transformações socio-políticas e urbano-museológicas e, assim, contribuíu para remodelar os comportamentos artístico-culturais dos cidadãos – e consequentemente as suas identidades culturais – em momentos cruciais de redefinições urbanas e nacionais.This dissertation analyses the role of the Modern Art Centre (CAM) of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG) in reshaping Lisbon’s culturalscape from the early 1980s to the early 2010s by establishing a dialogue between the CAM’s activities and the Lisboan socio-political, educational, and cultural-artistic contexts. The research, accounting for the transitional aspect of those contexts throughout the years, delineates a trajectory of Lisbon’s (and Portugal’s) development in the fields of artistic and cultural accessibility and democratisation as well as consumption and fruition. This delineation, which includes a review of the respective European and North-American developments as contextualisation, starts by encompassing the period of the Estado Novo dictatorial regime – highlighting the FCG’s role in devising new cultural policies and in initiating a modernisation process –, and the period of the 1974 Revolution in Portugal – underlining the relevance of counter-cultures in the redefinition of artistic and academic practices –, so as to depict the Portuguese and international cultural realities which preceded (and greatly influenced) the CAM’s constru(ct)ing processes. The analysis seeks to explain how the CAM, as a reflection of and a response to those realities, would become a paradigm-shifting element within Lisbon’s artistic and cultural landscapes, as well as a key feature of the required short-circuiting between modernity’s objectives and postmodernity’s symbolical values (v. Santos, 2013[1994]). The research then focuses on exploring the CAM’s role in establishing an exhibitionary complex (v. Bennett, 1999) conducive to supporting a cultural transition between late modernity and postmodernity in the 1980s, and helpful in mediating globalisation’s processes from the late 1990s onwards. The dissertation aims, thus, at understanding and demonstrating how the CAM’s agency within the cultural-artistic field indelibly reshaped Lisbon’s culturalscape, i.e., how the CAM embodied social-political, urban-museological transformations and, thus, contributed to reshaping the citizens’ artistic-cultural behaviours – and therefore their cultural identities – at pivotal moments of urban and national redefinitions

Health and Wellbeing in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

This is a collection of published papers from a variety of authors from around the world on the topic of the health and wellbeing of minority sexual orientation and gender identity populations. Some of the included papers focused on health inequality and inequity and some focussed on healthcare delivery. Many showed how health inequities in LGBT+ groups of people were found across a wide variety of political environments and health and wellbeing topics and frequently inadequate healthcare delivery. The increasing interest in research in this area, which has been neglected in the past, shows its growing importance