Catch Shares in Action: Mexican Baja California FEDECOOP Benthic Species Territorial Use Rights for Fishing System

The Baja California Regional Federation of Fishing Cooperative Societies (FEDECOOP) is a groupallocated, area-based catch share, or Territorial Use Rights for Fishing (TURF), program. FEDECOOP consists of 13 fishing Cooperatives that collectively manage 10 TURFs to promote sustainable harvests, increase market access and power and provide stability to fishermen and fishing communities. The catch share program is a model for coordination across multiple Cooperatives and TURFs to achieve fishery goals. Key design features include voluntary no-take reserves to increase productivity and protect vulnerable fish species and the evolution of FEDECOOP to coordinate activities and provide services to multiple Cooperatives and TURFs

The Basis of Debasing Scepticism

This paper purports to provide a fresh cashing out of Debasing Scepticism: the type of Scepticism put on the map in a recent article by Jonathan Schaffer, with a view to demonstrating that the Debasing Sceptic’s argument is not so easily dismissed as many of Schaffer’s commentators have thought. After defending the very possibility of the Debasing Sceptic’s favoured sceptical scenario, I lay out a framework for thinking of the agent’s power to hold their beliefs in the light of reasons which I argue has initial plausibility. I then attempt to show that with this framework in tow, the Debasing Sceptic has an argument for their sceptical conclusion available to them which Schaffer’s commentators have failed to undermine, and which is independently interesting

Empathy, Religious Affiliation, and the Growth of Osteopathic Medicine

A key distinction of Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.s) is their recognition of each patient as a whole person rather than just addressing his ailment. This focus previously highlighted physical manipulation over medications; however, the osteopathic profession has evolved significantly over the years. As this field is no longer identified by its original rejection of pharmaceuticals, other original principles of osteopathic medicine have impacted the growth of the field. The data collected from surveyed patients indicated that many osteopathic patients and physicians have religious backgrounds, and there is a widespread emphasis on psychological integration. The increased number of patients is largely due to the increased prevalence of osteopathic physicians, with growth of the field supplemented by good experiences and recommendations

Conflicted Commons: A Local Makerspace in the Neoliberal City

The commodification of culture, space, and resources is incentivized by neoliberal urbanism. In response, we have seen an attempt to develop collectively organized, oppositional spaces within urban places. The tensions that arise when considering the production of commons in the development of the neoliberal city are the central focus of this paper. As I will observe, these spaces are subjected to commodification as they become increasingly de-politicized through neoliberal ideologies. In order to theorize about these contradictory elements, I observe a makerspace in Richmond, Virginia called HackRVA. Specifically, I consider HackRVA as an urban commons. Through in-depth interviews and participant observation, I consider how HackRVA engages with the neoliberal city of Richmond and how the organization and maintenance of their space and their community reflects commoning as social reproduction. I find that HackRVA’s relationship to the city is complicated as the community within the space both contests and assimilates to the creative economy

Using Nigerian English in an international academic setting

This study examines the English pronunciation of a group of Nigerian students at a university in Sweden from the point of view of their intelligibility to two groups of listeners: 1) native speakers of English who are teachers at the university; 2) nonnative speakers of English who are teachers at the university. It is found that listeners who are accustomed to interacting with international students do better than those who are not, and that native speakers of English do no better or worse than non-native listeners. The conclusion is drawn that locally useful varieties of Nigerian English may not easily be used as for wider communication and that students preparing to study abroad would find it useful to gain access to a more widely intelligible variety

Productivity Grows, But Workers Don’t Share

[Excerpt] Productivity growth increased substantially in the 1990s. For each hour that a worker spends on the job, more is being produced. The higher productivity has lowered costs and boosted company revenues, but workers have not shared in the gains. Higher productivity means that workers should be experiencing a faster rise in real wages than in past decades. When productivity grows, employers, in general, have the ability to grant wage increases above the rate of inflation, and realize higher profits at the same time. But productivity growth in recent decades has not led to higher wages as it should. Instead, the buying power of workers has declined as employers continue to make every effort to hold down wages. In contrast to the situation of workers, profits and executive salaries are increasing at a startling rate. The benefits of rising productivity have been captured by the richest Americans, who have allowed nothing to trickle down to the rest

Professionalising the college workforce through mentoring and professional learning : a neglected perspective on enhancing quality

This submission contains an Integrative Statement of 23 000 words (including\ud footnotes and references) and a total of six' published items. Together, these form\ud the basis of my application for the award of the degree of PhD by publication.\ud The Integrative Statement attempts to show the coherence of my published work\ud and demonstrates my deep and synoptic'2 understanding of my chosen field. I\ud argue that my work has made a significant contribution to a sector of education\ud that has both been neglected and prone to serial and sometimes disarticulated\ud reforms. I also contend that it is a sector that has generated a dominant discourse\ud of quality improvement through strategies encompassing such elements as\ud competition between institutions (ostensibly driving up standards), stronger\ud regulation and control, and an overarching emphasis on the `auditable'.\ud In such circumstances, there has been a notable neglect of any purposeful focus\ud on the manner in which professionalism may be enhanced, to the benefit both of\ud teachers and their learners. Such professionalism as may derive from collective\ud ways of working and from an engagement with the notion of the 'learning\ud professional' has largely been absent from the policy discourse, at both national\ud and institutional levels. The potential of mentoring to play a central role in a\ud professionalising strategy has been a particular concern for me.\ud The specific and distinctive contribution I claim to have made is in the form of my\ud examination of the ways in which mentoring as a supportive activity for teachers\ud may not only significantly aid in professional formation and the improvement of\ud teaching quality, but also thereby assist in the national policy goal of raising\ud standards of learner achievement. The focus in much of my published work has\ud been on mentors' individual motivation, attributes and skills, broadening out in one\ud particular article to an analysis of institutional factors that appear to have a strong\ud influence on the environment in which mentoring may take place. The content and\ud focus of the items being submitted is thus essentially concerned with professional\ud learning and development, in particular when supported by skilled mentoring\ud within environments that are appropriately resourced and where their 'architecture'\ud and ethos meshes productively with the nature of effective mentoring.\ud Even more broadly, two published items being submitted explore aspects of\ud professional learning. I use the medium of the Integrative Statement to draw out\ud some explicit links between these and the professional challenges being faced by\ud practitioners in the post-compulsory sector. I also in my statement relate important\ud elements of my own writing to a range of relevant literature, demonstrating my\ud engagement with and understanding of perspectives from this literature