The Coffee House and the Ashram: Gandhi, Civil Society and Public Spheres

This paper considers what light the associational forms that Gandhi created shed on the debate about civil society and the public sphere in political and social theory. As John Keane remarks, "reflexive, self-organizing non-governmental organizations that some call civil society can and do live by other names in other linguistic and cultural milieus". How does his "Indian" variant square with the practice and concept of civil society and public sphere as they have evolved in European history, thought and practice

Sea quark effects in B Spectroscopy and Decay Constants

We present comprehensive results for the spectrum and decay constants of hadrons containing a single b quark. The heavy quark is simulated using an $O(1/M)$ NRQCD action and the light quark using the $O(a)$ tadpole-improved clover action on gauge configurations containing two degenerate flavours of sea quarks at $\beta^{n_f=2}=5.6$ provided by the HEMCGC collaboration. We present detailed results for the lower lying $S$ and $P$ wave $B$ meson states and the $\Lambda_b$ baryon. We find broad agreement with experiment. In addition, we present results for the pseudoscalar and, for the first time, the vector decay constants fully consistent to $O(\alpha/M): f_B = 186(5)(stat)(19)(pert)(9)(disc)(13)(NRQCD)(+50)(a^{-1})MeV, f_B^* = 181(6) (stat)(18)(pert)(9)(disc)(13)(NRQCD)(+55)(a^{-1})MeV$ and $f_{B_s}/f_B = 1.14(2)(stat)(-2)(\kappa_s)$. We present an investigation of sea quark effects in the $B$ spectrum and decay constants. We compare our results with those from similar quenched simulations at $\beta^{n_f=0}=6.0$. For the spectrum, the quenched results reproduce the experimental spectrum well and there is no significant difference between the quenched and $n_f=2$ results. For the decay constants, our results suggest that sea quark effects may be large. We find that $f_B$ increases by approximately 25% between $n_f=0$ and $n_f=2$.Comment: 49 pages, 16 figures, revtex, the discussion of systematic errors and the comparison of the pseudoscalar decay constant at nf=0 and nf=2 has been expande

Scholarship on Gender and Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond

In this paper we critically review how research on girls or women and sport has developed over the last 35 years. We use a post-positivist lens to explore the content of the papers published in Sex Roles in the area of women, gender and sport and examine the shifts in how gender and sport have been conceptualized in these accounts. In order to initiate a broader dialogue about the scholarly analysis of gender and sport, we subsequently explore ideas inspired by feminist theorizing that have dominated/guided related research in other outlets over this time period but have received relatively little attention in papers published in Sex Roles. We conclude by briefly making suggestions for further research in this area

Isolation in Globalizing Academic Fields: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Early Career Researchers

This study examines academic isolation – an involuntary perceived separation from the academic field to which one aspires to belong, associated with a perceived lack of agency in terms of one’s engagement with the field – as a key challenge for researchers in increasingly globalized academic careers. While prior research describes early career researchers’ isolation in their institutions, we theorize early career researchers’ isolation in their academic fields and reveal how they attempt to mitigate isolation to improve their career prospects. Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, we generate and analyze a dataset focused on the experiences of ten early career researchers in a globalizing business academic field known as Consumer Culture Theory. We identify bricolage practices, polycentric governance practices, and integration mechanisms that work to enhance early career researchers’ perceptions of agency and consequently mitigate their academic isolation. Our findings extend discussions on isolation and its role in new academic careers. Early career researchers, in particular, can benefit from a deeper understanding of practices that can enable them to mitigate isolation and reclaim agency as they engage with global academic fields