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

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

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

Catch Shares in Action: Mexican Vigía Chico Cooperative Spiny Lobster Territorial Use Rights for Fishing Program

The Mexican Pescadores de Vigía Chico Cooperative is a group-allocated, area-based catch share that manages the Punta Allen spiny lobster fishery. The catch share, or Territorial Use Rights for Fishing (TURF) program, includes a number of special design features to achieve goals set by the Mexican government and the Cooperative, including sustainable harvests and Cooperative self-sufficiency and self-governance. Important design features include a secure tenure length of 20 years with a strong assumption of renewal, clearly defined co-management responsibilities between the federal government and the Cooperative and the use of individual fishing zones developed by the Cooperative to maintain member accountability (Solares-Leal and Alvarez-Gil, 2003)

Honduras

Honduras is located in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean) between El Salvador and Nicaragua. It is 43,278 square miles (112,090 sq. km), consisting of mountains in the interior and narrow coastal plains. It has a population of 8,893,259, and a high percentage of Hondurans live in the two major western cities of San Pedro Sula and Tegu-cigalpa, the capital city (CIA 2016). Ninety percent of the Honduran population is mestizo, or mixed Amerindian and European descent. The remaining inhabitants are 7 percent Amerindian, 2 percent black, and 1 percent white. Spanish is the nation’s official language. Several indig-enous Amerindian languages, including Garifuna and Miskita, are also spoken (Westmoreland 2016). There are many indigenous populations: the Lenca, Pech, Tawahka, Xicaque, Maya Chorti, Misquito, and Garifuna. “The Gar-ifuna are of mixed, Afro-Carib origin and were moved to the area during the colonial period. There is also an Afro-Honduran Creole English-speaking minority group of around twenty thousand who live mainly in the Hondu-ran Bay Islands” (Minority Rights 2017)

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