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Leading and recognizing public value
This chapter examines the relationship between leadership and public value, which is particularly challenging in a context of explicit contest and conflict. The theoretical framework is illustrated through a case study of policing rural crime. The study reveals that the police worked with multiple and competing publics not a single homogeneous public, and that part of their leadership role was to create and convene a public space in which different voices and divergent views could be expressed. The study notes that research needs to pay attention to the loss and displacement of public value not solely its creation and recognition. The need to convene multiple publics required the police to lead, as part of a leadership constellation, and with political astuteness. The findings have wider relevance for other public services, and for studies of leadership and public value at the intersection between the state and civil society
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Sexual Citizenship and Social Change: A Dialectical Approach to Narratives of Tradition and Critique
Over the last thirty years in the West, there has been enormous change in social and state acceptance regarding sex and sexualities, with an apparent new acceptance and openness towards diverse sexual practices and sexualities. Much of this change has come about through community claims for rights grounded in critical social theory and the language of citizenship. While accepting that much of the critique has been valuable in advancing rights for sexual minorities, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change argues that the mode of critique itself may become problematic. Examining the use and abuse of critique in contemporary sexuality scholarship and associated activism, Darren Langdridge implicates a particular form of critique that is detached, unfettered, and set loose from the usual anchor of tradition. Even the most ostensibly well-meaning critic--and associated critique--can become problematic when their arguments are detached from tradition. Further, the book shows that this unrestrained excess of critique is particularly dangerous because it emerges from within minority sexual communities and their allies, not from the usual conservative opposition to progressive change. Theoretically and empirically grounded, Sexual Citizenship and Social Change draws on ideas and findings from psychology, sociology, politics, and philosophy and offers a radical challenge to the unfettered adoption of a critical approach in sexualities scholarship and activism. It highlights why we need to shine a critical lens on critique itself, while also anchoring it in a more constructive relationship with its natural opposite: tradition
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Social equity and pluralism in Nature-based Solutions: Practitioners' perspectives on implementation
The need to include pluralistic values of nature in conservation projects, including Nature-based Solutions (NbS), has become evident, and calls for value pluralism have gained traction. However, it is unclear how this can be implemented in practice. We explore how pluralism and related social equity are incorporated by practitioners involved in the governance of NbS, analysing five cases identified as exemplary by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. We develop a conceptual framework of social equity founded on five components: recognition, participation, distribution, rights, and accountability. This framework guides our analysis of primary data from in-depth interviews and secondary data from project reports. We discuss how practitioners assimilate these components in their practices and in the design of governance processes. The results indicate a strong commitment to participation and local communitiesâ involvement, evidenced by specific practices across the projects, although at times driven by individuals rather than institutionally. Processes were conceived to foster actor participation, including those in vulnerable positions; build local capacity and strengthen ownership. Approaches to local communitiesâ involvement typically begin by eliciting their views and values to design projects with ecological and social benefits. We discuss good practices, like extensive stakeholder mapping, citizen committees to represent local views, and multi-stakeholder platforms to articulate and communicate peopleâs views and values. The findings underscore the need for a more comprehensive governance approach following an enhanced concept of pluralism that, beside considering plural values of nature and beyond social equity, includes diverse voices, perspectives and forms of knowledge in conservation governance
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Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in the public administration (PA) scholar field: a bibliometric analysis and some conceptual considerations
Social enterprises have been mainly promoted by policy makers as effective and efficient public services producer and deliverer. At the same time, this contested concept has recently gained prominence in academic literature. This paper explores, through a bibliographic method, the state of studies on social entrepreneurship and social enterprise (SE) within the Public Administration (PA) field to identify scholarship-specific patterns of understanding and analysis of the role of SE from the public sector realm perspective. Our results highlight a community of 274 scholars contributing to 138 articles, with a rise in papers published since 2011. Through science mapping, we identified six research clusters. We then discuss three relationships between studies of SE and PA field: i) separation; ii) distinct cooperation; III) integration and transformation towards the public administration & management (PAM) field alongside suggesting a future research agenda for SE in the PAM field
An ALMA Spectroscopic Survey of the Brightest Submillimeter Galaxies in the SCUBA-2-COSMOS Field (AS2COSPEC): Physical Properties of z = 2â5 Ultra- and Hyperluminous Infrared Galaxies
We report the physical properties of the 18 brightest (S 870 ÎŒm = 12.4â19.2 mJy) and not strongly lensed 870 ÎŒmâselected dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs), also known as submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), in the COSMOS field. This sample is part of an ALMA band 3 spectroscopic survey (AS2COSPEC), and spectroscopic redshifts are measured in 17 of them at z = 2â5. We perform spectral energy distribution analyses and deduce a median total infrared luminosity of L IR = (1.3 ± 0.1) Ă 1013 L â, infrared-based star formation rate (SFR) of SFRIR = 1390 ± 150 M â yrâ1, stellar mass of M * = (1.4 ± 0.6) Ă 1011 M â, dust mass of M dust = (3.7 ± 0.5) Ă 109 M â, and molecular gas mass of M gas = (α CO/0.8)(1.2 ± 0.1) Ă 1011 M â, suggesting that they are one of the most massive, ISM-enriched, and actively star-forming systems at z = 2â5. In addition, compared to less massive and less active galaxies at similar epochs, SMGs have comparable gas fractions; however, they have a much shorter depletion time, possibly caused by more active dynamical interactions. We determine a median dust emissivity index of ÎČ = 2.1 ± 0.1 for our sample, and by combining our results with those from other DSFG samples, we find no correlation of ÎČ with redshift or infrared luminosity, indicating similar dust grain compositions across cosmic time for infrared luminous galaxies. We also find that AS2COSPEC SMGs have one of the highest dust-to-stellar mass ratios, with a median of 0.02 ± 0.01, significantly higher than model predictions, possibly due to too-strong active galactic nucleus feedback implemented in the model. Finally, our complete and uniform survey enables us to put constraints on the most massive end of the dust and molecular gas mass functions
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Encountering the Other: Phenomenology in Architectural Discourse and Its Underplayed Theme of Intersubjectivity
Looking into what can be termed a tradition of architectural phenomenology and the criticism it encountered over the last several decades, this dissertation contends that given the recent attempts to transform and reinvent architectural phenomenology, it is of urgent necessity to thematize intersubjectivity in the development of a phenomenological understanding, when theorizing the meaning of architecture. Contrary to the popular interpretation that architectural phenomenology deliberately endorses a specific way of life, a specific account of the body, a specific conception of subjectivity, therefore unable to take alterity and novelty into consideration, the dissertation tries to demonstrate that architectural phenomenology has underplayed the theme of (inter)subjectivity and underestimated its importance, that a phenomenological investigation of (inter)subjectivity contains many philosophical insights into alterity and novelty constructive to architectural theory and practice.
The dissertation provides a genealogy of architectural phenomenology, assesses the coherence of its discursive practice, and clarifies the notion of intersubjectivity to be further investigated with the newly available support of contemporary phenomenology. It traces the underplayed theme of intersubjectivity in the tradition, choosing two prominent figures as the anchors for contextualizationâDalibor Vesely and Ernesto Nathan Rogers. Through a critical examination of their theoretical contributions along with the relevant philosophical problems, it reveals the overlooked potential of architectural phenomenology to talk about other subjectivities and new works concretely situated in the environment and in history, thus proposing an alternative approach that can address socio-political issues. It concludes by pointing out how this approach, formed on a phenomenological sensitivity to alterity and novelty, indicative of a significant turn in theorizing the communication and creation of meaning, sheds light on the ongoing polemics revolving around architectural phenomenology
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Over the Quality Aspects of EMI: The Influence of Lecturersâ Postgraduate Degree from an Inner-Circle University on Multilingual EMI Studentsâ Academic Success
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Foregrounding pain in self-managed early medication abortion: A qualitative study
ObjectiveTo explore experiences of pain in the context of early medication abortion in the UK and to guide best practice around anticipatory guidance on pain.MethodsFrom late 2020 to early 2021, we recruited people from across the UK who had undergone abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic to participate in in-depth, semi-structured telephone interviews. A storytelling approach was used and data analysed thematically using Nvivo12.ResultsFocused coding and thematic analysis addressed accounts of pain, which were prominent in many interviews. We constructed the following sub-themes: expected pain is manageable for some; the problem with unexpected pain; pain (co)produces fear; problematising âperiod-like painâ. The key issue which our analysis draws out is that, while early medication abortion (EMA) pain experience might vary, for some it may be much worse than anticipated. Moreover, the common trope of likening it to âperiod painâ can be misleading and a source of additional uncertainty at a potentially already challenging time.ConclusionsFor some, pain experienced in EMA will be severe and/or worse than expected. Insufficient preparation for pain can result in extremely negative experiences of EMA. Alongside development of improved analgesia, improvements should be made to anticipatory guidance on pain, particularly for those self-manging EMA at home. Framings of âperiod-like painâ do not clarify expectations and should be avoided.Key messagesWHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPIC
âą Pain in early medication abortion is a known issue which potentially limits acceptability and has particular implications for home self-management.WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS
âą Our analysis highlights the nuances and variability of EMA pain experiences, including where pain contributes to an extremely unpleasant overall experience.HOW THIS STUDY MIGHT AFFECT RESEARCH, PRACTICE OR POLICY
âą Our findings suggest that the âperiod-like painâ analogy should be avoided, and that those seeking EMA should effectively be made aware of the spectrum of possible pain experiences
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The Impact of CHIIR: A Study of Eight Years of CHIIR Publications
Across all scientific fields, there is an increased focus on the impact of scientific research: what academic and societal benefits does it provide? This question has spurred the development of a variety of different approaches to impact assessment, each appropriate in different circumstances. In this paper, we study the academic impact of the CHIIR community through a comprehensive analysis of the work published in the 2016-2023 CHIIR conference series. We collect citation counts, citing documents, and altmetrics scores for all CHIIR publications to determine their academic impact across a variety of different attributes of the CHIIR publications. In addition, we analyze a subset of citation contexts in the papers that have cited CHIIR publications to analyze how they are being used and what that means for their potential impact. Finally, we attempt to predict which properties of CHIIR publications are most predictive of future impact
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