scholarly journals Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics: New research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised

Politics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Strange ◽  
Vicki Squire ◽  
Anna Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Irregular Migration ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Border Politics ◽  
Irregular Migrant ◽  
New Research ◽  
A Site

The politics of migration has become increasingly prominent as a site of struggle. However, the active subjecthood of people on the move in precarious situations is often overlooked. Irregular migration struggles raise questions about how to understand the agency of people who are marginalised. What does it mean to engage people produced as ‘irregular’ as active subjects of trans-border politics? And what new research strategies can we employ to this end? The articles presented in this Special Issue of Politics each differently explore how actions by or on behalf of irregular/ised migrants involve processes of subjectivity formation that imply a form of agency. Collectively we explore how irregular migration struggles feature as a site marked by active subjects of trans-border politics. We propose a research agenda based on tracing those processes – both regulatory, activist, and everyday – that negotiate and contest how an individual is positioned as an ‘irregular migrant’. The ethos behind such research is to explore how the most marginalised individuals reclaim or reconfigure subjecthood in ambiguous terms.

scholarly journals A Research Agenda for the Future of Ecological Economics by Emerging Scholars

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1557
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Kish ◽  
Joshua Farley
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Ecological Economics ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Research ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Normative Foundations

As a discipline, ecological economics is at a turning point and there is a need to develop a new research agenda for ecological economics that will contribute to the creation and adoption of new economic institutions. There are still considerable environmental issues and a new generation of scholars ready to tackle them. In this paper and Special Issue, we highlight the voices of emerging scholars in ecological economics who put social justice squarely at the center of ecological economic research. The papers in this issue remain true to the central focus of economic downscaling while calling for greater emphasis on culture and society. We acknowledge that methodological and intellectual pluralism inherently entail tensions but strive to find shared normative foundations to collectively work toward socio-ecological transformations. In this editorial, we emphasize the need for further attention to social aspects of ecological economics and evolutionary approaches to further strengthen cooperation.

New findings from conflict archives

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laia Balcells ◽  
Christopher M Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
New Research

As they pursue information and deploy violence during conflict, combatants compose, catalog, and preserve a wide variety of records, such as memos, investigative reports, and communiqués. In an increasing number of post-conflict scenarios, these records are being archived and released publicly, quickly becoming a critical new source of data for studies of peace and conflict. The objective of this special issue is to advance a new research agenda focused on the systematic analysis of conflict archives. The contributors each spent significant time collecting original data from often-dusty archives and, in many cases, developed new methodologies for sampling, cataloging, and analyzing historical documents. Their findings reveal how violence simultaneously shapes and is shaped by factors that remain largely unobservable using more conventional sources of conflict data, including clandestine mobilization, bureaucratic accountability, and political identities. By considering these studies in relation to one another, this introduction aims to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of field research strategies and analytical techniques for studying original data from conflict archives. We conclude that while archival data are subject to their own biases that must be considered, this research agenda addresses significant limitations associated with traditional data sources and, in turn, pushes scholars to rethink many of the mechanisms underlying the causes and dynamics of peace and conflict.

Studying Political Legitimacy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudy B. Andeweg ◽  
Kees Aarts
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
New Research ◽  
Legitimacy Crisis

This final chapter concludes with a reflection on the findings presented in the book, the implications of these findings for politics and political science, and suggestions for a new research agenda on legitimacy. The chapter concludes that the analyses in this volume do not provide evidence of legitimacy crisis. This leaves us with a puzzle, as the belief in such a legitimacy crisis is persistent, and it has proven to be quite resistant to evidence provided by political scientists on the basis of data such as analyzed in this book. This discrepancy between current data and public discourse must also prompt us to reflect on political science research: what have we done so far in selecting our concepts, data, research strategies, and empirical domain, and what can and should be improved? The chapter concludes with suggestions for new research on legitimacy.

Conclusions: The new research agenda on electoral management

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pippa Norris
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Democratic Performance ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Impact

This concluding article begins by considering the reasons behind the growing demand for policy-relevant comparative research into the institutional structures and processes of electoral management. It then outlines the theoretical framework used in this special issue – distinguishing the structure, capacities, and ethos of electoral management – and summarizes the key insights arising from the evidence. Research on electoral management is expanding, nevertheless it suffers from several major challenges, including the difficulties of isolating aid effectiveness in this sector and of determining the impact of electoral management on broader indicators of democratic performance. This constitutes the future research agenda.

scholarly journals Neo-liberalism and Ordoliberalism – One or Two Critiques? An Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 953-965
Author(s):  
Vassilis K. Fouskas ◽  
Shampa Roy-Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
New Research ◽  
Separate Class ◽  
Economic Studies

This special issue addresses principally, but not exclusively, two themes: first, the differences and similarities between two stylised and separable, but not separate, class policies – that of Anglo-American neo-liberalism and German-Austrian ordoliberalism; and second, whether or not European Union Treaties and actual policies have been driven by German-Austrian ordoliberal principles. By way of examining these two themes, the contributions also tackle other important questions and puzzles, such as the wider impacts of those policies on society, or the tensions created between theoretical postulates and the practical implementation of them, or why neo-liberalism proved to be so resilient after the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. They also endeavour to place these discussions in wider, global contexts. Our introduction provides a comprehensive summary of the arguments developed by the contributors and poses some further questions setting out a new research agenda in the field of critical sociological and economic studies.

How the semantic web will change KR: challenges and opportunities for a new research agenda

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANK VAN HARMELEN
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Agent Technology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Human Use ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Web

Currently the Web is the largest available environment for the deployment of agents, and much work in agent research is driven by Web-based applications (Luke et al. (1997), Joachims et al. (1997), Bollacker et al. (1998), Doorenbos et al. (1997) are just some examples; see also the May 2000 special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal on intelligent internet systems, 118 (1–2)). However, such applications of agent technology are hampered by the fact that the Web is not geared towards agent use, but is rather designed for human use. Current Web resources are lacking in explicit, machine-accessible descriptions of their contents; they are only fully accessible to agents with a competent grasp of English (i.e. limited to human agents only).

New Agendas for Auto Research: Financialisation, Motoring and Present Day Capitalism

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Froud ◽  
Sukhdev Johal ◽  
Karel Williams
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
New Research ◽  
Financial Issues ◽  
Market Pressure

This review article introduces a journal special issue on new agendas for auto research. It argues that old 1990s research agenda about factories, process and product has been rendered obsolete by developments in present day capitalism. The new research agendas for the 2000s are about financial issues: first, the nature and extent of capital market pressure on the assemblers for higher profits; second, multiple conflicts and cost passing behaviour involving government and consumers as much as corporate players. This review article surveys recent literature on these themes and explains how the articles in this special issue make distinctive contributions to our empirical understanding and conceptualisation of these developments.

scholarly journals Consumption and Retail in Urban Spaces: Studies on Italy and Catalonia

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Rosario Sommella
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The article, based on the scientific results of the last phase of the project “Retail, Consumption, and the City: Practices, Planning and Governance for Urban Inclusion, Resilience and Sustainability”, proposes further reflections on the changing urban landscapes of retail and consumption through studies on Italy and Catalonia. This stage of the research project has been aimed at investigating – through specific in-depth studies (thematic or related to case studies) – aspects not adequately dealt with in the published volumes of the seven research units, or even to take inspiration from themes and cases already dealt with to advance in a reflection that could contribute to build a further piece of a new research agenda on retail, consumption, and the city. By cross-referencing descriptive evidence and theoretical reflections, the article traces the main themes of this special issue, with regard to the evolutionary and, in some cases, analytical trajectories starting as from the different case studies analyzed, all aimed at reflecting on the relationship between consumption, retail and urban spaces in Italy and Catalonia at different scales.

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Hui ◽  
Wang Dan ◽  
Ricci W. Fong
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Chinese Societies ◽  
New Research

This special issue collects six interesting case studies on the so-called 15-year free education in four Chinese societies including Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, and Taiwan. The selected works analyze the target education policies based on the theoretical framework of 3A2S—affordability, accessibility, accountability, sustainability, and social justice. Together, they provide a multifaceted account of the merits and limitations of the 15-year free education policies implemented in Greater China. The authors examine the education policies in their respective socioeconomic contexts and aim to suggest new research agenda for early childhood education in these Greater Chinese societies.

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