scholarly journals Guest Editors' Note

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Ann E. Green ◽  
Wiley Davi ◽  
Olivia Giannetta
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Editorial Assistant ◽  
Introductory Essay

Introductory essay to special issue from Guest Editors Ann E. Green, Wiley Davi, and Editorial Assistant Olivia Giannetta.

Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity: Renewals, Returns, and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noura Erakat ◽  
Marc Lamont Hill
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Recent Increase ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The World ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Transnational Solidarity

This introductory essay outlines the context for this special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies on Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity (BPTS). Through the analytic of “renewal,” the authors point to the recent increase in individual and collective energies directed toward developing effective, reciprocal, and transformative political relationships within various African-descendant and Palestinian communities around the world. Drawing from the extant BPTS literature, this essay examines the prominent intellectual currents in the field and points to new methodologies and analytics that are required to move the field forward. With this essay, the authors aim not only to contextualize the field and to frame this special issue, but also to chart new directions for future intellectual and political work.

scholarly journals How qualitative research can infuse teaching in accounting

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-462
Author(s):  
Lisa Jack ◽  
Olivier Saulpic
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Classroom Interventions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Teacher Researchers

Purpose This paper aims to present an understanding of what it means to infuse teaching with qualitative research and to introduce the papers in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach This is an introductory essay that provides a brief overview and analysis of the ideas to be found in the issue. Findings The special issue contributes to the understanding of the integration of teaching and research by showing how the authors as actors, as teacher-researchers, bring not just the findings but also reflexivity into the classroom and take knowledge out into both research and teaching. The papers in this issue all consider the agency of teachers in bringing an epistemology into the classroom, and in developing that epistemology. Originality/value The papers in this issue go beyond concepts of research-led teaching and the research-teaching nexus towards reflective pieces that develop understanding of epistemology rather than more conventional reports of classroom interventions.

Observing the Counterfactual? The Search for Political Experiments in Nature

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Robinson ◽  
John E. McNulty ◽  
Jonathan S. Krasno
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Conference Presentations

A search of recent political science literature and conference presentations shows substantial fascination with the concept of the natural experiment. However, there seems to be a wide array of definitions and applications employed in research that purports to analyze natural experiments. In this introductory essay to the special issue, we attempt to define natural experiments and discuss related issues of research design. In addition, we briefly explore the basic methodological issues around the appropriate analysis of natural experiments and give an overview of different techniques. The overarching theme of this essay and of this issue is to encourage applied researchers to look for natural experiments in their own work and to think more systematically about research design.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Future of Traditional Knowledge Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenichi Matsui
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
The Future

This introductory essay to the special issue, "The Future of Traditional Knowledge Research: Building Partnership and Capacity," discusses some of the fundamental issues about what researchers and Indigenous peoples face in collaborating research. It also discusses how contributing authors have dealt with these problems in the past.

scholarly journals “Who made these rules? We’re so confused.”: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Critical Race Media Literacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andrea M Hawkman ◽  
Sarah B Shear
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Essay

In this introductory essay, editors of the special issue on critical race media literacy frame the current global contexts of race, racism, and media in which this issue is situated. Building from the work of authors included in this special issue, this essay calls readers to engage and disrupt racism in popular, educational, and other forms of media, both inside and beyond the classroom.

scholarly journals Latin American perspectives on datafication and artificial intelligence: Traditions, interventions and possibilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Emiliano Treré ◽  
Stefania Milan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Multiple Languages

This introductory essay illustrates the context, clarifies the relevance, and outlines the key themes of this Special Issue on “Latin American Perspectives on Datafication and Artificial intelligence”. It starts pointing out that so far, the engagement of Latin American scholarship in the exploration of data technologies and the rise of intelligent systems has been limited. However, it is argued, Latin American traditions in both research and praxis have much to offer to our understanding of the evolution of the information ecosystem. We propose to map different Latin American perspectives on datafication and AI using an analytical matrix structured along two theme lines, that is three building blocks (infrastructure, imaginaries, practices) and three interpretative lenses (decoloniality and race, feminist theory, pluriversal thinking). Then, we reflect on two procedural issues: the need to consider this Special Issue as a conversation-starter, and the importance of having this conversation in multiple languages and in an open access format. We conclude providing an outline of the various contributions of the Special Issue. Authors address algorithms from the south and coloniality, datafication and corruption, data activism, AI and journalism, and platform labor in the context of Latin America and drawing on Latin American theoretical contributions

After the Developmental State: Civil Society in Japan

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pekkanen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Administrative Guidance ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
The 1960S

The Japanese developmental state catapulted Japan into economic prominence. However, almost just as world attention focused on Japan's distinctive model, the era of the developmental state was drawing to a close. A generation of scholars has ably documented the story of Japan's developmental state by focusing on industrial policy. They chronicled how a strong bureaucracy buffered by insulation from politicians lay at the heart of the developmental state. As Joseph Wong points out in the introductory essay to this special issue, scholars have also argued that the developmental state contained within itself the seeds of its own dismantling.1Since the 1960s, formal powers had been stripped from the bureaucracy, leaving it increasingly dependent upon “administrative guidance” not legally enforceable.2By the late 1980s, the very success of the developmental state had eroded the powers of the bureaucracy to set industrial policy.

Mapping Whiteness and Sport: An Introduction

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary G. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

This introductory essay maps a context from which to understand the explosion in the analysis of whiteness, white identities and white privilege in the 1990s and 2000s. The current proliferation—including this special issue devoted to the study of whiteness and sport—is not a new phenomenon because people of color have long critiqued and challenged the mythologies perpetuating racism and white supremacy. Contemporary interdisciplinary scholarship works within and against this legacy suggesting that the articles in this special issue constitute an epistemologically divided knowledge project that is further implicated in contemporary power relations, racial performances, and struggles over meaning.

scholarly journals Resisting autocratization: the protest–repression nexus in Hong Kong's Anti-ELAB Movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Hans H. Tung ◽  
Yuko Kasuya
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
New Research

Abstract This introductory essay outlines the core themes of the special issue on the rise and fall of Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. In the essay, we highlight several theoretical and empirical contributions the featured papers make to our understanding of the protest–repression nexus from the onset of the movement to the imposition of the National Security Law. First, we describe the political and social contexts of the movement. Second, we present our empirical findings on Hong Kongers' political preferences. Finally, we highlight new research avenues arising from this special issue.

scholarly journals Politics and the Pedagogue of Late Antiquity

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi Upson-Saia ◽  
Maria Doerfler
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Introductory Essay

The introductory essay serves to situate this special issue in its original context: a workshop on "Politics, Pedagogy, and the Profession," hosted in November 2017 at Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of World Religions for graduate students and teachers of pre-modernity. The workshop marked the beginning of a collaborative project, whose products thus far include, inter alia, a shared database of pedagogical resources, conference sessions to extend discussions of teaching politically-charged subjects to a wider audience, and the contributions to the issue at hand. The introductory essay provides readers with background information concerning the project's aims and initial findings, including a discussion of instructors' motivations for addressing contemporary political considerations; the risks and rewards teaching politically-charged topics; and the institutional and disciplinary resources available to instructors. The essay also provides an introductory preview of the articles gathered in this special issue.

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