scholarly journals Linguistic Notes: Case Studies as a Means of Persuasion in Religious Texts. A review of the collective monograph “Religion as Political and Political Science Projects (a religious studies analysis).” E.I. Arinina (ed.). Arkaim Publishers, Vladimir, 2019. 328 p.

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Olga Aleksandrova ◽  
Tatyana Fedulenkova ◽  
Arina Savina ◽  
Alisa Skotnikova
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Science Projects

scholarly journals Citizens, Scientists, and Enablers: A Tripartite Model for Citizen Science Projects

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Rhian A. Salmon ◽  
Samuel Rammell ◽  
Myfanwy T. Emeny ◽  
Stephen Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
Science Project ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Citizen Science Project

In this paper, we focus on different roles in citizen science projects, and their respective relationships. We propose a tripartite model that recognises not only citizens and scientists, but also an important third role, which we call the ‘enabler’. In doing so, we acknowledge that additional expertise and skillsets are often present in citizen science projects, but are frequently overlooked in associated literature. We interrogate this model by applying it to three case studies and explore how the success and sustainability of a citizen science project requires all roles to be acknowledged and interacting appropriately. In this era of ‘wicked problems’, the nature of science and science communication has become more complex. In order to address critical emerging issues, a greater number of stakeholders are engaging in multi-party partnerships and research is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. Within this context, explicitly acknowledging the role and motivations of everyone involved can provide a framework for enhanced project transparency, delivery, evaluation and impact. By adapting our understanding of citizen science to better recognise the complexity of the organisational systems within which they operate, we propose an opportunity to strengthen the collaborative delivery of both valuable scientific research and public engagement.

scholarly journals On The Study Of Federal Capitals: A Review Article

1970 ◽  
pp. 158-165
Author(s):  
Roger Wettenhall
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Review Article ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Excellent Coverage

It is fitting that Canada, as one of the world's leading federations, should play host to important ventures in the study of federal capitals, and in the analysis of how these capitals are governed and financed. A generation ago it was Canadian professor of political science Donald Rowat who produced the first anthology of these capitals. His edited book, with 17 case studies contributed by leading scholars of the time, provided excellent coverage of its subject and has remained the major text in the field for over 30 years. But there have been important developments in the field since Rowat's book was published by University of Toronto Press (Rowat 1973), and we can be thankful that another Canada-based team has produced a sequel volume that brings the story up-to-date and extends it in significant ways (Slack & Chattopadhyay 2009).

Emergent Flexibility in Institutional Development: How International Rules Really Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 821-833
Author(s):  
Zoltán I Búzás ◽  
Erin R Graham
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Formal Design

Abstract How do formal international institutions change and adjust to new circumstances? The conventional wisdom in international relations, outlined by rational design, is that the answer lies in designed flexibility, which allows states to adjust agreements. Drawing on rich but disparate literatures across subfields of political science—especially constructivism and historical institutionalism—we propose an alternative, which we call “emergent flexibility.” Emergent flexibility is a property of international institutions that is not intentionally crafted by rule-makers when a rule is formally established, but is subsequently discovered, activated, and accessed by creative rule-users in ways unintended by designers. Rich case studies trace how rule-users have accessed emergent flexibility through the legal interpretive strategy of subsequent practice to change rigid rules of the UN Charter and the European Convention on Human Rights. A key implication of emergent flexibility is that, contrary to rational design expectations, international institutions designed to be rigid can adjust to unforeseen circumstances even in the absence of formal redesign, allowing cooperation to continue. The broadening of flexibility from designed to emergent reveals the politics of flexibility between formal design moments, provides a more nuanced notion of intentionality, and equips us to better address fundamental positive and normative questions of institutional development.

scholarly journals Book Review: The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Tikaram Poudel
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Politics Of Language ◽  
Multidisciplinary Nature ◽  
The Himalaya

The arguments of The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya are grounded in the multidisciplinary nature of area studies i.e., linguistics, political science, anthropology and geography. Focusing on the area study of the trans-border region of the Himalaya, the contributors enrich their arguments through specific case studies of their respective areas. For all the contributors, the issues of language contact are central and all of them provide contextual analyses of this issue. The contributors raise placing their issues in the emerging discourse of language contact making the collection accessible not only to linguists but also to scholars interested in anthropology, sociolinguistics, political science and Asian studies.

Consensus measures for various informational bases. Three new proposals and two case studies from political science

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Carlos R. Alcantud ◽  
María José M. Torrecillas
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Case Studies

Sexual Disorientations

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Queer Temporality

Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory, and futurity. Apocalyptic, eschatological and apophatic languages, frameworks, and orientations pervade both queer theorizing and theologizing about time, affect, history and desire. The volume fosters a more explicit engagement between theories of queer temporality and affectivity and religious texts and discourses.

Integration

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Normative Foundations

However, all this first and foremost presents a challenge rather than offering an explanation, and there are multifarious questions and implicit prerequisites connected with it: Within what kind of entity does integration occur? Is something integrated into that entity or does it integrate itself? Does the integration of individuals into society first require certain foundations to be laid? When integration occurs, what becomes of the person or thing that has been integrated? What conditions prevent integration from occurring? How can integration as a fluxional process be described and who is involved in it? And finally, is there a certain obligation connected to integration and can integration be planned or prevented? In this book, contributions from philosophy, sociology, political science, law, education and religious studies highlight the normative foundations of integration in Germany and the empirical situation relating to it.

The House We Live In: Religio-Racial Theories and the Study of Religion

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-459
Author(s):  
Judith Weisenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Race And Religion

Abstract This article reviews the origins and goals of the religio-racial framework that grounds the approach to early twentieth-century Black new religious movements in New World A-Coming. It discusses how the articles in the roundtable offer case studies that extend the framework of “religio-racial identity” to model approaches for locating the analysis of connections between race and religion as central to the work of religious studies.

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