Brokers And Boundaries

Author : Tiffany Shellam,Maria Nugent,Shino Konishi,Allison Cadzow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1760460117

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Brokers and Boundaries by Tiffany Shellam,Maria Nugent,Shino Konishi,Allison Cadzow Pdf

Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent mythology. With a focus on Indigenous brokers, such as guides, assistants and mediators, it highlights the ways in which nineteenth-century exploration in Australia and New Guinea was a collective and socially complex enterprise. Many of the authors provide biographically rich studies that carefully examine and speculate about Indigenous brokers' motivations, commitments and desires. All of the chapters in the collection are attentive to the specific local circumstances as well as broader colonial contexts in which exploration and encounters occurred.

Author : Tiffany Shellam,Maria Nugent,Shino Konishi,Allison Cadzow
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760460129

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Brokers and boundaries by Tiffany Shellam,Maria Nugent,Shino Konishi,Allison Cadzow Pdf

Colonial exploration continues, all too often, to be rendered as heroic narratives of solitary, intrepid explorers and adventurers. This edited collection contributes to scholarship that is challenging that persistent mythology. With a focus on Indigenous brokers, such as guides, assistants and mediators, it highlights the ways in which nineteenth-century exploration in Australia and New Guinea was a collective and socially complex enterprise. Many of the authors provide biographically rich studies that carefully examine and speculate about Indigenous brokers’ motivations, commitments and desires. All of the chapters in the collection are attentive to the specific local circumstances as well as broader colonial contexts in which exploration and encounters occurred. This collection breaks new ground in its emphasis on Indigenous agency and Indigenous–explorer interactions. It will be of value to historians and others for a very long time. — Professor Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney In bringing together this group of authors, the editors have brought to histories of colonialism the individuality of these intermediaries, whose lives intersected colonial exploration in Australia and New Guinea. — Dr Jude Philp, Macleay Museum

Author : Alan Tonnon
Publisher : Rockwell Publishing
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1887051198

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Washington Real Estate Law by Alan Tonnon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B588016

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Hertslet's Commercial Treaties by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lewis Hertslet,Sir Edward Hertslet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951002247564E

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Hertslet's Commercial Treaties by Lewis Hertslet,Sir Edward Hertslet Pdf

A collection of treaties and conventions, between Great Britain and foreign powers, and of the laws, decrees, orders in council, &c., concerning the same, so far as they relate to commerce and navigation, slavery, extradition, nationality, copyright, postal matters, &c., and to the privileges and interests of the subjects of the high contracting parties.

Author : Shengnan Yang,Xiaohua Zhu,Pnina Fichman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000846577

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The Usage and Impact of ICTs during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Shengnan Yang,Xiaohua Zhu,Pnina Fichman Pdf

This book takes a holistic view of the roles of ICTs during the pandemic through the lens of social informatics, as it is critical to our understanding of the relations between society and technology. Specific attention is given to various stakeholders and social contexts, with analysis at the individual, group, community, and society levels. Pushing the boundaries of information science research with timely and critical research questions, this edited volume showcases information science research in the context of COVID-19, by specifically accentuating sociotechnical practices, activities, and ICT interventions during the pandemic. Its social informatics focus appeals to a broad audience, and its global and international orientation provides a timely, innovative, and much-needed perspective to information science. This book is unique in its interdisciplinary nature as it consists of research studies on the intersections between ICTs and health, culture, social interaction, civic engagement, information dissemination, work, and education. Chapters apply a range of research methods, including questionnaire surveys, content analyses, and case studies from countries in Asia, Europe, and America, as well as global and international comparisons. The book’s primary target audience includes scholars and students in information and library science, particularly those interested in the social aspect of the information society. It may be of interest to information professionals, library practitioners, educators, and information policymakers, as well as scholars and students in science and technology studies, cultural studies, political science, public administration, sociology, and communication studies.

Author : Shaofeng Liu
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749496876

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Knowledge Management by Shaofeng Liu Pdf

As knowledge economies become increasingly important around the world, it is essential that organizations are able to transform their knowledge into a competitive advantage. This textbook offers an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge management written specifically for postgraduate students in business and management schools. Knowledge Management presents classic and advanced concepts, models and frameworks using a clear logical structure, which covers building knowledge competence, the knowledge lifecycle, and integration of knowledge management with business decision making. An overall framework illustrates links between chapters and ensures readers can gain a body of actionable knowledge rather than learning isolated, uncontextualized topics. Based on cutting-edge research findings and covering the most advanced IT and IS technologies, this book emphasises the need for knowledge management to span boundaries across organizations, supply chains and partnerships, rather than being limited to individual learning and sharing within businesses. Knowledge Management is international in scope and includes real world case studies and role play scenarios to show how theories are applied in practice, and "think back" and "critique discussion" questions to encourage reflective learning and critical thinking. This indispensable text provides a dynamic picture of the evolution of knowledge management and demonstrates its full potential to enable better business decisions. Accompanying online resources include PowerPoint slides for lecturers and exercise questions for students.

Author : Paul Jackson,Gareth Wall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000022520

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Post-conflict Reconstruction and Local Government by Paul Jackson,Gareth Wall Pdf

The subject of local government and post-conflict reconstruction sits at the intersection of several interrelated research areas, notably conflict/peacebuilding, governance, and political economy. This volume addresses a gap in the academic literature: whilst decentralisation is frequently included in peace agreements, the actual scope and role of local government is far less frequently discussed. This gap remains despite a considerable literature on local government in developing countries more generally, particularly with regard to decentralisation; but also, despite a considerable and growing literature on post-conflict reconstruction. This volume provides a mixture of case study, cross-case studies, practitioner reflection, and conceptual material on the function of local government in the context of decentralisation in post-conflict countries, from both academics and policy-makers. This collection of in-depth single- and multi-country case study analysis is complemented by practitioner reflections and framed within the 2030 Agenda building on the New Urban Agenda, and particularly the Sustainable Development Goal 16 to ‘promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.’ The chapters in this book were originally published in the online journal Third World Thematics.

Author : Paul Rodgers,Libby Brodhurst,Duncan Hepburn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203088531

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Crossing Design Boundaries by Paul Rodgers,Libby Brodhurst,Duncan Hepburn Pdf

This book presents over 100 papers from the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference dedicated to the subject of exploring novel approaches in product design education. The theme of the book is "Crossing Design Boundaries" which reflects the editors’ wish to incorporate many of the disciplines associated with, and integral to, modern product design and development pursuits. Crossing Design Boundaries covers, for example, the conjunction of anthropology and design, the psychology of design products, the application of soft computing in wearable products, and the utilisation of new media and design and how these can be best exploited within the current product design arena. The book includes discussions concerning product design education and the cross-over into other well established design disciplines such as interaction design, jewellery design, furniture design, and exhibition design which have been somewhat under represented in recent years. The book comprises a number of sections containing papers which cover highly topical and relevant issues including Design Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinarity, Design Collaboration and Team Working, Philosophies of Design Education, Design Knowledge, New Materials and New Technologies in Design, Design Communication, Industrial Collaborations and Working with Industry, Teaching and Learning Tools, and Design Theory.

Author : Agneta Halvarsson Lundkvist
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789176851241

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Lärandets dynamik i arbetsplatsutvecklingsprogram by Agneta Halvarsson Lundkvist Pdf

The thesis focuses on workplace development programmes (WPDPs) that operationalize national policies on workplace development. WPDPs are time-limited and they provide support to organizations that aim to improve their operational performance or employees’ work conditions. The support that such programmes provide to organizations consists of competence-development activities provided through networks, courses or hands-on coaching. The supported organizations aimed at changing work practices to increase their operational performance. Departing from a workplace-learning perspective, the overall aim of the thesis was to contribute to knowledge about learning in workplace development programmes and the supported organizations when realizing policies on workplace development. A qualitative multiple-case study design was used and a total of 115 interviews and notes from meetings are included in the data material. Four substudies made up the empirical base. The findings revealed that realizing policies on workplace development required continuous learning among stakeholders at different levels of the WPDPs. Thus, conditions that enabled learning were important throughout the whole WPDP, which was seen as a large, complex social learning system. Learning between different levels of the WPDP was especially important, which required stakeholder representatives with the appropriate qualifications or characteristics that enabled them to take on roles as brokers between the stakeholders involved in realizing the policy. The overall conclusion pointed towards the dynamics of realizing policies of workplace learning, which cannot be achieved by a one-size-fitsall model for learning. The findings imply that funders and other authorities that make policies on workplace development through WPDPs should scrutinize how learning among stakeholders that enter into partnership to operate WPDPs is to be facilitated. Linear plans that are not complemented with careful explanations of how such learning is to be facilitated may constitute warning signs. Furthermore, the findings imply that organizations looking for external support to develop the innovative capabilities of employees must be careful in choosing their support. A WPDP may consume the resources of an organization without providing any benefit, if it does not provide the appropriate support. On the other hand, a WPDP may be a great source for learning, particularly if it includes support in designing the change effort, and help in developing an internal support infrastructure that will continue supporting workplace development after the programme ends. I denna avhandling ligger fokus på tre nationella utvecklingsprogram vars avsikt är att stödja arbetsplatser och organisationer för att realisera beslutsfattares policyer. Med utgångspunkt från ett arbetsplatslärandeperspektiv är syftet med avhandlingen att bidra med kunskap om lärande i arbetsplatsutvecklingsprogram och organisationer som dessa stödjer för att realisera policyer för utveckling av arbetsplatser. Studien har en multipel fallstudiedesign och totalt 115 intervjuer och anteckningar från möten ingår i datamaterialet. Resultaten visar att kontinuerligt lärande mellan intressenter på olika nivåer i programmen var en nödvändig förutsättning när en policy skulle realiseras. Särskilt viktigt var att de som representerade intressenterna tog rollen som mäklare vilket krävde rätt kvalifikationer och karaktärer för att kunna knyta samman de olika intressenterna som realiserade policyn. Den övergripande slutsatsen är att dynamiken i realiserande av policyer av detta slag visar på orimligheten i att hitta en modell för lärande som passar alla arbetsplatsutvecklingsprogram. Vidare kan ett utvecklingsprogram skapa goda förutsättningar för lärande i deltagande organisationer om programmet ger stöd vid utformning av förändringsinsatsen och vid utveckling av en intern infrastruktur som fortsätter att stödja utveckling av arbetsplatsen efter det att programmet avslutas.

Author : Pnina Fichman,Howard Rosenbaum
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443858021

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Social Informatics by Pnina Fichman,Howard Rosenbaum Pdf

Social Informatics: Past, Present and Future is a collection of twelve papers that provides a state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics. Two papers review the history of social informatics, and show that its intellectual roots can be found in the late 1970s and early ’80s and that it emerged in several different locations around the world before it coalesced in the US in the mid-1990s. The evolution of social informatics is described under four periods: foundational work, development and expansion, a robust period of coherence, and a period of diversification that continues today. Five papers provide a view of the breadth and depth of contemporary social informatics, demonstrating the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches that can be used. A further five papers explore the future of social informatics and offer provocative and disparate visions of its trajectory, ranging from arguments for a new philosophical grounding for social informatics, to calls for a social informatics based on practice thinking and materiality. This book presents a view of SI that emphasizes the core relationship among people, ICT and organizational and social life from a perspective that integrates aspects of social theory and demonstrates clearly that social informatics has never been a more necessary research endeavor than it is now.

Author : Shino Konishi,Maria Nugent,Tiffany Shellam
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925022773

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Indigenous Intermediaries by Shino Konishi,Maria Nugent,Tiffany Shellam Pdf

This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of exploration by focusing on the various indigenous intermediaries – Jacky Jacky, Bungaree, Moowattin, Tupaia, Mai, Cheealthluc and lesser-known individuals – who were the guides, translators, and hosts that assisted and facilitated European travellers in exploring different parts of the world. These intermediaries are rarely the authors of exploration narratives, or the main focus within exploration archives. Nonetheless the archives of exploration contain imprints of their presence, experience and contributions. The chapters present a range of ways of reading archives to bring them to the fore. The contributors ask new questions of existing materials, suggest new interpretive approaches, and present innovative ways to enhance sources so as to generate new stories.

Author : Joel Malin,Chris Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429800764

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The Role of Knowledge Brokers in Education by Joel Malin,Chris Brown Pdf

This ground-breaking book comprehensively addresses an area of major and sustained concern: how to improve the use of research evidence and enhance educators’ research engagement as a route to the improvement of educational practice. It focuses on the topic of knowledge brokering and mobilization in education, and its role in fostering evidence-informed practice. Divided into three sections, each addressing a different role of knowledge mobilizers, the book is based in clear evidentiary grounding. The chapters: Explore payoffs and challenges of connecting research to practice Provide recommendations in relation to practice and decision-making Present organized and professionally-enhancing tools, strategies and insights Written by internationally-recognized leaders and expert contributors, The Role of Knowledge Brokers in Education brings together extensive and global perspectives in an accessible yet comprehensive volume. This book is an invaluable resource for educational leaders worldwide who are interested in using or generating research for school improvement, as well as researchers, academics, and students in schools of education.

Author : Daniel J. Brass,Stephen P. Borgatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351332040

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Social Networks at Work by Daniel J. Brass,Stephen P. Borgatti Pdf

Social Networks at Work provides the latest thinking, from top-notch experts, on social networks as they apply to industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology. Each chapter provides an in-depth review along with discussions of future research and managerial implications of the social network perspective. Altogether, the volume illustrates the importance of adding a social capital perspective to the traditional human capital focus of I/O psychology. The volume is organized into two groups of chapters: the first seven chapters focus on specific network concepts (such as centrality, affect, negative ties, multiplexity, cognition, and structural holes) applied across a variety of topics. The remaining eight chapters focus on common I/O topics (such as personality, creativity, turnover, careers, person–environment fit, employment, teams, and leadership) and examine each from a network perspective, applying a variety of network concepts to the topic. This volume is suited for students and academics interested in applying a social network perspective to their work, as well as for practicing managers. Each topic area provides a useful review and guide for future research, as well as implications for managerial action.

Author : Elizabeth Evans,Eléonore Lépinard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000747409

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Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements by Elizabeth Evans,Eléonore Lépinard Pdf

Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed contested) by activists in order to expose and resist privilege. The volume sets out three key ways in which intersectionality operates within feminist and queer movements: it is used as a collective identity, as a strategy for forming coalitions, and as a repertoire for inclusivity. The case studies presented in this book then evaluate the extent to which some, or all, of these types of intersectional activism are used to confront manifestations of privilege. Drawing upon a wide range of cases from across time and space, this volume explores the difficulties with which activists often grapple when it comes to translating the desire for intersectionality into a praxis which confronts privilege. Addressing inter-related and politically relevant questions concerning how we apply and theorise intersectionality in our studies of feminist and queer movements, this timely edited collection will be of interest to students and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities with an interest in gender and feminism, LGBT+ and queer studies, and social movement studies.