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Epistemic Governance

Pertti Alasuutari,Ali Qadir

Author : Pertti Alasuutari,Ali Qadir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030191504

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This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality. Agents of change such as parliamentarians or social movement activists will assess and affect what they believe to be people’s conceptions of what is possible, rational, and desirable. This often means that these key authority figures will invest in credible knowledge production, as well as appeal to individual and group identifications, emotions, and values. Alasuutari and Qadir show how this epistemic governance works in three important arenas of social change: parliaments, which debate laws that constitute the bulk of reforms; international organizations that circulate global norms; and social movements and NGOs. Through their analysis, the authors’ detailed, innovative methodology for discourse analysis indicates the utility of epistemic governance as a new paradigm for research into global social change. This book will be of use to students in upper level degree programs who want to design empirical research into social change as well as researchers in sociology, political science and public policy.

Epistemic Governance in Higher Education

David F. J. Campbell,Elias G. Carayannis

Author : David F. J. Campbell,Elias G. Carayannis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461444183

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“Epistemic governance” refers to the cognitive and knowledge-related paradigms that underlie a social system. In this volume, the authors apply the concept to higher education. In a comprehensive review of recent literature, they define key terms and concepts, arguing that a good, effective and sustainable governance of higher education is not possible unless the epistemic structure and knowledge paradigms of higher education are addressed directly. Effective governance of academic institutions is particularly important, given their essential role in generating and disseminating knowledge. The authors consider the practical and policy implications of the epistemic approach for promoting quality assurance, quality enhancement, and quality management of higher education, and their impact on university administration and academic career development.

The Changing Epistemic Governance of European Education

Romuald Normand

Author : Romuald Normand
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319317762

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This book examines the transformations of epistemic governance in education, the way in which some actors are shaping new knowledge, and how that new knowledge impacts other actors in charge of implementing this knowledge in the context of the decision-making process and practice. The book describes knowledge-based and evidence-based technologies that produce new modes of representation, cognitive categories, and value-based judgements which determine and guide actions and interactions between researchers, experts and policy-makers. It explores several major social theories and concepts, analysing the transformation of the relationship between educational and social sciences and politics. In the light of epistemic governance being linked to transformations of academic capitalism, the book describes the ways in which academics engaged in heterogeneous networks are capable of developing new interactions as well as facing new trials imposed on them by the changing conditions of producing knowledge in their scientific community and within their institutions. Knowledge is power. It is materialized in metrics, policy instruments and embedded in networks. The governance of European higher education, insightfully argues Romuald Normand, is not structured by hierarchical public policies, by governmental exercise of authority or heroic decision making. Normand makes a sophisticated intellectual argument, building upon the work of Foucault, Latour (Sociology of science), and the pragmatic sociology of Boltanski and Thévenot (sociology of justification) in order to precisely analyse Europe‘s higher education through the circulation of ideas and instruments. Based upon precise research, the book is a major contribution to the understanding of high education in a capitalist Europe, beyond the simple idea of neo liberalism. Normand, provocatively, even suggests the making of a European Homo Academicus. This is an innovative and important book for public policy, European Studies and the sociology of Education. Patrick le Galès, FBA, CNRS Research Professor, Centre d’Etudes Européennes, Sciences Po, Paris, France

Knowing Governance

Jan-Peter Voß,Richard Freeman

Author : Jan-Peter Voß,Richard Freeman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137514509

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Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they require and reproduce? How are new understandings of governance produced in practice, by scientists and policy makers and by the publics with whom they engage?

Epistemic Communities, Constructivism, and International Environmental Politics

Peter M. Haas

Author : Peter M. Haas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317511380

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Epistemic Communities, Constructivism, and International Environmental Politics by Peter M. Haas Pdf

Epistemic Communities, Constructivism and International Environmental Politics brings together 25 years of publications by Peter M. Haas. The book examines how the world has changed significantly over the last 100 years, discusses the need for new, constructivist scholarship to understand the dynamics of world politics, and highlights the role played by transnational networks of professional experts in global governance. Combining an intellectual history of epistemic communities with theoretical arguments and empirical studies of global environmental conferences, as well as international organizations and comparative studies of international environmental regimes, this book presents a broad picture of social learning on the global scale. In addition to detailing the changes in the international system since the Industrial Revolution, Haas discusses the technical nature of global environmental threats. Providing a critical reading of discourses about environmental security, this book explores governance efforts to deal with global climate change, international pollution control, stratospheric ozone, and European acid rain. With a new general introduction and the addition of introductory pieces for each section, this collection offers a retrospective overview of the author’s work and is essential reading for students and scholars of environmental politics, international relations and global politics.

The Epistemology of Democracy

Hana Samaržija,Quassim Cassam

Author : Hana Samaržija,Quassim Cassam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000861662

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This is the first edited scholarly collection devoted solely to the epistemology of democracy. Its fifteen chapters, published here for the first time and written by an international team of leading researchers, will interest scholars and advanced students working in democratic theory, the harrowing crisis of democracy, political philosophy, social epistemology, and political epistemology. The volume is structured into three parts, each offering five chapters. The first part, Democratic Pessimism, covers the crisis of democracy, the rise of authoritarianism, public epistemic vices, misinformation and disinformation, civic ignorance, and the lacking quantitative case for democratic decision-making. The second part, Democratic Optimism, discusses the role of hope and positive emotions in rebuilding democracy, proposes solutions to myside bias, and criticizes dominant epistocratic approaches to forming political administrations. The third and final part, Democratic Realism, assesses whether we genuinely require emotional empathy to understand the perspectives of our political adversaries, discusses the democratic tension between mutual respect for others and a quest for social justice, and evaluates manifold top-down and bottom-up approaches to policy making.

Epistemic Economics and Organization

Anna Grandori

Author : Anna Grandori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136679117

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This book proposes a new approach to economics, management and organization that should help in making economic organization ‘wise’, ‘innovative’ and ‘robust’ in an uncertain and risky world. Although the modern economy and society is ‘knowledge intensive’, Anna Grandori argues that the dominant economic, organizational and behavioural models neglect to a large extent the problem of valid knowledge construction and effective knowledge governance. The book integrates inputs from economics and behavioural science with insights from the philosophy of knowledge to define new micro-foundations: neither a calculative, deductive and omniscient ‘rational actor’; nor an experiential, adaptive and biased ‘behavioural actor’; but a knowledgeable and imaginative ‘epistemic actor’. The implications for contracts and organizations, sustained also by insights from law, are shown to be far reaching, including a new view of the nature of the firm as an entity-establishing agreement under which to discover uses of resources under uncertainty, and as a democratic institution.

New Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours

Peter Anderson,Fleur Braddick,Patricia J. Conrod,Antoni Gual,Matilda Hellman,Silvia Matrai,David Miller,David Nutt,Jürgen Rehm,Jillian Reynolds,Tamyko Ysa

Author : Peter Anderson,Fleur Braddick,Patricia J. Conrod,Antoni Gual,Matilda Hellman,Silvia Matrai,David Miller,David Nutt,Jürgen Rehm,Jillian Reynolds,Tamyko Ysa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191077975

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New Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours by Peter Anderson,Fleur Braddick,Patricia J. Conrod,Antoni Gual,Matilda Hellman,Silvia Matrai,David Miller,David Nutt,Jürgen Rehm,Jillian Reynolds,Tamyko Ysa Pdf

Addictions have increased markedly in contemporary societies over the past decades. As well as widely acknowledged issues surrounding illegal substance addictions, there are increasing numbers of problems related to behavioural addictions such as the use of legal substances such as antidepressants and amphetamines. These addictions are concerning for a range of public policy fields, not least, public health and social cohesion. As a result, cohesive governance of addictive substances and behaviours is paramount to future public policy. This book is based on the findings of a five year, multidisciplinary project (Addictions and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe - Reframing Addictions Project) studying the pace and impact of addictions in Europe, and is the concluding volume in the Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours series. Authored by 11 leading figures in the fields of public health, psychology, sociology, psychiatry, addiction studies, epidemiology, and social and public policy, the book takes a truly comprehensive approach to the study of the current state of addiction governance in Europe and proposals for a future governance framework. No one country has yet got governance polices right. The project's outcome is a plan for the redesign of addictions governance, which includes amendments to key metrics used in research, promoting individual-level to society-level scope of understanding in policy approaches, and bringing the impact of dependency on societal well-being to the fore. New Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours is an unprecedented study, both in terms of international reach and scope of issues addressed. It will be a key resource for anyone with an interest in research-driven European policy change in public health and the field of addictive substances and behaviours.

Research Handbook on Academic Careers and Managing Academics

Sarrico, Cláudia S.,Rosa, Maria J.,Carvalho, Teresa

Author : Sarrico, Cláudia S.,Rosa, Maria J.,Carvalho, Teresa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839102639

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Research Handbook on Academic Careers and Managing Academics by Sarrico, Cláudia S.,Rosa, Maria J.,Carvalho, Teresa Pdf

This timely Research Handbook provides a broad analysis and discussion on how academics are managed. It addresses key issues, including the changing nature of academic work and academic labour markets, issues of power, leadership, ageing, human resource management practices, and mobility.

The Governance of Knowledge

Nico Stehr

Author : Nico Stehr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351482028

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Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico Stehr predicts that such concerns will create a new political field, namely, knowledge policy, which will entail regulating dissemination of the anticipated results of rapidly increasing knowledge. The number and range of institutionalized standards for monitoring new knowledge has hitherto been relatively small. Only in cases of technological applications has social control, in the form of political regulation, so far intervened. All modern societies today have complex regulations and extensive concerns with the registration, licensing, testing, and monitoring of pharmaceutical products. The increasingly important and extensive area of intellectual property legislation and administration is an example of social control in which certain measures selectively determine the use of scientific finds and technical knowledge. The Governance of Knowledge assembles a range of essays that attempt to explore the new field of knowledge politics for the first time. It is divided into four parts: The Emergence of Knowledge Politics: Origins, Context, and Consequences; Major Social Institutions and Knowledge Politics; Case Studies on the Governance of Knowledge; and Issues in Knowledge Politics as a New Political Field. Individual chapters concern the emergence of knowledge policy, the embeddedness of such regulations in major social institutions, and offer case studies of the governance of knowledge and discuss controversial issues that are bound to accompany efforts to regulate new knowledge. Professionals and graduate students in the fields of scoiology, political science, social science, and law, including policymakers and natural scientists, will find this book extremely informative.

Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Andrea Schneiker

Author : Andrea Schneiker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119531

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Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity by Andrea Schneiker Pdf

Increasingly humanitarian NGOs operate in the context of armed conflicts where the security risks are higher than in contexts of natural disaster. Working in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is particularly dangerous for humanitarians. This existential threat affects the physical existence of aid workers and the implementation of humanitarian programs, and the core beliefs of humanitarians and the underlying principles of humanitarian action. For NGOs it is difficult to accept that they are attacked despite their good intentions, sometimes even by the very communities they seek to help. For these reasons, humanitarian NGOs have to change their approaches to security by not only adapting their policies, procedures and structures to the changing environment, but also reviewing the underlying principles of their work. This book contributes to debates by demonstrating how issues of (in)security affect humanitarian NGOs and the humanitarian identity, situating the structural changes within the humanitarian NGO community in the context of conflict aid governance and explains how non-state actors establish their own governance structures, independent from state-sponsored solutions, and contributes to the emerging literature on the redefinition of the concept of epistemic communities.

Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice

Melanie Walker,Alejandra Boni

Author : Melanie Walker,Alejandra Boni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030561970

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Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice by Melanie Walker,Alejandra Boni Pdf

This book explores the potential of participatory research and the capability approach to transform understandings of higher education. The editors and contributors illuminate the importance of epistemic in/justice as a foundation to a reflexive, inclusive and decolonial approach to knowledge, as well as its importance to democratic life and participation in higher education. Drawing together eight global case studies, the authors argue for an ecology of knowledge that expands epistemic capabilities in higher education through teaching, research and policy making. Moreover, the chapters illustrate how these epistemic capabilities can be marginalised by both institutions and structural and historical factors; as well as the potential for possibilities when spaces are opened for genuine participation and designed for a plurality of voices. This book will appeal to scholars of social justice and participatory research as well as ongoing debates around decolonising the academy.

Introducing Relational Political Analysis

Peeter Selg,Andreas Ventsel

Author : Peeter Selg,Andreas Ventsel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030487805

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Introducing Relational Political Analysis by Peeter Selg,Andreas Ventsel Pdf

This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis. In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory, methodology and method. They call their approach “political semiotics” and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting research on power, governance and democracy – the core dimensions of the political – in a manner that is envisioned in numerous discussions of the “relational turn” in the social sciences. It is the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the political that would be relational throughout, from its meta theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological implications, methods and empirical applications.

Unravelling Research

Teresa Macías

Author : Teresa Macías
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773635453

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Unravelling Research is about the ethics and politics of knowledge production in the social sciences at a time when the academy is pressed to contend with the historical inequities associated with established research practices. Written by an impressive range of scholars whose work is shaped by their commitment to social justice, the chapters grapple with different methodologies, geographical locations and communities and cover a wide range of inquiry, including ethnography in Africa, archival research in South America and research with marginalized, racialized, poor, mad, homeless and Indigenous communities in Canada. Each chapter is written from the perspective of researchers who, due to their race, class, sexual/gender identity, ability and geographical location, labour at the margins of their disciplines. By using their own research projects as sites, contributors probe the ethicality of long-established and cutting-edge methodological frameworks to theorize the indivisible relationship between methodology, ethics and politics, elucidating key challenges and dilemmas confronting marginalized researchers and research subjects alike.

The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization

Jacqueline Behrend

Author : Jacqueline Behrend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197570685

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"The categories commonly mobilized to think about education have long been associated with the notion of the nation state, and functioned as obstacles, rather than resources, for our understanding of how globalization plays out in this particular field. In the last two decades, both social theory and comparative politics have attempted to overcome these limitations in their own way. Social theory increasingly acknowledged education as a global phenomenon. Theories have been developed to describe a global society evolving across borders. They show how, through processes that remain debated (cultural isomorphism, capitalism, functional differentiation), a number of structural and semantic evolutions have spread across education systems. Part I of this Handbook is dedicated to presenting, discussing, and comparing three such theories of globalization and their implications for our understanding of education and education policy. Comparative politics has for its part concerned itself with developing a more complex, less unified and 'transformationalist' view of the State by acknowledging the fragmentation and distribution of its functions among distinct domains and levels. Part II gravitates around this global constellation, with chapters focusing on global reforms, norms and ideas put forward by supranational organizations, on international accountability processes and on the ways in which nation states or local actors adopt, implement or resist global ideas and reforms. The two Parts reflect these disciplinary approaches to the relation between globalization and education. Together, these two approaches seek to provide a comprehensive overview of how globalization and education interact to result in distinct and varying outcomes across world regions"--

Epistemic Governance

Epistemic Governance by Pertti Alasuutari,Ali Qadir Pdf

Epistemic Governance in Higher Education by David F. J. Campbell,Elias G. Carayannis Pdf

The Changing Epistemic Governance of European Education by Romuald Normand Pdf

Knowing Governance by Jan-Peter Voß,Richard Freeman Pdf

Epistemic Communities, Constructivism, and International Environmental Politics by Peter M. Haas Pdf

The Epistemology of Democracy by Hana Samaržija,Quassim Cassam Pdf

Epistemic Economics and Organization by Anna Grandori Pdf

New Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours by Peter Anderson,Fleur Braddick,Patricia J. Conrod,Antoni Gual,Matilda Hellman,Silvia Matrai,David Miller,David Nutt,Jürgen Rehm,Jillian Reynolds,Tamyko Ysa Pdf

Research Handbook on Academic Careers and Managing Academics by Sarrico, Cláudia S.,Rosa, Maria J.,Carvalho, Teresa Pdf

The Governance of Knowledge by Nico Stehr Pdf

Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity by Andrea Schneiker Pdf

Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice by Melanie Walker,Alejandra Boni Pdf

Introducing Relational Political Analysis by Peeter Selg,Andreas Ventsel Pdf

Unravelling Research by Teresa Macías Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization by Jacqueline Behrend Pdf

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