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Intergenerational institutions and political short-termism

open access: yesRevista Española de Ciencia Política, 2016
In response to problems of political short-termism and time inconsistency, over the last decades a diversity of institutional reforms have been enacted and proposals have been advanced to enlarge the time horizon of political decisions, improve their ...
Íñigo González-Ricoy
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemic fair division of independence structures

open access: yes
We study the problem of fair division of indivisible goods with constraints imposed by a prescribed independence structure, that is, a family of subsets of goods closed under taking subsets. As a motivating example, imagine that the goods to be divided are the available connections in a logistic, financial, or social network.
Anholcer, Marcin   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Coalgebraic Epistemic Update without Change of Model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We present a coalgebraic semantics for reasoning about information update in multi-agent systems. The novelty is that we have one structure for both states and actions and thus our models do not involve the ”change-of-model” phenomena that arise when ...
C. Cirstea   +7 more
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic Values and the Value of Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In addition to purely practical values, cognitive values also figure into scientific deliberations. One way of introducing cognitive values is to consider the cognitive value that accrues to the act of accepting a hypothesis.
Myrvold, Wayne, Wayne C. Myrvold
core   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonising Judicial Education

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series
There is significant research on how judges in Africa are trained to approach gender equality, but relatively little discussion on how this model perpetuates cognitive coloniality in its portrayal of cultural perspectives on gender.
Maureen Mapp
doaj   +1 more source

Consensual Decision-Making Among Epistemic Peers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper focuses on the question of how to resolve disagreement, and uses the Lehrer-Wagner model as a formal tool for investigating consensual decision-making.
Martini, Carlo   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Implementing Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Australia: A Five‐Phase Framework for Indigenous Data Governance

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents the development of a five‐phase Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov) Framework in Australia, focusing on partnerships between the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCHO) sector and non‐Indigenous health entities.
Jacob Prehn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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