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Journal articles on the topic "Civic epistemology"
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Miller, Clark A. "Interrogating the Civic Epistemology of American Democracy." Social Studies of Science 34, no. 4 (August 2004): 501–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312704045661.
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Ezrahi, Yaron. "Controlling Biotechnology: Science, Democracy and ‘Civic Epistemology’." Metascience 17, no. 2 (May 7, 2008): 177–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-008-9201-6.
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Donovan, Amy, and Clive Oppenheimer. "Resilient science: The civic epistemology of disaster risk reduction." Science and Public Policy 43, no. 3 (August 19, 2015): 363–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scv039.
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Isaieva, Natalia. "CONCEPT OF «LIFE WORLD»: PLACE AND ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF POLITICAL IDENTITY AND CIVIC CONSCIOUSNESS." Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences, no. 1 (August 1, 2022): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2592-8813-2022-1-8.
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The article reveals the problems of the world of life and political identity and civic consciousness as related scientific contexts. The scientific traditions of social phenomenology, political science, philosophy, epistemology, sociology of action and anthroposocial concept are considered. The presented research is part of the work aimed at recognizing and problematizing the features of the social life of civil society, sociocultural meanings of political life, taken in terms of concepts of social reality, life, personal picture of the world, collective, settlement and territorial identities, trust which are understood as some mental models of semantic structures only at the level of a particular individual. It is concluded that political identity is a correlate or content of the act of orientation of civic consciousness, which is formed under the influence of «life world».
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Chou, Kuei. "From Anti-Pollution to Climate Change Risk Movement: Reshaping Civic Epistemology." Sustainability 7, no. 11 (October 30, 2015): 14574–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su71114574.
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Hazard, Sonia. "Agency, the Idea of Agency, and the Problem of Mediation in America's God and Secularism in Antebellum America." Church History 84, no. 3 (September 2015): 610–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640715000530.
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A common faith swept the country. According to Mark Noll's now-famous thesis, early republican and antebellum America was characterized by an ideological synthesis of evangelical religion, republican political theory, and common sense epistemology. Noll calls it “the Protestant consensus.” John Modern largely agrees. In Modern's telling, antebellum America was mired in the same entanglement of piety, politics, and epistemology. But in lieu of the civic language of consensus, Modern describes his formation as an “atmosphere,” a kind of conceptual cloud-hanging so thickly in the air that antebellum Americans inhaled it with every breath. This pervasive atmosphere is what Modern means by “the secular.”
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Traore, Abou, Wenda Bauchspies, and Wesley Shrum. "Gendered Civic Epistemology: Knowledge Practices During an Ebola Outbreak in Guinea and Mali." Gendered Perspectives on International Development 1, no. 1 (2021): 101–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gpi.2021.0006.
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Korac, Srdjan. "REFLEXIVITY IN THE STUDY OF WARFARE: IS THERE ADDED VALUE FOR THE DISCIPLINE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS?" Srpska politička misao 70, no. 4/2020 (February 2, 2021): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.22182/spm.7042020.6.
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The article examines whether reflectivist approach to epistemology in the study of warfare can amend some weaknesses of the rationalist/positivist canon of mainstream International Relations (IR) theories. The author argues for the existence of a new epistemic situation for the IR researcher: an ontological transformation of the military profession in post-industrial societies that has created a sacralised civic duty to fight in war. The research of warfare is becoming more focused on the individual – who is either a reluctant combatant or a civilian victimised by military operations, but protected by international norms. The author hypothesises that the advantages of reflectivist epistemological viewpoint – embracing standpoint epistemology, situated knowledge, the concept of embodiment, Cynthia Enloe’s claim that “the international is the personal” – may provide a plausible alternative path in the quest for an answer to the question of how we learn about warfare as the central problem of international relations. The analysis shows how reflectivism encourages researchers to identify new, previously “hidden” or marginalised questions and thus expand the scope of inquiry of mainstream IR. The author concludes that, when it comes to the study of warfare in the early twenty-first century, the largest contribution of reflectivist approach to epistemology of IR is in overcoming the shortcomings of the traditionally rigid mainstream epistemological framework of the discipline, providing the grounds for future counter-hegemonic actions.
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Gómez Carrasco, Cosme Jesús, and Raimundo A. Rodríguez Pérez. "La historia como materia formativa. Reflexiones epistemológicas e historiográficas." REVISTA DE HISTORIOGRAFÍA (RevHisto) 27 (November 27, 2017): 265. http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/revhisto.2017.3974.
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Resumen: La tradicional separación entre investigación histórica y enseñanza de la historia implica que los avances de ambas disciplinas no tengan verdadero calado. La historia como formadora de élites y creadora de identidades ha dado paso a una enseñanza cívica y democrática, que en España aún se encuentra en sus primeros estadios. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la evolución de la historiografía para encontrar puntos en común con su vertiente didáctica. Conseguir que los estudiantes y la sociedad vean la historia como ciencia, requiere superar el positivismo y la historia factual.Palabras clave: Historiografía, Epistemología, Pensamiento Histórico, Educación histórica.Abstract: The traditional separation between historical research and history teaching implies that the advances of both disciplines have no real meaning. History as an educator of elites and creator of identities has given way to a civic and democratic education, which in Spain is still in its early stages. This paper sets out to analyse the evolution of historiography to find points in common with its didactic aspect. Getting students and society to view history as science requires overcoming positivism and factual history.Key words: Historiography, Epistemology, Historical thinking, Historical education.
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Matsuoka, Fumitaka. "“One in many: Sounding of the heart”: The meaning of divine revelation in the kakure kirishitan land." Missiology: An International Review 47, no. 3 (July 2019): 269–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829619855351.
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The question to be explored is that of how far a Christian identity can be stretched and yet still remain “Christian” and who determines the limits and for what reasons. This question is explored in light of the kakure kirishitan (hidden Christians) studies in Japan. More precisely, the question is that of how the historically singular epistemology embodied in the “one-God” understandings of Christianity has played out in multiple readings of reality, a “many gods” epistemology, in Japan. This is an exploration of the “meaning of divine revelation of Christ” set within the context of ecclesia semper reformanda. I would claim that the “character of love” as defined by Ernst Troeltsch’s notion of the revelation of Christ (“In our earthly experiences the Divine Life is not One, but Many. But to apprehend the One in the Many constitutes the special character of love”), which is a distinct Christian faith paradigm, contrary to the popular paradigm in the academic and civic discourse of “one in many,” takes on the character of “the sounding of the heart.” Even when the historical identity of Christ is extensively eroded, the “sounding” speaks to people beyond the difference of the worlds with a language that is so intimate that it profoundly grasps the heart.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Civic epistemology"
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MAIER, ROBERTO. "Epistemologia civica e sistema agroalimentare: un approccio antropologico." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/119452.
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La presente ricerca intende offrire il contributo dell’antropologia teologica all’elaborazione di un’epistemologia civica, con particolare riferimento all’ambito agroalimentare. Essa si propone come modello di transdisciplinarità, nel tentativo di mettere la teologia al servizio della chora contemporanea, senza rinunciare al rigore teologico. Modelli epistemologici emergenti, nel panorama scientifico, invocano l’allargamento delle peer community e l’elaborazione di un’epistemologia che sia in grado di accogliere e comprendere il sapere dei non-esperti, soprattutto a fronte dell’incertezza e della complessità dei processi di co-produzione che coinvolgono natura e cultura, scienza e società. L’antropologia suggerisce di valorizzare il concetto di “esperienza” in quanto capace di portare in luce il tratto comune dell’umano, aprendo le scatole nere dei processi di conoscenza e svelando il sapere dell’uomo comune; affinché questo avvenga, è necessario mettere in atto processi di ricerca partecipativa (citizen science), ma anche fare ricorso alla narrazione, considerando il compito che la letteratura può ancora svolgere nel dialogo transdisciplinare. All’interno del sistema agroalimentare, infine, la ricerca propone alcune caratteristiche dell’esperienza del contadino, che rendono possibile l’emersione del suo sapere specifico, soprattutto in virtù del legame di inerenza con la terra. Si propone, infine, l’analisi di un caso di studio di ricerca partecipativa.The research aims at offering the contribution of theological anthropology for the elaboration of a civic epistemology, particularly in the Agri-food system. It is proposed as a model of transdisciplinarity, trying to put theology at the service of the Khôra of knowledge, without renouncing its theological rigor. Emerging epistemological models (PNS, STS, etc.) invoke the enlargement of the peer communities and the development of a civic epistemology, which could embrace and understand the knowledge of non-experts, in front of a high level of uncertainty and the complexity of co-production processes, involving nature and culture, science and society. An anthropological approach suggests to introduce the concept of ‘experience’, as it is able to highlight the common trait of human beings, opening the black-box of knowledge and revealing the specific knowledge of the common man. For this to happen, together with paths of participatory research (citizen science), a narrative approach is fundamental, and literature has still a role to play, among other disciplines. In the Agri-food system, the research also proposes a study of the experience of the farmer and the disclosure of the knowledge provided by the inherence which binds man and land. A case study of citizen-science is, finally, critically analyzed.
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RIOS, Lilian Rodrigues. "Análise da aproximação entre professores das áreas de engenharia civil e do ensino de ciências na UFG." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2009. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/546.
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Previous issue date: 2009-12-09The present research motivated to study the approach of the teachers‟ trainers with different initial backgrounds into a teaching action to develop the High School students‟ interest for the technological and engineering areas based on the Science Teaching. The main purpose is to identify the Political, Pedagogical and Epistemological aspects which are an influence in this particular approach intending to contribute for the developing of the future actions. For that, seven Training Teachers, participants on the project, were interviewed. In the results, we identified that one of the difficulties is related to the lack of discussion about the environment problems in the University. We also observed that the engineering professionals had post graduation courses on technical research having become specialists in specific areas, distant from the pedagogical, showing the need to go beyond the technical issue in which these professionals have been gone through in College, proving the extremely importance of Science history and philosophy study by the training teachers. This research is being analyzed by the studies, reflections and discussions on the problems and topics involved in this project we realized that it is difficult to find professionals with initial training who are able to get over all the found difficulties, but this approach was significant for them so the participants could think about their pedagogical knowledge and these thoughts were based on this critical reflection.
O presente estudo objetivou estudar a aproximação entre Professores, com diferentes formações iniciais, numa ação pedagógica, para despertar vocações para áreas tecnológicas e para as engenharias em estudantes do Ensino Médio por meio do Ensino de Ciências. O propósito foi identificar aspectos políticos, pedagógicos e epistemológicos que influenciam nessa aproximação, para que essa análise contribua para o aperfeiçoamento de futuras ações conjuntas. Para isso, foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas com sete Professores Formadores participantes do projeto. Observamos que os profissionais de engenharia passaram por cursos de pós-graduação, em que se priorizou a pesquisa técnica, tornando-os especialistas em determinadas áreas e resultando num distanciamento em relação à formação didático-pedagógica o que nos remete à necessidade de se superar a racionalidade técnica na qual estes profissionais foram formados e de um aprofundamento em história e filosofia das ciências por parte dos Professores Formadores. A pesquisa conclui pelos estudos, reflexões e discussões realizadas a respeito dos temas e problemas envolvidos no projeto, que não existem pessoas com uma formação inicial que dê condições de superar todas as dificuldades encontradas, mas que esta aproximação possibilitou aos sujeitos participantes reconstruírem algumas de suas compreensões didático-pedagógicas e que estas reconstruções foram pautadas numa reflexão crítica.
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Antunes, Carlos Eduardo Prata. "A aposentadoria policial civil: configuração subjetiva, modo de vida e saúde. Estudos de casos com servidores da polícia civil do Distrito Federal." reponame:Repositório Institucional do UniCEUB, 2014. http://repositorio.uniceub.br/handle/235/6542.
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. Este trabalho surge na observação deste pesquisador quando no exercício de suas funções como psicólogo na Policlínica da Polícia Civil do Distrito Federal. Notou-se a precocidade das aposentadorias desses servidores e também alguns adoecimentos psíquicos “gerados” no exercício dessa atividade policial. Assim, esse estudo se propõe compreender os impactos da aposentadoria nos policiais civis da Polícia Civil do Distrito Federal. Para tanto, utiliza uma metodologia construtivo-interpretativo, com enfoque na perspectiva epistemológica qualitativa. O trabalho foi dividido em duas fases. Na primeira fizeram parte da pesquisa 37 (trinta e sete) policiais civis do Distrito Federal de diferentes cargos e sexos (Agente de Polícia, Agente Penitenciário, Escrivão de Polícia, Perito Médico Legista e Perito Criminal). Nesta fase, os participantes integraram grupos de discussão sobre a temática – aposentadoria. Na segunda fase foram selecionados 6 (seis) policiais civis (4 Agentes de Polícia, 1 Perita Papiloscopista e 1 Agente Penitenciário) sendo duas mulheres e quatro homens. Desses foram selecionados dois casos (um homem e uma mulher), devido à qualidade das informações compartilhadas. Os casos foram analisados como Estudos de Casos e serviram de base para a construção da informação sobre o impacto da aposentadoria nos policiais civis do Distrito Federal. Nesta fase foram utilizados três instrumentos de pesquisa: complemento de frases, questionário aberto e a apresentação de fotos. De modo geral, baseados nas construções interpretativas elaboradas na parte empírica, os casos estudados a partir da teoria da subjetividade revelam como a aposentadoria policial civil responde a configurações subjetivas muito distintas e que levam em consideração aspectos simbólico-emocionais. Nessa mesma perspectiva a configuração subjetiva da aposentadoria não é um fenômeno universal e que se expressa por características comuns entre os servidores da PCDF. Os modelos teóricos elaborados em cada caso para explicar a configuração subjetiva da aposentadoria policial trazem em seu bojo a subjetividade social dominante na instituição policial, bem como outros aspectos compartilhados socialmente que envolvem sentimentos de inutilidade e de perda de valores pessoais como: a investidura da autoridade como parte da identidade desses trabalhadores.
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Stettler, René. "The politics of post-industrial cultural knowledge work." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/481.
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This dissertation conducts in-depth inquiries into the practices, nature and theory of post-industrial cultural work and the humanities- and arts-based civic dialogues which cultural work promotes. Given the broad neglect of utopian thinking in the mainstream of critical social science and in an attempt to sketch out a vision of an alternative future, the aim of this thesis is to outline an “epistemology” for post-industrial cultural work as well as to reflect upon the outlook for educational cultural work practices and their function as a catalyst for civic dialogue and cultural change. The main concerns are the signification, interests and aims embodied in cultural production touching on issues of cultural and scientific learning, alternative modes of democratic governance of science and technology (Felt, Wynne et al. 2007), industrial society’s logic of accumulation and market rationality, the primacy of contemporary instrumental and capitalist values, neoliberalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. With a view to addressing elementary questions regarding the future of cultural work, which are explored and theorised alongside future perspectives of a new form of knowledge work for the humanities and the arts, the actual challenges of cultural work are considered from within the wider context of the risk society (Beck 1986) and the threats which affect everybody today. In relying on Beck’s (2009) conceptualization of the world risk society as a “non-knowledge society” characterised by the global existence of incalculable risks/threats and non-knowing, the thesis addresses the problem of non-knowledge and unrecognised contingencies as a challenge for cultural work to design processes of (un)learning in civic dialogues. In exploring the social, cultural and political relevance of three empirical case studies, the thesis ventures into the prospects of a new socio-epistemological perspective for cultural work and workspaces for knowledge. The studies investigate three different (techno-)socio-cultural spaces of knowledge: a public exhibition about the new Gotthard Base Tunnel currently under construction in the Swiss Alps, Jennifer Baichwal’s film Manufactured Landscapes (2006) about the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky and China’s industrial revolution, and the living intervention Fairytale at Documenta 12, 2007, which brought 1,001 Chinese citizens to Kassel, Germany. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is employed as a tool for the analysis of the material-semiotic properties of differing knowledges, the heterogeneous relations of socio-economic networks, and the global and uncertain conditions of the post-industrial world in which cultural work is embedded. What is colloquially referred to as post-industrial cultural knowledge work in this thesis is elaborated in the context of a propositional socio-epistemological second-order framework (Von Foerster 1984; Pakman 2003) for cultural work and its entanglements with ethics, aesthetics, pragmatics, politics—and biopolitical production (Hardt and Negri 2000; 2009). In order to build “third spaces” of knowledge (Turnbull 2000) and to nurture uncertainty-oriented approaches and contingencies, the findings propose the development of more open, (self-)reflexive and anticipating forms of thinking and acting in cultural production fields with the aim to catalyse societal developments, to foster intrinsic values and to create cultural workplace identities with a moral-ecological-political awareness (cf. Banks 2006; 2007) invoking new interactions between viewers, audiences and the environment.
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Wild, Rodolfo. "A epistemologia do princípio do livre convencimento: reminiscência de um paradigma autoritário de processo no âmbito do novo código de processo civil." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2016. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/6099.
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O presente estudo tem, por objetivo, demonstrar o estágio atual da jurisprudência brasileira relativamente ao livre convencimento, especialmente em face aos sinais de sua manutenção, mesmo sob a vigência do Novo Código de Processo Civil de 2015. Com base nisso, pretende mostrar como o livre convencimento vem contribuindo para o exacerbamento da discricionariedade nas decisões judiciais, mediante seleção do material probatório com vistas a conferir uma capa de aparente racionalidade nas referidas decisões. Nesse contexto, também pretende demonstrar como tal concepção é fruto de um paradigma autoritário de processo, introduzido no Brasil a partir do Código de Processo Civil de 1939, com base nas influências da obra de Giuseppe Chiovenda. Ainda, como a manutenção desse paradigma foi facilitada, de um lado, pela permanência de determinadas concepções do positivismo jurídico, diferenciando, para tanto, o positivismo normativista inspirado na obra de Hans Kelsen daquele que lhe precedeu, qual seja, o legalista ou exegético. Por outro lado, também foi facilitada por uma equivocada compreensão do livre convencimento como um princípio processual. Assim, resgata o estudo, tanto do objeto do processo quanto do objeto do debate, focando suas diferentes correntes doutrinárias para demonstrar que, na teoria geral do processo, o livre convencimento não encontra lugar como parte específica em nenhum dos objetos estudados. Disso decorre a imprecisão – e mesmo ausência de rigor - doutrinária acerca da natureza jurídica do livre convencimento, o que está contribuindo para que esse continue a iludir, tanto no plano teórico quanto no prático, os problemas ligados à justificação das decisões judiciais. Todo esse complexo conjunto de fatores, enfim, vem contribuindo para que a jurisprudência continue a repetir, na atualidade, as lições de Chiovenda, inspiradas em um paradigma autoritário, relativamente ao livre convencimento.
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the “status quo” of Brazilian judicial decision´ formation in regard to the “rational persuasion model” in the judicial decision-making process, especially in light of the signs of its maintenance, even under the New Civil Procedure Code of 2015. Based on this, the research intends to show how the use of the “rational persuasion model” in the judicial decision-making process has contributed to the exacerbation of judicial discretion on such decisions, through the selection of material evidence with a view to conferring a layer of apparent rationality in said decisions. In this context, it also intends to demonstrate how this conception or technique is the result of an authoritarian paradigm of process, introduced in Brazil with the 1939 Civil Procedure Code, based mainly on the influences of the work of scholars as Giuseppe Chiovenda. Furthermore, as the maintenance of this paradigm was facilitated, on one hand, by the continuity of certain conceptions of legal positivism, differentiating, for that, normativist positivism inspired by the work of Hans Kelsen of the one who preceded him, that is, legalistic or exegetical theory. On the other hand, it was also facilitated by a mistaken understanding of the rational persuasion model as a procedural principle to be applied in the judicial decision-making process. Thus, the study investigates both, the object of the process and the object of the debate, focusing in its different doctrinal approaches to demonstrate that, in the general theory of the judicial process, rational persuasion model does not find a place as a specific part in any of the studied objects. From this model or principle arises the imprecision - and even lack of doctrinal rigor - about the legal nature of “rational persuasion model”, which is helping to continue to elude both the theoretical and the practical problems related to the motivation of judicial decisions. All this complex set of factors, in short, has contributed to the fact that the judicial decision-making process and developing precedents continues to repeat, at the present time, the lessons of Chiovenda, inspired by an authoritarian paradigm, with respect to applying a rational persuasion model and enhancing judicial discretion in the decision-making process.
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Robson, Eleanor Dezateux. "Improvement and environmental conflict in the northern fens, 1560-1665." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290033.
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This thesis examines 'improvement' of wetland commons in early modern England as a contested process of rapid environmental change. As a flagship project of agrarian improvement, drainage sought to alchemise pastoral fen commons into arable enclosed terra firma and promised manifold benefits for crown, commoners, and commonwealth alike. In practice, however, improvement schemes generated friction between the political and fiscal agendas of governors and projectors and local communities' customary ways of knowing and using wetland commons, provoking the most sustained and violent agrarian unrest of the seventeenth century. This thesis situates the first state-led drainage project in England, in the northern fens of Hatfield Level, in the context of the local politics of custom, national legal and political developments, and international movements of capital, expertise, and refugees; all of which intersected to reshape perceptions and management of English wetlands. Drawing on the analytic perspectives of environmental history, this thesis explores divergent ideas and practices generating conflict over the making of private property, reorganisation of flow, and reconfiguration of lived environments. This thesis argues that different 'environing' practices - both mental and material - distinguished what was seen as an ordered or disordered landscape, determined when and how water was understood as a resource or risk, and demarcated different scales and forms of intervention. Rival visions of the fenscape, ways of knowing land and water, and concepts of value and justice were productive of, and produced by, different practices of management, ownership, and use. Drainage disputes therefore crossed different spheres of discourse and action, spanning parliament, courtroom, and commons to bring improvement into dialogue with fen custom and generate a contentious environmental politics. In seven substantive chapters, this thesis investigates how improvement was imagined, legitimised, and enacted; how fen communities experienced and navigated rapid environmental transformation; and how political, social, and spatial boundaries were reforged in the process. By grounding improvement in the early modern fenscape, this thesis reintegrates agency into accounts of inexorable socio-economic change, illuminates ideas at work in social contexts, and deepens understandings of environmental conflict.
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Bursian, Olga, and olga bursian@arts monash edu au. "Uncovering the well-springs of migrant womens' agency: connecting with Australian public infrastructure." RMIT University. Social Science and Planning, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080131.113605.
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The study sought to uncover the constitution of migrant women's agency as they rebuild their lives in Australia, and to explore how contact with any publicly funded services might influence the capacity to be self determining subjects. The thesis used a framework of lifeworld theories (Bourdieu, Schutz, Giddens), materialist, trans-national feminist and post colonial writings, and a methodological approach based on critical hermeneutics (Ricoeur), feminist standpoint and decolonising theories. Thirty in depth interviews were carried out with 6 women migrating from each of 5 regions: Vietnam, Lebanon, the Horn of Africa, the former Soviet Union and the Philippines. Australian based immigration literature constituted the third corner of triangulation. The interviews were carried out through an exploration of themes format, eliciting data about the different ontological and epistemological assumptions of the cultures of origin. The findings revealed not only the women's remarkable tenacity and resilience as creative agents, but also the indispensability of Australia's publicly funded infrastructure or welfare state. The women were mostly privileged in terms of class, education and affirming relationships with males. Nevertheless, their self determination depended on contact with universal public policies, programs and with local community services. The welfare state seems to be modernity's means for re-establishing human connectedness that is the crux of the human condition. Connecting with fellow Australians in friendships and neighbourliness was also important in resettlement. Conclusions include a policy discussion in agreement with Australian and international scholars proposing that there is no alternative but for governments to invest in a welfare state for the civil societies and knowledge based economies of the 21st Century.
Books on the topic "Civic epistemology"
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Jasanoff, Sheila. Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Climate Science and Global Civic Epistemology. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566600.003.0009.
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Stone-Mediatore, Shari. Storytelling/Narrative. Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.27.
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This article traces debates within feminist theory since the 1980s over the critical and democratic potential of experience-based storytelling. Focusing on accounts of storytelling that have developed within feminist standpoint theory, transnational feminism, feminist democratic theory, and feminist epistemology, the article examines arguments that experience-based narratives are necessary for more rigorous and inclusive civic and scholarly discussions. The article also examines the challenges that have been posed to storytelling from within feminist theory, including analyses that highlight the power relations, exclusions, and cultural conventions that characterize storytelling itself. The article explores what we might learn about the politics of knowledge from such varied but persistent feminist engagements with storytelling.
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Mowry, Melissa. Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History, 1645-1742. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844385.001.0001.
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Collective Understanding, Radicalism, and Literary History reaches back to the English civil wars (1642–1646, 1648) when a distinctive and anti-authoritarian hermeneutic emerged from the dissident community known as the Levellers. Active between 1645 and 1653, the Levellers argued that a more just political order required that knowledge, previously structured by the epistemology of singularity upon which sovereignty had built its authority, be reorganized around the interpretive principles and practices of affiliation and collectivity. Defined by the century’s central ideological conflict between sovereignty’s epistemology of singularity and the civil war era plebeian “hermeneutics of collectivity,” the book contends that late Stuart and eighteenth-century literature played a central role in marginalizing the non-elite methods of interpretation and knowledge production that had emerged in the 1640s.
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Mikkola, Mari. Pornography. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190640064.001.0001.
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Everyday and philosophical debates concerning pornography are fraught with many difficult questions. These include: What is pornography? What does pornography do (if anything at all)? Is the consumption of pornography a harmless private matter, or does pornography violate women’s civil rights? What, if anything, should legally be done about pornography? Can there be feminist pornography? Answering these questions is complicated by confusion over the conceptual and political commitments of different anti- and pro-pornography positions, and whether these positions are even in tension with one another: different people understand the concept of pornography differently and easily end up talking past one another. This book provides an opinionated and accessible introduction to contemporary philosophical debates on pornography, which will be conducted from a feminist perspective. The book’s starting point is morally neutral, and it provides a comprehensive discussion of various philosophical positions on pornography that are found in ethics, aesthetics, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and social ontology. Topics include: whether pornography subordinates and silences women; free speech versus hate speech; whether pornography produces a distinct kind of knowledge; whether it objectifies and if so, in what sense; how should we think about the aesthetics of pornography; what difference do nonheteronormative, female-friendly and/or queer pornography make to philosophical debates. The book clarifies different stances in the debate, thus helping readers to understand what is at stake in philosophical examinations of pornography. In so doing, it also offers readers important methodological insights about doing philosophical work on something so this-worldly as pornography.
Book chapters on the topic "Civic epistemology"
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Westphal, Kenneth R. "Modern Moral Epistemology." In Hegel’s Civic Republicanism, 23–42. New York, NY : Taylor & Francis, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century philosophy; 20: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429343483-3.
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Kidd, Ian James. "Institutional Cynicism and Civic Virtue." In The Epistemology of Democracy, 152–69. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003311003-11.
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Blum, Sonja, and Jens Jungblut. "Driven by Academic Norms and Status of Employment: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Germany." In The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe, 157–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86005-9_8.
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AbstractThe consensus-seeking nature of Germany’s civic epistemology and largely absent structural incentives for advisory work of academics may imply an overall comparatively lower engagement. Yet, German political science stands in the tradition of a ‘watchdog’ of democracy, and the past decades bear witness of continued involvement in societal and political debates. Not least, German political scientists have led a vivid internal debate on the ‘relevance of our discipline’ in recent years, reflected in a number of conferences and publications. Germany thus makes an interesting case regarding the advisory role of political scientists in a comparative perspective. This chapter studies how, to whom, and how often political scientists in Germany provide their expertise for policymaking. It is based on the German results of the ProSEPS survey, accompanied by a case illustration of advice and opinionating on the rise of populism. The analysis shows not only that German political scientists are less active in comparison to colleagues in many other countries but also that they are more active than could be expected—with academic norms and employment situation forming key explanatory factors for the level and forms of engagement.
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Stanton, Emily E. "Phronesis as an epistemology of practice." In Theorising Civil Society Peacebuilding, 121–45. First Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2021. | Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003046974-5.
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Kreiss, Daniel. "The Fragmenting of the Civil Sphere: How Partisan Identity Shapes the Moral Evaluation of Candidates and Epistemology." In Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics, 223–41. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95945-0_13.
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"10. Civic Epistemology." In Designs on Nature, 247–71. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400837311-014.
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"An Emergent Civic Epistemology." In Juridification in Bioethics, 357–404. IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781911299639_0007.
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Casson, Douglas John. "Forming Judgment." In Liberating Judgment. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691144740.003.0005.
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This chapter argues that Locke's goal in turning to epistemology was not simply to engage in abstract speculation about philosophical difficulties, but to instruct his readers in the proper way to govern their limited faculties and take on the burdens and responsibilities of judgment. Locke's philosophical investigations aim at a type of civic education; he seeks to teach his contemporaries the intellectual virtues of a properly governed mind. Although Locke continues to appeal to the traditional vocabulary of knowledge and opinion, he carefully shifts his readers' attention away from abstract, speculative reasoning and toward the importance of the faculty of judgment, which can attain degrees of probability but not certainty.
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Edwards, Korie Little. "Seeing Bellah’s Civil Religion through a Black Feminist Lens." In Civil Religion Today, 95–117. NYU Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479809844.003.0006.
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Bellah’s American civil religion is squarely situated in Western epistemology, with data drawn from the ideas of elite white men. A standpoint theory can uncover the ways in which Bellah’s perspective left out women and people of color and the ways those exclusions were either unnoticed or applauded in the academic reception of Bellah’s work. Grounding an analysis in black feminist theory and critical race theory helps reveal the partial, rather than universal, nature of Bellah’s work and lay the groundwork for new voices.
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Jones, Mack H. "Political Science and the Black Political Experience: Issues in Epistemology and Relevance." In Ethnic Politics and Civil Liberties, 25–39. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351311281-4.
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Vicini, Fabio. "GÜLEN’S RETHINKING OF ISLAMIC PATTERN AND ITS SOCIO-POLITICAL EFFECTS." In Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gülen Movement. Leeds Metropolitan University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.55207/gbfn9600.
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Over recent decades Islamic traditions have emerged in new forms in different parts of the Muslim world, interacting differently with secular and neo-liberal patterns of thought and action. In Turkey Fethullah Gülen’s community has been a powerful player in the national debate about the place of Islam in individual and collective life. Through emphasis on the im- portance of ‘secular education’ and a commitment to the defence of both democratic princi- ples and international human rights, Gülen has diffused a new and appealing version of how a ‘good Muslim’ should act in contemporary society. In particular he has defended the role of Islam in the formation of individuals as ethically-responsible moral subjects, a project that overlaps significantly with the ‘secular’ one of forming responsible citizens. Concomitantly, he has shifted the Sufi emphasis on self-discipline/self-denial towards an active, socially- oriented service of others – a form of religious effort that implies a strongly ‘secular’ faith in the human ability to make this world better. This paper looks at the lives of some members of the community to show how this pattern of conduct has affected them. They say that teaching and learning ‘secular’ scientific subjects, combined with total dedication to the project of the movement, constitute, for them, ways to accomplish Islamic deeds and come closer to God. This leads to a consideration of how such a rethinking of Islamic activism has influenced po- litical and sociological transition in Turkey, and a discussion of the potential contribution of the movement towards the development of a more human society in contemporary Europe. From the 1920s onwards, in the context offered by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Islamic thinkers, associations and social movements have proliferated their efforts in order to suggest ways to live a good “Muslim life” under newly emerging conditions. Prior to this period, different generations of Muslim Reformers had already argued the compat- ibility of Islam with reason and “modernity”, claiming for the need to renew Islamic tradition recurring to ijtihad. Yet until the end of the XIX century, traditional educational systems, public forms of Islam and models of government had not been dismissed. Only with the dismantlement of the Empire and the constitution of national governments in its different regions, Islamic intellectuals had to face the problem of arranging new patterns of action for Muslim people. With the establishment of multiple nation-states in the so-called Middle East, Islamic intel- lectuals had to cope with secular conceptions about the subject and its place and space for action in society. They had to come to terms with the definitive affirmation of secularism and the consequent process of reconfiguration of local sensibilities, forms of social organisation, and modes of action. As a consequence of these processes, Islamic thinkers started to place emphasis over believers’ individual choice and responsibility both in maintaining an Islamic conduct daily and in realising the values of Islamic society. While under the Ottoman rule to be part of the Islamic ummah was considered an implicit consequence of being a subject of the empire. Not many scientific works have looked at contemporary forms of Islam from this perspective. Usually Islamic instances are considered the outcome of an enduring and unchanging tradition, which try to reproduce itself in opposition to outer-imposed secular practices. Rarely present-day forms of Islamic reasoning and practice have been considered as the result of a process of adjustment to new styles of governance under the modern state. Instead, I argue that new Islamic patterns of action depend on a history of practical and conceptual revision they undertake under different and locally specific versions of secularism. From this perspective I will deal with the specific case of Fethullah Gülen, the head of one of the most famous and influent “renewalist” Islamic movements of contemporary Turkey. From the 1980s this Islamic leader has been able to weave a powerful network of invisible social ties from which he gets both economic and cultural capital. Yet what interests me most in this paper, is that with his open-minded and moderate arguments, Gülen has inspired many people in Turkey to live Islam in a new way. Recurring to ijtihad and drawing from secular epistemology specific ideas about moral agency, he has proposed to a wide public a very at- tractive path for being “good Muslims” in their daily conduct. After an introductive explanation of the movement’s project and of the ideas on which it is based, my aim will be to focus on such a pattern of action. Particular attention will be dedi- cated to Gülen’s conception of a “good Muslim” as a morally-guided agent, because such a conception reveals underneath secular ideas on both responsibility and moral agency. These considerations will constitute the basis from which we can look at the transformation of Islam – and more generally of “the religion” – in the contemporary world. Then a part will be dedicated to defining the specificity of Gülen’s proposal, which will be compared with that of other Islamic revivalist movements in other contexts. Some common point between them will merge from this comparison. Both indeed use the concept of respon- sibility in order to push subjects to actively engage in reviving Islam. Yet, on the other hand, I will show how Gülen’s followers distinguish themselves by the fact their commitment pos- sesses a socially-oriented and reformist character. Finally I will consider the proximity of Gülen’s conceptualisation of moral agency with that the modern state has organised around the idea of “civic virtues”. I argue Gülen’s recall for taking responsibility of social moral decline is a way of charging his followers with a similar burden the modern state has charged its citizens. Thus I suggest the Islamic leader’s pro- posal can be seen as the tentative of supporting the modernity project by defining a new and specific space to Islam and religion into it. This proposal opens the possibility of new and interesting forms of interconnection between secular ideas of modernity and the so-called “Islamic” ones. At the same time I think it sheds a new light over contemporary “renewalist” movements, which can be considered a concrete proposal about how to realise, in a different background, modern forms of governance by reconsidering their moral basis.