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ALBA and UNASUR – The Emergence of Counter-hegemonic Regional Associations in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2013-03-07)
Latin America and the Caribbean have been victims of more than 500-years of colonialism and imperialism. A key component of both colonialism and imperialism has been the denial of and/or distortion of sovereignty throughout ...
It's not only what we say but what we do”: Researching the rationales for the establishment of pay in five mixed sex, democratic worker cooperatives in Buenos Aires, Argentina
(2013-03-07)
As I explored in my previous SSHRC* funded research in 2006, worker cooperatives are based on the ideals of democratic participation and of egalitarianism: in general assemblies all the workers vote on the general principles ...
Who Should you write for? - Competing Literary Systems in Colonial Papua and New Guinea
(2013-03-07)
Post-war literary decolonization in the British Empire often pitted ideologies and scarce resources against one another in unanticipated ways. In any given colony there could, and often did, exist a rich mix of individual ...
The iPad and Early Childhood Intervention
(2013-07-09)
This paper presentation focuses on an exploratory study conducted with preschool children ages 3 to 5 with disabilities ranging from mild to severe, and the use of the iPad for learning. Preschool children and their ...
Cracking the Code: Towards a Semiotic Understanding of Twitter and Its Use by Media Fans
(2013-07-09)
Since Twitter joined the social media club in 2006, its use has increased steadily, particularly since 2009 (Deller 2011). Although it has received a lot of attention in the traditional media because of its use in relation ...
Cooperative Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Missing Link
(2013-07-09)
This study examines organizational culture as a strategic determinant of cooperative buyer–supplier relationships. While historically, organizations sought lowest-bid solutions by having suppliers compete against one ...
Philosophical Critique and Perceived Practical Irrelevance
(2013-07-09)
In a fascinating paper, “Ask the Philosopher,” Dimitrios Dentsoras shows how philosophers were once integrally engaged in society as agents of practical advice on how to govern and indeed on how to live. Over the centuries, ...
2,4-D and Glyphosate affect aquatic biofilm accrual, gross primary production, and community respiration
(2013-07-09)
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and glyphosate are widely used agricultural herbicides commonly found in surface waters near cultivated land. Field experiments were conducted to determine the effects of 2,4-D and ...
World and Nation in Humanitarian Writing
(2013-07-09)
In spite of the imperialist spectre that continues to haunt the environment of cosmopolitanism, the desire to locate a “genuine” strand of human interconnection beyond neo-liberal defenses of globalization and official ...
Creating an Inter-Organizational Electronic Health Record in Kibera – Challenges and Solutions
(2013-07-09)
Electronic health records (EHR) are widely seen to hold great potential for improving health outcomes in the Global South. This research-in-progress paper looks at the creation of an inter-organization EHR in Kibera, the ...