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Linking Adaptation Science To Action To Build Food Secure Pacific Island Communities, C Cvitanovic, Steven Crimp, Alexander Fleming, Johann D. Bell, M Howden, Alistair Hobday, Me Stuart Taylor, R B. Cunningham
Linking Adaptation Science To Action To Build Food Secure Pacific Island Communities, C Cvitanovic, Steven Crimp, Alexander Fleming, Johann D. Bell, M Howden, Alistair Hobday, Me Stuart Taylor, R B. Cunningham
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Climate change is a major threat to food security in Pacific Island countries, with declines in food production and increasing variability in food supplies already evident across the region. Such impacts have already led to observed consequences for human health, safety and economic prosperity. Enhancing the adaptive capacity of Pacific Island communities is one way to reduce vulnerability and is underpinned by the extent to which people can access, understand and use new knowledge to inform their decision-making processes. However, effective engagement of Pacific Island communities in climate adaption remains variable and is an ongoing and significant challenge. Here, we …
Missing In Action, Rowan Cahill, Terence H. Irving
Missing In Action, Rowan Cahill, Terence H. Irving
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‘Marxist scholarship, already on the defensive for political reasons inside university economics faculties, often retreated into scholastic debates over texts or into abstruse mathematical calculations as remote from the real world as those of their mainstream colleagues.’ So wrote Chris Harman in Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx (Bookmarks Publications, 2009). It was not just in economics that the radicals retreated; it happened in all the social sciences and humanities. And not just because of political timidity; they had been outflanked. Knowledge production had changed in ways that disadvantaged radicals.
The Dilemma Action: Analysis Of An Activist Technique, Majken Sorensen, Brian Martin
The Dilemma Action: Analysis Of An Activist Technique, Majken Sorensen, Brian Martin
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When nonviolent activists design an action that poses a dilemma for opponents— for example whether to allow protesters to achieve their objective or to use force against them with consequent bad publicity—this is called a dilemma action. These sorts of actions have been discussed among activists and in activist writings, but not systematically analyzed. We present a preliminary classification of different aspects of dilemma actions and apply it to three case studies: the 1930 salt march in India, a jail-in used in the Norwegian total resistance movement in the 1980s, and the freedom flotillas to Gaza in 2010 and 2011. …
Joint Attention In Joint Action, Anika Fiebich, Shaun Gallagher
Joint Attention In Joint Action, Anika Fiebich, Shaun Gallagher
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In this paper, we investigate the role of intention and joint attention in joint actions. Depending on the shared intentions the agents have, we distinguish between joint path-goal actions and joint final-goal actions. We propose an instrumental account of basic joint action analogous to a concept of basic action and argue that intentional joint attention is a basic joint action. Furthermore, we discuss the functional role of intentional joint attention for successful cooperation in complex joint actions.
Scanning The Lifeworld: Toward A Critical Neuroscience Of Action And Interaction, Shaun Gallagher
Scanning The Lifeworld: Toward A Critical Neuroscience Of Action And Interaction, Shaun Gallagher
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A recent report published in Neuron, a leading journal of neuroscience, by researchers at Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories (Miyawaki et al., 2008) has been the basis for a claim that new technology able to analyze signals in the brain "can reconstruct the images inside a person's mind and display them on a computer monitor." Although claims made in the actual research paper were much more modest, in the media the standard, optimistic predictions were quick to come. "These results are a breakthrough in terms of understanding brain activity. In as little as 10 years, advances in this field of …
Joint Attention, Joint Action, And Participatory Sense Making, Shaun Gallagher
Joint Attention, Joint Action, And Participatory Sense Making, Shaun Gallagher
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Developmentally, joint attention is located at the intersection of a complex set of capacities that serve our cognitive, emotional and action-oriented relations with others. It forms a bridge between primary intersubjectivity and secondary intersubjectivity consists in a set of sensory-motor abilities that allow us to understand the meaning of another person's movements, gestures, facial expressions, eye direction, and intentional actions, in the context of face-to-face interactions. These are the abilities that we first require in order to enter into joint-attentional situations. Once we are in situations of joint attention we are then able to further enhance our understanding of others, …
A Principled Basis For Psychological Research: Book Review Of Praetorius On Cognition-Action, Daniel Hutto
A Principled Basis For Psychological Research: Book Review Of Praetorius On Cognition-Action, Daniel Hutto
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Praetorius' book advocates a healthy review and reform of the basic assumptions of much general theorising in psychology. Her central concern is to supply reasons of principle to demarcate the psychological and stave off reductionism. She seeks to derive these results from a handful of principles that she holds must be accepted since they form the very grounds for engaging in any inquiry at all. She employs these to good effect by showing that a number of prominent targets engaged in psychological theorising, including Gibson, Marr, Saussure, Stich and Fodor, are prey to deep-seated confusions about the general relation between …