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This review essay critically examines Emily Jones’ Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives, which develops “posthuman feminism” to diagnose the exclusionary humanism and anthropocentrism of international law. It unpacks key elements of Jones’ approach, her critique of international law’s foundations, and her attempt to move “beyond liberal legalism.” While tensions arise between Jones’ theoretical framework and reform proposals, her insistent bridging of theory and practice demonstrates posthuman feminism’s potential for inspiring creative re-imaginings of legal praxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Justice and fairness have become key considerations in sustainability pathways and nature-based solutions (NBS), following activists and critical scholars who have long argued that the urban environment is an inherently political space that requires an analysis of benefits and burdens associated with its existence, use, and access. However, what justice means and how it is expressed, recognized, or achieved is often implicit in the literature on NBS, even though underlying notions of justice shape the analysis done and actions proposed. This paper starts from the premise that justice knows many different interpretations, therefore warranting scholars and practitioners working on NBS to carefully consider the differences and frictions between competing meanings of justice. Drawing from the history of social and environmental justice theory, we give an account of some key justice dilemmas and discuss their tenets as it relates to the end, means, and participants in the making of justice. From this, we draw out questions and commitments academics and practitioners in the NBS space should grapple with more explicitly. We argue that the emergent tension between pragmatic policy approaches and critical theoretical engagement is hindering a version of NBS that goes beyond a reflection of the justice implications of NBS to ensuring that NBS contributes to the furthering of justice. We advocate for the inclusion of critical social sciences and humanities perspectives and approaches beyond tokenism to instead encourage ontological, epistemological, and political reflection of the work academics and practitioners do in the NBS space. • Distributive, procedural, recognitional justice are vital for nature-based solutions. • These dimensions of justice have multiple and conflicting meanings. • Political theory and philosophy help in understanding differences and conflict. • We offer five key justice questions for researchers and practitioners to reflect with. • Praxis and reflectivity are crucial to balancing act of practicing justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This text seeks to problematize a dominant representation about epidemics, pandemics and major catastrophes, which describes its origin as external, exotic and foreign. In general, both from Hollywood catastrophe cinema, to medical-scientific discourses, and from philosophy to conspiracy theories and hate speech, any threat or evil is placed outside of society itself, there is always another, who prosecutes a moral fault that justifies the need to combat, isolate or eliminate them. We propose to analyse arguments that have circulated around the current coronavirus pandemic, especially those that place the possibility of salvation in isolation and fear, to problematize certain ideas naturalized in discourses that are later translated into political practices or actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last few years, philosophers and other researchers have been focusing on a post-truth era and its symptoms across society and various disciplines. One of the most glaring manifestations is the declining trust in science experts and the rise of populist attacks on professional communities. Historical sciences are encountering a similar onslaught as well. This paper aims to examine one particular clash between a professional discourse regarding a new archaeological discovery with groundbreaking potential and a populist reaction to it. The study utilises contemporary theory and philosophy of history and its view of historical inquiry to tackle its main goal - uncover strategies populists use to vilify experts and professionals. Even though historiography has been abused throughout its existence, it is argued that recent attacks are substantially different and potentially more dangerous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Residuality theory [1] states that the future of a system is a function of its residues - the leftovers of the system after the impact of a stressor. A stressor is anything that is previously unseen or unknown that impacts the system. A system is said to be residual when its design is expressed in terms of residues and stressors. Residuality theory assumes that the likelihood, order, and scale of impact of these stressors cannot be known in advance in any sufficiently complex system, and that these properties are never static across time as any stressor impact means that the system has changed. Residuality theory argues for the designers of software systems using residues as the building blocks of system design as opposed to components or processes. The result of residual analysis is a structure that does not depend on the individual pieces that made it up, (in fact the system may not survive some of the initial stressors used to inform its design) but on the overall ability of the system to respond to unknown stressors - the whole should be seen to be more than the sum of its parts. The ability to survive stress that the system is not designed for is considered to move the system toward antifragility [2]. This article investigates the philosophical assumptions behind these ideas and compares and contrasts them with those of conventional practices within software architecture [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although, sufficiency economy is a philosophy based on the fundamental principle of agriculture, which is traditionally the occupation of most people in Thai society, it can also be applied to other professions. However, this requires some modification so it can guide other professions and can contribute to an integrated economic theory. This modification should be based upon the philosophical principles of Buddhism. To enable this movement from philosophy to practical theory and application, this article will suggest how indicators can be developed based in Buddhism in order to guide the practitioners on living a good life in terms of economics, society, environment, balance, stability and sustainability. All these indicators are guided by the Buddhist middle way. And it will develop these indicators according to His Majesty the King Bhumibol Adulyadej's idea of the 'Three Rings' consisting of moderation, reasonableness and self-immunity combined with two other conditions: knowledge and virtue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article applies Integral Theory to psychotherapeutic work with dreams and provides a unique method for dream tending. Select psychotherapeutic and cultural approaches to dreams are presented in an all-zone matrix and thus explored theoretically from an AQAL vantage point. Regarding dreams through the apprehension of host, guest, and "visit," dreaming is tended through the injunctions of seeing, singing, and resting. Specifically, the practitioner is exhorted to first see into and through the dream, then to sing the dream that wakes you up, and finally to rest inside the dream, as the dream. A dream of the mystical vertex is presented as an illustration of AQAL dream tending. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Structured interviews with eleven individuals and one group of children describing a "unity experience" were compiled to offer a building block of information about transcendent experiences. Each interviewee describes the impact of their unity experience in the context of personal, professional, environmental, and visionary spaces. Robert Yin's elite interview meta-case study method was employed for data analysis, with general systems theory and Integral Theory providing an interpretive base. The nature, contexts, and outcomes of the experiences enlarge the discussion of aligning science dealing with unconscious entities, less conscious entities, and the human conscious experience. The experiences facilitated growth through internal and environmental alignment, increased sense-making, and empathetic connections. Social benefits of unity experiences include increased identification with diverse populations and an increased ability to link the self with organizational systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of the term integral embodies both a set of theoretical commitments and a set of normative commitments. It is used as a theoretical term in developmental psychology and social science to describe a certain stage or level of human development. It is also used as a normative term in metatheory, epistemology, and ethics as part of prescriptive offerings about what is preferable to do and be. Labeling a person or artifact as integral is typically a move that both positions the person or artifact in terms of a developmental model and evaluates the person or artifact in light of set of agreed-upon norms. Problems arise with this de-differentiation of descriptive evaluative claims. I explore these by looking at some of the key facets of Integral Theory, with an eye toward what I will call growth-to-goodness assumptions. Evidence is reviewed demonstrating that highly developed persons and theoretical models often do not deserve to be praised by being labeled integral. The claim that higher stages are better than lower ones is true only in certain cases, when "better" has been well specified. Thus, integrally informed theorists should be as concerned about clarifying the normative function of integral-reflecting on its use as a prescriptive term-as they are with applying the term as a descriptor. This involves admitting and embracing the normative function of the term integral. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this conceptual piece, we take a narrative approach to explicating the gap between organizational theory and practice. The narrative pentad (what, why, how, who, and when/where) represents six narrative questions metaphorically mapped to the five fingers of the hand. The narrative pentad has successfully served both narrative scholars and practitioners, and we believe that the narrative pentad holds similar promise as a theoretical framework for HRD scholars and practitioners. At the finger tips, spaces between fingers represent gaps between questions. In the organizational domain, the theory–practice gap is attributable primarily to a scholarly focus on the universal and abstract what and why questions (story in narrative terms) and a practitioner focus on the particular or embodied how question (discourse in narrative terms). Framed as similarities, we propose that all HRD questions are interrelated at the palm of the hand. In narrative terms, effective organizational theory must include both story and discourse, thereby addressing all questions. This article emphasizes the how question—important to practitioners—but often marginalized by postpositive organizational scholars. We propose the how question represents aesthetic knowledge, and this form of knowledge should be central to organizational theory. We explore related ontological and epistemological considerations. Three recognized causes of the theory–practice gap are examined in light of a narrative approach to organizational theory: (a) the knowledge divide (divergence of emphasis on forms of knowledge between scholars and practitioners); (b) the knowledge transfer problem (lack of information sharing between scholars and practitioners); (c) and the knowledge production problem (associated with an absence of collaboration between scholars and practitioners). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The article discusses the criticisms of author Timothy Rutzou on integral theory and earthly emancipation as well as the ethics of their personal development. It delves into the issues of critical realism as metatheory, integral theory committing epistemic fallacy, integral theory committed to ontological monovalence and the integral theory as holistic worldview. It contends that the criticisms of Rutzou is not harmful to integral theory-critical realism engagement.

This article continues the discussion surrounding the questions of metatheory which emerged from a symposium in 2011 between critical realism and integral theory. It maintains and develops the critique that integral theory is fraught with problems arising from a monovalent neo-Platonic dialectic resulting in actualism and problematic metaphysical speculations. Consequently, as a metatheory it is unable to underlabour for robust theorization and critique, and as a worldview it is quintessentially western and illicitly universalizing. Politically this results in an insufficient and pathological response to the crises generated by late capitalism, while still raising legitimate questions about the need for and function of robust metatheory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Residual statics estimation in complex areas is one of the main challenging problems in seismic data processing. It is well known that the result of this processing step has a profound effect on the quality of final reconstructed image. A novel method is presented to compensate for surfaceconsistent residual static cOlTections based on sparsity maximization, which bas proved to be a powerful tool in the analysis and processing of signals and related problems. The method is based on the hypothesis that residual static time shift represents itself by noise-like features in the Fourier or curvelet domain. Residual time shift corrections are then retrieved by optimizing the sparsity in these domains. Here, the statics model is considered as a maximizer of t' p-norm (p > 2) of the data coefficients in the sparse domain, and a fast and efficient algorithm is presented to iteratively solve the corresponding nonlinear optimization problem. Applications on synthetic and real data show very high pelfonnance of the presented algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]