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This paper aims at exploring feminist social science literature and the issues revolving around the standpoint theory, and situated knowledge. Standpoint theory holds significant importance in feminist scholarship as it challenges traditional mainly men’s perspectives, by emphasizing the influence of social position and identity on one's understanding of the world. Developed within feminist scholarship, standpoint theory argues that individuals situated in marginalized or oppressed positions (this being often women across cultures) possess unique insights into societal structures and power dynamics. While addressing some of the major debates in the area, the focus of this paper is to look critically at the plausibility of the feminist epistemology and the problem of objectivity, brought from the debates in standpoint theory. Objective knowledge also presupposed a unified concept of a woman or some kind of female experience, which has been questioned by the more constructivist scholars like Haraway (1991). The aim of the paper is to tackle some of the implications arising out of science, realism, objectivism, and relativism filtered through the prism of feminist social science literary production. While it appears that the endeavour for objectivity in knowledge is a necessary basis for rendering a feminist political undertaking meaningful, a careful analysis of some of the scholarly works on objectivity may prove somewhat dangerous to feminism in general as it might deconstruct the concept of a woman and female experience all together. Agreeing that the efforts and contributions of feminists in the area of epistemology are crucial in challenging traditional epistemological frameworks that have often marginalized or ignored the perspectives and experiences of women, this paper aims to critically reassess the attempts for preserving or building new doctrines of objectivity, and the potential consequences of such attempts for feminism itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding and advancing pluralist worldviews through education is a tenet of decolonisation. This paper explores the importance of a decolonial pedagogical framework in visual art and design education by disrupting epistemic injustice through employing creative body‐based learning (CBL). This approach focuses on relationality and inter‐subjectivity through embodied strategies that create encounters to explore pluralist worldviews. Finally, by employing the cognitive, affective and aesthetic domains within a learning design, the paper argues for a decolonising approach to visual art and design education that embodies deep listening, dialogic meaning making and standpoint theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

2021 was a powerful year for Indigenous representation on streaming platforms as Rutherford Falls debuted on Peacock and Reservation dogs on Hulu – two shows with Indigenous-focused narratives, creators and cast members. This is significant, given the mainstream media’s past failed and harmful attempts to portray accurate depictions of Indigenous people. In this research we utilised Indigenous standpoint theory and mediatisation theory to analyse both shows. We identified common lenses and ideas displayed in both television shows to further understand how Indigenous-led projects are discussing Indigenous communities and experiences, finding overlap in the themes: Indigenous joy, surviving erasure, colonised versus decolonised ways of knowing and Indigenous womanhood and family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Missing women are not a new story. However, the disparity between who tells the story of missing women, in what way and with what context, is one not fully documented across presses. Utilising standpoint theories, this research examines more than 250 North American-based news articles detailing the coverage of missing women. Multiple themes emerge within the data set: the overall missing person story, social commentary, family perspective and changes/action taken. The study finds that both Indigenous and Black presses tell a more contextually complete story about missing women, with more thematic news coverage, along with greater calls for changes and action. Indigenous media, specifically, has more multi-thematic stories. This research highlights the need for more frequent coverage of missing women of colour and for news organisations to commit to coverage by providing not just event or episodic news, but contextual stories covered across time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most widely agreed-upon tenets of the current "postpositivist" consensus in sociological theory is the categorical dismissal of the pursuit of value neutrality in the social and natural sciences, a pursuit that is seen as both futile and undesirable. This dismissal is based on the rejection of the "positivist" claim that mainstream scientific knowledge is in some sense more objectively valid than other forms of knowledge. But this results in a "bias paradox:" on what basis can those denying the possibility of any value-neutral knowledge still claim validity for their own knowledge claims? In this paper, we analyze a series of attempts, broadly going under the label of "standpoint theory," to resolve the paradox. We show how each of these is seriously flawed and that efforts to repair those flaws have merely led to a covert return to the kind of "positivism" the authors claim to reject. We conclude that this is the result of the persistent failure of "critical" theorists of various stripes to recognize the fact that the "positivist" ideals of value neutrality and objectivity embody the very principles of egalitarianism and democracy they claim to subscribe to. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines three texts in which Dolores Huerta, a highly influential yet understudied social justice activist, addressed privileged audiences of potential allies to the United Farm Workers movement. I argue that Huerta constructed farm workers as holding standpoint – privileged knowledge of power structures acquired through oppression – as a strategy for inciting audience action. Accepting farm workers as having standpoint served as a precondition for Huerta's audience members to embody her constructed second rather than third persona. This analysis illustrates standpoint as rhetorically and politically valuable to social justice efforts while contributing to extant scholarship on Dolores Huerta's rhetoric. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on knowledges of spatial practitioners in Slovakia and Czechia, as well as those of feminist science and technology studies and actor-network theory, the article explores the benefits and importance of bringing diverse knowledges into spatial practice. More specifically, it focuses on the issue of including voices, perspectives, and knowledges in the construction of space other than those of status quo often implicated in the (re)production of social injustices. It proposes to look at the margins as a site of potential resistance to find spatial practices/know-hows and visions that actually contribute to the creation of spaces for good lives of marginalised communities. Leaning on the experiences of practitioners on the margins, the article presents portraits of two organisations to explore in detail what spatial practices they employ to materialise their marginalised visions. Building on an analysis of these case studies, the article closes with a description of three transformations of spatial practice that are needed for better involvement of marginalised visions in spatial production: addressing a more complete image of the world, conceiving of space as multiple becoming, and participation as a matter of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and subsequent government's responseactions generated fascinating reactions and interpretations from different quarters in Nigeria. The country's vibrant socio-political and religious spaces were inundated by a series of interpretations, thoughts and opinions, especially by prominent clergies from the Pentecostal Christian faith. Five perspectives emerged: the divinely-permitted pandemic/punishment perspective, the eschatological perspective; the Satanicorchestration perspective; the conspiracy perspective; and the pragmatist's perspective. This article examines the thrusts, strengths and limitations of these perspectives in the light of scientific explanations of the global outbreak of COVID-19 and government's response-actions in Nigeria. The standpoint was used as the theoretical underpinning for the study, while the argument was based on secondary sources, including audio/visual sermons/addresses of various clergies on the subject matter. These were content-analysed and subjected to historical and descriptive methods. Findings show that while some of the claims and interpretations by proponents of the perspectives were labelled 'unscientific', unverifiable, outrageous and premised on sentiments, such claims went a long way to shape beliefs, public perception and disposition to the pandemic and subsequent measures by the government. It was concluded that such overriding influence ought to have been leveraged by the government to achieve compliance with its measures and manage the pandemic regarding its spread and the administration of vaccines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jason Brennan's recent epistemic argument for epistocracy relies on the assumption that voter competence requires knowledge of economics and political science. He conjectures that people who would qualify as competent are mostly white, upper-middle- to upper-class, educated, employed men, who know better how to promote the interests of the disadvantaged than the disadvantaged themselves. My paper, first, shows that this account of voter competence is too narrow and, second, proposes a modified account of this concept. Brennan mistakenly reasons as though it is obvious that socially disadvantaged and oppressed people, by virtue of lacking sufficient knowledge of political science and economics, do not belong on an epistocratic council. This is because there is another way of being competent: possessing first-personal experience and knowledge unique to (and acquired through) disadvantaged or oppressed situatedness. Once voter competence is characterized accurately and more holistically, epistocracy's problematic implications of privileging already dominant genders, races, and classes, which characterize Brennan's account, no longer arise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To date, sport research on sexuality has primarily focused on White lesbian, bisexual, and gay (LBG) persons or heterosexual racial minorities; few studies have provided meaningful insight into how sexual prejudice affects racial minorities. Thus, the purpose of the current study is to explore the intersection of race, sexual orientation, and gender in the context of collegiate sport and examine the influence of multiple marginalized identities on organizational outcomes. Grounded in intersectionality literature and feminist standpoint theory, semistructured interviews were conducted with 15 current and former intercollegiate sport employees. Results revealed four higher order themes: (a) racially influenced experiences, (b) managing lesbian-ness, (c) organizational climate, and (d) organizational outcomes. This research expands the theoretical knowledge of intersectionality, introduces a turnover intention tipping point phenomenon, and provides mangers with firsthand feedback on current policy and norms that may decrease satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the use of terriers in the animal sports which is fox hunting. Topics discussed include the reconsideration on the concept of human-animal sports in the sports sociology and physical culture, the esoteric subcultural practice of terrier work in Great Britain following the passage of the Hunting Act in the country, and the professional ethics in animal sports. Other topics include the animal standpoint theory (AST) which consider the human-animal interaction, the phenomenology of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and the ability of animals to understand the complexity of human gestures.

In light of the importance assumed by the English language in the sociological orbit, this article seeks to show how certain theoretical currents induce epistemologies in national sociologies, to use the expression dear to Foucault, even epistemologies likely to compromise the explication of sociological subject matter of interest within francophone countries, for example. It can be shown that intersectionality and standpoint theory emerge from the "historical configuration" of Anglo‐Saxon countries like the United States, and particularly from the political and militant struggles known in this country, at the root of the political correctness, safe spaces and cultural appropriation that prevail today on American campuses. In conclusion, considerations on "epistemologically correct" sociological theory are exposed, with the intention of nuancing them on an epistemological level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although African-born U.S. immigrants and African Americans share some aspects of physical appearance, communication in the U.S. cultural context is fraught with myriad discursive tensions. Framed through standpoint theory, this study takes a qualitative, interpretive approach to explore discursive tensions occurring between African Americans and African-born immigrants from narrative interview data. Differences in racial consciousness and their impact on communication are presented, and the idea of a homogenous racial social location is challenged. Data analysis revealed several communicative oppositions related to varying levels of racial consciousness about being Black and/or African in the U.S. Three main themes emerged: (a) cultural differences, (b) I am/You are not Black enough, and (c) mutual stereotyping/pejorative media constructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human trafficking research has increased over the last 20 years; however, the limited use of empiricism and theory in human trafficking research fuels criticism that extant human trafficking research lacks rigor and legitimacy. This deficit complicates researchers' ability to limit bias and employ measurable variables, ultimately hampering the creation of knowledge and evidence-based interventions for practitioners engaged in work on micro- and macrolevels. In an effort to address these liabilities in research, the authors propose an intersectional standpoint methodology (ISM) for human trafficking scholarship. At its foundation, the proposed qualitative methodology maintains that (a) the individual's standpoint is critical to understanding oppression, (b) structural obstacles in political and social systems lead to further oppression, (c) oppressed persons' storytelling and lived experiences are critical, and (d) any knowledge about oppressed groups obtained through qualitative inquiry ought to be applied to macrosystems to create change. This proposed methodology identifies measurable variables by which to explore the trafficking experience and is positioned to enhance scholarly activities with survivors through community-based participatory research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I advocate for critical environmental education that is responsive to power inequities and use standpoint theory to help explain why environmental education has been slow to become race-conscious/responsive. Standpoint theory provides theoretical support for the multiplicity of stories and views surrounding the environment and environmental issues with respect to continuing racial divisions within the US. I argue that environmental perspectives of people of color in the US are sociohistorically situated and inattention to them has led to the growth of and tension between different paths in environmental movements within the US. I conclude with a consideration of implications and recommendations for the research and practice of environmental education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pluralisation of European societies has produced national and cultural diversification, increasing the need for communication and understanding to support recognition, equality, justice, self-determination and identification with others. This paper responds to the social and political challenges accompanying immigration by focusing on gender differences in intercultural competence among a selection of Danish and Norwegian secondary school students. Data came from questionnaires given to 895 students from four schools—two Danish and two Norwegian. One major finding was gender differences in intercultural competence, which is discussed using inclusive citizenship theory, gender socialization theory and feminist standpoint theory. For the control variables, cultural capital theory and intergroup contact theory were used to analyse students' experiences of school diversity and their intercultural competence. School diversity contributed moderately to greater intercultural competence while moderate differences arose between national samples. Finally, teaching implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses standpoint theory and public policy research for management scholars. Many management scholars believe that partisanship should be purged from scientific research and theory development, arguing that politics has no role in the process of knowledge creation. Many also hold that it is inappropriate for scholars to engage actively in the application of knowledge. Standpoint theory provides guidance for where to begin inquiry, and what and how to study. Its primary recommendation is for researchers to identify and examine how dominant institutions and their conceptual frameworks create and maintain oppressive social relations.

The non‐identity problem is usually considered in the forward‐looking direction but a version of it also applies to the past, due to the fact that even minor historical changes would have affected the whole subsequent sequence of births, dramatically changing who comes to exist next. This simple point is routinely overlooked by familiar attitudes and evaluative judgments about the past, even those of sophisticated historians. I shall argue, however, that it means that when we feel sadness about some historical tragedy, or think of one possible course of history as better than another, these judgments and attitudes can be understood in terms of two opposing perspectives on the past: an impersonal standpoint concerned only with how much value each course of history contains, and a person‐centred standpoint concerned with harms and benefits to the people who had actually existed. In this paper, I will set out these radically different visions of what matters in history and point out some of their surprising implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines power and its manifestation in Uganda's "Stop Malaria Campaign." It specifically questions the apparent radical feminism, which is conceptualized as a quest for power, and how such excesses drive implementation of the campaign. The paper explains data collected through focus group discussions and key informant interviews using feminist communication theory as informed by the critical ideas of feminism and power. These three ideas help to put into perspective: domination of the campaign by one gender, interpretation of the campaign's objectives to suit that one gender, and communication methods used in the campaign. Analysis of the above three processes shows that men are the weaker gender in the malaria prevention drive, an idea that has clashed with the existing male chauvinism on which several families still thrive in Africa. A view that radical feminism should be seen as an organized form of power that needs to be checked if Uganda's malaria communication campaign is to be implemented successfully is herein proposed, along with some solutions to the challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Degrowth calls for a profound socio-ecological transformation towards a socially just and environmentally sound society. So far, the global dimensions of such a transformation in the Global North have arguably not received the required attention. This article critically reflects on the requirements of a degrowth approach that promotes global intragenerational justice without falling into the trap of reproducing (neo-)colonial continuities. Our account of social justice is inherently tied to questions of gender justice. A postcolonial reading of feminist standpoint theory provides the theoretical framework for the discussion. In responding to two main points of criticism raised by feminist scholars from the Global South, it is argued that degrowth activism and scholarship has to reflect on its coloniality and necessarily needs to seek alliances with social movements from around the world on equal footing. Acknowledging that this task is far from easy, some cornerstones of a feminist decolonial degrowth approach are outlined. Highlights • Degrowth needs to take its global dimension into account to a greater extent. • As degrowth scholars we must be careful not to reproduce colonial continuities. • Building on postcolonial feminisms, degrowth needs to team up with EJ on equal footing. • A feminist decolonial degrowth approach provides ground for such an endeavor. • This article outlines cornerstones of a feminist decolonial degrowth approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents and analyzes four projects focusing on diverse forms of service users' involvement in social work training and research in different countries (Israel, Italy, Slovenia and UK). It highlights the value of service user involvement (SUI) to specific social change objectives and to social work education. The conceptual framework focused on the Standpoint Theory, while methodologically participatory action research was applied, and evaluation measures were developed. Key findings, facilitators and limitations to the involvement, students' views of it and similarities and differences among the four projects are outlined. The challenges embedded in introducing and sustaining social change objectives in a co-production framework within social work education are identified, alongside the added value of meeting them. The differentiated impact the projects had on students is highlighted as well as their significance for health and social care providers were relevant. It is encouraging that in each project SUI was positively valued. The projects indicate the wide range of SUI in the content and format of social work education, as well as its applicability cross-culturally to a range of key issues pertaining to both training and research in social work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the lived experiences of Majesty. She is transgender, a former sex worker, and identifies as an Aboriginal Australian. Her status as a sex worker is embodied in both her previously held male identity and her transgender identity, however it is her transgender identity which challenges Majesty's own notions and ideas about sex and sex work. The lines between intimacy, sex, and sex work are connected to Majesty's identities in ways that are both fluid and complex. Drawing on Indigenous Standpoint Theory and trans geographies, this paper explores the tensions and possibilities of including Indigenous trans voices to unsettle the white and heteronormative thinking of sexually based services. In doing so, it complicates concepts of race, gender and sexuality, contributing a narrative from Indigenous Standpoints that enrich the trans geography literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Little empirical work has investigated the influence of acquaintanceship among the members of a focus group on the output of that group. None has examined the influence of analyst identity on group output, occurring in the scoring of a transcript of the group's conversations. This research investigates these two effects and their interaction on idea quantity and idea quality. Findings show small interaction and acquaintanceship effects but moderate to large analyst identity effects. Findings have important implications for basic and applied research using focus groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the qualities of clarity, brevity, and directness in business writing. In order to communicate clearly and write concisely, executives must be conscious of their purpose and avoid vague writing that is characterized by the passive voice, impersonality, and stilted wording. Unknowns that contribute to ineffective communication include: diversity of technical information, range of readers having access to the document, and uncertainty about the timing of a message and choice of media. The situational relationship of the reader and writer and the deductive approach of starting with the key point are mentioned. Indirectness, or an inductive approach, may be useful when resistance to a message is expected. Examples of ineffective writing are given.

This essay proposes using feminist standpoint epistemology (FSE) to help journalists and scholars who increasingly find their credibility, authority, knowledge, and even their sincerity undermined. FSE foregrounds particularity and experience, arguing that the ways that bodies of knowledge are socially situated and embodied limits but also enables what one can know. I first outline some of the relevant principles of FSE, in order to suggest its applicability to journalism. Then I demonstrate how FSE explains professional journalism issues brought into the open by recent news exposés of work-related sexual harassment, including harassment perpetrated by journalists themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Critical theory is often used to analyze power structures and how those structures influence society. In this rhetorical criticism, feminist standpoint theory is used to examine the messages contained in Meghan Trainor's song "Dear Future Husband." Feminist standpoint theory grants the idea that the amount of power an individual has influences his or her perspective. In this analysis, feminist standpoint theory provides insight into the societal position and perspective of Meghan Trainor. The lyrics of "Dear Future Husband" are subjected to analysis to determine if they represent the feminist perspective, and feminist standpoint theory is used to better understand why Trainor chose to include certain messages in this song. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women's role in agriculture is widely reported to be essential; despite this, women's role in the wheat-sector is under-researched. Feminist standpoint theory is applied in analyzing 73 documents on women's role in agriculture from 1990 until 2016 to answer the following questions: How does the world look, and operate, for males and females in wheat growing households? What do we know about social relationships and mediating processes (i.e., social factors mediating men's and women's access to resources and activities) that exist in the prime wheat growing regions in Pakistan? The paper highlights a knowledge gap in relation to the life histories, local experiences, as well as unofficial and informal networks of small farmers in general, and of poor and marginalized women in particular. This neglect of rural subjects is a missed opportunity to learn and to engage in improved program design that contributes to enhanced food security and resilience in rural communities. The paper is relevant to development professionals and agriculture researchers and proposes further research questions on topics that appear to have an influence on women's role in wheat farming and food systems and women's ability to be successful in securing a wheat-based livelihood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work which reconstructs Gadamer's hermeneutics for guiding feminist standpoint theory consists of five chapters. Firstly, several possible feminist standpoint theories and their difficulties in addressing how knowledge is situated yet true are clarified. Secondly, it will be examined that Gadamer's proposal for the relevance of the historicity on the reaching to truth. Thirdly, we will discuss Gadamer's notion of fusion of horizons as a way to reach to truth. Fourthly, we will elaborate Wasterling's critique against Gadamer and some arguments that Gadamer's hermeneutics substitutes feminist epistemology for masculine epistemology. Finally, this paper will evaluate Gadamer's proposal for hermeneutics is appropriate for feminist standpoint theory, if so, how it is appropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has been already shown in the literature that extended State Controlled-Cellular Neural Network (SC-CNN) could be used to approximate the behavior of complex dynamics with multivariable nonlinearities by modifying the nonlinearity. In this study, a different approach to imitating the multivariable nonlinearities in complex dynamical systems by switching the states of SC-CNN is given. For this purpose, first of all, Rössler type system dynamics are generated by switching the states of Cellular Neural Networks (CNNs). In the second study, Sprott-94-f type system is presented. All systems are numerically and experimentally investigated in order to verify the convenience of the standpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I provide a brief overview of feminist standpoint theories, as well as how Native feminist theories complicate and enrich this political and epistemic tradition. Following this overview, I introduce Wayne Au's conception of curricular standpoint theory as a contemporary and productive use of feminist standpoint theory to address the politics of curriculum. After outlining the affordances and enactments of curricular standpoint theory, I illustrate how curricular standpoint theory loses sight of its feminist genealogy and commitments. I argue that in order for curricular standpoint theorizing to be politically and pedagogically effective, it must remain accountable to both its feminist roots as well as Native feminist critiques. To gesture toward the generative analyses and practices Native feminist theorizing offers curricular standpoint theory and the field of curriculum theory, I outline several Native feminist theories of curriculum that demonstrate how curricular knowledge production can remain accountable to Indigenous peoples, lands, and decolonial struggles. Attending to Native feminist theories is epistemically and politically advantageous, as well as an ethical imperative for theorizing within settler nation-states on Indigenous lands. Beyond contributing to more vigorous and just modes of inquiry and knowledge production, I offer that Native feminist theories can also generate new ways of being and doing that counter colonial logics and further decolonial futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an interpretation of trust and betrayal within political communities from the perspective of Husserl’s concept of social communities. I situate the paper amidst Margaret Gilbert’s theory of political obligations, arguing that at least one outside conception of trust fills a gap left in her theory. More specifically, I argue for the supplementary fit that Karen Jones’s conception of trust understood as ‘basal security’ provides for Gilbert. From there, I tie this conception of trust and betrayal to Husserl’s notions of ‘original belief’ and socio-cultural crisis. There is thereby a phenomenological elucidation of features within the social world that allow such crises to occur in the first place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At their essence, feminist epistemologies argue that traditional male epistemologies have systematically removed the voice of women from knowledge production, effectively barring women from being "knowers". How does the gendering of knowledge affect those with a particular perspective of viewing the world? This article explores the merits and limitations of a gendered epistemology by employing standpoint theory as a tool of analysis. Through the lens and context of the intersection of religion, gender, and Western academia, I trace the politics of knowledge production as it relates to Muslim women working within an Islamic paradigm. This article first explores gender as a category of analysis that came out of feminist epistemologies. It discusses the merits of allowing gender to be the primary and focal point of our knowledge, and consequently, how it has been employed within a particular Islamic paradigm. By drawing on the works of postcolonial theory, it then considers the limitations of such a process. The gendered epistemologies associated with Western secular thought -- by placing gender as the primary category of analysis -- have led to a uni-dimensional and monolithic understanding of what it means to be "gendered" for "Third World women", particularly Muslim women. I interrogate this notion of a gendered epistemology as the only way of knowing by suggesting that a cross-cultural and intersectional "set of perspectives that place the category of gender within the category of other frameworks of 'difference'" (Nye, 2003: 97) -- in this case religion -- pursues a more nuanced approach that is attune to a variety of epistemologies rather than a single unified gendered epistemology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores Indigenous standpoint theory in Australia in the context of postcolonialism and some of its aspects influencing Canadian First Nations scholarship. I look at how cultural metanarratives are ideologically informed and act to lock out of scholarship other ways of knowing, being and doing. I argue that they influence knowledge and education so as to ratify Eurowestern dominant knowledge constructs. I develop insights into redressing this imbalance through advocating two-way learning processes for border crossing between Indigenous axiologies, ontologies and epistemologies, and dominant Western ones. In doing so, I note that decolonisation of knowledge sits alongside decolonisation itself but has been a very slow process in the academy. I also note that this does not mean that decolonisation of knowledge is always necessarily an oppositional process in scholarship, proposing that practice-led research (PLR) provides one model for credentialling Indigenous practitioner-knowledge within scholarship. The article reiterates the position of alienation in their own lands that such colonisation implements again and in an influential and ongoing way. The article further proposes that a PhD by artefact and exegesis based on PLR is potentially an inclusive model for First Nations People to enter into non-traditional research within the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deferred-acceptance auctions are mechanisms whose allocation rule can be implemented using an adaptive reverse greedy algorithm. Milgrom and Segal recently introduced these auctions and proved that they satisfy remarkable incentive guarantees: in addition to being dominant strategy and incentive compatible, they are weakly group-strategyproof and can be implemented by ascending-clock auctions. Neither forward greedy mechanisms nor the VCG mechanism generally possess any of these additional incentive properties. The goal of this paper is to initiate the study of deferred-acceptance auctions from an approximation standpoint. We study what fraction of the optimal social welfare can be guaranteed by these auctions in two canonical problems, knapsack auctions and combinatorial auctions with single-minded bidders. For knapsack auctions, we prove a separation between deferred-acceptance auctions and arbitrary dominant-strategy incentive-compatible mechanisms. For combinatorial auctions with single-minded bidders, we design novel polynomial-time mechanisms that achieve the best of both worlds: the incentive guarantees of a deferred-acceptance auction, and approximation guarantees close to the best possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current research ideologies in sport science allow for the possibility of investigators producing statistically significant results to help fit the outcome into a predetermined theory. Additionally, under the current Neyman-Pearson statistical structure, some argue that null hypothesis significant testing (NHST) under the frequentist approach is flawed, regardless. For example, a p-value is unable to measure the probability that the studied hypothesis is true, unable to measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result, and unable to provide a good measure of evidence regarding a model or hypothesis. Many of these downfalls are key questions researchers strive to answer following an investigation. Therefore, a shift towards a magnitude-based inference model, and eventually a fully Bayesian framework, is thought to be a better fit from a statistical standpoint and may be an improved way to address biases within the literature. The goal of this article is to shed light on the current research and statistical shortcomings the field of sport science faces today, and offer potential solutions to help guide future research practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How should we understand the notion of moral objectivity? Metaethical positions that vindicate morality's objective appearance are often associated with moral realism. On a realist construal, moral objectivity is understood in terms of mind-, stance-, or attitude-independence. But realism is not the only game in town for moral objectivists. On an antirealist construal, morality's objective features are understood in virtue of our attitudes. In this paper I aim to develop this antirealist construal of moral objectivity in further detail, and to make its metaphysical commitments explicit. I do so by building on Sharon Street's version of 'Humean Constructivism'. Instead of the realist notion of attitude-independence, the antirealist account of moral objectivity that I articulate centres on the notion of standpoint-invariance. While constructivists have been criticized for compromising on the issue of moral objectivity, I make a preliminary case for the thesis that, armed with the notion of standpoint-invariance, constructivists have resources to vindicate an account of objectivity with just the right strength, given the commitments of ordinary moral thought and practice. In support of this thesis I highlight recent experimental findings about folk moral objectivism. Empirical observations about the nature of moral discourse have traditionally been taken to give prima facie support to moral realism. I argue, by contrast, that from what we can tell from our current experimental understanding, antirealists can capture the commitments of ordinary discourse at least as well as realists can. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents the results of an experimental study of some properties of low-order finite Abelian groups from the standpoint of the applicability of such groups in cryptographic applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Standpoint Theory suggests that those who can bring the most insight to the workings of society are those on its edges and its margins. People living in circumstances of disempowerment are better placed because of their standpoint to perceive what is really occurring across the social and cultural domain; it is their standpoint, which is the most revealing. When a journalist works undercover, they are attempting to better understand, as far as is possible for an outsider, the standpoint of the people whose stories are being told. This article examines the methods of three undercover print journalists through the lens of standpoint theory, arguing that it is an ethical approach to uncover the lived realities of the disadvantaged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introductory article of the special issue on ‘Geographies of water, energy and waste service coproduction’ explores the implications of coproducing these services in terms of both accessibility and environmental sustainability. According to a socio-natural standpoint, provision extent and resources metabolized by the services are equally regarded employing a threefold conceptual framework integrating actor/flow and area fields. A rich variety of service coproduction geographies in terms of actors involved, resources mobilized and urban spaces covered emerges. More importantly, coproduction of water, energy and waste services proves to leverage on both service accessibility and environmental sustainability of the related resources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Our standpoint analysis of 21 women in pink-collar occupations displays how these workers both adhere to and challenge maternity leave discourses by rhetorically positioning their leaves as time off and (dis)ability. They both acknowledge the advantages of and resist discourses of time and (dis)ability by constructing complicated, contradictory, and ironic knowledge that such language both secures their leaves and revokes their images as competent workers. This study illustrates how standpoint analyses can inform changes in organizational policy and workplace practices for mothers employed in pink-collar occupations based on common knowledge and differences in local-specific experiences. Beyond providing such analysis, this study also contributes to greater understandings of the “rhetorical reproduction of ideological systems and logics of contemporary culture” constituting mothering rhetorics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Extending LaFrance & Nicolas's (2012) call for institutional ethnography, this essay argues that institutional ethnography widens the focus of writing center research, potentially bringing into focus the disconnect between writing center scholars' own understanding of writing center work and the understandings of others within the academy. Through the lens of institutional ethnography, we can map how writing center work coordinates with and affects the other work being done within the institution. Using interviews and textual analysis and working from the standpoint of a relatively new writing center director, the author offers her own local study as an example of an institutional ethnographic study and illustrates how the study helped her to better map her work within the institution. She argues that as a method of inquiry, institutional ethnography can help those of us in writing center work advocate for our visions of writing center work with a more complex understanding of writing centers in the institution writ large. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this chapter, I highlight the need to turn the institutional ethnography (IE) lens of enquiry onto IE itself, and consequently, the importance for institutional ethnographers to attend to their standpoint in taking up and activating their understanding of IE. Many, including Wise and Stanley (1990) and Walby (2007), celebrate Smith's sociology but raise important ontological and epistemological questions about IE's own recursive power. While IE has developed from a critique of wider sociological inquiry, it is troubled by the institutional ethnographer's own standpont when using IE uncritically, without reflexivity of their standpoint in relation with IE and knowledge generation. IE stands in relation between the researcher and the everyday of the research participants in a local research context that is particular and plural, situated and dynamic. The chapter highlights a particular critique by Dorothy Smith of Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus as a "blobontology," yet considers the theoretical similarities between Smith and Bourdieu. I argue that institutional ethnographers and IE itself are not be immune from the kinds of unravelling that Smith undertakes of other approaches to sociological inquiry. Researcher standpoint, reflexivity, and their relation to knowledge generation are therefore critical aspects of approach without which there is potential to "other" and develop morally questionable representations of people that diminishes the actuality of their subjective experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New forms of intellectual inequality have become evident with the internationalisation of higher degree researchers (HDRs) education, in particular theoretical dominance and dependency. However, the linguistically and theoretically based inequalities associated with local/global currents of standardized monolingual English HDRs education are gradually opening up to scholarly debates. In the field of education, bilingual HDRs have the potential disposition, and some have the capabilities for multilingual theorizing. Some make use of their knowledge of more than one language to extend the possibilities for theorizing educational phenomena or otherwise naming and making sense of problems. This multilingual theorizing may provide another path to transform the problems with uniformized, Anglophone HDRs education. With this concern, this paper reconsiders the universalisation of Euro-American theories through their embodiment in monolingual English in HDR education. A Dui Hua (对话) standpoint to other languages and theoretical knowledge is outlined and debated to highlight the divergences of languages and thoughts. Thus this paper probes into the possibilities of multilingual educational theorizing, whereby bilingual HDRs generate original conceptual tools that benefit the wider educational research community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how ethics of care informs pedagogical practices in schools. Ethics of care is located within social constructivism that centralises a student centred approach to learning. In so doing, teachers engage students in learning within a relationship of reciprocity. This paper examines the ways in which social reproduction is maintained through normative ethics of care practices that is positioned as culturally neutral in schools. This paper argues for a critical examination of how the teaching/learning nexus is informed by and constrained within the paradigm of white ethics of care in education. There is a particular focus on Indigenous students’ “positionality” in the Australian context throughout the paper and it argues for de-colonising strategies in teaching and schooling. These strategies include, negotiating difference within an ethics of care of reciprocity and recognition through the use of standpoint theory as both method and methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article we sought to address the international double taxation phenomenon from two different standpoints. To begin with, in the first part we analysed the framework of international double taxation, and how this topic was tackled in both Romanian and international literature. International double taxation has been analyzed, mutatis mutandis, from an economic perspective, more precisely in terms of the implications that it generates on economies, on added value, on capital flows, on the internationalisation of business. Second, I believed it was important to analyse international double taxation from a legal perspective, through the jurisdictional effects of obtaining income or holding property at the European or international level. Romania's case is carefully approached in this paper, aiming to highlight the issues Romania is facing concerning cooperation in tax matters with authorities from other countries, how the more than 80 double taxation conventions are applied and interpreted, but also other aspects that should be considered by the Romanian tax authorities, based on the provisions of the Fiscal Code and the Fiscal Procedure Code. The article ends by presenting, commenting on and analysing two test cases in international double taxation, of remarkable importance and actuality for Romanian jurisprudence to observe how complex double taxation mechanisms operate in practice. The conclusion of this article emphasises the importance of significant "steps" achieved by Romania on the path to creating a true "fiscal area" in the European Union, as well as the "corridors" that should be inserted to correct economic -- legal and economic deficiencies and gaps, in order to strengthen the fiscal area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we integrate counterpublic sphere theory and feminist standpoint theory to examine the discursive labor and debates shaped by the hashtags #YesAllWomen and #YesAllWhiteWomen. We identify the most influential users in these hashtags’ networks and critically analyze their tweets. Our findings illustrate how feminist counterpublics use Twitter to produce and progress feminist frames about violence against women while simultaneously engaging in community debates about race and inclusion. Our work illuminates how contemporary feminist discourse continues to reflect historical tensions in feminist movements, and how digital media platforms (and user generated tools like Twitter’s hashtag function) can equip feminist cultural workers with new ways to upend mainstream narratives and elevate conversations within feminist sphere(s). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores theoretical and practical implications of feminist theory—specifically standpoint theory, ethics of care, and related concepts from feminist geography—for global public relations, an area of theory and practice often associated with Western imperialism. Global public relations theory dictates that effective transnational campaigns should retain some global consistency but also be tailored to local publics. Textual analysis of global campaigns by a coalition of public and private organizations promoting handwashing in poor and agrarian communities worldwide revealed that effective campaigns had globally constant and locally responsive elements. Furthermore, the campaigns aligned with standpoint theory’s privileging of situated knowledge grounded in lived experiences, especially women’s. Last, effective global handwashing campaigns were motivated by an ethic of care and commitment to social change, showing relevance of feminist approaches for global public relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]