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How Can Fiction Contribute to Critical Race Theory?
Personal narrative and storytelling have always been key features of Critical Race Theory, that body of legal scholarship focused on the role that...
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Elements, Renaissance Theory of Natural
For centuries, the conception of natural elements in the Western world was dominated by Aristotle’s four elements-theory. In addition of being part...
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Harm Reduction, Solidarity, and Social Mobility as Target Functions: A Rortian Approach to Stakeholder Theory
Instrumental Stakeholder Theory has begun to suffer from what might be termed “mission drift.” Despite its initial success in creating a foothold for...
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Basic Tools: Elements of a Theory of Speech Acts
In this chapter, I explain the basics of speech act theory in the version that best suits our purpose, i.e., in Searle and Vanderveken (Foundations...
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Schiller and Critical Theory
To inquire after the relationship of Schiller’s theoretical writings to contemporary critical theory is to inquire about no less than the future of...
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Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation: From New Public Management to New Public Governance
The European Commission’s pursuit of “Responsible Research and Innovation” (RRI) and its implementation in the European Research Area serve to...
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The non-existence of institutional facts
That certain paper bills have monetary value, that Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia, and that Prince Philip is the husband of Queen...
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Applying the feminist agrifood systems theory (fast) to U.S. organic, value-added, and non-organic non-value-added farms
The population of women farm operators continues to increase in the U.S. That growth, however, is mediated by research showing that women in...
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Evolutionary Economics and the Theory of Cultural Evolution
“Evolutionary economics” is a heterogeneous field of economic research that still lacks a coherent theoretical foundation. Some contributions dealing...
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A Postcolonial Theory of Recognition: Honneth and Fanon on Violence and Mutual Recognition
Frantz Fanon provides a rough sketch of what mutual recognition might look like within the postcolonial situation in the penultimate chapter of Black...
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Explaining Russia’s war against Ukraine: How can foreign policy analysis and political theory be helpful?
The article raises three key questions: what explains Putin’s (mis)calculations in the field of security and Russia’s hard-power projection onto...
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Classical Chinese Monetary Theory
As in the Mediterranean world, coinage of metallic money in China dates back to ca. 600 BCE. But in contrast to the precious metal coinages that...
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A Critical Theory of Economy? Sustainability and Emancipation
This chapter explores how a specific analysis of capitalism in recent critical theory can contribute to understanding the relationship between...
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The Role of the Law in Critical Theory: An Engagement with Hardt and Negri’s Commonwealth
This paper discusses the role of Law and Legal Thinking in Critical Theory with specific reference to the arguments that Michael Hardt and Antonio...
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New entrant farming policy as predatory inclusion: (Re)production of the farm through generational renewal policy programs in Scotland
New entrant policy, literature, and research offers an important angle for exploring where dominant agrarianism is reproduced and contested. As new...
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Justification Systems Theory
This chapter summarizes Justification Systems Theory (JUST), which provides the metatheoretical architecture that explains how humans evolved from...
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Explanatory efficiency: A framework for analyzing the dynamic properties of explanatory games
In this paper I will discuss the problem of evaluating dynamic properties of the procedural rules that govern science. I will propose a novel...
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The Tragedy of the Liberal Theory of Science
The Liberal Theory of Science, best articulated by Michael Polanyi, held that science advanced when autonomous scientists followed their best hunches...
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When Farmers are Pulled in Too Many Directions: Comparing Institutional Drivers of Food Safety and Environmental Sustainability in California Agriculture
Aspirations to farm ‘better’ may fall short in practice due to constraints outside of farmers’ control. Yet farmers face proliferating pressures to...
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The Company as a Good Citizen: Institutional Responsibility and Cosmopolitanism
The market requires more focus on responsibility and business ethics. This article discusses the vision of the business company as a responsible...