The Role of the Editor of an Academic Publication Blog

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-211
Author(s):  
Stuart A. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
London School ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
London School Of Economics

Academic blogging is now a widely used medium for scholarly communication. A substantial body of literature exists on the potential opportunities and challenges that blogging affords to scholars, yet the role of blog editors in facilitating research dissemination and public engagement remains largely overlooked. This paper draws on insights from the development of academic blogs by the London School of Economics between 2010 and 2020. It discusses the demands on blog editors and sets forth a framework for academic institutions and scholars to support editors in their efforts to realize the benefits of academic blogging.

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-207
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
London School ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
History Of ◽  
London School Of Economics

Georg von Krogh of ETH Zurich reviews “The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development” by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores the role of open source software in economic development. Discusses software and growth; the history of open source; the supply side--comingling open source and proprietary software; the demand side--assessing trade-offs and making choices; assessing government policies toward software; and the takeaways. Lerner is Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. Schankerman is Professor of Economics and Research Associate with the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Glossary; index.

Ethnicity as Frottage in Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mount Kenya

Frottage ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 95-126
Author(s):  
Keguro Macharia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
African Studies ◽  
London School ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
London School Of Economics

Chapter 3 argues that Jomo Kenyatta attempts to fuse an ethno-nationalist and ethno-diasporic project through a genealogical imperative that explicitly excludes homosexuality. I track how Kenyatta develops his understanding of ethno-nationalism as a gendered and heteronormative structure while editing the Kikuyu-language newspaper Muigwithania in the late 1920s and argue that Facing Mount Kenya extends this ethno-nationalist project while also engaging the ethno-diasporic structures Kenyatta engaged as an activist and student in London in the mid-to-late 1930s. Kenyatta tries to use ethnicity—specifically, Kikuyu identity—to disengage from black diasporic histories of thingification. Thus, his work offers an important window for examining how African studies continues to reject the role of colonial modernity in forging ideas of global blackness. Kenyatta wrote Facing Mount Kenya as Bronislaw Malinowski’s student at the London School of Economics and as part of a vibrant, London-based black diaspora collective that included C.L.R. James, George Padmore, and Amy Garvey. I draw from these disciplinary and political contexts to argue that Facing Mount Kenya frames its ethno-nationalist and ethno-diasporic project within the intimate terms established within black diasporic circles. Despite Kenyatta’s resistance to “thingification” as a frame, Facing Mount Kenya explicitly addresses sexological paradigms advanced by Havelock Ellis and Malinowski and embedded within colonial modernity’s logics. I am especially interested in how Kenyatta discusses frottage among young people (ombani na ngweko) as a model for thinking about ethnicity as constant rubbing, and I argue that ombani na ngweko provides Kenyatta with a model for engaging the ethno-national and the ethno-diasporic.

‘Protests Butter No Parsnips’: Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933–1938

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
London School ◽  
Academic Assistance ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Economic Depression ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
Political Turmoil

This chapter examines in detail the central role of Lord Beveridge in establishing the Academic Assistance Council, in a context of economic depression, social and political turmoil, and pervasive anti-Jewish hostility in Britain. Lord Beveridge's work with British academic refugee organizations was on a par with his leading role in the major expansion of the London School of Economics, the building of London University's Senate House in the 1920s, and perhaps even with his famous 1942 report on Social Insurance and Allied Services.

Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth: Reforms and Economic Transformation in India

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1203-1205
Author(s):  
Swati Dhingra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Transformation ◽  
London School ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
The Family ◽  
Product Scope ◽  
University Professor ◽  
London School Of Economics

Swati Dhingra of London School of Economics and Political Science reviews, “Reforms and Economic Transformation in India” edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Nine papers explore economic policy reforms in India and consider why their impact has not been as significant as it has been in other reform-oriented economies. Papers discuss labor regulations and firm size distribution in Indian manufacturing; complementarity between formal and informal manufacturing in India—the role of policies and institutions; services growth in India—a look inside the black box; organized retailing in India—issues and outlook; selling the family silver to pay the grocer's bill?—the case of privatization in India; variety in, variety out—imported input and product scope expansion in India; reforms and the competitive environment; the postreform narrowing of inequality across castes—evidence from the states; and entrepreneurship in services and the socially disadvantaged in India. Bhagwati is University Professor of Economics and Law at Columbia University. Panagariya is Professor of Economics and Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University.”

Meaningless labor in the concept of David Graeber

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Popov
Keyword(s):  
Social Norm ◽  
Knowledge Assessment ◽  
London School ◽  
Social Force ◽  
The Social ◽  
Symbolic Exchange ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
Humanistic Knowledge

David Graeber (1961–2020) is a former professor at the London School of Economics, sociologist, and social anthropologist, prominent thinker of modernity; in the decades ahead, his views and social ideas will be highly demanded in social and humanistic knowledge. Assessment is given to his social theory of labor, which Graeber dedicated multiple books and articles, viewing labor as a futile phenomenon for the society and individual. He notes that meaningless labor in just a set of actions subordinated to some social force. The analysis of his ideas reveals several important vectors of modern social mentality: 1) in reconsideration of the role of labor in life of a person and society, the social frame of references (from the perspective of total sociality) is brought to the forefront, while the economic and political vectors of the assessment of labor assessment are shifted to the background; 2) meaningless labor becomes the social norm and generates the new system of values, for example, bureaucracy, administration, office, etc.; 3) gradually and with strong consolidation in society, labor becomes part of the active symbolic struggle (for example, for power) and symbolic exchange, which entails inequality between people and social commonalities. The article substantiates the heuristic nature of application of the concept of meaningless labor in characterizing the central ideas pf David Graeber, taking into account the fact that labor is viewed as an “imitation” of social value. This thesis is fundamental in comprehension of Graeber’s theory, as all his works contain a refrain on the need to reconsider the key social values (labor, money, finance, taxes, resources, and other), the nature of which is determined by both economic and sociocultural relations.

The rise of pragmatism in state/market debate

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD B. SALTMAN
Keyword(s):  
Health Sector ◽  
Patient Choice ◽  
London School ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Ideological Debate ◽  
State And Market ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Specific Health

Abstract:Discussion about the relative role of public and private in health care has evolved substantially across Europe since the 1980s. The previous, broadly ideological debate about state ‘versus’ market has been superceded by pragmatic considerations on how best to combine state ‘and’ market to achieve specific health sector outcomes. The London School of Economics debate about expanded patient choice demonstrated the extent to which pragmatism has gained the upper hand.

Catch them Young : Role of Educational Institutions in Community Development- A Descriptive Study on the Perception of College Students in Chennai

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 170-182
Author(s):  
Dr. R. Sundari ◽  
Ms. Sangeetha Manoj
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Grass Root Level

Community Development is a process of collective action taken by the members of a community to generate solutions for common problems.  The aspects of community well being namely Economic, Social, Environmental and Cultural well being evolves from this type of collective action taken at multiple societal levels. (Weaver, 1971) defines community development as a process of “A public-group approach dedicated to achieving the goals of the total body politic.” Therefore, it is evident that a community can be developed through the effective participation of citizens. It is universally acceptable that community service is a vehicle for safeguarding the environment that is initiated from the participants of the community. In order to imbibe the community consciousness among the citizens, every country should “Catch them Young”. The purpose of the paper is to integrate Participative Model (Active Citizenship, Citizen Networks and Co-production) with Self-service Model (Social Governance, Societal Discipline and Accountability). National and international reviews show that the perception about the community and realisation has to be ingrained at the grass root level; this can be achieved through the participation of academic institutions. This paper is an attempt to highlight. The initiatives taken by educational institutions to imbibe social consciousness, The perceptions of students about their role in community development, and, To identify the effective Private Public Partnership areas for community building Factor analysis has been applied to identify the role of educational institutions and individual citizen’s( Students) in building community consciousness. Linear Regression had been applied in the study to measure the influence of Educational Institutions on the role of Students in building the community.  A weighted average score is awarded by the students for the potential areas of public private partnership for community development is highlighted. The results of the study provide an impact created by the institution over the students. The Study also, consolidates some of the successful community bonding and building activities carried out Academic Institutions.

The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Hermansen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Academic Study

This article provides an overview of the history and current situation of the academic study of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) at American universities. It examines Sufism’s place within the broader curriculum of Islamic studies as well as some of the main themes and approaches employed by American scholars. In addition, it explains both the academic context in which Sufi studies are located and the role of contemporary positions in Islamic and western thought in shaping its academic study.1 Topics and issues of particular interest to a Muslim audience, as well as strictly academic observations, will be raised. In comparison to its role at academic institutions in the traditional Muslim world,2 Sufi studies has played a larger role within the western academic study of Islam during the twentieth century, especially the later decades. I will discuss the numerous reasons for this in the sections on the institutional, intellectual, and pedagogical contexts.

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