scholarly journals Beyond Nonpartisan Discourses: Radical Knowledge for Extreme Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1 (1)) ◽  
pp. 148-154
Author(s):  
Marco Armiero
Keyword(s):  
Radical Knowledge

Epistemic Ruptures in South African Standpoint Knowledge-Making: Academic Feminism and the #FeesMustFall Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desiree Lewis ◽  
Cheryl Margaret Hendricks
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Academic Feminism ◽  
The Many ◽  
Radical Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Activism

Alongside the many structural and political processes generated by the #FeesMustFall student protests between 2015 and 2016 were narratives and discourses about revitalising the transformation of universities throughout South Africa. It was the very notion of “transformation,” diluted by neo-liberal macro-economic restructuring from the late 1990s, that students jettisoned as they increasingly embraced the importance of “decolonisation.” By exploring some of the key debates and interventions driven by the #FeesMustFall movement, we consider how earlier trajectories of feminist knowledge-making resonate with these. The article also reflects on how aspects of intellectual activism within the student protests can deepen and push back the frontiers of contemporary South African academic feminism. In so doing, it explores how radical knowledge-making at, and about, universities, has contributed to radical political thought in South Africa.

Three Views of Human Knowledge

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Sosa
Keyword(s):  
True Belief ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Perceptual Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Account ◽  
To Come ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Realist View ◽  
Radical Knowledge

This chapter considers a traditional account of knowledge along with its indirect realist view of perception. On a traditional approach, perceptual knowledge is a special case of “justified true belief plus.” Such justification is alleged to come from the evidence of our senses. The chapter also compares a radically opposed, knowledge-first account, one that claims an important advantage: it is said to make room for reasons that can establish answers to our questions, enabling us to vouch for those answers. There is, however, a further alternative to consider. While better aligned with the tradition, this further alternative, as the chapter describes, still claims the same advantage as the radical knowledge-first approach.

scholarly journals Nations at Ease with Radical Knowledge

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Horst ◽  
Alan Irwin
Keyword(s):  
Radical Knowledge

scholarly journals Pál Maliga, founder of the research in floral biology of fruit species in Hungary

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Nyéki ◽  
M. Soltész
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Sour Cherry ◽  
Floral Biology ◽  
Stone Fruit ◽  
Breeding Activity ◽  
Fruit Species ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Radical Knowledge ◽  
The Way

Pál Maliga founded the Hungarian research in floral biology of fruit species during his more than forty-year-long carrier. Almost all pome and stone fruit species have been covered by his activities, but he also dealt with the fertility of walnut and chestnut. Regularities have been revealed and the methodical studies opened the way to approach and elaborate alternatives for the association of varieties in planning high yielding commercial plantations. In his breeding activity the choice of crossing parental varieties was based on the knowledge in fertility relations. The obtained sour cherry varieties represent the world-wide maximum quality, reliability and security of yields. Hungarian renewed sour cherry cultivation owes its fame and prosperity to those varieties, nevertheless also to the radical knowledge of the biological bases of fertility.

scholarly journals A “Radical” Approach to Reading Development in Chinese: The Role of Semantic Radicals and Phonetic Radicals

2003 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 849-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie Suk-Han Ho ◽  
Ting-Ting Ng ◽  
Wing-Kin Ng
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Reading Development ◽  
Semantic Category ◽  
Chinese Children ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Chinese Word ◽  
Semantic Radical ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
Radical Knowledge

Two studies investigating the significance of radical knowledge in Chinese reading development are reported in this paper. Study 1 examined the semantic radical knowledge of 20 Grade 1, 20 Grade 3, and 20 Grade 5 Chinese children in Hong Kong. It was found that various types of semantic radical knowledge, including the position and semantic category of semantic radicals, correlated significantly with Chinese word reading and sentence comprehension. Study 2 examined phonetic radical knowledge with another three groups of 20 Chinese children in Grades 1, 3, and 5 respectively. It was found that various measures of phonetic radical knowledge, including the function and sound value of phonetic radicals, correlated significantly with Chinese word reading. These studies found that, developmentally, the children started acquiring the knowledge of character structure, position, semantic category, and sound value of radicals from about Grade 1. However, they did not understand that the function of semantic radicals is to provide meaning cues in reading until Grade 3. The authors concluded that the radical is an important orthographic processing unit in reading development in Chinese.

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