Where is critical analysis of power and positionality in knowledge translation?

In Canada, the Eurocentric epistemological foundations of knowledge translation (KT) approaches and practices have been significantly influenced by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) KT definition. More recently, integrated knowledge translation (IKT) has emerged in part as epistemic resistance to Eurocentric discourse to critically analyse power relations between researcher and participants. Yet, despite the proliferation of IKT literature, issues of power in research relationships and strategies to equalize relationships remain largely unaddressed. In this paper, we analyse the gaps in current IKT theorizing against the backdrop of the CIHR KT definition by drawing on critical scholars, specifically those writing about standpoint theory and critical reflexivity, to advance IKT practice that worked to surface and change research-based power dynamics within the context of health research systems and policy.

The institutional logic of the sustainable organisation: the case of a chocolate supply network

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how, and by whom, institutional logics are determined in the action of sustainable organisation. The authors analyse a supply chain network structure to understand how multiple stakeholders' perceptions of sustainability emerge into a dominant logic and diffuse across an organisational field.Design/methodology/approachStakeholder network theory provides novel insights into emerging logics within a chocolate supply chain network. Semi-structured interviews with 35 decision-makers were analysed alongside 269 company documents to capture variations in emergent logics. The network was mapped to include 63 nodes and 366 edges to analyse power structure and mechanisms.FindingsThe socio-economic organising principles of sustainable organisation, their sources of power and their logics are identified. Economic and social logics are revealed, yet the dominance of economic logics creates risks to their coexistence. Logics are largely shaped in pre-competitive activities, and resource fitness to collaborative clusters limits access for non-commercial actors.Research limitations/implicationsPowerful firms use network structures and collaborative and concurrent inter-organisational relationships to define and diffuse their conceptualisation of sustainability and restrict competing logics.Originality/valueThis novel study contributes to sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) through presenting the socio-economic logic as a new conceptual framework to understand the action of sustainable organisation. The identification of sophisticated mechanisms of power and hegemonic control in the network opens new research agendas.

Sequence Impedances of Land Single-Core Insulated Cables: Direct Formulae and Multiconductor Cell Analyses Compared with Measurements

The paper deals with the sequence impedances (positive/negative and zero sequences) of high- and extra-high-voltage land single-core insulated cables. In particular, it presents the comparisons between sequence impedance measurements and computations. The computations of the sequence impedances are carried out by means of the most important international normative and council references (IEC/Cigré) and of multiconductor cell analysis which is a consolidated and powerful tool developed by University of Padova in order to analyse power frequency regimes of multiconductor asymmetric power systems. The comparisons are presented with reference to four high- and extra-high voltage insulated cables, even if the available ones are much higher: however, the conclusions derived from these four reference cases are general and can be useful for transmission system operators and for power electric system engineers involved in insulated cables. The paper demonstrates, for the first time in technical literature, that direct formulae cannot correctly evaluate the sequence impedances of installed single-core land cable systems. Extensive on-field measurement campaigns have served to this purpose.

Critical studies of the politics of public health promotion

The chapter provides an overview of existing critical social science studies of health promotion and outlines the analytical framework used in the remainder of the book. First, we review and discuss the merits and the limitations of the most influential political science, political economy, and sociological analyses, seeking to critically address contemporary politics of health. Second, we account for the Foucauldian-inspired analytical framework used in the empirical analyses. This implies accounting for the ways in which we adopt key analytical principles and concepts from Foucault’s work in order to analyse power-knowledge relations and unquestioned norms in the contemporary politics of health.

Principals, agents, and the delegation of power inside political parties

Chapter 4 sets out the principal-agent framework of power delegation that is applied to the Labour Party, the PS and SPD throughout the book. It first presents a brief overview of the literature that uses principal-agent frameworks to analyse power delegation inside political systems and political parties. Next, it highlights the problems that power delegation can cause inside parties, and explained how parties can address them. The chapter then outlines the conceptual framework that will subsequently be applied to the Labour Party, the PS and SPD, introducing four possible modes of power delegation between the three faces of the party organisations and the three levels. Next, the research questions guiding the empirical analysis in are introduced. As this book is primarily concerned with power delegation in the formulation of European policy and the processes of selecting EU specialists, both of these activities have been briefly described. Last but not least, this chapter mentions a number of factors that are likely to shape the parties’ dealings with the EU, namely: the legal regulations of internal party organisations; the parties’ EU positions; the financial resources available to the parties; and the status as parties in government or opposition.

Mediatization Studies and Cultural Studies: A Possible Dialogue for Further Critical Analysis?

<p>Over the last decades, it has been possible to observe an increasing amount of research having for common assumption the impossibility to dissociate changes which occur within medias, culture and society. Mediatization theories, particularly developed in Scandinavian countries, and American configurations of cultural studies utilize interesting tools and conceptual material to think about the transformations that occur within the social field. Both encourage questioning the power relations and struggles that inform those transformations. However, their manner of conceiving and using “culture” and “media” as conceptual tools for analysis differ, bringing multiple and diverging ways to study and question objects, phenomenon and processes. These two approaches do not appear as irreconcilable and would take advantage of being put in dialogue as a way to see how they can possibly complement each other. For example, by enriching their mutual understanding of power and, therefore, their critical character. This article draws points of tension and convergence between cultural studies and mediatization studies. It explores cultural studies' focus on (cultural) practices as a privileged site to analyse power relations and their ongoing negotiations by and through media. This approach may resonate or complement Couldry’s (2004) proposal for a paradigm of media as practice “to help us address how media are embedded in the interlocking fabric of social and cultural life” (p. 129). This dialogue between mediatization theories and cultural studies is being put to the forefront with the hope it may allow further discussions and relevant theoretical avenues for critical research located within both fields. Thinking of this possible interplay let foresee the possibility of questioning objects, processes and phenomenon in a critical perspective in a context produced and characterised by medias’ omnipresence. It would allow researchers to question the power struggles that are negotiated through practices themselves, without neglecting the consideration that most of these practices are made by, with or within media. </p>

Islam and Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Qatar

This paper offers an Islamic perspective on the issues of female migrants, mainly in domestic work, and the Islamic ethics that pertain to their contemporary circumstances in Qatar. It uses intersectionality theory to argue that multiple identity categories of migration, ethnicity and class are important along with gender to better analyse power relations and discrimination facing female migrant domestic workers. It refers to Islamic egalitarian and humanitarian teachings as an ethical framework for legislative and cultural reforms. The paper also offers some real-life examples to illustrate the issues and challenges facing migrant domestic workers in Qatar. In the end, some recommendations and implications are offered.

Norminis vyriškumas tėvystės praktikose

Vilniaus universiteto Lyčių studijų centrasDidlaukio g. 47, VilniusTel. (8-5) 244 24 43El. paštas: [email protected] Straipsnyje nagrinėjami autorės 2011–2013 m. atlikti 30 pusiau struktūruotų interviu su 23–44 m. vyrais, turinčiais mažamečių vaikų. Straipsnio tikslas yra panagrinėti norminio vyriškumo kuriamus galios santykius tyrimo dalyvių tėvystės praktikose. Tyrimo dalyvių patirčiai analizuoti pasitelkiami R. W. Connell hegemoninio, T. Coleso mozaikinio vyriškumo sampratos ir istoriškai šalyje susiformavę tėvystės modeliai.Tyrimo analizė atskleidė, kad Lietuvos visuomenėje dominuojančios vyriškumo sampratos pasireiškia tiriamųjų tėvystės praktikose. Vieno norminio vyriškumo bruožo neatitikimas kelia nepasitikėjimą savimi ir skatina vyrus pabrėžti kitus norminio vyriškumo bruožus tėvystės praktikose arba permąstyti visuomenėje vyraujančias vyriškumo normas ir ieškoti alternatyvių būdų, kad užsitikrintų pasitikėjimą savimi būdami vyrai ir tėvai.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: norminis vyriškumas, hegemoninis vyriškumas, galios santykiai, tėvystės praktikos.Normative Masculinities in Fathering Practices Lina Šumskaitė Summary In the article, there are analysed 30 semi-structured interviews conducted by the author in 2011–2013 with men aged 23–44 and having small children. The aim of the study was to analyse power relations in fathering practices created by normative masculinity. The study participants’ experiences are analysed by using R. W. Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity and T. Coles’ concept of mosaic masculinity as well as the fatherhood models historically formed in the country. The survey has revealed that the normative masculinity conceptions prevailing in Lithuanian society are manifested out in the study participants’ fathering practices. Non-compliance to one feature of normative masculinity undermines their confidence in themselves and encourages men to highlight the other features of normative masculinity in fathering or to rethink the prevailing norms of masculinity and to search for alternative ways to secure confidence in themselves as men and fathers. Key words: normative masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, power relations, fathering