Key Scholars Research Articles

Review of international research on school leadership for social justice, equity and diversity

ABSTRACT The issue of social justice (SJ) leadership has become one of the central topics in educational leadership and management research in recent years. Despite increasing attention to the topic among policymakers and researchers during the last two decades, no comprehensive review of SJ leadership research has been conducted. By using bibliographic data from the Scopus database and employing various bibliometric analysis tools, this paper presents a systematic review of SJ leadership research, tracing its development and characteristics within a broad perspective. Results identify the key scholars, sources, and documents in the field of SJ leadership, as well as the most used concepts and their interconnections. A serious imbalance in the SJ leadership literature is also identified, with few studies from non-Western societies. Possible avenues for future research and review studies are suggested.

The diffusion and development of time-geography in East Asia: The academic life paths of two key scholars

Abstract A summary of the diffusion and development of time-geography in East Asia, specifically in Japan and China, is presented in this article. Previous studies have provided reviews of time-geographic research and spacetime behaviour research in both countries. Few studies, however, have told the story about how and why timegeography diffused into East Asia. By showing and analysing the academic life paths of Yoshio Arai and Yanwei Chai, we conclude that the development of time-geography in Japan and China goes hand in hand with their academic progress. Moreover, the interactions within their academic life paths mark some key events that promoted time-geography significantly. The similarities and differences between their academic life paths are also analysed in this article. Both scholars shared some common research topics, such as childcare problems, urban spatial structures and socioeconomic transformations, which were also the most prominent characteristics of time-geography in East Asia. In addition, the socioeconomic backgrounds of their academic life paths are also quite similar, which reflects the close relationship between time-geography and societal needs. Finally, this article discusses the effectiveness and disadvantages of the academic life path method, as the method has proven to be an important tool in analysing the role that key scholars play in promoting a certain discipline. In conclusion, the diffusion and development of time-geography in East Asia can hardly have happened without both individual scholars’ hard work and the exchange and cooperation activities between scholars.

Young Adult Literature for Black Lives: Critical and Storytelling Traditions from the African Diaspora

Academic criticism of Black African and African diaspora literature, media, and culture for youth and young adults has heretofore been largely out of the hands of scholars of African descent. This mirrors the fact that until recently, and in many cases still, people of African descent have not been in control of our stories, our images, or our presence outside of our own spaces. This reclamatory essay traces traditions of research and criticism of African diaspora young adult literature in four regions (US, UK, Caribbean, Africa), with an emphasis on key scholars and critics as well as notable authors from each area. While most work in the field has centred on United States scholarship and texts, there are promising developments occurring in other regions, from recently shuttered journals such as the Caribbean magazine Anansesem and Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature, to the REIYL (Researchers Exploring Inclusive Youth Literature) conference in the United Kingdom in 2019. The article concludes with a clarion call to the field, delineating the urgency of supporting further research and criticism by Black and African scholars in the future.

A Century of Economics and Engineering at Stanford

This article documents the disciplinary exchanges between economists and engineers at Stanford throughout the twentieth century. We outline the role of key scholars such as Kenneth Arrow and Robert Wilson, as well as engineers turned administrators like Frederick Terman. We show that engineers drew upon economic theories of decision and allocation to improve practical industrial management decisions. Reciprocally, economists found in engineering the tools that they needed to rethink production and growth theory (including linear programming, optimal control theory, an epistemology of “application” that emphasized awareness to institutional details, trials and errors and experiments). By the 2000s, they had turned into economic engineers designing markets and other allocation mechanisms. These cross-disciplinary exchanges were mediated by Stanford’s own institutional culture, notably its use of joint appointments, the development of multidisciplinary “programs” for students, the ability to attract a variety of visitors every year, the entrepreneurial and contract-oriented vision of its administrators, and the close ties with the industrial milieu that came to be called the Silicon Valley.

Procedural Integrity and Partisan Gerrymandering

In the opening lines of her dissent in Rucho v. Common Cause, Justice Kagan articulated a concern that the practice of partisan gerrymandering endangers the legitimacy of American democracy. The primary task of this article is to flesh out the contours of this concern and articulate precisely how partisan gerrymandering undermines the enterprise of democratic decision-making. The key concept I introduce is a norm of procedural integrity. This norm demands some separation or distance between the purpose(s) motivating the choice of a collective decision-making rule, and the substance of the decisions reached under that decision-making rule. In illuminating the normative appeal of procedural integrity and its necessity to the enterprise of democratic decision-making, this article seeks to make three primary contributions: first, it will help to bring conceptual clarity to the harms posed by partisan gerrymandering in both normative-theoretical terms and in more policy-oriented terms. Second, it will also help to clarify those respects in which partisan gerrymandering should trouble us less. My argument is not a categorical critique of the practice, and I do believe there are circumstances in which partisan gerrymandering would not pose significant harm to democratic principles or democratic legitimacy. Third, my critique of partisan gerrymandering will also suggest better and worse judicial responses to dealing with the problem in the present time. As I will argue, there is much to be commended in the spirit of caution that can be found in past discussion of partisan gerrymandering in various Supreme Court opinions. The article proceeds as follows: in Part I, one of my main tasks is to flesh out and defend the concept of procedural integrity. My second primary task in Part I is to clarify the qualified nature of my critique. While I argue that procedural integrity is implicit in the idea of democratic decision-making and is an element that contributes to democratic legitimacy, I also argue that there may be contexts in which it is less important — such as moments in time where the policy consequences of particular elections are less important. Nonetheless, I conclude Part I by emphasizing the significance of procedural integrity for contemporary American politics. In Part II, I further develop the concept of procedural integrity by grounding it in the various arguments put forth in key Supreme Court opinions on partisan gerrymandering, and in some of the key scholarly works on the topic. In Part III, I elaborate on precisely why partisan gerrymandering poses such a threat to democratic legitimacy at the present moment in time. In particular, I identify and elaborate on three conditions of contemporary American politics that both heighten the need for procedural integrity, and that create significant opportunities for lasting damage to be done by partisan gerrymandering. They are, in turn, (1) The existence of a broad policy space within which partisan conflict has the potential to touch on significant domains of American society; (2) The mapping of sharp ideological divisions within society onto sharp partisan divisions; and (3) A signaling by political elites of their willingness to drive forward on significant changes in American politics and society. Finally, in Part IV, I conclude by discussing how the Supreme Court might proceed given the polarized context of the present moment in time, and the troubling consequences that might flow from unchecked partisan manipulation of electoral districting.

“There is no ‘us and them’”: Engaging with Migration and Border Crossing Narratives through Shadow Puppetry in Ghosts of the River

ABSTRACT This paper explores the representation of border crossing and other migration experiences in the shadow play Ghosts of the River, written by Octavio Solís and performed by the ShadowLight Company. The devices employed to engage spectators with the reality of migrants in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas are analysed in order to bring out the play’s potential to raise awareness of social (in)justice and human rights in the context of the current migratory crisis. Solís’s accounts of his own purposes and composition process are considered, with particular reference to the need to erase the “us” versus “them” divide that tears people apart. The study is underpinned by theories of othering pertaining to the construction of the migrant as alien other or stranger, as articulated by several key scholars. Likewise, spectral criticism informs the interpretation of the characters’ ghostly nature. In this regard, theories deriving from Derrida’s hauntology elaborate on the use of the ghost trope in fictional texts, particularly in those texts pertaining to minority cultural discourses, in which the ghost embodies the oppressed other reappearing as a haunting figure that questions the established order. As is shown, this is the case with the play’s ghost figures, caught in the liminal space of the river as haunting presences endowed with a voice that enables them to articulate their narratives and reenact once and again their ordeals as migrant crossers.

The Nordic contribution to regional science: People, principles and empirics

AbstractThis paper examines the contribution of the Nordic countries to regional science scholarship and practice over the last century. In order to do this we begin by reviewing the contributions of five key scholars whose work has heavily shaped regional science thinking in different ways. In each case the work of each of these scholars was seminal in different ways in different strands of regional science research. Yet, at the same time, one of the issues which arises is that the contribution of these key thinkers has to some extent often been rather overlooked, in some cases for linguistics reasons, but in other cases because of changing research traditions. The more recent contributions of Nordic scholars to regional science research are very varied, but at the same time it is possible to detect a clear focus on issues related to knowledge‐related and innovation‐related topics. The analytical contributions of Nordic regional science research are much bigger than the size of the countries might suggests, but this is not always understood. Moreover, over the years the Nordic regional science community has also played a significant role in regional science institutions and activities, which again is probably more significant than the size of the Nordic countries would suggest.

Towards a Marxist Theory of Mediation: Contributions from Ibero-America to the Study of Digital Communication

This paper presents and articulates for the first time the concept of mediation as theorised by three key scholars of the Ibero-American space, namely Manuel Martín-Serrano, Luis Martín-Santos, and Jesús Martín-Barbero. This article shows that their understandings of mediation are valuable for the study of digital communication, particularly for identifying criteria that facilitate the sublation of communicative capitalism into communicative socialism. The three scholars have placed the concept of mediation at the centre of their intellectual production with the aim of breaking with mechanical Marxism, but provide differing conceptualisations and have scarcely engaged in a dialogue of knowledges. This article will articulate the complementarity of Martín-Serrano’s Marxist socio-historical analysis of communication, Martín-Barbero’s Latin American cultural studies, and Martín-Santos’s phenomenological theorisation of mediation as the key concept of Marxist epistemology.

Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas ed. by Jimmy A. Noriega, Analola Santana

Reviewed by: Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas ed. by Jimmy A. Noriega, Analola Santana Paola Hernandez Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas. Edited by Jimmy A. Noriega and Analola Santana. Theater in the Americas series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018; pp. 320. As their title indicates, in this book, Jimmy Noriega and Analola Santana explore new ways of understanding Latin American and Latino/a theatre by taking a wide and inclusive approach to theatrical practices and practitioners. Utilizing a clever strategy of mapping “cartographies of power,” the introduction to this book strives “to complicate and (re) envision the spaces and significances of Latin American and Latina/o performance practices” (1). It disrupts a hierarchical way of understanding the Americas as North/South or West/East binomials, recognizing that the theatre of the Americas benefits from a new “approach [that] argues for a scholarly shift from the United States as America to the United States as part of the Americas” (5; emphasis in original). Their inclusive and fluid study of theatre in the Latino/a Americas results in a compilation of quite distinct voices from scholars, artists, and practitioners whose points of view and relations to the theatre vary, sometimes drastically. The book offers this plethora of voices in order to expand the notion of what and how theatre and performance practices from this hemisphere are produced and studied. The volume is divided into five parts, each of which offers examples of how key scholars and artists in the field define, understand, and even complicate their own theatrical cartographies. In the first part, “Crafting Theoretical Frameworks from beyond the US Borders,” Violeta Luna, whose powerful photograph graces the cover of the book, is the first of many artists in the volume to focus on images of bodies as political spaces and territorial constructions. With introspection on her performance piece Vírgenes y Diosas, she explores the “cultural in-betweenness” (27) of popular culture, Mexican Catholic, and Aztec iconographies. Ileana Diéguez writes about the current violence in Mexico through the lens of how pain can be experienced in performance (46). Focusing on different performative practices that call attention to the forty-three students disappeared form Ayotzinapa, she argues that it is impossible to imagine ourselves separate from the victims. Jorge Dubatti demonstrates how the concepts of teatro-matriz and liminality help us to think beyond what is usually categorized as “theatre” to consider theatre as part of a larger network that explores the human condition. In the second part, “Rethinking Histories of Geography,” artists and scholars revisit how conquest and colonialism restructured the geopolitical understanding of the Americas. Gad Guterman and Brian Eugenio Herrera study the encounters between colonizers and colonized. Herrera’s historical essay argues that conquistador Oñote’s auto (1598), performed in what is now New Mexico, was the first of such brutal spectacles of dominance that would allow subsequent “enactments of encounter” as didactic Spanish performances of conquest (84). Guterman shows how Fernando de Orbea’s late-seventeenth/early eighteenth-century piece La conquista de Santa Fe de Bogotá (Colombia) is a resistance play that, through invention and imagination, conceives of new ways to be a criollo. Diana Taylor offers an excellent analysis of Earth by renowned Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo, in which the artist uses her body to expose violence that relates to her and her country: genocide, violence against women, and colonialism. Artists Migdalia Cruz and Virginia Grise offer their own personal journeys as migrating bodies that occupy different spaces, cultures, and languages. One of this volume’s major contributions is its examination of race and ethnicity from Brazil, Panama, and Indigenous communities in Mexico. In part 3, “The Historical Body: Race and Ethnicity,” Katherine Zien offers an excellent study of the representations of race, class, nation, and empire in minstrel acts in the Canal Zone in the early twentieth century. Similarly, Carlos Cortez Minchillo studies race relations in Brazil through an analysis of black theatre groups such as Teatro Experimental do Negro (1944) and Bando de Teatro Olodum (1987) that have created new spaces for black actors and audiences. Debra Castillo looks...

Analysing scholarly contributions to public debate with social media issue mapping: a case study of the Australia Day controversy

ABSTRACTThis article outlines and demonstrates how multi-platform issue mapping can be used to investigate the impact of scholarly contributions to public debates, using digital methods and data drawn from digital media platforms. We apply this approach to the social media conversation surrounding the January 2018 Australia Day controversy, with a specific focus on the role of ‘amplifier platforms’ like The Conversation in bringing scholarly perspectives to a general audience. We identify key scholarly contributions to the debate, and analyse how they were shared and discussed on Twitter. Findings suggest that articles with a strong positionality are taken up by like-minded, interest-based communities, while those that provide an overview of the issues at hand may be able to reach across these different groups. Finally, the article discusses the future potential of this approach for the analysis of scholarly impact on matters of public concern.

Gender and Sufism in Western Scholarship: Contemporary Constructions and Contestations

In this article I examine the trajectory of contemporary scholarship on gender and Sufism in the West written for English-speaking audiences, with reference to key scholars as well as contexts that have influenced their scholarship. While not aspiring to be comprehensive, this survey offers an overview of an emerging and significant field of study that has developed rapidly in recent decades. After detailing early and seminal studies in the field, an attempt is made to summarize how new textual and field-based scholarship has opened new insights into the subject, and also has led to interpretive debates concerning some significant findings and their broader social relevance.

Transaction cost theory: past, present and future

Transaction cost theory emerged over 80 years ago yet still continues to exert an important influence on marketing thought. In this article, I examine the past, present and future of this important theory by exploring the work of three of its key scholars: Ronald Coase, Oliver Williamson and Yochai Benkler. This examination provides an overview of each scholar’s ideas, a look at their intellectual influences, and an assessment of their impact on marketing scholarship. In addition to this in-depth exploration of transaction cost theory, I also highlight the contextual nature of how theories form, develop and change over time. My hope is that this examination will enrich our understanding of this important theory and suggest how it can be applied to a new set of marketing topics.

Knowledge as growth

The purpose of this paper is to reflect and articulate the key scholarly contributions made by Cristiano Antonelli in his pathbreaking book, The Knowledge Growth Regime: A Schumpeterian Approach and why it is so important, not only to scholars of innovation and Schumpeterian economics, but also to the entirety of economic thinking. This paper highlights how this important new book breaks new and important ground paving the way for a new paradigm in economics, where knowledge takes the center stage.

Making the invisible hyper-visible: Knowledge production and the gendered power nexus in critical urban studies

This paper employs the concept of “invisible colleges” to explore the processes through which spaces of critical urban theory are imbricated within a gendered power nexus. It assesses the degree of dominance in hegemonic knowledge production by clusters of scholars, their co-authors, and academic mentors and mentees. Using the example of critical urban theory, we use network graphs to map these concentrated hidden geographies understood collectively as “invisible colleges”. The resultant visualizations reflect the dominance of key scholars and their similarities (e.g. doctoral education, academic mentors, current institutional affiliations, etc.). These heretofore unmapped networks of connectivity provide insight into the masculinized spaces of critical urban theory bringing to the fore important topics for consideration. These include the politics of citation and “double dipping”, or frequent publication in the same journal outlets. In bringing attention to invisible colleges, a concept that has largely escaped attention in urban studies and geography, we highlight the usefulness of visibility as a technology of equity. En route, the paper describes and visualizes some of the impacts of the proliferation of uneven knowledge production through the coalescing of factors such as path dependency, cumulative advantage, expected inequality and the Matthew and Matilda Effects.

A Century of Economics and Engineering at Stanford

This paper documents the disciplinary exchanges between economists and engineers at Stanford throughout the 20th century. We elucidate how this cross-fertilization was mediated by the institutional structure of the university. We outline the role of key scholars such as Kenneth Arrow and Robert Wilson, as well as engineers turned administrators like Frederick Terman. We show that engineers largely drew upon successive economic theories of decision and allocation with a view to improving practical industrial management decisions. Reciprocally, economists found in engineering the tools they needed to rethink production and growth theory (from linear programming to optimal control theory, an epistemology of “application” that emphasized awareness to institutional details, trials and errors and experiments to improve the design of processes and machines, and all sorts of industrial settings to operationalize their theories of decision, strategic interaction and bargaining. By the 2000s, they had turned into economic engineers designing markets and other allocation mechanisms. These cross-disciplinary exchanges were mediated by Stanford’s own institutional culture, notably its use of joint appointments, the development of multidisciplinary “programs” for students, the ability to attract a variety of visitors every year, the entrepreneurial and contract-oriented vision of its administrators, and the close ties with the industrial milieu that came to be called the Silicon Valley.

A review of global lean construction during the past two decades: analysis and visualization

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide comprehensive analysis and understanding of lean construction (LC) and to help researchers to find new gaps and research opportunities and develop potential collaboration chances. Design/methodology/approach The bibliographic data were obtained in peer-reviewed journals. The science mapping analysis and social network analysis (SNA) were used to conduct the analysis and visualization. Science mapping was performed to identify the research topics, evolution and the relationships between these topics. Also, the most influential LC-related articles in each topic were identified based on the concept of H-classics. SNA was also used to explore the collaboration status of authors and to identify the core authors in the LC field. Findings The results showed that topics in the LC field are consistently and continuously changing, which also reveals the fact that the lean concept system has evolved over time to a certain extent. The topics that could form the knowledge base of the LC research field in the future are related to two thematic areas: supply chain management (SCM) and planning and scheduling. SCM focuses on developing a system where supplier and client work together in coordination to deliver materials, works, equipment and labor and other resources. Moreover, prefabrication is a new hot topic, while BIM is a well-developed and isolated topic in the last five years. This result indicates that more studies need to be conducted in the future, to promote the integration of BIM and lean practices in the construction phase, as well as to explore the value of BIM in the reduction or elimination of waste and lean project delivery. As for global collaborations, LC research has been widely pursued throughout the world. The USA and the UK play the most dominant role in the international collaboration network. Research limitations/implications Since the analysis of data takes some time, the specific results of this paper are limited to articles published in peer-reviewed journals, which leads to a certain degree of research lag. Practical implications This paper provides insights (such as major journals, institutions, key scholars, the evolution of topics, highly indexed articles and the new LC trends in the last five years) for researchers in the LC field. Originality/value This paper gives a general review of the above-mentioned literature, including the number of LC-related articles published in each year, as well as the major journals and main contributors to the field of LC.

Research on the Cooperative Behavior of Academic Papers Published by Chinese Educational Scholars Based on Complex Networks

Research on mutual cooperation among scholars or research institutions has become more and more common. Thepurpose of this paper is to explore the current status of cooperation between scholars and research institutions in thefield of Chinese education. In this paper, we use the method of the complex network to analyze the cooperativebehavior of academic papers published by Chinese educational scholars by collecting academic papers on educationleadership, education policy, quality education, and vocational education. Our conclusions show that most of theacademic papers published by Chinese educational scholars are non-cooperative. In the authors of the co-authoredpapers, there is a significant "Matthew effect", that is, some key scholars in these fields that link the collaborators.Lastly, there is no obvious aggregation effect between the authors of the co-authored papers which indicating awidespread and extensive connection between the collaborators. The above conclusions provide valuable insightsinto our understanding of the cooperative behavior of Chinese education scholars.

Dynamic Nexus between Air-Transportation and Economic Growth: A Systematic Literature Review

Today’s economic growth is not promising without air transport, up-to-date airports infrastructure, efficient and safe airline services and international air transport networks. According to WB [1], 40% of the world-wide tourists travel by air transport. The main aim of this study is to analyze the literatures of air transport and economic growth study. A systematic literature review (SLR) method was used in order to examine related articles from ABDC list journals which are ranked on A*, A or B, published in period 1992-2018. This study gives a summary of the trends and research themes which have been identified. Key scholars, as well as their approaches and locations and citations are also mapped. The findings of this study show that there is a growing interest in researching and publishing on Air transportation and economic growth. This study fills a deficiency in specialized literature concerning air transportation in developing countries and provides a foundation for future research in the field of air transportation.

The African second generation in the United States – identity and transnationalism: an introduction

ABSTRACTThe New African Diaspora’s second generation in the United States is large and growing, yet it is one of the least studied immigrant groups. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together recent work by immigration researchers on the identity negotiations and transnational engagements of the children of first-generation African immigrants. Second generation Africans, who create hybrid identities at the intersection of their ethnic/national origins and the racial categories of U.S. society, often contest (and sometimes embrace), being boxed into embracing a Black identity that is the product of specific African American histories, values, and experiences not shared by recent African immigrants. Contributors examine these issues, as well as the occurrence, distinctive nature of, and motivations for second-generation economic and cultural participation in transnational activities. The collection by key immigration scholars represents a groundbreaking contribution to the nascent discussion of the New African Diaspora’s second generation.

Poetry as/in Qualitative Research: Adapting Poetic Inquiry on Ethnographical Studies

Over several decades, with a growing interest in the potential value of arts and literature among qualitative researchers, poetry that bears both aesthetic and literary nature has been broadly engaged in various research processes in many fields such as anthropology, communication, education, sociology, nursing, psychology, and social work. Through an in-depth review of the key scholars and (poet-) researchers who have used and written about the creation, implementation, and evaluation of poetry as a qualitative research method, this paper provides an explicit discussion of how a qualitative light is refracted through a Prism of Poetic Inquiry into the studies of human experience, emotion, voice and identity as well as how poetic inquiry reflexively spreads out into a process of data collection, analysis, and representation in a qualitative research tradition. Furthermore, this paper highlights the epistemological and phenomenological rays for cultural affordances of poetic inquiry in the work of ethnopoetics as a hybrid research method, which serves as a meeting plaza for poets, ethnographers and anthropologists. (Konyang University)