Struggle For Knowledge Research Articles

The Reproduction of Power and Jargon in COVID-19 Coverage in Zambian Media: An Analysis of the Zambia Daily Mail and Mwebantu

ABSTRACT During health pandemics such as the globally menacing COVID-19, the news media act as primary sources of information for the majority of the population. However, due to the novelty of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a dearth of studies in Zambia and Africa that explore the coverage of the pandemic in local media. This article employs Foucauldian discourse as theoretical lens to analyse the representation of the COVID-19 pandemic in two selected media platforms—the Zambia Daily Mail and Mwebantu.com. Purposively selected stories on the COVID-19 pandemic were subjected to a Foucauldian discourse analysis in order to unpack language, power and knowledge struggles in the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in selected Zambian media outlets. Findings show that both Zambia Daily Mail and Mwebantu were hardly analytical and critical in their coverage of the pandemic. The two publications simply regurgitated statistics on numbers of infections, recoveries, and mortality rate as announced by government officials, albeit with minimum effort to digest and unpack complex discourses for the “ordinary” reader. Moreover, in both publications, public health experts and government officials were “privileged” to authorise meanings and “truths” about COVID-19.

Taming out-of-equilibrium dynamics on interconnected networks

A wide variety of social, biological or technological systems can be described as processes taking place on networked structures in continuous interaction with other networks. We propose here a new methodology to describe, anticipate and manage, in real time, the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of processes that evolve on interconnected networks. This goal is achieved through the full analytical treatment of the phenomenology and its reduction to a two-dimensional flux diagram, allowing us to predict at every time step the dynamical consequences of modifying the links between the different ensembles. Our results are consistent with real data and the methodology can be translated to clustered networks and/or interconnected networks of any size, topology or origin, from the struggle for knowledge on innovation structures to international economic relations or disease spreading on social groups.

Reconceptualising the politics of knowledge authority in post/conflict interventions: From a peacebuilding field to transnational fields of interventionary objects

AbstractPeacebuilding debates increasingly revolve around questions about knowledge and expertise. Of particular interest is what (and whose) knowledge(s) ends up authoritative in interventions. This article addresses a problem in the literature on the epistemics and epistemic authority of peacebuilding interventions: the acknowledgement of but lacking attention to plural knowledges, the transgressive character of expertise, and knowledge struggles. It does this by discussing recent suggestions that peacebuilding epistemic authority can be fruitfully analysed as a Bourdieusian field. The article identifies a tension in Bourdieu's own thinking about fields, which has shaped some of these recent proposals. This tension, nevertheless, also enables a reconsideration of fields and struggles, and thereby an analysis that takes plurality and transgressiveness into account. By developing such an alternative conceptual position, the article sees peacebuilding epistemic authority as object- and struggle-bound; conditioned and dependent on dynamics that go beyond peacebuilding as a distinct field of practice. This position is illustrated in an analysis of the emergence and (temporary) establishment of epistemic authority in peacebuilding interventions on informal economies.

‘New History—the New Ways of Knowing and Remembering the Caucasus in Poland’

AbstractThis paper aims to reconstruct the knowledge claims and memory politics in Polish public discourse about the Caucasus. As it highlights the importance of history and a production of a ‘New History’ for political use, it illuminates the role of the visual dimension in the symbolic politics of memory in Poland. The special example of the Caucasus, particularly the places of Georgia and Russia, serves to show how peripheral regions can gain prominence in the knowledge struggles and strategies of self-representation and othering of particular nations, regions and states on the geopolitical plane.

Interweaving mathematics with reality and beauty: the valuable legacy of Emma Castelnuovo

The great lesson about education that Emma Castelnuovo left us lies in imagining a living mathematics in which youngsters can recognise themselves, because it is tied to reality and beauty. The interweaving of mathematics and art, between mathematics, architecture and life, together with a constant reference to history, makes it possible for students to think of mathematics as a body of knowledge that is dynamic and open to the future. Emma Castelnuovo was a master at using educational materials to facilitate the approach to complex mathematical and geometrical concepts, manipulating figures in transformation and creating active, effective relationships between hands, eyes and brain. To do this it is necessary to dedicate a great amount of time to talk with and listen to the students’ hypotheses, allowing them ‘time to lose time’. Finally, offering important topics, such as the infinite and infinitesimal, allows youngsters to engage in a healthy head-to-head struggle for knowledge.

Marchas y contramarchas. El derecho a la educación y las dinámicas de exclusión incluyente en América Latina (a sesenta años de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos)

El presente artículo analiza los complejos procesos de consolidación de la educación como un derecho humano fundamental en América Latina y el Caribe, desde la proclamación de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos de 1948. Sostiene, a tal efecto, que los enormes avances alcanzados en la universalización de la escolaridad –aunque sin derecho a la educación–, asociados a una muy significativa expansión de los sistemas nacionales de educación, se han producido en el contexto de un incremento de la desigualdad social, la cual se articula a la cada vez mayor y más compleja desigualdad educativa que, sumada a la falta de equidad, se producen en el interior de los sistemas escolares. Se analiza el hecho de que, aunque en la Declaración no hay una argumentación que asigne valor a la educación por su aportación a la generación de riquezas, sea precisamente esa la concepción que se ha impuesto, dando lugar a un binomio de objetivos opuestos entre la concepción socializante y la privatizadora: una interpretación mercantilizada de los bienes educativos que reduce la función del Estado, garante del derecho a la educación, a la subsidiariedad y al asistencialismo. El texto aborda críticamente los procesos de «exclusión incluyente» –la lucha por el conocimiento es siempre la lucha por el poder– como dinámica que ha caracterizado el desarrollo educativo latinoamericano contemporáneo. Así, en el marco de las marchas y contramarchas que definen la expansión de la escolaridad y la persistente negación del derecho a la educación a grandes sectores de la población, se apuntan diversas líneas de análisis para pensar algunos de los desafíos que se delinean en el horizonte de las políticas educativas de la región.

Social work and social care: the struggle for knowledge

This article, written in the context of the redefinition of public service professionalism, and the roles of public service professionals by government policies and market interventions, examines the role and implications of the new movements of welfare state service users for professional practice, knowledge and analysis. Its particular focus is the field of social work and social care. It raises questions about the nature, purpose and social relationships of research, the credibility and claims of different knowledges, and the relationship between direct experience, research and knowledge. This article argues that currently a hidden battle is taking place in the context of social care between traditional sources of knowledge and service users' knowledges. It sets out ways of enabling the equal inclusion of service users and their knowledges, and suggests that this is likely to be supportive of progressive understandings of professionalism and public service, as well as contributing to more appropriate, rights-based approaches to policy and practice in public service occupations

Power in practice: adult education and the struggle for knowledge and power in society

1. At the Heart of Practice: The Struggle for Knowledge and Power (Ronald M. Cervero & Arthur L. Wilson). Part I: Adult Education and Work. 2. The Power of Economic Globalization: Deskilling Immigrant Women Through Training (Shahrzad Mojab). 3. Silent Power: HRD and the Management of in the Workplace (Fred M. Schied, et al.). 4. The Power of Discourse: Defining Work--Related in the Learning Age (Elaine Butler). 5. The Power of the State: Connecting Lifelong Policy and Educational Practice (Kjell Rubenson). Part II: Adult Education in Colleges and Universities. 6. The Politics of Globalization: Transformative Practice in Adult Education Graduate Programs (Budd L. Hall). 7. The Power of Race and Gender: Black Women's Struggle and Survival in Higher Education (Juanita Johnson--Bailey). 8. The Politics of Positionality: Teaching for Social Change in Higher Education (Elizabeth J. Tisdell). 9. Transforming Boundaries of Power in the Classroom: from La Mestiza (Mechthild Hart). Part III: Technologies of Practice in Adult Education. 10. The Politics of Access and Communication: Using Distance Technologies (Nod Miller). 11. A Political Analysis of Discussion Groups: Can the Circle Be Unbroken? (Stephen Brookfield). 12. The Politics of Place: Producing Power and Identity in Continuing Education (Arthur L. Wilson). 13. Solidarity and Power in Urban Gay Communities: Planning HIV Prevention Education (Kimberly B. Sessions & Ronald M. Cervero). 14. Power in Practice: A New Foundation for Adult Education (Arthur L. Wilson & Ronald M. Cervero).

Power in Practice: Adult Education and the Struggle for Knowledge and Power in Society

Power in Practice: Adult Education and the Struggle for Knowledge and Power in Society

Evolution in Chile: natural drift versus natural selection, or the preservation of favoured theories in the struggle for knowledge

Evolution in Chile: natural drift versus natural selection, or the preservation of favoured theories in the struggle for knowledge

Struggle for knowledge: A personal journey

Struggle for knowledge: A personal journey

Book Review Section: The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in White America, Black Manifesto for Education, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, Racism in American Education: A Model for Change, Private Black Colleges at the Crossroads

Book Review Section: The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in White America, Black Manifesto for Education, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality, Racism in American Education: A Model for Change, Private Black Colleges at the Crossroads

The Education of Black Folk: the Afro-American struggle for knowledge in white America by Allen B. Ballard New York, Harper and Row, Pp. xiii + 173. $2.25.

The Education of Black Folk: the Afro-American struggle for knowledge in white America by Allen B. Ballard New York, Harper and Row, Pp. xiii + 173. $2.25.

The Education of Black Folk: The Afro American Struggle for Knowledge in White America

The Education of Black Folk: The Afro American Struggle for Knowledge in White America

Power cables old and new

Today the benefits of electricity are usually taken for granted but the history of the electricity power supply industry forms part of the human struggle for knowledge and resources

The School Komsomol Organization in the Struggle for Knowledge

The struggle for knowledge, for the development of the cognitive interests of upper-graders … The teacher speaks of this more and more often, and the school Komsomol sets itself the same task. Assessing the work of the Komsomol organization of the Kirovograd Region in the struggle for the pupils' deep and lasting knowledge, the Sixth Plenum of the AULCYL Central Committee noted, "All the advantages of the joint efforts of the school and the Komsomol are specifically manifested here."

The Struggle for Knowledge, The Most Important Task of Komsomol Organizations at Technicums and Vocational Schools

In the last few years, the growth rate of the scientific-technological intelligentsia in our country has exceeded the growth rate of all other social groups. And this process is natural. It is the result of the Party's policy directed toward raising the cultural and educational level of the people, the result of the rapid development of science, technology, and culture.

Book Reviews

Modernizing Urban Land Policy, edited by Marion Clawson. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press for Resources for the FutureUrbanization, Planning, and National Development by John Friedmann. Beverly Hills, Cal.Empirical Models of Urban Land Use: Suggestions on Research Objectives and Organization, Exploratory Report 6, by H. James Brown and others. New York, distributed by Columbia University Press for National Bureau of Economic Research, 1972.Regional and Interregional Intersectoral Flow Analysis: The Method and an Application to the Tennessee Economy by Tong Hun Lee, John R. Moore, and David P. Lewis. Knoxville, The University of Tennessee Press, 1973.Foreign Investment and Regional Development: The Theory and Practice of Investment Incentives, with a Case Study of Belgium by G. Richard ThomanWater Supplies and Economic Growth in an Arid Environment: An Arizona Case Study by Maurice M. Kelso, William E. Martin, and Lawrence E. Mack.Decentralizing the City: A Study of Boston's Little City Halls by Eric A. NordlingerThe Political Economy of Urban Poverty by Charles Sackrey.Managed Integration: Dilemmas of Doing Good in the City by Harvey Luskin MolotchHousing Investment in the Inner City: The Dynamics of Decline: A Study of Baltimore, Maryland, 1968‐1970 by Michael A. Stegman.The Dynamics of Housing Rehabilitation: Macro and Micro Analyses by David Listokin.Longtime Californ': A Documentary Study of an American Chinatown by Victor G. and Brett de Bary NeeMexican Americans by Ellwyn R. Stoddard Chicanos and Rural Poverty by Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. Baltimore The Education of Black Folk: The Afro‐American Struggle for Knowledge in White America by Allen B. Ballard A Giant in the Earth by Robert Katz Planned Unit Development: New Communities American Style by Robert W. Burchell with James W. Hughes. Financial Analysis and the New Community Develop‐ment Process by Richard L. Heroux and William A, Wallace Bibliography of the Philosophy of Technology, compiled by Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey. Power and Wealth: The Political Economy of International Power by Klaus Knorr Partnership or Confrontation? Poor Lands and Rich by Paul Alpert.

The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in White America

The Education of Black Folk: The Afro-American Struggle for Knowledge in White America