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This article presents some of the main efficiency and fairness arguments in favor of open access publishing. It discusses how general open access could affect research and editorial practice. It ends with a discussion of the feasibility of open access and how a move to open access publishing could happen.
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This article shares the experiences of an instructor, and six of her former students, in the design, implementation and assessment of an art gallery project. The project was a mid-term assignment in a Gender and International Studies course. The article starts with the instructor sharing her views on pedagogy and the aims of the assignment and then the former students share their experiences with the project. Both the project and the experience of writing this article are the source of concluding reflections. The insights the former students reveal the embedded nature of traditional models of education as well as the value of student centered collaborative projects. The students' reflections also show how "doing it differently"-engaging in a project so beyond the norm of the traditional classroom space translated into reflections on gender and our everyday in ways that were transformative.
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115308
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This article describes a local social work project currently operating in the Viennese suburbs of Austria with second-generation migrant teenagers (who come mostly from working class guestworker families of Turkish and Yugoslav origin). This project which applies feminist pedagogy is successfully providing a platform for underprivileged teens to express themselves through Rap music and hip-hop (by enabling access to the Internet and music studios), thereby offering an alternative to violence and drug use. The project promotes equal access opportunities for young women to articulate their adolescent feelings and angst in creative and often remarkable ways. This study raises the importance of feminist perspectives in applied local politics and the effectiveness of art practices as a powerful tool for transforming integration conflicts. Despite national xenophobic policies, some urban, often small-scale alternative integration programs empower immigrant youth through creative projects and the caring relationships that develop between teenagers and their mentors.
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115307
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2012.
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This essay discusses a pedagogical approach to the teaching of international relations grounded in both a pluralist approach to the study of politics and post-modern feminism. Whereas pluralism helpfully draws attention to the wide range of actors that play a role in world politics and the multiplicity of factors that shape the motivations, identities, and behaviors of these actors, post-modern feminism underscores the fact that actors-and their identities, norms, and interests-are constructed rather than given. In combination, these perspectives encourage students and teachers to focus not only on diversity within and across societies but also on the possibilities for constructing alternative models of politics and for building coalitions across presumed divisions of politics, ideology, culture, gender, and other social markers. The essay provides an overview of strategies for integrating a pedagogy of feminist pluralism in the international relations classroom.
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115306
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2012.
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In 2001, Afghanistan became a threat to Germany, an act of "writing security" that resulted in a strong Bundeswehr involvement in military missions. But to defend itself at the Hindu Kush in such a proactive way seems to be at odds with the noninterventionist history and identity of the Federal Republic. This identity conflict is reflected in a fierce and ongoing discourse on foreign deployments and Germany's identity as a responsible actor in world politics. This article looks into representations of this identity conflict in recent German TV films, where Afghanistan veterans and their families struggle to come to terms with the mission. But fighting in Afghanistan does not necessarily lead to peace in Germany; the veterans' traumatic experiences in Afghanistan result in frictions and conflicts at home. Only when (and if) the mission is narrated as responsible behavior that brings stability, fights terrorism, and saves brown women from brown men, Germany can reconcile itself with its temporal other and with the current war.
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115302
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The electronic revolution in academic publishing brings promises as well as pitfalls. The main promises are greater efficiency, vastly greater access to the journal literature, a more equitable global sharing of intellectual resources, and hopefully improved quality. Open access-free entry to the electronic version of the journal literature-is in many ways a logical continuation of this development and will break the trend toward accelerating journal costs. But if the subscription revenue simply disappears, neither publishers nor editors will have the necessary funding to keep up peer review and other editorial routines. One alternative is to levy page charges for publication. Intermediate models are also possible, where the journal may keep its copyright to the final edited product while authors are allowed to post the final submitted version on their Web site. At the moment, open access is uncommon in international relations, but the publishers and owners of journals, including academic societies such as ISA, would be wise to think through these issues before they become acute. This symposium is a contribution to that process.
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115309
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2012.
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In this paper, selected episodes of the 2005 series of the BBC science fiction television show Doctor Who are used to discuss self/other identity formulations, in terms of how "we" relate to those considered different. I shall examine how Doctor Who represents threats and dangers and relate this to how we can use such understandings to learn, discuss, and critique conventional understandings of security in International Relations (IR). Popular culture texts such as Doctor Who provide examples of how difference is often conceptualized as a threat to be eliminated. At the same time, Doctor Who also gives space to question and critique these understandings of "others" as threats, especially in its illustrations of the location of threats, its shifting perspective, and its centralization of a nonhuman as its protagonist. As such, Doctor Who points toward theorizing world politics in which the self = good/others = threats dichotomy can be questioned and opens up new ways of engaging with those considered different.
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115305
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2012.
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This article explores the role and value of the academic journal publisher as paradigms of Open Access gain momentum and challenge the standards of paid subscription models. To recover the costs of publication services (which include everything from printing copies to online hosting and protection of intellectual property rights), publishers have traditionally employed a model in which subscribing individuals or institutions pay for access to content. The two main versions of Open Access publishing currently at large-Gold (in which a funding body or person pays the publisher to make the content freely available) and Green (in which there are no payments made for publication and articles are archived in free public repositories)-pose a challenge to the user-pays models that have served as a foundation of the business since its inception. However, these changes do not portend an undermining of the importance or viability of the academic journal publisher.
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115304
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