A comparativist manifesto for international migration studies

A manifesto for map studies

By way of conclusion to Rethinking Maps we want to set out a manifesto for map studies for the coming decade. Its goal is to generate ideas and enthusiasm for scholarship that advances our understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of maps, and also enhances the practices of mapping. This is not a call for ever more introspective intellectual navel gazing about maps. Instead it traces rou...

A manifesto for theory in environmental studies and sciences

Environmental studies and sciences (ESS), an inherently practical field, nonetheless demands greater attention to its theoretical assumptions as a necessary step toward continued intellectual and pedagogical development and real-world relevance. This need for theory arises from the status of ESS as an integrative interdiscipline—one practitioners of ESS celebrate, yet with considerably greater ...

EBLIDA: Manifesto on international trade agreements

The European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) is an independent, non-governmental and non-commercial umbrella association of national library, information, documentation and archive associations and organisations in Europe. EBLIDA concentrates on the subjects of copyright, culture, telematics, Central and Eastern Europe, matters related to the information s...

International Organization for Migration

A Manifesto for Crils

The unit for research into reading that we set up in Liverpool is just over a year old now. It is called CRILS – the Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistic Systems. Odd though perhaps it may seem at first, we came out of a department for the study of English literature and into a faculty of Health and Life Sciences, to widen our remit across disciplines and in relation to ...