Decolonial considerations of environmentalism: Observations from a (US) State Park

Producing political climate change: the hidden life of US environmentalism

Towards a decolonial computing

In recent years, computing and ICT have increasingly been subjected to interrogation from a range of critical perspectives. Enquiries have generally been informed by a commitment to one of three approaches – critical race theory, Marxist political-economy or, more recently, postcolonial theory. While each of these approaches has some merit in that it contributes toward the development of a “cri...

Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the Us Chemical Industry

This paper empirically measures changes in the constituency of an organizational field centered around the issue of corporate environmentalism from 1960 to 1993, and correlates those changes with the evolving institutions adopted by the US chemical industry to interpret the issue. Four stages are identified, each representing a different field membership, interaction pattern and set of dominant...

Multifaceted State Influence on Corporate Environmentalism in China

In this paper, we focus on the multiple mechanisms through which the government exerts influence on the environmental performances of listed firms in China. Theoretically, we explore how multifaceted demands of a state affects corporate environmental practices in dissimilar ways. We unpack two types of influences from the state, including conflicting demands from multiple hierarchical levels of...

Understanding Infertility: Psychological and Social Considerations from a Counselling Perspective

This article provides an overview of the psychological and social implications of infertility. After describing the evolution of current theoretical understanding in this area, it outlines typical emotional and gender-specific reactions as well as the impact of infertility on the concept of identity and loss. Key questions are presented that medical professionals can use in order to facilitate ...