Negotiating Authority: Local Communities in the World Heritage Convention

Negotiating Epistemic Authority

Why do we trust what other people say, and form beliefs on the basis of their speech? One answer: they are taken to have epistemic authority. Intuitively this means that the other person (or institution, or group) is taken to be authoritative in what they say, at least with respect to a particular domain. Here, we want to claim that there are (at least) two varieties of epistemic authority, one...

Negotiating Justice: Courts as local civil authority during the conflict in South Sudan

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The World of Research and Its Mysteries; Scientific Authority

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره 20، آذر 1400، 954-953         دنیای پژوهش و رمز و رازهای آن؛ مرجعیت علمی   The World of Research and Its Mysteries; Scientific Authority   محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   تا کنون در مورد پنج راز مهم دنیای پژوهش یعنی: خلاقیت و نوآوری [1]، کار بدون وقفه [2]، انتخاب یک یا دو موضوع اصلی مورد علاقه [3] شفافیت و صداقت در انجام ...

Museums and Workers: Negotiating industrial heritage in the former Yugoslavia

The article discusses tensions, ambiguities, and political implications of the fact that what is nowadays negotiated as industrial heritage is still part of the lived experience of several generations of men and women in the former Yugoslavia. It argues that the issues of representation of industrial labor essentially have to do with the place given to the working communities, their members as ...