Reconciliation as Public Culture: Taking Cultural Studies Beyond Ghassan Hage’s ‘White Nationalist’

Beyond nature versus culture: cultural variation as an evolved characteristic*

There is a perceived dichotomy between evolutionary explanations for behaviour and social or cultural ones. In this essay, I attempt to dissolve this dichotomy by pointing out that organisms are susceptible to social or cultural influence because they have evolved mechanisms that make them so. I review two classes of evolutionary explanation for cultural variation, ‘evoked’ and ‘transmitted’ cu...

Taking Entity Reconciliation Offline

Entity reconciliation—linking names or terms to identifiers in external datasets—is a popular method of adding standardized structured data to loosely structured documents. Most approaches to entity reconciliation rely on remote web services, requiring network access during the reconciliation process. For use cases that rely on a “human in the loop” (reconciling entities during the authoring pr...

Plan Explanations as Model Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Explanation as Soliloquy

The ability to explain the rationale behind a planner’s deliberative process is crucial to the realization of effective humanplanner interaction. However, in the context of human-inthe-loop planning, a significant challenge towards providing meaningful explanations arises due to the fact that the actor (planner) and the observer (human) are likely to have different models of the world, leading ...

COSMOPOLITAN AND NATIONALIST DISCOURSES OF RECONCILIATION 1 Cosmopolitan and Nationalist Discourses of Reconciliation: Memory (Re)construction in South Africa and Rwanda

Part One Culture and Cultural Studies