Theorising digital personhood: a dramaturgical approach

Theorising Age and Generation in Development: A Relational Approach

This introduction outlines the analytical approach informing the articles presented in this special issue. The project of ‘generationing’ development involves re-thinking development as distinctly generational in its dynamics. For this, we adopt a relational approach to the study of young people in development, which overcomes the limitations inherent to common categorising approaches. Concepts...

How should doctors approach patients? A Confucian reflection on personhood.

The modern doctor-patient relationship displays a patient-centred, mutual-participation characteristic rather than the former active-passive or guidance-cooperation models in terms of medical decision making. Respecting the wishes of patients, amounting to more than mere concern for their welfare, has become the feature central to certain modern bioethics theories. A group of ethical principles...

Presumptive personhood.

The Computation of Self in Everyday Life: A Dramaturgical Approach for Socially Competent Agents

In order to participate in storyworlds with rich social interaction, autonomous characters must be able to participate in social games. A social game is a multicharacter social interaction whose function is to modify the social state existing within and across the participants, possibly concurrently accomplishing a functional (nonsocial) state change. In this paper we present an autonomous char...

Theorising pathways to sustainability

Using a Pathways approach, controversies over environmental and natural resource management are viewed as expressions of alternative, or competing, pathways to sustainability. This supports deeper understanding of the underlying causes of natural resource management controversies. The framework is composed of two elements: the STEPS (Social, Technological, and Environmental Pathways to Sustaina...