Unsettling responsibility: postcolonial interventions

RETRACTED Postcolonial interventions and disruptions: Contesting cultural practices

At the request of the editor, Wong L. (2010) ‘Postcolonial interventions and disruptions: Contesting cultural practices’ International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management 10 (3) 345-362 10.1177/1470595810389795 has been retracted. This is because it reproduces large sections of the following article without acknowledgement: Reimer Kirkham, S. & Anderson, J. (2002). Postcolonial nursing scholar...

Learning ‘social responsibility’ in the workplace: Conjuring, unsettling, and folding boundaries

This article proceeds from the argument that while the discourse of social responsibility (SR) is increasingly evident in pedagogies circulating through the workplace, its actual practices tend to be obscured beneath complex tensions and moral precepts presented as self-evident. Through an examination of individuals’ learning of SR in the workplace contexts of small enterprise, this discussion ...

Unsettling the Centralized Mindset

Researchers in the field of adaptive behavior are quite familiar with the idea of higher-order complex global patterns emerging from the lower-level simple local interactions of components in a distributed system. Our artificial ants form colonies and self-organized foraging expeditions; our robots and simulated birds flock and cooperate on tasks; our genetic algorithm populations form species ...

Unsettling standards: the biological age controversy

One key debate within the sociology of aging and the life-course in the past decade has been focused on understanding the extent to which life course processes have become de-standardised. However, little attention has been devoted to the infrastructural processes that would support such a transition. This paper focuses on one of such standards, ‘biological age’, and the 40 year controversy aro...

Inequalities in the provision of surgical interventions: whose responsibility?