This chapter draws from research in the Pilbara (Western Australia), and to a lesser extent in the Gulf of Carpentaria (Queensland), on the Indigenous engagement with the mining industry. Post-Native Title Act land use agreements have been made between industry and Native Title claimant groups, in these two regions as others, known generally as ‘community benefit packages’. These agreements and...

This paper reports from a research study of SchoolNet, an initiative for spreading computer literacy and Open Source Software (OSS) in Namibia, West Africa. The organization uses refurbished hardware together with OSS to bring computers and Internet to Namibian schools. The purpose of the paper is to critically examine the arguments about the potential success for OSS in developing countries pu...

Text mining aims at constructing classification models and finding interesting patterns in large text collections. This paper investigates the utility of applying these techniques to media analysis, more specifically to support discourse analysis of news reports about the 2007 Kenyan elections and postelection crisis in local (Kenyan) and Western (British and US) newspapers. It illustrates how ...

?Abstract The commonplace activities of eating and sexual interaction (of some types) have captured and held the attention of anthropologists and phenomenologists.? Each of these activities has been routinely considered in terms of pleasure and danger. [1] ? Each is (or, in the case of sex, may be) penetrative, and involves the circulation of matter inside the body after matter has ?breached? a...

Purpose of Review The purpose of this review was to explore current research on the impact of migration on issues related to female genital cutting and sexuality. Recent Findings There is growing evidence that migration results in a broad opposition to female genital cutting among concerned migrant groups in western countries. In addition, after migration, affected women live in the midst of ...

The aim of this article is to show the influence academic and professional marketing English on Polish discourse. In view Poland’s transformative role in communist Europe, paper can be regarded as a pilot study for discussion phenomenon addressed context experience other post-socialist nations. analysis adaptation borrowings was based numerous documents, participant observations interviews. Cri...

In modern western society, because of the dominance of secular modernist ideas of rationalism and positivistic science, notions of spirituality have been at best marginalised, at worst excluded from our discourse on health care. Research into spirituality has been limited by modernist epistemological assumptions concerning 'objective' proof and measurements. This discussion seeks to help revers...

The main proposition of this paper is that science communication necessarily involves and includes cultural orientations. There is a substantial body of work showing that cultural differences in values and epistemological frameworks are paralleled with cultural differences reflected in artifacts and public representations. One dimension of cultural difference is the psychological distance betwe...

the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....