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PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
The most powerful response to growing skepticism about the intelligibility of the idea of private ownership has been cast in terms of an owner's rights to the exclusive use of an object. In these pages, I argue that this response suffers from three basic deficiencies—rather than merely explanatory gaps—that render it unable to overcome the specter of skepticism. These deficiencies reflect a sha…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2010.pp. 1-35
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GUILT, ANGER, AND RETRIBUTION
This article focuses primarily on the emotion of guilt as providing a justification for retributive legal punishment. In particular, I challenge the claim according to which guilt can function as part of our epistemic justification of positive retributivism, that is, the view that wrongdoing is both necessary and sufficient to justify punishment. I show that the argument to this conclusion rest…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2010. pp. 59-76
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THE GETTIER PROBLEM AND LEGAL PROOF
This article explores the relationships between legal proof and fundamental epistemic concepts such as knowledge and justification. A survey of the legal literature reveals a confusing array of seemingly inconsistent proposals and presuppositions regarding these relationships. This article makes two contributions. First, it reconciles a number of apparent inconsistencies and tensions in account…
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- Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2010.pp. 37-57
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Goliath's Curse: Coercive Threats and Asymmetric Power
States typically issue compellent threats against considerably weaker adversaries, yet their threats often fail. Why? Expanding on a standard model of international crisis bargaining, I argue that a theory of reputation-building can help shed light on this puzzle. The model casts reputation as a strategic problem, showing that challengers issuing compellent threats have incentives to anticipate…
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- Vol. 64, No. 4, Fall 2010.pp. 627-660
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- 00208183
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- International Organization
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Final reflections, unanswered questions
The interest in theory is greater than we anticipated. However, in looking at the role of theory in action research, there are more questions than answers. With few exceptions, the way in which theory is built from experience remains elusive. How is it done? It seems that frameworks are useful in making sense of the world. But which frameworks? What do they leave out? How accessible are they to…
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- Volume 7, Issue 1. March 2009. pp. 117-120
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Building emergent situated knowledges in participatory action research
Participatory action research (PAR) draws theoretically on the concepts of symbolic interactionism, particularly with regard to the collaborative construction and production of meanings. This article describes how action research builds meaningful theory at the local level thereby enabling researchers, researcher-participants and their local partners to foreground shared local understandings to…
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- Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009. pp. 101-115
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Theory in action research
In this prologue to the special issue on theory in action research we provide a context and an introduction for the articles that follow. We begin by sketching in some of our shared ideas on theory in action research and some of the differences between our own approaches. Then, after briefly describing the process of preparing this issue, we provide a succinct pointer to each article in the issue.
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- Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009. pp. 5-12
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The `f' word has everything to do with it, How feminist theories inform actio…
This article considers how feminist theories have and can contribute to action research, while acknowledging some of the tensions that arise when applying and building feminist theories. While feminist theorizing undoubtedly occurs in some action research, whether it is named or not, the gap appears to be in linking local knowledge to existing theoretical frameworks. Feminist theories, even tho…
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- Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009. pp. 13-29
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There is nothing so theoretical as good action research
The goal of this article is try to retrieve the idea of `good theory' that provides accessible and useful tools for practitioners, academics, and other participants in action research. In doing so, we advocate the importance of explicit theory building and testing as an integral part of action research practice. The association of theory with positivist research methodologies has resulted in th…
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- Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009 pp. 31-47
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Big returns for a little more investment, Mapping theory in emergent research
Action researchers can effectively uncover the theory embedded within inquiries by using a combination of analysis approaches and heuristic models already widely known. Presented here is one approach for mapping theory to capture elements of both program theory and theory of practice. Using a case of a Participatory Evaluative Action Research (PEAR), the article demonstrates how data collected …
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- Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009. pp. 49-68
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Building grounded theory in action research through the interplay of subjecti…
In this article, I contribute to the discourse on building theory within the context of action research. Specifically, drawing on advaita (non-dualism) philosophy from Hinduism, I describe a holistic framework which views life as holistic, that is, comprising both subjective and objective views of reality and thus promoting interplay between ontological subjectivity and epistemological objectiv…
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- Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009. pp. 69-83
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Generating living theory and understanding in action research studies
The paper explains how individuals can generate their living theories from action research as explanations for their educational influences in learning. The epistemological significance of these explanations is explored in terms of the energy and values that are expressed in explanatory principles of learning in enquiries of the kind, `How do I improve what I am doing?'. Limitations in the expr…
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- Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2009 pp. 85-99
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Leveraging acculturation through action research: A case study of refugee and…
The demographic changes in contemporary American society portend serious consequences with far-reaching implications for the future development of the country. One of the more serious challenges is in the influx of refugees and new immigrants many of whom are not acculturating as easily as in the past. Unfortunately, the use of conventional research methods in studying acculturation has not yie…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 127-142
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Participative research in a remote Australian Aboriginal setting
This article describes the research process used to develop and evaluate an Internet-based resource aimed at improving access by health professionals to Australian Aboriginal cultural knowledge specific to pregnancy and childbirth. As a result of the research, women's stories from Maningrida were recorded and presented on the `Birthing Business in the Bush Website' which provided a platform for…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 143-163
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Reflecting on community/academic `collaboration': The challenge of `doing' fe…
This article articulates many of the issues that feminist participatory action researchers confront in attempts to conduct collaborative research with community organizations and the state (see Brydon-Miller, McGuire, & McIntyre, 2004; Gatenby & Humphries, 2000; Reid, Tom, & Frisby, 2006; Sullivan, Bhuyan, Senturia, Shiu-Thornton, & Ciske, 2005). As recent PhD sociologists, the authors were hir…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 165-184
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Discovering what the people knew: The 1979 Appalachian Land Ownership Study
The Appalachian Land Ownership Study is recognized as a pioneering effort in the interdisciplinary field of participatory action research. This article analyzes this community-based study of land ownership and taxation in Appalachia to determine what lessons it offers a new generation of action researchers. It demonstrates both the practical difficulties in community-based research as well as t…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 185-205
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Dilemmas of trustworthiness in preservice teacher action research
Can preservice teachers carry out trustworthy action research? We have found that action research can be a powerful experience for preservice teachers. Yet preservice teacher action research projects involve complexities unique to a preservice teacher's position as `guest', `student', `teacher', and `researcher'. In this article, we suggest criteria for trustworthy preservice teacher action res…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 207-226
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Dissemination in action research
Lewin proposed three goals for action research: to advance knowledge; to improve a concrete situation; and to improve behavioral science methodology. The three objectives cannot be met by a single mode of dissemination. Innovative dissemination strategies will be necessary. Action researchers should publish substantive articles in technical journals to reach colleagues; applied articles in peri…
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- Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2009. pp. 227-236
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Initiating action research: Challenges and paradoxes of opening communicative…
The success or failure of an action research venture often depends on what happens at the beginning of the inquiry process: in the way access is established, and on how participants and co-researchers are engaged early on. ‘Opening communicative space’ is important because, however we base our theory and practice of action research, the first steps are fateful. We draw on Habermas’s theorizing …
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- Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009.pp. 243-262
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The paradox of participation in action research
Although participation is widely discussed in the action research literature, relatively few studies deal with building the participative relationship itself. This article attempts to fill that gap through a ‘first-person action research’ involving a relationship between Jewish researchers and a Palestinian Arab non-governmental organization in Israel that failed to live up to our espoused valu…
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- Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009.pp. 263-290
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