Open Source Software projects base their operation on collaborative structure for knowledge exchange in the form of provision or reception of information, expertise and feedback on the creation of source code. Here, we address the direction of these knowledge flows…

The question of rationality and modernity has played a key role in defining the West’sunderstanding of itself in relation to “the other.” Much of this self-defining was done in a waythat privileged a western model of rationality, which itself was…

Has university scholarship gone astray? Do our academic assessment systems reward scholarship that addresses the questions that matter most to society? Using international business as an example, we highlight the problematic nature of academic ranking systems and question if such…

Reseña de The Optic of the State. Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil de Jens Andermann (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).

Reseña de The Optic of the State. Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil de Jens Andermann (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).

Reseña de The Optic of the State. Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil de Jens Andermann (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).

Desde inicios de esta década, se ha registrado en Centroamérica un crecimiento importante de la presencia de pandillas conocidas como “maras”. Estas pandillas surgieron en Estados Unidos en los años ochenta y luego se desarrollan en Centroamérica como consecuencia de…

The undergraduate law curriculum adopted at McGill University in 1998—the transsystemic programme—was born of the unique political, social, and intellectual histories of its Faculty of Law. This essay reviews these contexts and characterizes the programme as an ongoing conversation about…

Concept maps are graphical representations of relationships among concepts that can be an effective tool for teaching, designing, and organizing information in a variety of library settings. Concept maps can be used wherever training or formal teaching occurs as a…

In June 2008, the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA) and the Indian NGO SAHARA submitted a joint pre-grant opposition to the patent application of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in India. This joint action provides a pertinent case model of the potential…