Archive: Journal
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A Spiritual Exigency Behind Global Governance and Deliberation in the 21st Century
Abstract: Time and money is annually invested in organizing international forums and presidential summits. In an increasingly globalizing world, national delegates and representatives of multi-natio
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Rhetorical Reframing: Reflexive Discourse in Environmental Deliberations
Negotiating responsibility and action in human rights is one of the most prominent and contentious subjects in global governance literature. No issue exemplifies these challenges better than the international environmental deliberations and the crisis posed by climate change. The resounding problematic here is one of agency and inequity; while wealthier nations are the greatest contributors to climate change, the least wealthy tend to be those that are the greatest impacted by it.
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Taking it to the Next Level: The Internationalization of Domestic Norms and Intangible Cultural Heritage
International cooperation as we know it today is a modern phenomenon; only seventy years ago the world was embroiled in one of the most violent war in history. And yet, in less than a century, the world’s nations have come together to create regimes that address a myriad of pressing issues of global concern. What forces have precipitated such extreme change that the world’s nations are engaging in conversation about issues that would have seemed imaginary not long ago?
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Legitimacy and Accountability in Internet Governance: Civil Society Participation in the World Summit on the Information Society
Abstract: This paper analyzes models of participation for global Internet governance, using the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) as a case study. Given the bottom-up genesis of the Inte
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Non-Traditional Media’s Struggle for Legitimacy: Missed Opportunities at the World Summit on the Information Society
Abstract: Media in general have yet to gain the legitimacy necessary to fully participate in global governance deliberations. Non-traditional media—community radio, bloggers, citizen journalists and
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The Fourth Estate's Influence on Deliberative Democracies: Media Framing of the 2008 US-South Korea Beef Imports Controversy
Abstract: Media’s omnipresence and its role in the democratic process raise questions of the effectiveness of media framing in citizen deliberation. This paper will explore for whom and under what con
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Spring 2010 Editor's Note
In the Spring 2010 gnovis issue, our seven authors are weaving together themes of identity, technology and fragmentation. Digital technologies change the way we understand self, medium and space; however, they do not render obsolete our previous ways of knowing. Hence, our understandings of self, medium and space become sites where we patch together what is old with what is new.
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Art on the (Supply) Side: Neoliberalism and Public Funding for the Arts
Abstract: The paper analyzes recent constructions of American public policy regarding funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Arthur MacEwan’s study of neoliberalism functions as a fra
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The Advent of Myself as Other: Photography, Memory and Identity Creation
Abstract: Anxiety about the dangers of new technology traditionally coincides with the advance of the man-made. In particular, recent academic study has expressed anxiety around the relationship of p
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Street level: Intersections of Art and the Law Philip-Lorca diCorcia's "Heads" Project and Nussenzweig v. diCorcia
Abstract: This article analyzes Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s “Heads” photographs, specifically “Head”—a photograph of Mr. Erno Nussenzweig. Three and a half years after diCorcia exhibited his “Heads” colle