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Publication Datasets on the assessment of the scientific publication's corpora in circular economy and bioenergy approached from education and communication(Elsevier Inc., 2023) Carbonell Alcocer, Alejandro; Romero Luis, Juan; Gertrudix, Manuel; Wuebben, Daniel; Comunidad de Madrid; European Regional Development Fund; Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75This article presents three datasets that specifically depict scientific literature published from 2009 to 2019 and that represent the overlaps between circular economy,bioenergy,education,and communication. All datasets have been obtained through an exhaustive methodological process based on a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). To collect data,we determined 12 Boolean Operators with words related to circular economy,bioenergy,communication,and education. Then,using the Publish or Perish software,36 queries were made in the Web of Science,Scopus,and Google Scholar databases. Once the articles were retrieved,the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) mode and PRISMA checklist were applied. 74 articles were then manually selected depending on their relationship with the field. Using the DESLOCIS framework,a wide evaluation of the articles was carried out focusing on the design,data collection,and analysis techniques. Thus,the first data set contains the metadata and metrics of the publications. The second data set details the analytical framework used. The third includes the analysis of the publication's corpora. Together,the data presents opportunities for longitudinal studies and meta-reviews in circular economy and bioenergy areas approached from perspectives of education and communication. © 2023 The Author(s)Publication From Social Critique to Social Action in Transnational Art: Challenging Structural Injustice(Universidad de Malaga, Departamento de Historia del Arte, 2022) Nualart, Cristina; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Seeking to dismantle structural injustice,political theorist Iris Marion Young proposed the «social connection model»,a theory developed with a world increasingly in need of transnational frameworks in mind. Awareness of this need is also reflected in contemporary artistic practices,which often investigate manifestations of structural injustice such as the climate crisis,sexism,racism or wars. Alongside Young’s model,this article explores two transnational artistic projects engaged in social critique and social action. The selected initiatives deal respectively with mass deportations by the Soviet Union,and with migration between Eastern and Western Europe. We argue that these artistic practices embody the principles of Young’s social connection model. The results that validate the claim are found in achievements such as rendering white privilege visible or activating a restorative collective memory. © 2022 Universidad de Malaga,Departamento de Historia del Arte. All rights reserved.Publication Museums, Exhibition Discourses and Conflicts in Vietnam(Museu d'Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni de Vilafames, 2022) Nualart, Cristina; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Since its inception,the history of the museum as an institution has manifested various displays of power that have caused museums themselves to become pawns in the game of persuasive dynamics so typical of soft power. This article introduces the transformations in the use of museums as an indoctrinating tool that have taken place in Vietnam since it was a colonized country,during war conflicts,and up to the present moment marked by an authoritarian government and a weak civil society. © 2022,Museu d'Art Contemporani Vicente Aguilera Cerni de Vilafames. All rights reserved.Publication Recommendations to improve communication effectiveness in social marketing campaigns: Boosting behavior change to foster a circular economy(Cogent OA, 2022) Romero Luis, Juan; Carbonell Alcocer, Alejandro; Gertrudix, Manuel; Gertrudis Casado, María del Carmen; Giardullo, Paolo; Wuebben, Daniel; Comunidad de Madrid; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades; European Commission; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; European Regional Development Fund; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75The efficiency of communication campaigns that seek to boost a circular economy,leaving behind the traditional linear economy model,and corresponding behavior change is uncertain,although significant resources are being invested by the European Union and other organizations and institutions around the world. This study aims to identify barriers and enablers faced by the current communication model to generate a series of recommendations,targeted at communication practitioners,that ameliorate communication actions related to social behaviors change. A Grounded Theory process was used to analyze transcripts obtained through focus groups and semi-structured interviews with 22 biotechnology researchers and communication professionals. As a result,the identification of barriers and enablers that prevent or permit different actors to develop sustainable behaviors allowed us to conclude four recommendations aimed at improving the efficacy of communication actions that seek to boost a circular economy and sustainable behavior change: (1) raise awareness among politicians to reduce the barriers that prevent consumers from developing sustainable behavior,(2) involve companies in communication campaign actions as a point of leverage,(3) prioritize long-term interaction over short-term actions,and (4) take advantage of young students (and teachers),who are powerful transmission vectors for promoting sustainable habits among their elders. © 2022 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.Publication Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity(SAGE Journals, 2024-05-31) Lechterman, Theodore; Mair, Johanna; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Many scholars of organizations see social enterprise as a promising approach to advancing social justice but neglect to scrutinize the normative foundations and limitations of this optimism. This article draws on Rawlsian political philosophy to investigate whether and how social enterprises can support social justice. We propose that this perspective assigns organizations a duty to foster institutional capacity, a concept we define and elaborate. We investigate how this duty might apply specifically to social enterprises, given their characteristic features. We theorize six different mechanisms through which social enterprises might successfully discharge this duty. These results affirm the value of conversation between organizational studies and political philosophy and shed new light on debates regarding social enterprise, institutional theory, and several other topics.Publication StopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations(Springer Nature, 2023-04-25) Lechterman, Theodore; Jenkins, Ryan; Strawser, Bradley; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75In July 2020, more than 1,000 companies that advertise on social media platforms withdrew their business, citing failures of the platforms (especially Facebook) to address the proliferation of harmful content. The #StopHateForProfit movement invites reflection on an understudied topic: the ethics of boycotting by corporations. Under what conditions is corporate boycotting permissible, required, supererogatory, or forbidden? Although value-driven consumerism has generated significant recent discussion in applied ethics, that discussion has focused almost exclusively on the consumption choices of individuals. As this article underscores, value-driven consumerism by business corporations complicates these issues and invites further examination. We propose principles for the ethics of boycotting by corporations, indicate how these principles relate to different CSR paradigms, and show how these insights can help assess recent instances of corporate boycotting.Publication That the Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living: Intergenerational Philantropy and the Problem od Dead-Hand Control(Rowman & Littlefield, 2023-03) Lechterman, Theodore; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Intergenerational transfers are a core feature of the practice of private philanthropy. A substantial portion of the resources committed to charitable causes comes from transfers (either during life or at death) that continue to pay out after death. Indeed, much of the power of the charitable foundation lies in its ability to extend the life of an enterprise beyond the mortal existence of its initiating agents. Despite their prevalence, whether and in what way the instruments of intergenerational philanthropy can be justified is controversial. Many have argued that these instruments unfairly privilege the interests of the dead at the expense of the living and unborn. More recently, others have argued that intergenerational charitable transfers comport with the demands of distributive justice and are therefore legitimate. This paper contends that both of these perspectives fail to see the problem for what it is. Intergenerational charitable transfers may indeed promote justice in certain respects, but they do so at the cost of imposing the judgments of the dead onto the living. Respecting the wishes of the past conflicts with an interest in “generational sovereignty.” The paper concludes that properly accounting for this interest in generational sovereignty doesn’t require the abolition of intergenerational philanthropy. But it does tell in favor of a different regulatory orientation than most legal systems currently adopt.Publication The Concept of Accountability in AI Ethics and Governance(Oxford University Press, 2022-12-22) Lechterman, Theodore; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Calls to hold artificial intelligence to account are intensifying. Activists and researchers alike warn of an “accountability gap” or even a “crisis of accountability” in AI. Meanwhile, several prominent scholars maintain that accountability holds the key to governing AI. But usage of the term varies widely in discussions of AI ethics and governance. This chapter begins by disambiguating some different senses and dimensions of accountability, distinguishing it from neighboring concepts, and identifying sources of confusion. It proceeds to explore the idea that AI operates within an accountability gap arising from technical features of AI as well as the social context in which it is deployed. The chapter also evaluates various proposals for closing this gap. I conclude that the role of accountability in AI ethics and governance is vital but also more limited than some suggest. Accountability’s primary job description is to verify compliance with substantive normative principles—once those principles are settled. Theories of accountability cannot ultimately tell us what substantive standards to account for, especially when norms are contested or still emerging. Nonetheless, formal mechanisms of accountability provide a way of diagnosing and discouraging egregious wrongdoing even in the absence of normative agreement. Providing accounts can also be an important first step toward the development of more comprehensive regulatory standards for AI.Publication The Idea of a Theatre in Sixteenth-Century China: Xu Wei’s (1521-1593) Nanci xulu(University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005) Llamas, Regina; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Xu Wei was not the first to write about theater: before him others had written about the life of actors, the authors and their works, about music and prosody, singing methods, the function and style of drama and the composition of plays. The birth of drama was already understood as a by-product of leisure, and so was its potential as a popular instrument for improving, expounding and disseminating social values.1 But Xu Wei’s essay, A Record of Southern Drama Song written in 1559, is the first and only “defense” of southern drama (nanxi) we have.2 It is also an apology that reflects and responds to current concerns with the genre and how this genre had to be understood. This paper will explore how Xu Wei attempted to establish the reputation of southern theater on the basis of contemporary values of naturalness and authenticity, and how he modified and honed these values to fit his defense. It will show that Xu’s advocacy of natural language and authentic music in Southern Drama implied standards that had long since departed the popular milieu he claimed conceived them and became instead the aesthetic values of an educated class wed to distinctive regional and ethnic alliances.Publication The Origins of the Byliny: a Working Hypothesis(Moscow, 2022) Torres Prieto, Susana; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75The oral heroic poems found in the Northern province of Olonets in the late nineteenth century, usually known as byliny, present a unique case of oral preservation of medieval literature within European context. For decades, due to the lack of manuscript copies of those texts, theories about their origin have been highly conjectural and subject to many ideological demands. While any definitive conclusion on their authorship, place and time of composition has to remain necessarily speculative, the present article, analysing the internal evidence of the poems and what can be concluded from studies on orality in other literary traditions, proposes that they were originally composed in written form in a clerical environment in the Northern area of Kyivan Rus’.Publication The Perfect Politician(Oxford University Press, 2024-07) Lechterman, Theodore; David Edmonds; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Ideas for integrating AI into politics are now emerging and advancing at accelerating pace. This chapter highlights a few different varieties and shows how they reflect different assumptions about the value of democracy. We cannot make informed decisions about which, if any, proposals to pursue without further reflection on what makes democracy valuable and how current conditions fail to fully realize it. Recent advances in political philosophy provide some guidance but leave important questions open. If AI advances to a state where it can secure superior political outcomes, leading perspectives in political philosophy suggest that democracy may become obsolete. If we find this suggestion troubling, we need to put the case for democracy on stronger foundations.