Author: Robert Browning File Type: pdf

Author: Julian Warner File Type: epub Information retrieval in the age of Internet search engines has become part of ordinary discourse and everyday practice Google is a verb in common usage. Thus far, more attention has been given to practical understanding of information retrieval than to a full theoretical account. In Human Information Retrieval, Julian Warner offers a comprehensive overview of information retrieval, synthesizing theories from different disciplines (information and computer science, librarianship and indexing, and information society discourse) and incorporating such disparate systems as WorldCat and Google into a single, robust theoretical framework. There is a need for such a theoretical treatment, he argues, one that reveals the structure and underlying patterns of this complex field while remaining congruent with everyday practice. Warner presents a labor theoretic approach to information retrieval, building on his previously formulated distinction between semantic and syntactic mental labor, arguing that the description and search labor of information retrieval can be understood as both semantic and syntactic in character. Warners information science approach is rooted in the humanities and the social sciences but informed by an understanding of information technology and information theory. The chapters offer a progressive exposition of the topic, with illustrative examples to explain the concepts presented. Neither narrowly practical nor largely speculative, Human Information Retrieval meets the contemporary need for a broader treatment of information and information systems.

Author: Jaime Hanneken File Type: pdf Imagining the Postcolonial is the first book dedicated to comparative analysis of Latin American and francophone postcolonial identity. Jaime Hanneken examines the disciplinary, theoretical, and political stakes involved in postcolonial identification in non-anglophone cultural spheres through readings of Jose Lezama Lima and Edouard Glissants poetics of place, the symbolic value of Paris in modernista writing and in Congolese Societes des Ambianceurs et Personnes Elegantes (sape) rituals, and the scandals surrounding Rigoberta Menchu and Yambo Ouologuem. Hanneken argues that reorienting comparative critique to the priority of the object of study can transform rather than replicate existing conceptual formats of postcoloniality. **

Author: Krushil Watene File Type: pdf A Theory of Justice, re-ignited political philosophy and revolutionized how we theorize about justice. Rawlss approach to justice advanced political philosophy in important and valuable ways most significantly in the way that it showed that political philosophy remained relevant for our lives and our world. Unsurprisingly, over forty years later, social and global realities present theories of justice with new challenges. This volume examines what these new challenges are, and whether contemporary theories are in a position to respond to them. The collection brings together essays that push the boundaries of justice theorizing in new directions, and that begin to construct a new paradigm. The collection contributes to the creation of a platform from which new ideas and new conversations, about the challenges and opportunities for justice in our world, can be further explored and developed. **Review If we want to address cases of injustice, we need to rethink our theories of justice. That requires a critical analysis of the assumptions in liberal theories of justice as well as the development of alternatives. Theorizing Justice makes important contributions to this project, and should be required reading for anyone interested in justice for the world as it is. (Ingrid Robeyns, Professor of Ethics, Utrecht University) This collection stimulatingly explores a great variety of questions that arise under the umbrella of justicefrom Rawlss question about the basic structure of society to questions about minimal, fundamental, and transitional justice justice for indigenous peoples justice in circumstances with more than moderate scarcity and morehere appropriately addressed by a strikingly diverse set of distinctive authorial voices. (Henry S. Richardson, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University) About the Author Krushil Watene is Lecturer in Philosophy at Massey University, New Zealand. She is of Ngati Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngati Whatua Orakei, and Tongan descent. Jay Drydyk is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University, a former President of the International Development Ethics Association, and a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. He is the co-author of Displacement by Development (CUP, 2011). Contributors Tim Mulgan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and University of St Andrews, UK Colleen Murphy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University, USA Mozaffar Qizilbash, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, University of York, UK Jay Drydyk, Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University, Canada Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government, University of Durham, UK Krushil Watene, Lecturer in Philosophy, Massey University, New Zealand Rutger Claassen, Associate Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy, University of Utrecht, Netherlands Stacy J. Kosko Assistant Director MIDCM, University of Maryland, USA