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Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...History Month, Charles Barthold explores the connections between the management curriculum and coloniality...As part of The Open University’s events marking Black History Month, I was invited to give a presentation on the connection between the management curriculum and our colonial heritage. In particular, I tried to problematise the ways in which a...
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What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...families. While my research focus was to understand how an informal economy like this one persists when confronted with formal government-backed services, I also learned how the exchange of cash between buyers and collectors of scrap helped structure community life by creating durable social bonds that functioned like contracts. Over 20 months from 2013 to 2015, I...
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The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016

...family, I think it makes it more real for us to see how in fact these people differ very little from us if at all.” Given the Olympic-sized audiences Rio will bring, the stories of the refugee athletes will provide a new, powerful opportunity for those working to ameliorate the refugee crisis. The London Summer Olympics in 2012 was the most watched TV program in U.S....
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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping the consequences of our own choices (living in places we ourselves have chosen, doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus, personality differences that might have been very slight at birth become dramatic in later adulthood. Personality,...
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LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...families. Multiple court cases were taken by couples seeking legal recognition and businesses, charities, politicians and businesses stood shoulder to shoulder with our community demanding change. Unfortunately, like so many times before, this change was not achieved through the Northern Ireland Assembly, but rather was introduced and passed through Westminster with cross...
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Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...history and have been used since ancient times as decorative art – from Islamic art to Roman mosaics. Tilings can be made from one or more shapes, and the tiles can be made from regular or irregular polygons. If the pattern repeats, the tiling is call periodic. But is it possible to have a set of tiles, that can cover the infinite surface such that the pattern never...
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Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...family maidservant when she went to the privy; he bored a few holes in the wall so he “could plainly see” the parts discussed in the book. [A hairy child from an 1831 edition of Aristotle's Masterpiece] A hairy child from the 1831 edition of the Masterpiece The book that Cannon read so eagerly was neither by Aristotle nor usually considered a masterpiece. It is,...
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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...history of Western civilisation in particular and “civilised” values more generally. There’s a lot to be said for secular states, as recent events remind us. Putting the priests and the mullahs in their place and throwing off the yoke of inherited ideology and ignorance has been one of the West’s great achievements. It is not too fanciful to suggest that much of...
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