Can practitioner-led cultural investment be expected to empower local communities? This paper exa... more Can practitioner-led cultural investment be expected to empower local communities? This paper examines that question using as a case the recent history of Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo. It is found that Sarawak's tourism planners have exoticized its local communities at the cost of developing a much-needed diversified economy. Questions arising are the manner by which artists in urban areas can be productive on their own terms, and the mechanisms by which their faraway communities can lend support. Answers might be sought, it is argued, using a participatory rather than a top-down approach to cultural investment.
This article offers a framework for identifying the ways that authoritative reader groups underst... more This article offers a framework for identifying the ways that authoritative reader groups understand hortatory texts.
Structuralist analysis of the UN climate-change policy framework and its (dis)connections with gl... more Structuralist analysis of the UN climate-change policy framework and its (dis)connections with global financial markets.
This essay identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a potentially i... more This essay identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a potentially influential subset of the interdisciplinary corporate responsibility literature, that which appears in the management literature.
This article examines how pension funds and insurance companies have interpreted UN-issued climat... more This article examines how pension funds and insurance companies have interpreted UN-issued climate-change management policies. By unspoken fiat, the market is here the truth that cannot be contradicted.
Does the reporting of carbon emissions influence investors' decisions? Primary evidence suggests ... more Does the reporting of carbon emissions influence investors' decisions? Primary evidence suggests not.
Introduction of an Australian regulation requiring financiers to disclose how they construct fina... more Introduction of an Australian regulation requiring financiers to disclose how they construct financial products.
The recognition of emotional facial expressions is often subject to contextual influence, particu... more The recognition of emotional facial expressions is often subject to contextual influence, particularly when the face and the context convey similar emotions. We investigated whether spontaneous, incidental affective theory of mind inferences made while reading vignettes describing social situations would produce context effects on the identification of same-valenced emotions (Experiment 1) as well as differently-valenced emotions (Experiment 2) conveyed by subsequently presented faces. Crucially, we found an effect of context on reaction times in both experiments while, in line with previous work, we found evidence for a context effect on accuracy only in Experiment 1. This demonstrates that affective theory of mind inferences made at the pragmatic level of a text can automatically, contextually influence the perceptual processing of emotional facial expressions in a separate task even when those emotions are of a distinctive valence. Thus, our novel findings suggest that language a...
38 Managers' exercise of critical analysis, the integrity of management decisions ostensibly... more 38 Managers' exercise of critical analysis, the integrity of management decisions ostensibly motivated by social considerations and the expansion of the moral realm within capitalist collectivities (Blasi, 1980) appear as perennial problematics, dogging moral philosophy, industrial ...
Can practitioner-led cultural investment be expected to empower local communities? This paper exa... more Can practitioner-led cultural investment be expected to empower local communities? This paper examines that question using as a case the recent history of Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo. It is found that Sarawak's tourism planners have exoticized its local communities at the cost of developing a much-needed diversified economy. Questions arising are the manner by which artists in urban areas can be productive on their own terms, and the mechanisms by which their faraway communities can lend support. Answers might be sought, it is argued, using a participatory rather than a top-down approach to cultural investment.
This article offers a framework for identifying the ways that authoritative reader groups underst... more This article offers a framework for identifying the ways that authoritative reader groups understand hortatory texts.
Structuralist analysis of the UN climate-change policy framework and its (dis)connections with gl... more Structuralist analysis of the UN climate-change policy framework and its (dis)connections with global financial markets.
This essay identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a potentially i... more This essay identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a potentially influential subset of the interdisciplinary corporate responsibility literature, that which appears in the management literature.
This article examines how pension funds and insurance companies have interpreted UN-issued climat... more This article examines how pension funds and insurance companies have interpreted UN-issued climate-change management policies. By unspoken fiat, the market is here the truth that cannot be contradicted.
Does the reporting of carbon emissions influence investors' decisions? Primary evidence suggests ... more Does the reporting of carbon emissions influence investors' decisions? Primary evidence suggests not.
Introduction of an Australian regulation requiring financiers to disclose how they construct fina... more Introduction of an Australian regulation requiring financiers to disclose how they construct financial products.
The recognition of emotional facial expressions is often subject to contextual influence, particu... more The recognition of emotional facial expressions is often subject to contextual influence, particularly when the face and the context convey similar emotions. We investigated whether spontaneous, incidental affective theory of mind inferences made while reading vignettes describing social situations would produce context effects on the identification of same-valenced emotions (Experiment 1) as well as differently-valenced emotions (Experiment 2) conveyed by subsequently presented faces. Crucially, we found an effect of context on reaction times in both experiments while, in line with previous work, we found evidence for a context effect on accuracy only in Experiment 1. This demonstrates that affective theory of mind inferences made at the pragmatic level of a text can automatically, contextually influence the perceptual processing of emotional facial expressions in a separate task even when those emotions are of a distinctive valence. Thus, our novel findings suggest that language a...
38 Managers' exercise of critical analysis, the integrity of management decisions ostensibly... more 38 Managers' exercise of critical analysis, the integrity of management decisions ostensibly motivated by social considerations and the expansion of the moral realm within capitalist collectivities (Blasi, 1980) appear as perennial problematics, dogging moral philosophy, industrial ...
Clashing discourses can derail programmes of social change. The management of climate changeprovi... more Clashing discourses can derail programmes of social change. The management of climate changeprovides an illustrative case. Describes the sets of arrangements by which carbon emissions data areobtained, reported and verified. Finds a market language has penalized regions most exposed to the effects of climate changes and left the portfolios of Western investors materially exposed to risks. Thisis of concern as time horizons of investors are correlated with predicted changes in greenhouse gaslevels. A call is made for alignment of the discourse. Note: PDF copies of conference papers are now available on request only. Please get in contact with me for the latest status of this draft journal article or chapter--it may already be available above as a published work.
Connecting reception theory and social semiotics, this article offers a framework for the analysi... more Connecting reception theory and social semiotics, this article offers a framework for the analysis of hortatory texts. An illustrative case uses the pronouncements of environmental regulators, with the reader group represented by a sample of executives in financial institutions. Although the participants thought the texts important, none had found any use for them. It is unlikely that financial institutions en masse will address environmental issues before and until communicators frame their material in terms of customary financial discourse and investors’ dominant cognitive rationalities. The depth of insights gained suggests wider application of the framework to a range of hortatory texts and authoritative reader groups.
Uploads