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Globalizations, 2009

ABSTRACT This article explores some of the obstacles to building the dialogue needed for transwor... more ABSTRACT This article explores some of the obstacles to building the dialogue needed for transworld collaboration on globalization research and suggests some starting points for addressing these obstacles if researchers are to engage with, and respect, different bodies of knowledge and distinctive, if not incompatible cosmologies. It begins with a critical review of the Globalization and Autonomy project and its limited, and in retrospect, inadequate attempts to be epistemologically inclusive. Second, the article reflects more deeply on epistemological exclusion and knowledge erasure as challenges for globalization research. Drawing from the critical thinking in the second section, the third sections looks at steps that might be taken to build collaborations that meet the condition of cognitive justice. Next the article returns to the Globalization and Autonomy project as an example to illustrate the structural challenges faced by researchers in search of epistemological inclusion. The final section offers some concluding thoughts on how to move forward and to improve collaborative research efforts.Este artículo explora algunos de los obstáculos para crear el diálogo necesario para la colaboración a través del mundo sobre la investigación de la globalización y sugiere algunos puntos de partida para tratar con estos obstáculos, si los investigadores participan conjuntamente y respetan diferentes conjuntos de conocimiento y diferentes cosmologías, si no incompatibles. El artículo comienza con un análisis crítico del proyecto de la Globalización y la Autonomía y sus limitaciones y retrospectivamente, los intentos inadecuados para que se incluyan epistemológicamente. Segundo, el artículo reflexiona más profundamente sobre la exclusión epistemológica y la eliminación del conocimiento, como retos para la investigación sobre la globalización. Como resultado del pensamiento crítico en la segunda sección, la tercera sección considera los pasos que quizás haya que tomar para crear las colaboraciones que cumplan con la condición de justicia cognitiva. Luego, el artículo regresa al proyecto de Globalización y Autonomía como un ejemplo para ilustrar los retos estructurales que enfrentan los investigadores en búsqueda de la inclusión epistemológica. La sección final ofrece algunos pensamientos concluyentes de cómo proceder y mejorar los esfuerzos investigativos colaborativos.

The rapid global transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 raises question... more The rapid global transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 raises questions about the intersections of globalization, time, and diseases. Viewing it as a disease of speed, this article examines SARS as a case of emerging infectious diseases in the context of contemporary globalization. We contend that the SARS crisis exposed the limitations of traditional spatiality-based approaches to infectious diseases, disease control, and health governance. When the advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) in recent decades have accelerated the diffusion of pathogens, actors at all levels of global public health are pressed to keep up with the new temporalities. While cognitive and organizational innovations arising from technological changes show some hope for addressing these issues on a global level, other temporality-related challenges—such as differential capacities of the affected countries to respond to the simultaneity of the crisis—are yet to be tackled.

Australian Journal of Political Science, 1995

... Melbourne. Page 2. WILLIAM D. COLEMAN & GRACE SKOGSTAD 243 system ... challenged. New... more ... Melbourne. Page 2. WILLIAM D. COLEMAN & GRACE SKOGSTAD 243 system ... challenged. New trade agreements geared to liberalising markets have been signed in North America, Europe, and under the auspices of the GATT. A ...

Political Studies, 1999

The importance of horizontal coordinating governance arrangements in the internationalized policy... more The importance of horizontal coordinating governance arrangements in the internationalized policy domains that occur more frequently in the present globalizing era justi®es building further on middle-level theories that draw on the policy community/ policy network concepts. This reconceptualization, however, requires an explicit integration of policy paradigms and political ideas into policy community theory and careful attention to the dierential impact of varying governance patterns in internationalized policy domains. This article pursues these objectives beginning with a review of existing literature on policy communities and policy networks. Next, drawing on recent research on policy paradigms and political ideas, it suggests how policy community concepts might be adapted for the study of policy change. Four types of internationalized policy environments are then identi®ed and their implications for policy communities and policy networks are assessed. The article concludes by introducing the concept of policy community mediators and discussing how they might shape the relationships among multiple policy communities.

Journal of Public Policy, 1996

Page 1. Jnl Publ. Pol., 16, 3, 273-301 Copyright © 1997 Cambridge University Press Paradigm Shift... more Page 1. Jnl Publ. Pol., 16, 3, 273-301 Copyright © 1997 Cambridge University Press Paradigm Shifts and Policy Networks: Cumulative Change in Agriculture* WILLIAM D. COLEMAN Department of Political Science, McMaster University ...

European Journal of Political Research, 1988

This article utilizes an internationally comparative data set to examine the potentiality of comp... more This article utilizes an internationally comparative data set to examine the potentiality of comprehensive business associations to define and articulate the interests of business as a whole. We argue that the organizational structures of comprehensive associationsthe degree to which they integrate diverse interest areas and they compete with one another-are critical to the degree of probable influence gained in a given country. Using data from seven countries -Austria. Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom a concept of business cohesion is constructed based on these structural properties. Having differentiated among the countries in terms of the cohesion of business associations, we then relate these differences to variations in the participation of associations in the formulation and implementation of public policy.

British Journal of Political Science, 1989