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Book Chapter
Series: Advances in Librarianship
Published: 05 May 2026
10.1108/S0065-283020260000061026
EISBN: 978-1-83608-776-2
ISBN: 978-1-83608-777-9
... that usually characterize information science. Anti-catalog epistemology indexing library methodology What else could I speak more properly about than my personal library? And how could it be better done than through a fragmentary and kaleidoscopic method? I ask myself these questions while I am...
Book Chapter
Series: Advances in Librarianship
Published: 05 May 2026
10.1108/S0065-283020260000061027
EISBN: 978-1-83608-776-2
ISBN: 978-1-83608-777-9
... epistemologies while marginalizing others (Hathcock, 2015; Honma, 2005; Olson, 2001). These institutional biases validate knowledge produced through Western empirical frameworks while devaluing the legitimacy of community-grounded and Indigenous ways of knowing, a process that creates deep systemic inequities...
Book Chapter
Published: 12 December 2025
10.1108/978-1-80592-531-620251006
EISBN: 978-1-80592-531-6
ISBN: 978-1-80592-532-3
..., International Relations theorists have turned to philosophy in search of new ontological and epistemological foundations or to clarify their existing commitments.” 14 While ontology is defined as a study of being, and is more concerned with what things exists and which categories they belong...
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Serial: Building Leadership Bridges
Published: 24 November 2025
10.1108/S2058-880120250000010005
EISBN: 978-1-80592-497-5
ISBN: 978-1-80592-500-2
...) and Aristotle on the right with his hand outstretched pointing to this world of knowable physical objects. These two key figures represent a dividing line within epistemology, namely, rationalism (we know what we know by reason) and empiricism or objectivism (we know what we know by our sensory perceptions...
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Serial: Perspectives on Human Development
Published: 19 November 2025
10.1108/978-1-80592-080-920251015
EISBN: 978-1-80592-080-9
ISBN: 978-1-80592-081-6
...Abstract This chapter critically examines the different conceptions and emerging paradigms in the discourse on inclusion in the context of education in India. I interrogate the nature of inclusive education and argue for an epistemology that emerges from the paradoxes, diversity and disparities...
Book Chapter
Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 25 August 2025
10.1108/S0733-558X20250000093008
EISBN: 978-1-83608-638-3
ISBN: 978-1-83608-641-3
... at the same time retaining its traditional culture and institutions. Decolonization epistemology first-person perspective lived experiences management and organization studies phenomenology Introduction The purpose of this paper is to present a phenomenological approach as one way to decolonize...
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Series: Research Methodology in Strategy and Management
Published: 12 December 2024
10.1108/S1479-838720240000015002
EISBN: 978-1-83797-026-1
ISBN: 978-1-83797-027-8
... their knowledge of the subject. Philosophy research methodology management research critical realism ontology epistemology Introduction When management researchers hear the term “methodology” or “research methods,” they probably think of statistical modeling, sampling, or data collection. Rarely...
Book Chapter
Published: 11 November 2024
10.1108/978-1-83549-472-120241011
EISBN: 978-1-83549-472-1
ISBN: 978-1-83549-473-8
... educational leadership radical leadership epistemology CELPS Introduction The 19th-century school desk Gove placed centrally in the Department for Education is a metaphor for the public education’s place in society; the desk is an artefact of frontal teaching, rote learning, order and learning one’s place...
Book Chapter
Published: 08 November 2024
10.1108/978-1-80455-944-420241008
EISBN: 978-1-80455-944-4
ISBN: 978-1-80455-945-1
... and theoretically useful insights, challenging assumptions about the temporality of usable data and the ever-changing relationship between art, technology and freedom. Poetry Tumblr epistemology confession algorithms Syliva Plath Introduction This chapter reflects on a media studies project exploring Sylvia...
Book Chapter
Published: 06 August 2024
10.1108/978-1-83549-194-220241002
EISBN: 978-1-83549-194-2
ISBN: 978-1-83549-197-3
... for answering questions (and questioning answers). Thus, throughout the book, research findings will be introduced to support theoretical and clinical information related to college students’ mental health and wellness. Introduction College students mental health epistemology Center for Collegiate Mental...
Book Chapter
Series: Theory and Method in Higher Education Research
Published: 07 December 2023
10.1108/S2056-375220230000009005
EISBN: 978-1-83797-520-4
ISBN: 978-1-83797-521-1
... from doing so. Especially when the aim of the research is agentic change, these are critical considerations for research design, data analysis and interpretation. Moving along the continuum of paradigms, researchers with a more phenomenological epistemology adopt interpretive approaches, seeking...
Book Chapter
Published: 06 November 2023
10.1108/978-1-80071-871-520231001
EISBN: 978-1-80071-871-5
ISBN: 978-1-80071-872-2
... epistemology ontology onto-epistemology pedagogy practices praxis Introduction We live in an era of heightened political and social tensions. Inequality is rising within societies and between nations. The number of refugees fleeing war torn nations due to wars and climate emergencies has risen to figures...
Book Chapter
Published: 06 November 2023
10.1108/978-1-80071-871-520231002
EISBN: 978-1-80071-871-5
ISBN: 978-1-80071-872-2
...Abstract This chapter locates our book in social science debates and critiques challenging ontological and epistemological assumptions underpinning researching approaches emanating from the global north. This is an important contextualising move, given that these debates have surfaced crucial...
Book Chapter
Published: 04 October 2023
10.1108/978-1-80262-951-420231006
EISBN: 978-1-80262-951-4
ISBN: 978-1-80262-952-1
.... Postcolonialism ontology epistemology historicity imperialism world system This book is not a historical study, but it is crucial to offer a brief sense of the philosophical and sociological problems raised by invoking its history. As I have suggested, the fundamental power relationship between...
Book Chapter
Serial: Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology
Published: 09 August 2023
10.1108/978-1-80262-199-020231012
EISBN: 978-1-80262-199-0
ISBN: 978-1-80262-200-3
..., 2010 ; Cefaï, 2003 ; Olivier de Sardan, 2008 ), I observed the complexity of the detainees’ social relationships and resistance actions against the prison in the theatrical workshop room. Introduction Prison theatre subversion research stance epistemology penal abolition Abstract This chapter...
Book Chapter
Published: 25 January 2023
10.1108/978-1-80455-063-220231008
EISBN: 978-1-80455-063-2
ISBN: 978-1-80455-064-9
... the developments that already exist. Epistemological approaches have shifted from a primary focus on quantitative research to an acceptance of qualitative and mixed approaches as well. Nunkoo (2018 ) states that researchers utilize different methods when the entirety of their research is concerned over the years...
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Serial: Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
Published: 05 December 2022
10.1108/978-1-80262-985-920221007
EISBN: 978-1-80262-985-9
ISBN: 978-1-80262-986-6
... biofeminist mobilization and pursue allyship between cis and trans women. Feminism epistemology equity difference sex sport In September 2021, the UK Sports Councils' Equality Group (SCEG) released new guidance for the participation of trans athletes in domestic sport, advising British sporting bodies...
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Serial: Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions
Published: 20 October 2022
10.1108/978-1-80117-027-720221002
EISBN: 978-1-80117-027-7
ISBN: 978-1-80117-028-4
... and Beautiful [1757], a text which, paradoxically, intuitively links terror and horror to experiences of the sublime, Burke puts it succinctly, Lovecraft Cthulhu monsters epistemology visuality imagination posthumanism Abstract Since the rise of rationalism ( Bond, 1935 ) the imagination has often been...
Book Chapter
Series: International Perspectives on Education and Society
Published: 19 July 2022
10.1108/S1479-36792022000042B003
EISBN: 978-1-80382-617-2
ISBN: 978-1-80382-618-9
... research in general because it allows researchers to work beneath the surface of empirical research to disclose the field of possibilities for social action. Meta-theory critical realism ontology depth realism epistemology methodology The reasons of agents become useful starting points...
Book Chapter
Serial: Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Published: 29 March 2022
10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079016
EISBN: 978-1-83909-826-0
ISBN: 978-1-83909-829-1
... categories and hierarchies are not as self-evident and given as they may seem. Moreover, taking scale as an ontological fixed category limits our ability to make sense of, theorize and respond to grand challenges. As an alternative, I suggest seeing scale as an epistemological frame that participants employ...

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