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"This book is a collection of essays and creative expressions, written and produced in response to the second Making Sense colloquium, which was held in 2010 at the Centre Pompidou and the Institut Telecom in Paris. The contributions to the volume represent the ongoing aim of Making Sense: providing a voice that is at once theoretical and practical, scholarly and inclusive, a bridge between modes of thinking and modes of doing, especially within the contemporary context. The book draws together thinkers and practitioners engaged in the worlds of art, aesthetic philosophy and contemporary theory, to form an interface between artistic creation, theoretical debate and academic scholarship. Critical essays sit alongside images and articles that present shorter bursts of ideas and generate a sense of the installations and performances in which they originated. Several chapters focus on the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, the keynote speaker at the second Making Sense colloquium, whose contributions to this volume outline his own interpretation of Making Sense"--

Published with ISME, ITTO and project partners FAO, UNESCO-MAB, UNEP-WCMC and UNU-INWEHThis atlas provides the first truly global assessment of the state of the world's mangroves. Written by a leading expert on mangroves with support from the top international researchers and conservation organizations, this full colour atlas contains 60 full-page maps, hundreds of photographs and illustrations and a comprehensive country-by-country assessment of mangroves. Mangroves are considered both ecologically and from a human perspective. Initial chapters provide a global view, with information on distr

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine why social entrepreneurs in the USA choose to operate an entirely fair trade business and the factors that affect fair trade social entrepreneurship. Fair trade seeks to benefit producers in developing countries by providing a market for their goods in developed countries. Fair trade enables all parties in the supply chain to make living wages and/or a profit.Design/methodology/approach– Using a qualitative multiple case study approach of social entrepreneurs in 35 US fair trade companies, the authors develop a model and nine propositions to explain the findings.Findings– The authors identify three primary motivational factors (ethical belief, religious faith, and business values), four contributory factors that strengthen fair trade engagement (family member involvement, the trend toward for profit status, industry professionalism, and consumer education), and three negative factors that work to discourage involvement (loss of identity, lack of industry consensus, and the shortage of retailers). The authors conclude by using the findings to consider the future of US fair trade social entrepreneurship.Research limitations/implications– The authors recognize limitations due to the sample size.Practical implications– The authors believe that fair trade is worthy of further study and increased awareness.Social implications– Increased awareness of fair trade may lead to better consumer buying decisions.Originality/value– The authors contribute to the development of theory in the study of fair trade, which has rarely been studied in the context of US social entrepreneurs.

AbstractCertain strategic issues and challenges relating to financing and capital structure in family businesses are thought of differently from non‐family businesses and lead them to employ specific financial policies.

Purpose– This editorial aims to investigate the interface between gendered processes and family business by exploring the extent to which gendered processes are reinforced (or not) in family business operations and dynamics. This approach will complement the agency and resource-based view theoretical bases that dominate family business research (Chrismanet al., 2009) and further contribute to extending gender theories.Design/methodology/approach– Acknowledging that gender is socially constructed, this editorial discusses the interface between gendered processes and family business within entrepreneurship research.Findings– Despite a growing interest in gender and family business, there is limited literature that explores gender theory within family business research. A gender theory approach embracing family business research contributes to a needed theoretical deconstruction of existing perspectives on the operations, sustainability and succession of family businesses in the twenty-first century.Originality/value– This editorial makes a contribution to extant scholarship by extending gender theories through an exploration of the gendered processes in family business research.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Image of Visual Culture -- 1. Cutting and Letting-Be -- 2. Dancing Equality: Image, Imitation and Participation -- 3. A Question of Listening: Nancean Resonance, Return and Relation in Charlie Chaplin -- 4. The Image: Mimesis and Methexis -- 5. On the Threshold: Visual Culture, Invisible Nature -- 6. Pornosophy: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Pornographic Image -- 7. Presentation and Disappearance: Dialogue between Soun-Gui Kim and Jean-Luc Nancy -- 8. Writing in the Place of the Animal -- 9. Together at the Limit: Jean-Luc Nancy, Art and Community -- 10. Turning Around the Written Mark, Opening from a Weight of Thought -- 11. Uncanny Landscapes of Photography: The Partage of Double-Exposure after Jean-Luc Nancy -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index