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Ethical guidance in research is underpinned by the need to show respect for study participants by upholding autonomy in participant decision-making, and confidentiality and protection of individual rights, privacy and interests, yet decision-making could also be influenced by the participant's sociocultural and belief systems. This calls for a more Africanised approach to research ethics where these values and beliefs are upheld. While national and international ethics guidelines do exist, there is little evidence that such a paradigm shift in research ethics is adequately interrogated in the teaching and learning curricula in higher education, where research skills are developed and nurtured. Critical reflection is used to highlight opportunities to stimulate learning and debates underpinned by humanised pedagogy in higher education.

In the forested countryside of Gwalior lie the vestiges of a little-known amphitheatre (akhārā) attributed to Raja Mansingh Tomar (r. 1488–1518). A bastioned rampart encloses the once-vibrant dance arena: a circular stage in the centre, surrounded by orchestral platforms and an elevated viewing gallery. This purpose-built performance space is a unique monumentalized instance of widely-prevalent courtly gatherings, featuring interpretive dance accompanied by music. What makes it most intriguing is the architectural play between inside|outside, between the performance stage and the wilderness landscape. Why then did it make sense to situate a 'fortified' amphitheatre amidst forested hills, away from the city? And where does this cultural arena stand in relation to the pressing political concerns of the day, anchored in the very same landscape? This paper examines the performative structure of Mansingh's akhārā and argues that performance – as evening entertainment, hunting sport and military campaign – occupied a crucial place in Gwalior's resilience throughout the fifteenth century and its changing perceptions from an infidel's jungle refuge (mawās) to the axis of a culturally-refined region (sudeśa).

In the United States and Australia, men and women use the internet in nearly equal measure, whereas in Japan, India and China, men continue to dominate internet use. This article focuses on gender differences in the use of the internet at home as seen from women's perspectives and draws particularly on open-ended interviews in 1999 with 30 middle-income Anglo-Celtic women with internet access in urban and rural areas of Australia. The study found that women generally use the internet as a tool for activities, rather than as play or a technology to be mastered. This partially explains why women farmers use the internet more extensively than their farmer husbands. When women become comfortable with technology - as with the telephone or the PC on a farm - women see it as a tool rather than a technology. Women's continued discomfort with technology thus remains at the centre of the social construct of gender and technology.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why the Constitution Needs Defending Today -- 1 Constitutional Critiques: The Reemergence of Jeffersonian Constitutional Angst -- 2 The Preamble, Then and Now: A More Perfect Union -- 3 Governing Institutions -- 4 Amendments and Interpretations -- Conclusion: Cults, Crises, Conventions, and Crossroads -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and tables -- 1 A return to strategy -- The other great recession -- Audacity exhausted: American disengagement -- The Obama syndrome: retrenchment, retreat and accommodation -- The post-Obama era -- 2 Strategic sabbatical: lessons of Obama's failure -- Lesson one: the imperative of grand strategy -- Lesson two: the limits of engagement -- Iran -- Russia -- Iraq, Syria and the rise of ISIS -- Lesson three: the perils of politicization -- Defense policy -- Undeclaring war -- Lesson four: overcommitting and underdelivering -- Conclusion -- 3 "45": prospects for renewal -- Parties, polarization and foreign policy -- Public opinion: taking care of business -- Foreign policy and the 2016 presidential election -- The Republican Party -- The Democratic Party -- Conclusion -- 4 Reversing declinism: toward a second American century? -- The case for decline I: America against itself -- The case for decline II: peak America? -- The "antideclinist" rejoinder: "deja vu all over again" -- Conclusion -- 5 The way forward: a new American internationalism -- A post-Obama Doctrine -- Rebuilding national security and defense -- Restoring alliance management -- Asia -- Europe -- The Middle East -- Reenergizing security by freer trade and securitizing energy -- Reviving muscular internationalism -- Resuming strategic resolution -- After Obama -- Notes -- 1. A return to strategy -- 2. Strategic sabbatical: lessons of Obama's failure -- 3. "45": prospects for renewal -- 4. Reversing declinism: toward a second American century? -- 5. The way forward: a new American internationalism -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles and reports -- Index.