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Embedded throughout this paper you will find the diversity of opinions that correlates to the diversity of theories, frameworks, case studies and stories that are related to the field of Knowledge Management (KM). We begin by introducing the Sampler Research Call approach and the 13 KM academics and practitioners working in different parts of the world who answered the call. We then provide bas...

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While pragmatism as a philosophy and intellectual movement has been gaining inroads in international ethics political theory scholarship, feminist is not yet widely regarded. This paper explores the contributions of to thought, particularly Jane Addams’s social which largely overlooked literature on women’s normative theory. Here I add efforts reconsider Addams thinker that was concerned with m...

Resilience deals explicitly with change and provides a middle ground between the social and the environmental sciences. However, a growing critique by social scientists questions the ability of resilience thinking to adequately examine the social dimensions of change. The question that emerges is how social scientists should engage with resilience. We addressed this question by comparing resili...

Frederica de Laguna’s archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic research has provided us a rich record of the importance of metal, especially copper, to Native Alaskans. This paper provides a brief review of some of de Laguna’s thoughts on metal, its use and time of appearance in far northwestern North America. Additionally, this paper provides a discussion of the relationship between c...