Rhyall Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhyall Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhyall |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8022-5493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Evaluation for equity
Formal evaluation of policies, programmes and people has become ubiquitous in contemporary western contexts. This is the case for equity and widening participation (WP) agendas in higher education, for which evaluation is often required to measure ‘what works’. Although evaluation has a ‘fundamentally social, political, and value-oriented character’ (Guba and Lincoln. 1989. Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 7), an experimental…
Productive Paradoxes
There has been a proliferation in the use of the concept of prefiguration to describe and understand many of the protest and social change movements of the past decade. However, there are key aspects of the concept that remain unexplored. In this paper I consider telos and justice, and unveil a temporal paradox arising from the thinking behind prefiguration. Rather than this temporal paradox of prefiguration being the undoing of the concept, it d…
Radical Openings
What might an alliance between Gibson-Graham's concept of community economy and Laclau and Mouffe's concept of hegemony generate for theories and practices of everyday postcapitalist politics? This essay theorizes a shared space between these concepts, opening up new ground for politics. It provides an illustration of the dynamic of hegemony within a community economy through empirical work carried out with food-sovereignty collectives in the Ast…
Cooperative governance
Exponential increases in material and energy use globally threaten Earth System stability in many ways including through climate change. Yet societies remain committed to economic growth, reflected in the way publicly traded corporations are legally obliged to maximise shareholders’ profits. In contrast, businesses governed cooperatively by members, i.e. democratically and transparently, may be better suited to operating in an ecologically sustai…
Evaluation for equity
Formal evaluation of policies, programmes and people has become ubiquitous in contemporary western contexts. This is the case for equity and widening participation (WP) agendas in higher education, for which evaluation is often required to measure ‘what works’. Although evaluation has a ‘fundamentally social, political, and value-oriented character’ (Guba and Lincoln. 1989. Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 7), an experimental…
Radical Openings
What might an alliance between Gibson-Graham's concept of community economy and Laclau and Mouffe's concept of hegemony generate for theories and practices of everyday postcapitalist politics? This essay theorizes a shared space between these concepts, opening up new ground for politics. It provides an illustration of the dynamic of hegemony within a community economy through empirical work carried out with food-sovereignty collectives in the Ast…
Cooperative governance
Exponential increases in material and energy use globally threaten Earth System stability in many ways including through climate change. Yet societies remain committed to economic growth, reflected in the way publicly traded corporations are legally obliged to maximise shareholders’ profits. In contrast, businesses governed cooperatively by members, i.e. democratically and transparently, may be better suited to operating in an ecologically sustai…
Cooperative governance
Exponential increases in material and energy use globally threaten Earth System stability in many ways including through climate change. Yet societies remain committed to economic growth, reflected in the way publicly traded corporations are legally obliged to maximise shareholders’ profits. In contrast, businesses governed cooperatively by members, i.e. democratically and transparently, may be better suited to operating in an ecologically sustai…
Radical Openings
What might an alliance between Gibson-Graham's concept of community economy and Laclau and Mouffe's concept of hegemony generate for theories and practices of everyday postcapitalist politics? This essay theorizes a shared space between these concepts, opening up new ground for politics. It provides an illustration of the dynamic of hegemony within a community economy through empirical work carried out with food-sovereignty collectives in the Ast…
Productive Paradoxes
There has been a proliferation in the use of the concept of prefiguration to describe and understand many of the protest and social change movements of the past decade. However, there are key aspects of the concept that remain unexplored. In this paper I consider telos and justice, and unveil a temporal paradox arising from the thinking behind prefiguration. Rather than this temporal paradox of prefiguration being the undoing of the concept, it d…
Evaluation for equity
Formal evaluation of policies, programmes and people has become ubiquitous in contemporary western contexts. This is the case for equity and widening participation (WP) agendas in higher education, for which evaluation is often required to measure ‘what works’. Although evaluation has a ‘fundamentally social, political, and value-oriented character’ (Guba and Lincoln. 1989. Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 7), an experimental…
Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Hegemony (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works)