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La investigación emergencia de las categorías taylorianas ideal y práctica como fuentes de sentido del ejercicio ciudadano en estudiantes de ingeniería es una voz entre muchísimas otras que pretende unirse en la búsqueda de posibles alternativas ciudadanas hacia un renacer de la vida pública activa y participativa de todos los miembros de la comunidad de una manera integradora, legitimadora y sobre todo de convivencia digna donde cada cual se responsabilice por querer lo público, educarse en lo público y hacer en lo público. Dejar esto en manos de unos pocos por dedicarse sólo a la vida individual es quizá un error irreparable, como la historia cada día lo muestra claramente. Para este fin, en una primera parte se planteará el problema con los objetivos y los antecedentes y se discutirá los conceptos de ideal y práctica expuestos por el filósofo canadiense Charles Taylor. A continuación se expondrá lo que teóricamente se ha entendido a través de la historia por ideal de ciudadanía y sus principios de acción a partir del pensamiento de filósofos como Aristóteles, Rawls, Habermas, Kymlicka. Dado que la democracia y su ejercicio ciudadano no son posibles sin la universalización de una educación de calidad que busque la legitimación y apropiación por todos de los ideales y prácticas sociales, en el tercer capítulo se buscarán puntos de encuentro entre la propuesta de Martha Nussbaum y la política pública colombiana en educación superior y ciudadanía. En la segunda parte se propondrá la metodología seguida en esta investigación. Finalmente el capítulo cinco girará en torno a la Interpretación del discurso expuesto por los participantes de esta investigación sobre las categorías sociales ideal y práctica fuente de sentido del ejercicio ciudadano. ; CRAI-USTA Bogotá

International audience ; Au prix du sens, voire des valeurs – Ce que peut faire le management à la ressource humaine des associations Une approche volontairement négative face à des idéologies trop optimistes Sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité, cette contribution, polémique au sens positif du terme, s'appuiera sur des travaux issus de la littérature internationale ainsi que sur des études françaises pour mettre en évidence quelques effets négatifs que peut avoir le management sur le fonctionnement des associations et sur les personnes qui y contribuent. L'auteur prie donc à l'avance ses lecteurs de bien vouloir excuser sa posture, qui fait le choix prospectif inhabituel de ne considérer que quelques signaux faibles, négatifs, et de pointer les menaces qu'ils font peser sur l'idéal associatif. Pour planter le décor de cette réflexion, nous donnerons d'abord une définition du managérialisme, pour ensuite explorer comment le management influence trois catégories de ressources humaines du monde associatif, les salariés, les bénévoles, et les volontaires. Klikauer (2015) synthétise les travaux critiques sur le management en proposant une vision particulière du managérialisme. Pour lui, il s'agit de l'idéologie qui prête au management la capacité à traiter tous les problèmes de la société de la même façon qu'ont été prétendument résolus les problèmes de production au cours du développement industriel. Dès les travaux de Taylor sur l'organisation du travail, les partisans du management ont su donner à la discipline une coloration scientifique et positiviste qui a ensuite été favorable à son expansion. Dans leur approche, l'évaluation – composante essentielle du contrôle – est centrale, et la mesure – qui plus est objective – est fantasmée comme étant toujours possible. Ainsi, les managers pourraient optimiser, avec les mêmes méthodes, le fonctionnement de l'industrie comme celui de l'éducation, des services sociaux, ou encore celui de l'organisation générale de la société, et donc des politiques publiques. Cette idéologie ...

The article deals with some interpretations (R. Dunayevskaya, L. Althusser, E. Weil, A. Kojève, Ch. Taylor) of Hegel᾿s political philosophy that carried out in the twentieth century. Author ideal model was introduced and called «original Hegel» in order to clarify why philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel still alive at the modern world. At this investigation, we have found that in the bodies of interpretations «Hegel's political» was understood strongly peculiar by author to author, so «single political philosophy of Hegel» does not exist in the interpretive culture. On the other hand, all interpretations of Hegel's philosophy was made by the limited set of principles and functioning on a certain number of rules, and some of them was presented in this article. ; В статье рассматривается ряд интерпретаций (Р. Дунаевская, Л. Альтюссер, Э. Вейль, А. Кожев, Ч. Тейлор) политической философия Гегеля, осуществленных в ХХ веке. К ним применяется идеальная авторская модель под названием «подлинный Гегель» с целью прояснения того, чем обеспечивается жизнеспособность философии Г. В. Ф. Гегеля в современном мире. В ходе исследования обнаруживается, что в телах интерпретаций «гегелевское политическое» каждым автором понимается предельно своеобразно, потому «единой политической философии Гегеля» в интерпретационной культуре не существует, а кроме этого, все интерпретации гегелевской философии создаются по ограниченному набору принципов и функционируют по определенному числу правил, некоторые из которых были представлены в данной статье. ; У статті розглядається ряд інтерпретацій (Р. Дунаєвська, Л. Альтюссер, Е. Вейль, А. Кожев, Ч. Тейлор) політичної філософія Гегеля, здійснених у ХХ столітті. До них застосовується ідеальна авторська модель під назвою «справжній Гегель» з метою прояснення того, чим забезпечується життєздатність філософії Г. В. Ф. Гегеля у сучасному світі. В ході дослідження виявлено, що в тілах інтерпретацій «гегелівське політичне» кожним автором розуміється досить своєрідно, тому «єдиної політичної філософії Гегеля» в інтерпретаційній культурі не існує, а крім того, всі інтерпретації гегелівської філософії конструюються за обмеженим набором принципів і функціонують за певним числом правил, і деякі з них були висвітлені в даній статті.

O Direito do Trabalho é fruto das lutas sociais do final do século XIX e início do século XX. Lutas que a filosofia política classifica como reivindicações da justiça redistributiva, pois buscam a implementação da igualdade substancial, sob a perspectiva da distribuição dos bens materiais e do acesso igualitário a oportunidades. De fato, tanto as ideias marxistas, que inspiraram os movimentos por redistribuição de bens materiais, especialmente o sindicalismo, quanto o próprio Direito do Trabalho, tendem a encerrar suas análises e propostas, no ideal de combate à desigualdade econômica. No entanto, a partir da década de 60 do século passado, eclodiram novos movimentos sociais que contém reivindicações que extrapolam a questão redistributiva e requerem o reconhecimento da identidade de indivíduos e de novos agrupamentos sociais. No século XXI, - momento em que a falta de legitimidade dos movimentos sociais tradicionais, em especial aqueles que se organizam em torno da busca da justiça distributiva, como o sindicalismo, se revela acentuada -, os movimentos pautados pelo desejo de reconhecimento se apresentam com roupagem inovadora: as pautas mosaico. O tecido social se apresenta, no século XXI, recheado de complexidades e singularidades que vindicam reconhecimento e as lutas meramente distributivas, que homogenizam as reivindicações, encontram, a cada dia, mais dificuldades para se legitimar perante esse. A intenção do presente trabalho é elaborar um diálogo entre os principais teóricos do Princípio do Reconhecimento Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth e Nancy Fraser e buscar construir um conceito de justiça, que englobe as dimensões da necessidade de redistribuição de bens materiais e do reconhecimento das diferenças. A partir de tal análise, pretende-se oferecer instrumentos que possam auxiliar o sindicato, principal fonte material do Direito do Trabalho, a edificar um conceito interpretativo da dignidade, capaz de atender os anseios das minorias sociais, hoje invisíveis às teorias homogeneizadoras, que construíram os princípios norteadores deste ramo das ciências jurídicas.

L'urbanisation est une forme de colonisation actuelle des peuples autochtones (Taylor et Bell, 2004). Elle est, d'une part, une conséquence d'un traumatisme historique, soit l'aboutissement des pertes subies par les peuples autochtones au Canada en raison du colonialisme, qui s'est traduit par des manifestations comprenant une incidence accrue de dépendances, de troubles de santé mentale et de violence familiale (Code Criminel (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46); Brave Heart, 1998; Evans-Campbell, 2008; Wesley-Esquimaux et Smolewski, 2004). D'autre part, elle est une manifestation des conditions colonialistes actuelles, comme le manque d'infrastructures permettant aux gens de demeurer dans leur communauté pour travailler, suivre un enseignement supérieur ou, dans de nombreux cas, recevoir des soins médicaux vitaux. À l'aide d'entrevues réalisées dans le cadre d'une étude plus vaste qui explorait l'identité culturelle de la jeunesse autochtone urbaine à Montréal, nous montrerons comment l'urbanisation, le traumatisme historique et l'identité culturelle interagissent dans la vie des jeunes rencontrés. L'étude a mis en œuvre les principes de propriété, de contrôle, d'accès et de possession (PCAP ®1) en se dotant d'un comité composé de jeunes autochtones urbains qui surveillait tous les aspects du processus de recherche (CPN, 2007). L'analyse a mené à la formulation de quatre grands thèmes reliant entre eux l'urbanisation, le traumatisme historique et l'identité culturelle. Les participants ont d'abord défini la manière dont le traumatisme historique a touché leur vie. Le discours convergent des jeunes a permis de caractériser l'urbanisation comme une forme actuelle de politique coloniale ainsi qu'une forme de traumatisme historique. Enfin, les jeunes ont partagé leur expérience du racisme et des stéréotypes en milieu urbain de même que l'impact de ceux-ci sur leur sens de l'identité culturelle. Nous montrerons comment l'urbanisation, le traumatisme historique et l'identité culturelle interagissent dans la vie de ces jeunes.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social Movement Studies on 21 December 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14742837.2016.1256193. ; European anti-austerity and pro-democracy movements form part of a global wave of protests following the global financial crisis. Despite continuity of actors and a double critique of global capitalism and democratic deficits from the previous Global Justice Movement, the centrality of the nation as target and focus of mobilization is a significant difference in this wave. The economic impact of the crisis and austerity policies is insufficient to explain variation in mobilization across countries hardest hit. In order to transform economic/material grievances into collective resistance, grievances need to be channelled against specific targets, and interpretive frameworks of meaning tied to a collective identity need to be mobilized. In Europe, anti-austerity protests were initiated by two sets of actors, Institutional Left and autonomous actors. Autonomous actors linked anti-austerity claims to interpretive system of meanings framed around the crisis of legitimacy of representative democracy; targeted primarily national political and economic oligarchies; and mobilized newcomers through an inclusive collective identity constructed around the 'ordinary citizen' as political subject. Democratic regeneration emerges as a significant demand, but is uneven in its resonance. It finds its clearest and most emblematic expression in the 'movements of the squares'. To the extent that the 'twin' crises (financial/democratic) are framed synergistically, they can be seen as counter-hegemonic, as they seek to rupture the consensus of the 'post-political'. The presence or absence of a strong pro-democracy narrative that connects actors across sectorial and organizational differences could help explain variation between cases. Transnational diffusion processes have been crucial but have not (yet) led to a transnational movement. Given the significant role of the Troika in the bail-outs, debt renegotiations and austerity policies of those countries hardest hit, the low visibility of 'Europe' in the mobilizations is surprising.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third Text on 17 March 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09528822.2016.1155327. ; The following text is derived from a presentation given as a dialogue to the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians in London 2014, where our presentation was used to open the session. Our decision to perform an interactive, scripted dialogue against a background of images, was an intentional attempt to explore 'art history' in ways that do not conform to the accepted academic conference conventions of a formal paper, subsequently revised, extended and embellished with references and footnotes to locate the writing as serious 'research' designed for possible publication. Research is generated not only by planned research processes but by informal interactions such as conversation and correspondence. In these processes dialogue is generative: ideas are sketched out, emerge spontaneously in response to questions, or are snatched from insights stimulated by unexpected collisions of spoken or written words.1 Art history offers many examples of fruitful correspondence between thinkers and practitioners. E.H. Gombrich and Quentin Bell explored canons and values in 1979; John Berger corresponded with Leon Kossoff (1996) and with James Elkins (2003-4) about drawing.2 As academics engaged in teaching and research, we talk about our shared interests in feminist histories and theories and our experiences as women now based in Britain, but who lived lives elsewhere - in the United States (Marsha) and southern Africa (Marion). For us the personal has been political; there are commonalities and differences in our experiences of 'home' and re-location. In doing light editing (added footnotes) of our performed dialogue for publication, we maintained the dialogic framework to indicate that the two voices speak from their particular perspectives while also finding a shared space.

A preponderance of the world's population is expected to live in urban environments by 2050 (ADB, Asia 2050: realizing the Asian century. ADB, Manila, 2011). Cities as sites of vulnerability for disasters originating from both natural and man-made causes are attracting considerable research on understanding the crosscultural and governance dynamics associated with large-scale mortalities (Paton and Jang, Disaster resilience: exploring all-hazards and cross-cultural perspectives. In: Miller D, Rivera J (eds) Community disaster recovery ad resiliency: exploring global opportunities and challenges (pp 81–100). Taylor and Francis, Oxford, 2011;Paton and Violanti, Working in high risk environments: developing sustained resilience . Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 2012; Pelling, Vulnerability of cities: natural disasters and social resilience. Earthscan, London, 2003, Adaptation to climate change: from resilience to transformation. Routledge, London/New York, 2011). Disaster risk reduction policies of various Asian regional governments are currently exploring pragmatic approaches to recover and reconstruct lives, families and livelihoods of those affected. Examination of adaptation to trauma arising from large-scale losses in various cross-cultural contexts and different governance regimes presents the possibility of deriving new insights into practical disaster reconstruction models and policies. As such, this paper highlights the fundamental contributions of specific sociocultural and governance frameworks in disaster reconstruction policy. In so doing, the chapter investigates various urban disaster sites—namely, Bam and Tabriz (Iran), Pyapon, Bogale and Labutta (Myanmar) and Beichuan and Yingxue (People's Republic of China, PRC)—where large-scale mortalities arising from earthquakes and a cyclone warrant attention by those researching on disaster resilience, recovery and reconstruction. Based on the fieldwork in the aforementioned disaster sites, this chapter suggests that while the physical reconstruction of a livable habitat is important, the sociocultural factors in enabling disaster-impacted communities to reconstruct peoples' daily lives are of greater importance in the long-term recovery. Through the lens of civil society, difficulties in adapting to new realities around an engaged future are highlighted.

A preponderance of the world's population is expected to live in urban environments by 2050 (ADB, Asia 2050: realizing the Asian century. ADB, Manila, 2011). Cities as sites of vulnerability for disasters originating from both natural and man-made causes are attracting considerable research on understanding the crosscultural and governance dynamics associated with large-scale mortalities (Paton and Jang, Disaster resilience: exploring all-hazards and cross-cultural perspectives. In: Miller D, Rivera J (eds) Community disaster recovery ad resiliency: exploring global opportunities and challenges (pp 81–100). Taylor and Francis, Oxford, 2011;Paton and Violanti, Working in high risk environments: developing sustained resilience . Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 2012; Pelling, Vulnerability of cities: natural disasters and social resilience. Earthscan, London, 2003, Adaptation to climate change: from resilience to transformation. Routledge, London/New York, 2011). Disaster risk reduction policies of various Asian regional governments are currently exploring pragmatic approaches to recover and reconstruct lives, families and livelihoods of those affected. Examination of adaptation to trauma arising from large-scale losses in various cross-cultural contexts and different governance regimes presents the possibility of deriving new insights into practical disaster reconstruction models and policies. As such, this paper highlights the fundamental contributions of specific sociocultural and governance frameworks in disaster reconstruction policy. In so doing, the chapter investigates various urban disaster sites—namely, Bam and Tabriz (Iran), Pyapon, Bogale and Labutta (Myanmar) and Beichuan and Yingxue (People's Republic of China, PRC)—where large-scale mortalities arising from earthquakes and a cyclone warrant attention by those researching on disaster resilience, recovery and reconstruction. Based on the fieldwork in the aforementioned disaster sites, this chapter suggests that while the physical reconstruction of a livable habitat is important, the sociocultural factors in enabling disaster-impacted communities to reconstruct peoples' daily lives are of greater importance in the long-term recovery. Through the lens of civil society, difficulties in adapting to new realities around an engaged future are highlighted.

The exhibition Caméra(Auto)Contrôle is the core of the 50JPG—50 Days for Photography in Geneva 2016. It takes us right into the burning issue of drones and all other monitoring systems that use photo and video cameras. We can indeed "celebrate" a quarter of century of the monitoring of public space by automated cameras worldwide. These cameras quite often bear a sticker with a smiley asking those being recorded, whether in a car park, at a supermarket check-out, or on public transport, to smile. A number of artists, hackers and political activists have refused to smile, instead appropriating these surveillance devices momentarily. Their actions have remained isolated, because never before has a grassroot movement fought against the increasingly invasive presence of depersonalised cameras in public spaces. It has also been a quarter of a century in which street photographers, both amateur and professional, have met with hostility, or even aggression from citizens, the same citizens [.] ANNELORE SCHNEIDER & CLAUDE PIGUET / G.R.A.M. / WILLIAM ANASTASI / LUC ANDRIÉ / JACOB APPELBAUM / GIACOMO BIANCHETTI / VIKTORIA BINSCHTOK / !MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK / JAMES BRIDLE / JOÃO CASTILHO / KURT CAVIEZEL / JEAN-MARC CHAPOULIE / GAËLLE CINTRÉ / PAOLO CIRIO / EDMUND CLARK / NICOLAS CRISPINI / HEATHER DEWEY-HARBORG / JIMMIE DURHAM / LÉA FARIN / HARUN FAROCKI / ENRIQUE FONTANILLES / GUILLAUME DÉSANGES / MICHEL FRANÇOIS / DAN GRAHAM / HERVÉ GRAUMANN / VINCENT EMMANUEL GUITTER / GARY HILL / ANN HIRSCH / LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR / VÉRÉNA PARAVEL / ERNST KAREL / MATTHEW KENYON / JOAKIM KOCJANCIC / CLÉMENT LAMBELET / LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON / JÉRÔME LEUBA / ARMIN LINKE / FRED LONIDIER / RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER / JILL MAGID / RUBENS MANO / JOSEP MARIA MARTÍN / ADRIEN MISSIKA / GIANNI MOTTI / WARREN NEIDICH / CHRISTOF NÜSSLI ET CHRISTOPH OESCHGER / WILLEM POPELIER / JULIEN PRÉVIEUX / CATHERINE RADOSA / SÉBASTIEN REUZÉ / FRANCK VIGROUX / GREGORY ROBIN / JENNY ROVA / JULIA SCHER / MANUEL SCHMALSTIEG / SEAN SNYDER / JULES SPINATSCH / JONAS STAAL / JEMIMA STEHLI / VANGELIS VLAHOS / STÉPHANE DEGOUTIN & GWENOLA WAGON / JAN HOFER & SEVERIN ZAUGG Work exhibited by Edmund Clark: An installation of 'Control Order House'

Tibial accelerations have been associated with a number of running injuries. However, studies attaching the tibial accelerometer on the proximal section are as numerous as those attaching the accelerometer on the distal section. This study aimed to investigate whether accelerometer location influences acceleration parameters commonly reported in running literature. To fulfil this purpose, 30 athletes ran at 2.22, 2.78 and 3.33 m · s–1 with three accelerometers attached with double-sided tape and tightened to the participants' tolerance on the forehead, the proximal section of the tibia and the distal section of the tibia. Time-domain (peak acceleration, shock attenuation) and frequency-domain parameters (peak frequency, peak power, signal magnitude and shock attenuation in both the low and high frequency ranges) were calculated for each of the tibial locations. The distal accelerometer registered greater tibial acceleration peak and shock attenuation compared to the proximal accelerometer. With respect to the frequency-domain analysis, the distal accelerometer provided greater values of all the low-frequency parameters, whereas no difference was observed for the high-frequency parameters. These findings suggest that the location of the tibial accelerometer does influence the acceleration signal parameters, and thus, researchers should carefully consider the location they choose to place the accelerometer so that equivalent comparisons across studies can be made. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group ; This study was supported by the Spanish Government [Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte, Grant FPU12/00574; and Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, Subdireccion General de Proyectos de Investigacion, Convocatoria Proyectos I+D "Excelencia", Subprograma de Generacion de Conocimiento, 2013, Grant DEP2013-48420-P]. ; Lucas Cuevas, ÁG.; Encarnacion Martinez, A.; Camacho García, A.; Llana Belloch, S.; Pérez Soriano, P. (2016). The location of the tibial accelerometer does influence ...

The paper investigates the current phases of world financial system's (WFS) development that was identified on the base of Obstfeld-Taylor index describing international capital movement. It is shown that in order to differentiate the main periods of WFS life-cycle one should investigate the first and the second waves of financial globalization. The respective analysis mainly includes comparison of financial deglobalization/globalization process evidences in the wake of global financial crises. On the one hand, almost all global financial markets (except global currency market) demonstrated downturns and/or sharp slowdowns in overall performance during 2007-2009. For example, global banking demonstrated the "flight home" effect. On the other hand, the author consolidated the analysis of the pre-crisis and 2010-2014 financial data, geographical changes in global credit market, global currency market's dynamics during 2004-2013, shadow banking and VIX-index trends, initiatives on global financial reforms. This showed that the financial world is not becoming deglobalized in medium-term perspective. Moreover, according to author's research, financial globalization currently undergoes a deep systemic transformation, including a wider geography of its main driving forces. Still, it is not excluded that deglobalization trend is possible in a long-run perspective because of global financial crisis lasting since 2007, persistence of "contagion effect" and deeply linked multiple financial bubbles in the world financial system, high volatility of financial and some other markets. It is supposed that once started processes of deglobalization can be immediately transferred from financial sphere to the world economy. Finally, author outlines necessary conditions for continuing evolutionary financial globalization process. Acknowledgements. The article was prepared with support of the grant of Russian Fund for Humanities (Project № 15-02-00391 "Russian monetary and budgetary policy during current phase of global economic development").

This paper aims to address the key question, 'How far autoethnography contributes towards enriching the field of transformative learning?' Using my lived experiences as a teacher educator/autoethnographer/researcher and contextualizing self/others within a particular socio-pedagogical life courses I build the basis through addressing questions: Why auto/ethnography is one of the most suitable spaces for transformative researchers and to what extent it serves the agenda of envisioning a transformative teacher education. To achieve this objective I use autobiographies, stories, reflections and poems etc. as narratives with multiple logics and genres; pictography as art-based expression; and ethnography as methodological space within multiparadigmatic design space. In so doing autoethnographer has to delve into whole process of research along a continuum of self and beyond within a particular sociocultural context to understand the phenomena at deeper level of consciousness. This transformative paradigm holds a strong basis in the process of research as: re/reading, re/viewing, critically reflecting on self/others, re/writing for meaning making and developing a subjective understanding of phenomena under exploration. This process of research is found to be an innovative way of knowing through 'interpreting and constructing (Luitel, 2009)within Interpretivism, critically thinking and reflecting within Criticalism, and adding both 'pluralism and playfulness' (Taylor, 2013) within Postmodernism. In so doing it raises awareness, develops consciousness and improves capacities constantly that ultimately alters our way of seeing and being in the world differently- a paradigm shift in self/others. It is found to be highly rigorous, dialectically eloquent, dialogically rigorous, critically reflective, consciously awakening, and innovative critical discourse that greatly contributes to transform researcher/s. Therefore, it seems illustrious for teacher educators/teachers to embrace this paradigm in order to foster their transformative learning so that to transform self/others.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Regional Studies on 17 Dec 2014, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2014.980637 ; This issue marks the beginning of Regional Studies 49th volume. As we begin this new chapter in the journal's history our inheritance will ensure Regional Studies retains its distinctive purpose, but these are new times, indeed they are changing times (TUROK et al., 2014). The 48th volume of Regional Studies saw profound intellectual developments, important journal developments (a new, more geographically dispersed, editorial team; a new Executive Editor; a first Early Career Editor; an increased impact factor), and as the Journal of the Regional Studies Association notable extensions to the activities of the wider regional studies community (e.g. the launch of Regional Studies, Regional Science as an open access journal; the opening of a new China Division of the RSA; the publication of two joint RSA-Regional Studies Virtual Issuesi). 2014 also saw notable territorial developments (increased submissions from, readership by people in, and research focusing on, Asia, Latin America and other parts of the Global South), political and policy developments (e.g. the no vote in the Scottish independence referendum), and methodological developments (e.g. continued improvements in accessing 'big data') present (re)new(ed) opportunities and challenges for Regional Studies. As the saying goes, the times are clearly a changing for Regional Studies and it was with this in mind that last year, under the editorship of Gordon MacLeod, the journal relaunched what hitherto had been entitled the Critical Surveys section as Urban and Regional Horizons (MACLEOD, 2014). Twelve months on and with five papers published under the new title we begin by reflecting on what makes this section and these articles distinct, before introducing the papers in this issue.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ; [EN] As the use of RNA-seq has popularized, there is an increasing consciousness of the importance of experimental design, bias removal, accurate quantification and control of false positives for proper data analysis. We introduce the NOISeq R-package for quality control and analysis of count data. We show how the available diagnostic tools can be used to monitor quality issues, make pre-processing decisions and improve analysis. We demonstrate that the non-parametric NOISeqBIO efficiently controls false discoveries in experiments with biological replication and outperforms state-of-the-art methods. NOISeq is a comprehensive resource that meets current needs for robust data-aware analysis of RNA-seq differential expression. ; European Union Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013, 306000]; Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [MICINN, BIO2008-04638-E], in the framework of ERA-Net Pathogenomics; MICINN [DPI2008-06880-C03-03/DPI]. Funding for open access charge: University of Florida, Publication Funds. ; Tarazona Campos, S.; Furió Tarí, P.; Turrà, D.; Di Pietro, A.; Nueda, MJ.; Ferrer, A.; Conesa, A. (2015). Data quality aware analysis of differential expression in RNA-seq with NOISeq R/Bioc package. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(21):1-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv711 ; S ; 1 ; 13 ; 43 ; 21 ; Malone, J. H., & Oliver, B. (2011). Microarrays, deep sequencing and the true measure of the transcriptome. BMC Biology, 9(1). doi:10.1186/1741-7007-9-34 ; Robles, J. A., Qureshi, S. E., Stephen, S. J., Wilson, S. R., Burden, C. J., & Taylor, J. M. (2012). Efficient experimental design and analysis strategies for the detection of differential expression using RNA-Sequencing. BMC Genomics, 13(1), 484. ...