Respective Perspectives

Author : Günter Abel,Martina Plümacher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110492101

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The Power of Distributed Perspectives by Günter Abel,Martina Plümacher Pdf

How do people and institutions manage to bring their different perspectives into an effective and productive interplay? How can we overcome obstacles for the creative potentials of distributed perspectives? Traditionally, the perspectives of people and institutions are considered to be fixed and isolated points of view. In such a picture, the perspectives seem determined in advance by positions and persons seem trapped within their perspectival horizons. In contrast, the new approach of this volume’s contributions focuses on the simple but fundamental fact that people (in their perceiving, speaking, thinking, and acting) always already refer to fellow human beings and coordinate their own perspectives with those of other persons and institutions. The contributions of the present volume concentrate on the structures, mechanisms, and dynamics of the interplays of different perspectives of interacting, communicating, and cooperating persons and institutions. The volume focuses on how the creative potentials as well as the organizational effectiveness of distributed perspectives can be set free.

Author : Rama Rao Pappu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004644373

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Perspectives on Vedānta by Rama Rao Pappu Pdf

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights. Forum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Discrimination in education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044057747958

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Changing Perspectives on Civil Rights by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Forum Pdf

Author : Tarn How Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814322423

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Singapore Perspectives 2010 by Tarn How Tan Pdf

Section I. Home, heart, horizon. Welcome remarks / Ong Keng Yong. Keynote address / Lee Hsien Loong -- Section II. One united people. ch. 1. One united people / Pek Siok Lian. ch. 2. The third phase of Singapore's multiculturalism / Daniel P.S. Goh. ch. 3. Why NEWater instead of SEWater : difficult policies and unity for Singaporeans / Leong Ching. ch. 4. Reasonable persons of goodwill : personal experiences in navigating diversity / Aaron Maniam -- Section III. One gracious society. ch. 5. One gracious society / Paulin Tay Straughan. ch. 6. In search of graciousness / Terence Chong. ch. 7. Living graciously in Singapore / Braema Mathiaparanam. ch. 8. Kiasu monkeys and chicken pies / Gan Su-lin -- Section IV. One global city. ch. 9. One global city / Annie Koh. ch. 10. Beyond economics for economic success / Lee Kwok Cheong. ch. 11. The future of Singapore as a global city and its socio-economic implications / Nizam Idris. Globalising Singapore : One global city, global production networks, and the developmental state / Henry Wai-chung Yeung -- Section V. Conclusion. ch. 13. Closing address : Be open to all possibilities / Ong Keng Yong. ch. 14. Closing remarks / Tommy Koh

Author : Laurence J. Silberstein
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814779286

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New Perspectives on Israeli History by Laurence J. Silberstein Pdf

This volume, the first in the series New perspectives on Jewish studies, published by the Berman Center for Jewish Studies and NYU Press, draws upon recent Israeli and North American historiography to shed new light on fundamental social, political, and cultural issues surrounding the emergence of the State of Israel. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Forrest Clingerman,Kevin J. O'Brien
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498523592

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Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Climate Engineering by Forrest Clingerman,Kevin J. O'Brien Pdf

Using the resources of theology and ethics to bring religion into the climate engineering debate, this book considers the moral questions raised by scientists, engineers, and philosophers while adding new questions and insights to the debate. Readers new to the discussion will be introduced in an engaging and thoughtful manner, while those who already work on this issue will wrestle with it in a new way.

Author : Graziella Parati
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611475326

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New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: Definitions, theory, and accented practices by Graziella Parati Pdf

New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies. Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices is a collection of essays that identifies a number of different approaches in cultural studies and in Italian cultural studies in particular. It highlights that history of cultural studies and new developments in the field as well focuses on practicing cultural studies with essays devoted to Italian hip hop culture, postcolonial Italy and queer diaspora, Occidentalism in Japan, Italian racism and colonialism.

Author : Eva Bischoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429940910

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Dimensions of Settler Colonialism in a Transnational Perspective by Eva Bischoff Pdf

As a field of research, settler colonial studies has developed dynamically in recent years. This volume contributes a set of much-needed empirical analyses of the microhistory and practices of settler colonialism. Incorporating six case studies from across the Anglo-world, including the United States, Australia, and South Africa, this book examines the roles different actors played in this process, their individual experiences, and the social and physical (re-)organization of settler colonial space. They reconstruct the complexities of settler responses to Indigenous resistance, guided by fear or religious convictions; and explore the settlers’ potential to manoeuvre on higher political levels, legitimizing frontier violence as a patriotic duty to the common good. In addition, they examine the production and circulation of knowledge about land, and discuss the ways in which socio-ecological systems were manipulated by stock farmers whose success depended upon an effective integration into a world-wide economic system. Overall, the volume presents a unique combination of microhistorical analysis and environmental history. This book was originally published as a special issue of Settler Colonial Studies.

Author : Florian A. A. Becker-Ritterspach,Susanne Blazejewski,Christoph Dörrenbächer,Mike Geppert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107053670

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Micropolitics in the Multinational Corporation by Florian A. A. Becker-Ritterspach,Susanne Blazejewski,Christoph Dörrenbächer,Mike Geppert Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the foundations, applications and new directions of politics perspectives in MNCs.

Author : Daniel J. Paré
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0742518469

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Internet Governance in Transition by Daniel J. Paré Pdf

All Internet users will find this book a useful tool for understanding the increasingly complex web of Internet control.

Author : Loet Leydesdorff
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781581129373

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The Knowledge-based Economy by Loet Leydesdorff Pdf

"Challenging, theoretically rich yet anchored in detailed empirical analysis, Loet Leydesdorff's exploration of the dynamics of the knowledge-economy is a major contribution to the field. Drawing on his expertise in science and technology studies, systems theory, and his internationally respected work on the 'triple helix', the book provides a radically new modelling and simulation of knowledge systems, capturing the articulation of structure, communication, and agency therein. This work will be of immense interest to both theorists of the knowledge-economy and practitioners in science policy." Andrew Webster Science & Technology Studies, University of York, UK ________________________________________ "This book is a ground-breaking collection of theory and techniques to help understand the internal dynamics of the modern knowledge-based economy, including issues such as stability, anticipation, and interactions amongst components. The combination of theory, measurement, and modelling gives the necessary power with which to address the complexity of modern networked social systems. Each on its own would partly illuminate an innovation system, but the combination sheds a far brighter light." Mike Thelwall Information Science, University of Wolverhampton, UK ________________________________________ "The sociologist Niklas Luhmann is considered one of the few social scientists possibly able to explain a decisive event once it has happened. In this book, Loet Leydesdorff answers the challenge to take Luhmann's analysis one step further by introducing anticipation into the theory. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the use of recursion and incursion to model social processes." Dirk Baecker Sociology, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany ________________________________________ How can an economy based on something as volatile as knowledge be sustained? The urgency of improving our understanding of a knowledge-based economy provides the context and necessity of this study. In a previous study entitled A Sociological Theory of Communications: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-based Society (2001) the author specified knowledge-based systems from a sociological perspective. In this book, he takes this theory one step further and demonstrates how the knowledge base of an economic system can be operationalized, both in terms of measurement and by providing simulation models.

Author : Jason R. Ambroise,Sabine Broeck,Sabine Bröck-Sallah
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381724

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Black Knowledges/Black Struggles by Jason R. Ambroise,Sabine Broeck,Sabine Bröck-Sallah Pdf

Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology explores the central, but often critically neglected role of knowledge and epistemic formations within social movements for human emancipation. This collection examines the systemic connection that exists between the empirical subordination of "Black" peoples globally and the conceptual negation that subordinates or renders this population invisible within the epistemes of the West. The collection recognizes that as peoples of "Black" African and Afro-mixed descent mobilize against their dehumanized status within Western modernity, they are involved in a struggle that is both contemporary and of long standing, one where local and national battles have a global dimension. The essays in this collection foreground the extent to which liberation from imposed subordination necessarily entails critiques of, challenges to, and counter-formulations against the epistemic formations that work to "naturalize" subordination. The essays in the collection engage primarily with knowledge formations and empirical practices generated from within the discourse of "race," but also in its relation to other socio-human discourses of Western modernity. These essays also analyze the critiques, challenges, and counter-knowledge/epistemic formulations put forth by specific individuals, schools, movements, and/or institutions of the "Black" world. Through these examinations, the collection's authors implicitly point towards, and sometimes explicitly take part in, the formulation of a new kind of critical - but also emancipatory - epistemology. What emerges is a more comprehensive view of what it means to be human, an epistemic construction that can serve as an instrument of liberation rather than subordination.

Author : John Lofland
Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798986386126

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Deviance and Identity by John Lofland Pdf

The sociology of deviance was in its heyday when Prentice-Hall published this book in 1969. John Lofland traces the field from pre-World War II to the late sixties and pioneers the application of "grounded theory" to the study of deviant behavior. In his new prologue, Joel Best writes, "More than thirty years after the book first appeared, we have no better synthesis of the labeling approach."

Author : Baerman Matthew Baerman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474446037

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Morphological Perspectives by Baerman Matthew Baerman Pdf

In a field still dominated by syntactic perspectives, it is easy to overlook the words that are the irreducible building blocks of language. Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigmatic extensions, and their role in expressing and manipulating syntactic configurations. With a team of authors that run the typological gamut of languages, this book examines these questions from multiple perspectives, both the canonical and the non-canonical. By taking these questions seriously, and letting loose a full battery of analytical techniques, the following chapters not only celebrate the pioneering work of Greville G. Corbett but present new thinking on traditional approaches, including the paradigm, deponency and morphological features.

Author : Palfrey, Colin,Thomas, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447308454

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Evaluation for the real world by Palfrey, Colin,Thomas, Paul Pdf

Evaluation research findings should be a key element of the policy-making process, yet in reality they are often disregarded. This valuable book examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are available when evaluating public policies and services. It further examines the nature of evidence and its use and non-use by decision-makers and assesses the work of influential academics in the USA and UK in the context of evaluation and policy making. The book emphasises the 'real world' of decision-makers in the public sector and recognises how political demands and economic pressures can affect the decisions of those who commission evaluation research while providing recommendations for policymakers on adopting a different approach to evaluation. This is essential reading for under-graduate and post-graduate students of policy analysis and public sector management, and those who are involved in the planning and evaluation of public policies and services.