scholarly journals Deliberating Our Frames: How Members of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Use Shared Frames to Tackle Within-Frame Conflicts Over Sustainability Issues

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelika Zimmermann ◽  
Nora Albers ◽  
Jasper O. Kenter
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Environmental Valuation ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Joint Decisions ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Carbon Retention ◽  
The Way

Abstract Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) have been praised as vehicles for tackling complex sustainability issues, but their success relies on the reconciliation of stakeholders’ divergent perspectives. We yet lack a thorough understanding of the micro-level mechanisms by which stakeholders can deal with these differences. To develop such understanding, we examine what frames—i.e., mental schemata for making sense of the world—members of MSIs use during their discussions on sustainability questions and how these frames are deliberated through social interactions. Whilst prior framing research has focussed on between-frame conflicts, we offer a different perspective by examining how and under what conditions actors use shared frames to tackle ‘within-frame conflicts’ on views that stand in the way of joint decisions. Observations of a deliberative environmental valuation workshop and interviews in an MSI on the protection of peatlands—ecosystems that contribute to carbon retention on a global scale—demonstrated how the application and deliberation of shared frames during micro-level interactions resulted in increased salience, elaboration, and adjustment of shared frames. We interpret our findings to identify characteristics of deliberation mechanisms in the case of within-frame conflicts where shared frames dominate the discussions, and to delineate conditions for such dominance. Our findings contribute to an understanding of collaborations in MSIs and other organisational settings by demonstrating the utility of shared frames for dealing with conflicting views and suggesting how shared frames can be activated, fostered and strengthened.

scholarly journals Selected Issues Illustrating Duality in Relation to Lakota Identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-132
Author(s):  
Klára Perlíková
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Dual Structure ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Tribal Museums ◽  
The World ◽  
General Meaning ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Abstract The article deals with selected issues which - as we perceive it - can provide an insight into what the Lakota consider essential and generic for their self-identification with their culture (What does it mean to be Lakota?). The study is based on observations gained during fieldwork research, and issues in the text reflect data collected within this period. As a result, we examine the following issues: tribal museums in Lakota reservations, Native perception of time, selected issues of Lakota religion, and Lakota relation to the land and environment they live in and to the world on a global scale. We believe that in all these issues we can also recognize an underlying dual structure which - in its most general meaning - could be understood as a dichotomy of Native and Western/Euro-American worldview and mind-set. The question was how non-Native elements distort or affect the system of Lakota culture. In the section on tribal museums and perception of time we have shown that circular way of thinking about the course of the world which is, according to Donald Fixico (FIXICO 2009), characteristic of all Native cultures affects the way tribal museums organize and present their exhibitions. In this case, the influence of the Native/Euro-American dualism does not have to be necessarily negative. The same can be said about another example where the dichotomy projects itself - in the issue of Lakota relation to the land or Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth): Though Lakota religion and identity is regionally bound (BUCKO 2008), their concern for this integral part of their Native-self can surprisingly well fit into the global issue of protection of environment. On the case of Lakota struggle to stop construction of a KXL pipeline1 we demonstrate how the same (Native/Euro-American) duality interacts and through which the Lakota (Native, regionallybound) voice is strengthened by its non-Native counterpart and vice versa.

scholarly journals WHO IS GRETA THUNBERG? ECHOES OF THE WORLD CLIMATE DISCUSSION IN THE DISCOURSE OF MOROCCAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Pałka-Lasek
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Independent Media ◽  
The Way

The article is an attempt to present the response drawn in the Arabic independent media by the world discussion on the figure of the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. Using the tools for discourse analysis, the research focuses mainly on the way the activist’s image is created in the context of the social role assumed by the Internet press media as news publishers, covering the plane of language, transmitting ideas and social interactions. Articles from the Moroccan Internet journal Hespress (for several years one of the most often visited website among the Moroccan e-community), come from the period from 27 September to 29 December 2019, were used as the research material.

scholarly journals Masked mimicry: The way of neo-culturalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Sarra Samra Benharrats
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Facial Mimicry ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
Honest Signals ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Dynamic ◽  
The Way

Currently, the world is in the grip of a new health and social crisis linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this article, we opt for a descriptive and analytical sociological analysis of behaviours and reactions resulting from the introduction of barrier measures, imposed for the prevention of COVID-19 disease, in particular wearing of a mask, while focusing our interest on the Algerian society. The reactions are multiple and inform us about the issues and negotiation strategies for the integration of this new behaviour qualified as preventive to contain the pandemic: a societal phenomenon on a global scale which has triggered a process of normalisation through the integration of neo-culturalism of the Proxemic type with a pandemic character. According to the recommendations of the study, a Proxemic neo-culturalism is in the process of spreading in a pandemic manner, to establish an interactional balance through the emergence of a new social dynamic made concrete by the adaptation of ‘honest signals’.   Keywords: Facial mimicry, mask, COVID-19, protection, social distancing, neo-culturalism.

scholarly journals In search of the contours of the post-COVID Sustainable Development Goals: The case of BRICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-51
Author(s):  
S. N. Bobylev ◽  
L. M. Grigoriev ◽  
M. Yu. Beletskaya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Way

The global COVID-19 pandemic and an unexpected recession of dangerous proportions have provided strong reasons to look at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from three perspectives: The SDGs as a victim of the 2020 recession; the SDGs as an opportunity for better coordination on the way out of the recession; and the SDGs as an object of modernization for better adaptation to the realities "on the world stage". The BRICS countries are interested in developing and implementing the SDGs on a global scale as a way to catch up. The authors propose a "pandemic protocol", as well as a change in the methodology for including indicators in the SDGs: the introduction of new indicators that are important for sustainability and the incorporation of cross-cutting key indicators for the SDGs, both new and existing.

Little magazine, worldwide network

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bulson
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Worldwide Network ◽  
The Way

The first chapter tackles the seemingly straightforward question: where was the little magazine network? As a way to get started, I examine some of the diagrams and maps created by little magazine makers in Spain, France, and Poland to try and figure out where their magazines were going in the world. In doing so, I explain that this “worldwide network of periodicals,” a term first used by the Polish Constructivist Henri Berlewi in 1922, did not rely for its effects on actual connectivity. In fact, these early attempts to visualize “the worldwide network” reveal how much disconnection, both voluntary and involuntary, played a formative role in the way that little magazines could begin to imagine where they were and with whom. Emphasizing the effects of disconnection enables us to think about the geography and history of the little magazine on a global scale, looking less for the circulation of texts and authors and more for the causes behind bouts of isolation and the formation of alternative, and very often non-Western, routes of exchange.

Upstream Industrial Competitiveness and Innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Rita Assoreira Almendra
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Industrial Competitiveness ◽  
The World ◽  
General Part ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way ◽  
Changing World

The way industry can compete in a changing world in which sustainability issues push countries to act fast and efficiently makes academics ethically compromised with the mission to reflect on how knowledge creation can help people, companies, countries to find a systemic net of solutions that make it possible to redesign the world, thus redesigning the role and actions and interactions of persons, companies, and societies in general. Part of that redesign task depends upon policies that overrule actions at a macro level, the one of the companies, and the micro level, the one of individuals. Current Western initiatives already ‘merged' industry policies with innovation ones (that had already rehearsed the design inclusion), and there is an effort, namely of EU, to also embrace sustainability policies with the former ones. That calls for a different understanding of competitiveness as well as of the role industrial design has in this systemic and complex ‘new alignment' of the world.

Another fusion taking place: Blending and interpretation

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Caracciolo
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Spatial Framework ◽  
Philosophy Of Literature ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental Spaces ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article offers an allegorical reading of the conclusion of Don DeLillo's sprawling novel, Underworld. In my view, this passage blends together Internet browsing and the reader's making sense of the novel itself. I use Fauconnier and Turner's blending theory to tease out the complex conceptual operations that readers are asked to perform while reading this passage, which maps a character's interaction with the links and nodes of the World Wide Web onto interpretation. On a more theoretical note, DeLillo's allegory seems to suggest that the spatial framework adopted by cognitive linguists and poeticians could be extended to interpretation – defined, along the lines of Peter Lamarque's philosophy of literature, as the extraction of the relevance or “human interest” of a work. The metaphor of the “interpretive space,” I conclude, captures neatly the way interpretation mediates between a text and the reader's worldview, providing a backdrop for constructs such as mental spaces and blends.

scholarly journals Rising significance of globalization in international relations

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-32
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Sporek
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Mass Exchange ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World

Globalization should be treated as a process of spreading, in the world scale, the connections which are typical for the local economic conditions. This phenomenon is associated with the creation of transnational culture and progressively deepening network of social interactions. The mass exchange of people, commodities, services and capitol on the global scale is carried out through modern means of communication and transport technologies. This process includes also long-distance migration of people. The globalization can mean both potential profits and new chances, but on the other hand, it can cause serious threats and huge challenges. A direction of its development and prevention from its negative results, depends on possibilities to influence this process by particular countries and grouping, including societies. It is obvious, that the present shape of the globalization bears injustice, increases inequalities and threats, so is must be corrected to a common favour.

Evaluating Defenses of a Requirement of Adverse Interests

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-174
Author(s):  
James E. Pfander
Keyword(s):  
Federal Courts ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Normative Considerations ◽  
The Way

This chapter responds to scholars who have sought to defend a modified Article III adverse-party requirement by redefining that requirement in terms of the underlying adverse interests of potential parties to litigation. Such an adverse interest construct fares poorly as an account of the language and history of Article III and fails to cohere with the practice of federal courts during the antebellum period and with the way antebellum jurists explained that practice to the world. Nor does the adverse interest construct advance the normative goals that have sometimes been seen as justifying a requirement of adversary contestation. Lacking a clear basis in text, history, and normative considerations, the adverse-interest account does a poor job of making sense of Article III.

Constitution transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-255
Author(s):  
Cheryl Saunders
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
First Century ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Global Effect ◽  
Generic Concept ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Constitutionalism ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article explores the extent to which (if at all) the concept of a constitution is undergoing change in the conditions of globalization that characterize the early decades of the twenty-first century, to an extent that might be described as transformation. The question is prompted both by familiar manifestations of the interdependence of domestic constitutional and international law and practice, and by the interpretation placed on them by some of the literature on global constitutionalism. Some – although by no means all – of the literature and the experience on which it draws relate to the extent of transnational influence on the way in which constitutions now are made or changed: constitution transformation in the narrow, or more particular, sense. The article seeks to answer this question with reference to global constitutional experience, including – critically – experience in Asia, as one of the largest and most diverse regions of the world, too often omitted from studies of this kind. To this end, the article considers whether the concept of a constitution can be regarded as having been globally shared in any event; examines the phenomena associated with globalization that might suggest a paradigm change; and considers the arguments that mitigate against change, at least on a global scale. In exploring these factors, it necessarily considers the extent to which states in different regions of the world diverge in their experiences of the internationalization of constitutional law. The article concludes that, on balance, it is not plausible to argue that the generic concept of a constitution has changed, with global effect. It does, however, acknowledge that current conditions of globalization present a series of challenges for national constitutions. Responding to them might itself be regarded as an exercise in global constitutionalism.

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