Encouraging hospitality guest engagement in responsible action: Building comprehensive theoretical models to support effective action (invited paper for ‘luminaries’ special issue of International Journal of Hospitality Management)

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianna Moscardo
Keyword(s):  
Effective Action ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Hospitality Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Responsible Action

Sociocultural Parameters in Directed Change

1963 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Thomas Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Practical Test ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Analysis Of Change ◽  
Directed Change

The charge has been made that the methodological tools and theoretical models available to anthropologists are insufficiently precise to enable accurate prediction in the field of directed social and cultural change. It has further been charged that in their ex post facto analyses of the dynamics involved in such situations, anthropologists as well as other social scientists tend to give far more attention to attempted innovations that "didn't work" than to those areas where change has been successful. While the second charge is belied by many studies such as those included in the volumes edited by Spicer and Paul and the special issue of Applied Anthropology, anthropologists have, for the most part, been hesitant to extend their generalizations, based on the analysis of change, to the task of specifying, more or less concretely, the conditions favoring or inhibiting social and cultural change. Thus, in spite of a growing theoretical corpus there appears to be reluctance to put it to the practical test of prediction or planning.

Potentiality, political protest and constituent power: A response to the special issue

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael PA Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
International Political Theory ◽  
Conceptual Relationships ◽  
Theoretical Developments

Emergent forms of political protest and constitution often provide limit cases for their contemporary theoretical models, and transnational protest movements from Occupy to Democracy in Europe 2025 are no exception. The recent special issue of the Journal of International Political Theory offers a number of different conceptual paths towards understanding these developments, revising and refreshing categories like civil disobedience, opposition, resistance, as well as constituent and destituent power. However, the plurality of perspectives in the special issue leads to a certain degree of uncertainty in the use of terms. This response to the special issue begins with a reflection on its major conceptual developments, addresses the missed encounter with Giorgio Agamben’s theory of ‘destituent potential’ and develops a framework for contrasting different theoretical approaches to political protest and constitution through their relation to potentiality. This taxonomy of emergent forms of political protest and constitution complements the substantial theoretical developments undertaken in the special issue by making the important conceptual relationships between them more readily visible. As well, by demonstrating the applicability of potentiality to the study of International Relations, this framework contributes to the project of the theoretical investigation of international politics.

scholarly journals Cognitive Translation Studies: Models and methods at the cutting edge

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kairong Xiao ◽  
Ricardo Muñoz Martín
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Modelling ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Novel Approaches

Several indicators seem to suggest that, through nearly six decades of development, Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS) may be taking shape as an autonomous field of study. The main challenges ahead seem to be building sounder theoretical models and carrying out more rigorous methodological scrutiny. These two strands converge as central themes in the 11 contributions to this special issue of LANS-TTS. To provide a context for theoretical modelling and to frame critical discussions of the methods included in this volume, we first trace the present landscape of CTS and how it evolved so as to test Holmes’ criteria for disciplines: founding new channels of communication and sharing a “disciplinary utopia”. The contributions are arranged into four thematic categories as applied to CTS, namely, scientometrics, framing or reframing our field, the reliability and validity of popular research methods, and new methods or novel approaches. This article closes with a call to reflect on some fundamental issues on the next steps of humankind regarding communication, with ever-growing societal demands and expectations that call for refreshing our notions of translation in the context of increasingly diversified forms of multilectal mediated communication.

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