scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Anne Nassauer
Keyword(s):  
Collective Behavior ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
Background Factors ◽  
To Come

The Introduction discusses the emergence of physical violence in protests as a surprising outcome and shows how such outcomes emerge due to situational breakdowns—patterns taking place while the event itself is unfolding. It compares the relevance of situational dynamics for surprising outcomes, collective behavior, and individual action to that of background factors, such as motivations, strategies, and culture. It starts by discussing the 2007 Rostock G8 protest march, which turned violent despite all planning and expectations of the event staying peaceful and regardless of a “soft” police strategy. It then examines the 2009 Kehl NATO protest march, which stayed peaceful despite expectations of violence, a harsh police strategy, and individual protesters trying to escalate the situation. The Introduction also provides an overview of what is to come in the book, summarizing how situational breakdowns can explain a variety of surprising outcomes, from protest violence to violent uprisings and failed armed robberies.

Collective Behavor and Social Movements in the Postmodern Age: Looking Backward to Look Forward

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hank Johnston ◽  
Shoon Lio
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Behavior ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
To Come ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Institutional Order

This article specifies several ways in which the collective behavior portion of Collective Behavior/Social Movement (CBSM) studies may be revitalized in the near future. The revitalization will occur because repertoires of extra-institutional challenge emerging in the postmodern age seem to fall outside the way social movements have been theorized in the last twenty-five years. Today's postmodern trends—increasing consumerism and affluence, individualism, demographic complexity, ideological diversity, global migration, and constant innovation in communications technology—have proliferated new social identities and deconstructed social identities imposed by the Other. As a result, postmodernity's complexities are multiplying the number of small, diverse, and diffuse groupings defining themselves in challenging ways outside the corridors of politics. Indeed these groupings may in the years to come recast what some see as a social movement society into a CBSM Society of diverse challenges to the institutional order.

The Quest for Ecstatic Sovereignty: Georges Bataille’s Obsession with the Lingchi Photos

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-236
Author(s):  
Meng-Shi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Ethical Implication ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Loss Of Self ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
To Come ◽  
Ecstatic Experience

Abstract This essay considers the way Georges Bataille associates sovereignty with ecstasy through his peculiar emotive reactions to the photographic images of lingchi execution. Aside from the traditional views relating to political authority, I show how Bataille holds an idiosyncratic notion of sovereignty that is firmly connected with ecstasy, which is disclosed and best exemplified in his fascination with the lingchi photos with intolerable imagery of torture and cruelty. I argue that the reasons for Bataille to seek ecstatic experience is to overcome banality and servility derived from the instrumentalization of our culture, so as to allow sovereignty to come into being. Although cruelty is a persistent theme in Bataille’s writings, I point out that what makes the lingchi photos pivotal for him is that it is the mirror of somatic disintegration, extreme physical violence and cruelty that corresponds to the rupture of psychological integrity as the state of ecstatic loss of self in a metaphysical sense, reflecting thus the non-boundary of uncontained sovereign individual. Furthermore, in the experience of ecstatic self-loss, an empathic identity is built up between Bataille and the victim of the lingchi execution, which not only allows the conception of ecstatic sovereignty to be endowed with ethical implication but also makes it an alternative approach to the issue of intercultural communication.

scholarly journals Postura e Intervenções do Gestalt-Terapeuta frente à Violência Psicológica contra a Mulher por Parceiro Íntimo

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (Especial) ◽  
pp. 449-459
Author(s):  
Luiza Wille AUGUSTIN ◽  
Célia Cristina de Albuquerque BANDEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Women Victims ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Gestalt Theory ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
Environmental Support ◽  
To Come

Psychological intimate partner violence occurs between spouses or boyfriends and often has the woman the victim of this abuse. Since all physical violence was preceded by psychological violence, the importance of this theme is postulated as a form of prevention and alertness to society. The Gestalt-therapist should be prepared to come across these cases and know which positions to take in different contexts. For this, the present study presents a theoretical study on psychological violence by intimate partner based on a research in the main journals of the Gestalt approach in the country. The discussion addresses five terms that have appeared the most in the national works, they are: Environmental Support, Awareness, Phenomenological Reduction, Work with Emotions and Self-esteem. In this discussion, we seek to understand the concepts in light of gestalt theory and its application in the care of women victims of psychological violence by intimate partner.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: The Shape of Things to Come?

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 263-290
Author(s):  
J. Anthony VanDuzer
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
The North ◽  
State Behaviour ◽  
Nafta Chapter 11 ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

SummaryRecently, there has been a proliferation of international agreements imposing minimum standards on states in respect of their treatment of foreign investors and allowing investors to initiate dispute settlement proceedings where a state violates these standards. Of greatest significance to Canada is Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides both standards for state behaviour and the right to initiate binding arbitration. Since 1996, four cases have been brought under Chapter 11. This note describes the Chapter 11 process and suggests some of the issues that may arise as it is increasingly resorted to by investors.

Scanning Electron Microscopy-cuticular Lesions on the Roundworm Ascaris Suum

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
P. A. Madden ◽  
W. R. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Freeze Drying ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Distilled Water ◽  
Freeze Dried ◽  
Silver Paint ◽  
To Come ◽  
Scanning Electron

The intestinal roundworm of swine is pinkish in color and about the diameter of a lead pencil. Adult worms, taken from parasitized swine, frequently were observed with macroscopic lesions on their cuticule. Those possessing such lesions were rinsed in distilled water, and cylindrical segments of the affected areas were removed. Some of the segments were fixed in buffered formalin before freeze-drying; others were freeze-dried immediately. Initially, specimens were quenched in liquid freon followed by immersion in liquid nitrogen. They were then placed in ampuoles in a freezer at −45C and sublimated by vacuum until dry. After the specimens appeared dry, the freezer was allowed to come to room temperature slowly while the vacuum was maintained. The dried specimens were attached to metal pegs with conductive silver paint and placed in a vacuum evaporator on a rotating tilting stage. They were then coated by evaporating an alloy of 20% palladium and 80% gold to a thickness of approximately 300 A°. The specimens were examined by secondary electron emmission in a scanning electron microscope.

The microstructure change of low-carbon electrical steels by residual aluminum

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 286-287
Author(s):  
C.K. Hou ◽  
C.T. Hu ◽  
Sanboh Lee
Keyword(s):  
Annealing Treatment ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Electrical Steels ◽  
Vacuum Degassing ◽  
Spherical Inclusions ◽  
Residual Aluminum ◽  
Average Grain Size ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Fine Size ◽  
To Come

The fully processed low-carbon electrical steels are generally fabricated through vacuum degassing to reduce the carbon level and to avoid the need for any further decarburization annealing treatment. This investigation was conducted on eighteen heats of such steels with aluminum content ranging from 0.001% to 0.011% which was believed to come from the addition of ferroalloys.The sizes of all the observed grains are less than 24 μm, and gradually decrease as the content of aluminum is increased from 0.001% to 0.007%. For steels with residual aluminum greater than 0. 007%, the average grain size becomes constant and is about 8.8 μm as shown in Fig. 1. When the aluminum is increased, the observed grains are changed from the uniformly coarse and equiaxial shape to the fine size in the region near surfaces and the elongated shape in the central region. SEM and EDAX analysis of large spherical inclusions in the matrix indicate that silicate is the majority compound when the aluminum propotion is less than 0.003%, then the content of aluminum in compound inclusion increases with that in steel.

409 The likely numbers to come: trends in hospitalisation for heart failure in the ‘sample’ town of trieste and its region

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
D CHERSEVANI ◽  
A DILENARDA ◽  
P GOLIANI ◽  
M GRELLA ◽  
F BRUN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Its Region ◽  
To Come

Suicidal Behavior in Black South Africans

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourens Schlebusch ◽  
Naseema B.M. Vawda ◽  
Brenda A. Bosch
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
South African Society ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
To Come

Summary: In the past suicidal behavior among Black South Africans has been largely underresearched. Earlier studies among the other main ethnic groups in the country showed suicidal behavior in those groups to be a serious problem. This article briefly reviews some of the more recent research on suicidal behavior in Black South Africans. The results indicate an apparent increase in suicidal behavior in this group. Several explanations are offered for the change in suicidal behavior in the reported clinical populations. This includes past difficulties for all South Africans to access health care facilities in the Apartheid (legal racial separation) era, and present difficulties of post-Apartheid transformation the South African society is undergoing, as the people struggle to come to terms with the deleterious effects of the former South African racial policies, related socio-cultural, socio-economic, and other pressures.

DySlExIa: Good News, More to Come!

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-306
Author(s):  
Dennis F. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Good News ◽  
To Come

Ten Years to Come Home: Metaphor as Method in Healing From Trauma

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Hahn Oh
Keyword(s):  
To Come
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