scholarly journals Knowing urban informalities

Urban Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Marx ◽  
Emily Kelling
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Urban Informality ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
The Way

How do Anglophone urban scholars know urban informalities? This article reviews three dominant ways of knowing urban informality, noting that, despite the profoundly rich insights they each provide, two critiques of the overall concept endure. These are that the concept is often imprecise, and that the contribution to knowing ‘the urban’ more generally remains clearly circumscribed to the ‘urban non-west’. In our view, these limitations curtail the possibilities of sharpening our understanding of the relationship to inequalities and injustices. We work with these critiques, suggesting that they represent two sides of the same problem, associated with binaries. In doing so, we build on the existing emphasis on practices and work across the three dominant ways of knowing urban informalities. This reveals that binaries are not held together magically and transparently so that each is the mirror opposite. Instead, the difference is constituted through unnamed aspects of common denominators – two of which we highlight (property rights and aesthetics) – and may be intrinsic to the way urban informality has come to develop. It is through the latent power relations that inhere in these common denominators that urban scholars can achieve greater conceptual precision and make different contributions to broader urban theory committed to challenging injustices.

Klein with Lacan: A Study on the Reception of Lacanian Ideas in Uruguay and Its Effects on Clinical Practices (1955–82)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-361
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Grau-Pérez ◽  
J. Guillermo Milán
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Material ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Discursive Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
Clinical Cases

In Uruguay, Lacanian ideas arrived in the 1960s, into a context of Kleinian hegemony. Adopting a discursive approach, this study researched the initial reception of these ideas and its effects on clinical practices. We gathered a corpus of discursive data from clinical cases and theoretical-doctrinal articles (from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s). In order to examine the effects of Lacanian ideas, we analysed the difference in the way of interpreting the clinical material before and after Lacan's reception. The results of this research illuminate some epistemological problems of psychoanalysis, especially the relationship between theory and clinical practice.

New Boundaries, New Relationships

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
LaTonya J. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Nurse Practitioner ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Medical Work ◽  
Nurses And Physicians ◽  
Signal Changes ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter evaluates how the presence of the nurse practitioner (NP) does not just signal changes in nursing work; it portends changes in medical work. Although real tensions exist between nurses and physicians, broadly speaking, they have worked collegially alongside one another for well over a century. This collegiality has endured despite significant changes in what both physicians and nurses do for patients. Its endurance, however, has been predicated on the one thing that has not changed: the power relations between the two. It is the difference in authority, and not just the difference in work, that undergirds the stability of the relationship between the two professions. The NP threatens to disrupt that stability. When registered nurses (RNs) become NPs, they are not just learning new skills; they are crossing lines of authority that they had previously learned to treat as constitutive of their profession. The chapter then looks at the voices and experiences of the NPs of Forest Grove Elder Services. Their narrated and actual practices negotiated physician authority in very different ways.

scholarly journals Spiritual Ecology: On the Way to Ecological Existentialism

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 580
Author(s):  
Sam Mickey
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spiritual Ecology ◽  
Religion And Ecology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Way

Spiritual ecology is closely related to inquiries into religion and ecology, religion and nature, and religious environmentalism. This article presents considerations of the unique possibilities afforded by the idea of spiritual ecology. On one hand, these possibilities include problematic tendencies in some strands of contemporary spirituality, including anti-intellectualism, a lack of sociopolitical engagement, and complicity in a sense of happiness that is captured by capitalist enclosures and consumerist desires. On the other hand, spiritual ecology promises to involve an existential commitment to solidarity with nonhumans, and it gestures toward ways of knowing and interacting that are more inclusive than what is typically conveyed by the term “religion.” Much work on spiritual ecology is broadly pluralistic, leaving open the question of how to discern the difference between better and worse forms of spiritual ecology. This article affirms that pluralism while also distinguishing between the anti-intellectual, individualistic, and capitalistic possibilities of spiritual ecology from varieties of spiritual ecology that are on the way to what can be described as ecological existentialism or coexistentialism.

scholarly journals Entre filosofía e historia o filosofía de la historia: una ontología del presente

2007 ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
José Antonio Mateos Castro
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article intends to establish the relationship between history and philosophy by performing an historical review that starts with the greeks until the appearance of philosophy of history, specifically in Emmanuel Kant. Afterwards, I relate and show the difference between the kantian meditation of the XVIII century and the one Michel Foucault fulfilled two hundred years later. The objective is to rebound the tasks of philosophy of history and the way that the mentioned authors assume a compromise with the present.

scholarly journals Three great books about power. Actual analysis of concepts

2021 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 05003
Author(s):  
I.M. Zdretsov ◽  
M.A. Vasilyeva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Great Books ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Method

In this article, three books related to power were analyzed: Kitami Masao’s “The Swordless Samurai”, Han Feitzu’s “The Book of Law and Order” and N. Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. The main judgments were highlighted and conclusions were drawn on how each author understands the power. Similar and opposite conclusions were compared. Also, the reasons for the fundamental differences between these ideas are identified. Analysis of differences on a religious basis was made using the modern Agamben's work “The Kingdom and the Glory” as it touches on the relationship between religion and power. The study used an integrated cultural-philosophical approach, in which descriptive method, comparative analysis, and synthesis can be separated from each other. As a result of this work, the following conclusions were obtained: the difference in the functions of power leads to different understanding of power; the religious environment surrounding a person largely influences his understanding of power. Based on this, different concepts of power should be compared to identify common significant positions that demonstrate the nature of power relations.

scholarly journals Măştile Blagiene: O Perspectivă Asupra Mitului Dramatic – Contururi De Formă Şi Fond

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
Alina Maria Dumitrescu
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe following article concentrates on the analysis between the elements that appear in Lucian Blaga’s theatre. In foreground, it is put the relationship between the playwright and the idea of „dramatic myth”. On the other hand, it is described the way in which the tragic dimension affects the characters of each play, their struggle with suffering and the way they look to religion. Also, it is talked about the difference between the terms „drama”and „theatre”and also, „tragedy”and „tragic”. There are brought different opinions of literary critics, such as Eugen Todoran or Constantin Cubleşan, alongside with other references from writers and filosofers – Mircea Eliade, I. Kant etc. At the end of the study, it is talked about the parallel between the ancient theatre of greeks and the modern theatre of nowadays – especially on the fact that Lucian Blaga’s theatre acts better in the contemporary epoch than in the traditional one.

scholarly journals Performing Place: A Rhythmanalysis of the City of London

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Nash
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Through its focus on the City of London as a particular work sector and setting, this paper emphasizes the symbolic and material significance of place to understanding the lived experiences of power relations within organizational life. The socio-cultural and material aspects of the City are explored through an analysis of the rhythms of place, as well through interview data. Using a methodological approach based on Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis in order to develop an embodied, immersive sense of how the City is experienced as a workplace, the paper makes a methodological, empirical and theoretical contribution to an understanding of the way in which rhythms shape how place is performed. Using rhythmanalysis as a method, the paper shows the relationship between rhythms and the performances of place, foregrounding a subjective, embodied and experiential way of researching the places and spaces of organizing.

Lifestyle and Ageing

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rex Taylor ◽  
Graeme Ford
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definitions Of Life ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
British Study ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThis paper is concerned with the nature, usage and potential of the concept of lifestyle. It concentrates on usage in social gerontology and specifically on the way in which it has been used by three teams of American researchers. Its overall aim is to discover guidelines for establishing the lifestyle concept on a sounder methodological footing.The paper begins with a discussion of diversity within the elderly population and it identifies the need for a systematic conceptual scheme for describing the social life of the individual. It examines the relationship between lifestyle and social class and concludes that they represent complementary rather than competing approaches. The paper goes on to explore three definitions of life-style - as structure, content and meaning - and compares and contrasts these three alternative approaches. The difference between ‘nominal’ and ‘real’ definitions is discussed and the paper ends with a summary account of the way in which the concept has been operationalized in a continuing British study.

19. The relationship between intellectual property rights and competition law

2021 ◽  
pp. 807-851
Author(s):  
Richard Whish ◽  
David Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Controversial Subject ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Block Exemption ◽  
The Way

This chapter considers the relationship between intellectual property rights and competition law. After a brief introduction, it deals in general terms with the application of Article 101 to licences of intellectual property rights. The chapter proceeds to discuss the provisions of Regulation 316/2014, the block exemption for technology transfer agreements. It also considers the application of Article 101 to various other agreements concerning intellectual property rights such as technology pools and settlements of litigation. This is followed by a section on the application of Article 102 to the way in which dominant undertakings exercise their intellectual property rights, including an examination of the controversial subject of refusals to license intellectual property rights which are sometimes found to be abusive. The chapter concludes with a look at the position in UK competition law.

Context and Space as the Tools to Legitimize and Produce Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 303-323
Author(s):  
Ahmet Faruk Çeçen
Keyword(s):  
Time Perception ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
The West ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Way

Hassan thought the reason of the never-ending clash between East and West is the difference between their varied time perception. Albeit accepting many of Hassan's claims, the author believes the difference between their time perception cannot be the sole reason of the conflict. Examining the conflict through power relations and seeing violence as a tool of it, the study aimed to show how structural violence helps sustaining global, national, local, and domestic economic, social, and cultural inequalities. As far as we know, the legal structures that sustained state-mandated overt discrimination have been dismantled in the West, meaning the equal treatment of all races and religions under the law. However, it is obvious that there are structural obstacles preventing the law from being practiced the way it is intended. Through the concepts ‘context' and ‘space', the researcher will try to explain how discriminative practices are sustained, produced, legitimized, which pave the way for the conflicts to go on (e.g., East and West).

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