scholarly journals On Time and Planning: Opening Futures by Cultivating a “Sense of Now”

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Laurian ◽  
Andy Inch
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Improve Planning

Planning seeks to shape sociospatial outcomes but is also, by nature, future oriented. Yet, planning theory and practice have paid relatively little attention to ongoing debates about changing social relations to time. Building on a wide range of disciplines, we review the multiple temporalities through which lives are lived, the modern imposition of clock time, postmodern acceleration phenomena in the Anthropocene, and their implications for planning’s relationship to the past, present, and future and for planning theory. We discuss how thinking more and differently about time might challenge and improve planning by helping theory do better justice to the complexity of practice. We conclude by outlining eight propositions for rethinking planning’s relationship to time.

Aging Societies, Civil Societies, and the Role of the Past: Active Aging beyond Demography in Contemporary Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 893-909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica C. Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Active Aging ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ethnographic Data

This article belongs to the special cluster, “Politics and Current Demographic Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe,” guest-edited by Tsveta Petrova and Tomasz Inglot. Like other countries in Europe, Poland’s population is growing older, because of a combination of increasing life expectancies and decreasing birth rates. Such demographic change poses challenges for policy makers, who often understand population aging to put strain on social-service, health care, and pension systems. In response, governments and civil society often emphasize “active aging,” a rubric encompassing a wide range of policies and programs meant to promote health, workforce participation, lifelong learning, and social engagement. Although active aging is often part of neoliberal policies that focus on individual responsibility, recent anthropological theory shows that neoliberal ideals of self-care cannot fully explain contemporary forms of responsibility and social relations. Anthropological theory and ethnographic data can thus help to analyze the effects of demographic change as evident in social policy and programs. In this article, I integrate an analysis of Polish governmental documents meant to promote active aging with an analysis of ethnographic data of older Poles’ experiences of active aging. This article provides an ethnographically grounded perspective on the concept of active aging that focuses on how people actually experience such policies by exploring the meanings such programs and activities take on in the lives of individual and groups. Ethnographic data reveal that the past has multiple emotional valences that shape people’s experiences of these programs, stemming from histories of violence and rupture in the region. This suggests that making explicit the multiple, complex meanings of the past could shape active aging policy and thus civil society to be more inclusive.

scholarly journals Smart contract: from definition to certainty

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-122
Author(s):  
Yuriy Truntsevsky ◽  
Vyacheslav Sevalnev
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Smart Contract ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Definition Of

The purpose of the present article is to gain an understanding of the opportunities and difficulties created by the introduction and development of the practice of network (smart) contracts. Our research methodology is based on a holistic set of principles and methods of scholarly analysis employed by modern legal science. It uses a dialectical method involving both general approaches (structural system method, formal logical method, analysis and synthesis of individual elements, individual features of concepts, abstraction, generalization, etc.) and particular methods (legal technical, systematic, comparative, historical, and grammatical methods, method of the unity of theory and practice, etc.). We analyze the views of lawyers and other specialists from Russia and abroad, legislative innovations in the field of digital technologies, the practice of blockchain-based smart contracts, and the main risks (whether legal, technological, operational, or criminogenic) of smart contracts for economic activities with a study of their causes. In the present-day situation, it is necessary to move from the legal definition of the smart contract and its legal and technological characteristics, advantages and disadvantages to the implementation of startups in a wide range of areas, especially business, public regulation, and social relations. Scholarly and information support for such processes will contribute to the development of industry, public administration and digital technology applications to improve the life of individual citizens and society as a whole. The introduction of smart contracts does not require the adoption of new laws or regulations. Instead, one should adapt and, possibly, modify existing legal principles at the legislative and judicial levels to pave the way for the use of smart contracts and other new technologies. The system of contract law provides a sufficient framework for regulating transactions without the introduction of any new legal categories. We propose approaches to the legal definition of the smart contract and identify a set of problems that must be solved at the legislative and technical legal levels in order to implement smart contracts effectively in different spheres of life.

scholarly journals MUSEOLOGIST VERSUS COMMUNITY OF MEMORY. ATTEMPT AT DEFINING TERMS FOR THE SAKE OF LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENTS

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Michał Niezabitowski
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Employee Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Legislative Amendments ◽  
Tangible Culture

The contemporary role of museum reaches far beyond the traditional understanding of the institution’s role to be played in the preservation of tangible culture monuments. It is currently a creative institution on various levels of man’s activity, a centre for continuous learning, community and creative hub of healthy social relations. Museums continue to cover with their interests newer and newer domains of human activity, among which art and history remain essentially important, though not the only ones. Traditional factual competences that we used to find in museums: a historian of art, a historian, an archaeologist, an ethnologist, continue to be needed, however far insufficient. Today museums have a need of staff who represent a wide range of competences, both to work on the ‘collections’, and on the intangible heritage as well as contacts with the public. Today’s museums expect from the staff the competence in so-called 2nd grade history, namely these who do not only identify and document the past, but also explain what and why we remember from the past. Looking from such a perspective at museums, whose activity seems to be described in the Act on Museums of 21 November 1996 (with later amendments), and in the implementation regulations to the Act, the employee relations require a prompt legislative intervention. The distinction of the staff of museums and around them into ‘museologists’ and ‘non-museologists’ is today unquestionably anachronistic and inefficient, impeding the implementation of the tasks facing these institutions. Furthermore, the source of the name ‘museologist’ is sought, and the analysis of the legislative contradiction in this respect is conducted, while new solutions adjusted to the social needs are provided.

Track Two Diplomacy: The Way Forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Peter Jones
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Local Ownership ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
More Care ◽  
The Way

Abstract The articles in this issue present a wide range of findings. First, the field continues to grapple with definitional issues: different types of projects aimed at different outcomes and audiences. More care needs to be given by each dialogue to define rigorously what it is trying to do and why. Second, fundamental lessons have emerged over the past six decades, which must be learned and observed by those active in this field, even as they seek to push the boundaries of theory and practice. Third, while it is generally agreed that the field must become more inclusive, both in terms of people and interests, and also in terms of encouraging local ownership and more transformative projects, a one-size-fits-all approach will not work; each dialogue should be viewed as unique. Finally, the field is a dynamic and evolving one. What seems to be best practice today may not be so tomorrow.

The coding turn in urban planning: Could it remedy the essential drawbacks of planning?

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurit Alfasi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mutual Agreement

The article deals with the growing tendency to articulate planning policies through principles and codes, a feature of recent planning theory and practice. While this tool arouses interest and enthusiasm, very little attention is given to how it affects planning thought and impacts – or should impact – the act of planning and the institutions involved. After reviewing pre-modern decision-making frameworks that accompanied the use of planning codes, this article highlights the role of mutual agreement and shared responsibility in the application of the past planning codes. It then discusses the meaning of the transition to planning codes and elaborates on the opportunity to remedy the embedded pitfalls created by applying comprehensive land-use plans as a regulatory tool, and to institute planning that is based on the principles of liberal democracy.

scholarly journals Qualitative parameters of indoor lighting, impact on quality of life

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Kocanovs ◽  
Raja Kocanova ◽  
Ineta Geipele
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Visual Effect ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Indoor Lighting ◽  
Building Standards

The quality of indoor lighting is a sensitive issue in the dynamic environment of daily life. The lighting industry offers a wide range of products and solutions on the huge market. However, the existing European Union and Latvian lighting regulations and standards cover questions related to the visual effect of lighting on the performance of the visual task, but it is already proven, that visual effect of lighting also affects productivity and causes emotions. Standards and regulations used by construction and real estate industries prescribe lighting parameters which are becoming outdated with a development of the solid-state lighting technologies. The aim of the paper is to review the existing lighting planning theory and practice, selecting the parameters which might have most sensitive effect as prerequisites for improving the quality of life, and might be included in quality standards, handbooks and procurement procedures for the projects, over time in building standards, norms and regulations.

Will Sayer's ‘Prescription’ for an Adequate Planning Theory Improve Planning Potency? A Comment

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1297-1300
Author(s):  
Helen Sungaila
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Planning Problem ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
Urban Models ◽  
Intellectual Milieu ◽  
Advance Planning ◽  
Improve Planning

This paper proposes that the crux of “the impotence of planning” problem, which Sayer has addressed in his recent paper “Understanding urban models versus understanding cities”, lies not in theory (as Sayer suggests), but in philosophy. It urges all those interested in the development of planning theory and practice, in whatever sphere, to move right outside the nineteenth century, positivistic research tradition, which has hitherto dominated their intellectual efforts, and draw support for their attempts to advance planning on both the theoretical and practical fronts from an intellectual milieu which is more characteristic of our own times, namely, that of existentialism.

Optical Properties of HVEM Accelerators

1975 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 180-181
Author(s):  
A. Strojnik ◽  
J.W. Scholl ◽  
V. Bevc
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Electron Accelerator ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Electron Source ◽  
High Brightness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Optical Behavior

The electron accelerator, as inserted between the electron source (injector) and the imaging column of the HVEM, is usually a strong lens and should be optimized in order to ensure high brightness over a wide range of accelerating voltages and illuminating conditions. This is especially true in the case of the STEM where the brightness directly determines the highest resolution attainable. In the past, the optical behavior of accelerators was usually determined for a particular configuration. During the development of the accelerator for the Arizona 1 MEV STEM, systematic investigation was made of the major optical properties for a variety of electrode configurations, number of stages N, accelerating voltages, 1 and 10 MEV, and a range of injection voltages ϕ0 = 1, 3, 10, 30, 100, 300 kV).

Review of Power/Gender: Social Relations in Theory and Practice.

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-171
Author(s):  
Lucia Albino Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Theory And Practice

Pursuit of the Abscopal Effect

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 369-372
Author(s):  
Paul B. Romesser ◽  
Christopher H. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Tumor Immunology ◽  
Antitumor Immunity ◽  
Clinical Success ◽  
Immune Recognition ◽  
Immune Modulators ◽  
Cancer Subtypes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tumor Irradiation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Tumor Recognition

AbstractEvasion of immune recognition is a hallmark of cancer that facilitates tumorigenesis, maintenance, and progression. Systemic immune activation can incite tumor recognition and stimulate potent antitumor responses. While the concept of antitumor immunity is not new, there is renewed interest in tumor immunology given the clinical success of immune modulators in a wide range of cancer subtypes over the past decade. One particularly interesting, yet exceedingly rare phenomenon, is the abscopal response, characterized by a potent systemic antitumor response following localized tumor irradiation presumably attributed to reactivation of antitumor immunity.

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