scholarly journals From paradox to pattern shift: Conceptualising liminal hotspots and their affective dynamics

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Greco ◽  
Paul Stenner
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Health Domain ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Affective Dynamics

This article introduces the concept of liminal hotspots as a specifically psychosocial and sociopsychological type of wicked problem, best addressed in a process-theoretical framework. A liminal hotspot is defined as an occasion characterised by the experience of being trapped in the interstitial dimension between different forms-of-process. The paper has two main aims. First, to articulate a nexus of concepts associated with liminal hotspots that together provide general analytic purchase on a wide range of problems concerning “troubled” becoming. Second, to provide concrete illustrations through examples drawn from the health domain. In the conclusion, we briefly indicate the sense in which liminal hotspots are part of broader and deeper historical processes associated with changing modes for the management and navigation of liminality.

Historical Dynamics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Turchin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Synthetic Approach ◽  
Dynamical Processes ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Historical Dynamics ◽  
State Breakdown ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
High Degree

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics—why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract—this book shows that a similar research program can advance our understanding of dynamical processes in history. The book develops hypotheses from a wide range of social, political, economic, and demographic factors: geopolitics, factors affecting collective solidarity, dynamics of ethnic assimilation/religious conversion, and the interaction between population dynamics and sociopolitical stability. It then translates these into a spectrum of mathematical models, investigates the dynamics predicted by the models, and contrasts model predictions with empirical patterns. The book's highly instructive empirical tests demonstrate that certain models predict empirical patterns with a very high degree of accuracy. For instance, one model accounts for the recurrent waves of state breakdown in medieval and early modern Europe. And historical data confirm that ethno-nationalist solidarity produces an aggressively expansive state under certain conditions (such as in locations where imperial frontiers coincide with religious divides). The strength of the book's results suggests that the synthetic approach advocated can significantly improve our understanding of historical dynamics.

Global Governance in a World of Change

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
World War ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Modes Of Governance

Global governance has come under increasing pressure since the end of the Cold War. In some issue areas, these pressures have led to significant changes in the architecture of governance institutions. In others, institutions have resisted pressures for change. This volume explores what accounts for this divergence in architecture by identifying three modes of governance: hierarchies, networks, and markets. The authors apply these ideal types to different issue areas in order to assess how global governance has changed and why. In most issue areas, hierarchical modes of governance, established after World War II, have given way to alternative forms of organization focused on market or network-based architectures. Each chapter explores whether these changes are likely to lead to more or less effective global governance across a wide range of issue areas. This provides a novel and coherent theoretical framework for analysing change in global governance.

scholarly journals Official loyalty as the factor of official activity: administratively-legal and phenomenological approaches

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Gornostaev
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Behavioral Integration ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Official Status

The article discusses the administrative-legal and phenomenological approaches to understanding the official loyalty. Official loyalty is being considered under the administrative-legal approach as adherence to formal official duty, which is a system of obligations, taken together with official status, the source of which are: normative base of service activity, legal requirements of the head and public interests. Lists of the limitations of administrative-legal approach to understanding the of official loyalty: weak underdeveloped concept, the failure to take into account the wide range of situations, operation with a models rather than actual processes. Discusses the advantages of the phenomenological approach in studying the performance of loyalty: its psychological advantages, the existence of a theoretical framework, the work with the real phenomena. Within the phenomenological approach official loyalty is defined as psychological-behavioral integration of the employee in the group operating in the service sector, on the basis of a common cause of activities. Possibilities of sharing of the considered approaches for the decision of problems of optimization of official activity are designated.

Managing COVID-19 in workplaces – a theoretical framework for integral employees’ health

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Gauer ◽  
Barbara Germann
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Psychological Stress ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Base ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stress Theory ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Strategic Measures

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework on how to deal with stressors emerging from the COVID-19 outbreak. The theoretical framework aims to explain pandemic-related stressors and potential ways to prevent them, considering a wide range of interacting factors at individual, team and organizational levels to ensure their employees’ health. Design/methodology/approach The authors drew on an integrative literature review to identify pandemic-related stressors influenceable by the organization and gathered solution approaches to counteract them. Popular psychological stress theories served as a theoretical base for the framework. Findings The authors based the framework on an integration of the transactional stress theory (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984) and the job demands resources model (Schaufeli and Bakker, 2004), focusing on their respective theoretical strengths. The final framework offers a solid orientation for scholars regarding the introduction of holistic and strategic measures in coping with pandemic-related stressors. A section describing possibilities for practitioners’ use of the framework has been integrated. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to offer a framework on how to handle COVID-19-related stressors in the workplace by implementing teamwide and companywide measures.

Casting a Wide Net

2020 ◽  
pp. 332-373
Author(s):  
Catherine Raeff
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

The goal of this chapter is to further consider how the theoretical framework presented in the book is applicable to so much of what people do, as well as to so many complex human issues and concerns. In this chapter, a wide net is cast to consider how the theoretical framework is applicable to eating, freedom, attitudes, extreme action, and art. By thinking about these topics in terms of action, readers can see how the book’s theoretical framework provides a common language for thinking systematically about a wide range of complex issues. The chapter shows how the book’s action perspective provides ways of thinking systematically about the complexities of action as people go about their lives in all corners of the world.

“Filthy Lapdogs,” “Jerks,” and “Hitler”: Making Sense of Insults in International Relations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Rousseau ◽  
Stephane J Baele
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
International Interactions

Abstract This paper offers an original theoretical framework for the study of insults in international relations (IR). Bringing into IR the two main theoretical approaches to aggravating language, slurs and dysphemisms, we conceptualize insults’ disruptive impact on international interactions in a way that explains their logic, consequences, and risks. Specifically, we argue that insults constitute both at once tactical tools used by international actors to achieve their interests by disrupting an interaction and modifying the payoffs associated with it and linguistic artifacts constructing and sharpening self- and other identities. The components of our theoretical framework are illustrated with a wide range of empirical cases of international insults.

Jurisdictional Pluralism

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-160
Author(s):  
Paul Schiff Berman
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Regulatory Authority ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Overlapping Communities ◽  
Design Choice ◽  
Inherent Feature ◽  
Wide Range

This chapter offers a theoretical framework for the reconceptualization of jurisdiction, one which recognizes the extent to which contemporary social conditions—which are increasingly experienced across different jurisdictions—and changes in regulatory authority are visibly supplanting the exclusive notion of jurisdiction favoured by classical international law, with its preoccupation with sovereignty and territory. Viewing the concept of jurisdiction through the lens of legal pluralism opens up a wide range of inquiries that tend to be ignored or suppressed in most legal discussions of jurisdiction. Indeed, jurisdictional pluralism is both a descriptive reality, a theoretical framework, and a potentially productive institutional design choice. The chapter then argues that jurisdictional contestation is an inherent feature of living in a world with multiple overlapping communities.

scholarly journals Non-canonical SAY in Siberia

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejan Matić ◽  
Brigitte Pakendorf
Keyword(s):  
Historical Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Primary Meaning

The use of generic verbs of speech in functions not related to their primary meaning, such as to introduce complements or adjuncts, is cross-linguistically widespread; it is also characteristic of some languages of Siberia. However, the distribution of non-canonical functions of generic verbs of speech among the languages of Siberia is very uneven, with striking differences even between dialects of one language. In this paper we attempt to elucidate whether shared inheritance, parallel independent developments, or areal convergence are the factors determining this distribution, using fine-scaled investigations of narrative data from a large number of Siberian languages and dialects. This enables us to uncover a wide range of non-canonical functions that the generic verb of speech has acquired in some of the languages investigated, as well as to highlight the very complex historical processes at play.

Information Systems in Treaty Regimes

2002 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyuan Dai
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Simple Theory ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Strategic Environments ◽  
Two Factors

One of the most influential arguments in international relations is that international institutions influence states' behavior by monitoring their compliance with treaties, which in turn facilitates reciprocity. Empirically, however, many treaty organizations are not mandated to monitor compliance. The article develops a parsimonious theoretical framework to address the empirical diversity of monitoring arrangements. By mapping strategic environments onto monitoring arrangements, it accounts for who detects noncompliance and who brings it to light. In particular, two factors—the interest alignment between noncompliance victims and their states and the availability of noncompliance victims as low-cost monitors—largely shape the organizational forms of information systems. This simple theory sheds light on a wide range of substantiveh/important treaty regimes.

scholarly journals A Review of Hana Horáková, Andrea Boscoboinik, Robin Smith (eds.), Utopia and Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Rural Spaces. Berlin: Lit-Verlag, 2018, 256 pр.

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (48) ◽  
pp. 252-266
Author(s):  
Natalia Savina
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Rural World ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Information Technology Development

The reviewed collection of articles constitutes an intriguing attempt to understand the modern processes taking place in rural areas in terms of their relationship with utopian ideas and positions of neoliberalism. Using field materials from Central and Eastern Europe and China, researchers demonstrate a wide range of scenarios and practices related to imagining the rural world and rural lifestyles emerging in the context of globalization, industrialization, information technology development, and neoliberal politics. The similarity of the authors' methodological approaches and the general theoretical framework ensure the structural and substantive integrity of the collection, which allows the reader to engage in discussions about economic, social, cultural and other changes that are characteristic of most modern rural areas.

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