‘Port of call’: Towards a criminology of port security

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 415-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yarin Eski
Keyword(s):  
Crime Control ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Port Security ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Control Port ◽  
Security Organizations ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Criminological Analysis ◽  
Modern Condition

While public and criminological interest in ports is remarkably scarce, they form an intersection of (images of) crime and crime control. Port security organizations and personnel are confronted with that intersection in their everyday work life. In this article I will highlight the possibilities for researching port security from a criminological starting point. By describing port insecurities and their regulation, I will conceptualize the late modern condition of security. After this, the theoretical promises of a criminological analysis of port security shall be discussed, for example, how recent developed thoughts on security consumption filter through at the specific geographical sites of the port. In moving towards a criminology of port security, I aim to set the focus on security in transnational spaces and transport, and to contribute to a critical engagement within the prioritized criminological theorization of the globalized security society.

Work-life balance in a capability perspective: an Italian case study of ‘flexible couples’

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Pandolfini
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Justice Sociale ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Vie Privée

This article discusses the practical basis of judgements about social justice, focusing on the quality of work-life balance in contemporary labour markets. After describing the main European and Italian work-life reconciliation policies, the article presents the results of qualitative research on young adult ‘flexible’ couples in Italy. Taking Amartya Sen’s ‘capability approach’ as the starting point, it analyses the ways in which external flexibility affects capabilities concerning the freedom to choose the balance between family, job and overall working life. The article concludes with some reflections on social justice in a resources-capabilities perspective, evaluating the effect of Italian work-life balance policies on the lives of flexible employees and providing some proposals for the effective enhancement of individual capabilities in this regard. L’article examine les fondements pratiques des jugements portés sur la justice sociale, en se focalisant sur la qualité de l’équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée sur les marchés du travail contemporains. Après avoir décrit les principales politiques menées en Europe et en Italie pour concilier travail et vie privée, l’article présente les résultats d’une recherche qualitative concernant des couples de jeunes adultes « flexibles » en Italie. En prenant comme point de départ l’approche par les capacités proposée par Amartya Sen, il analyse la manière dont la flexibilité externe affecte ces capacités pour ce qui concerne la liberté de choisir un équilibre entre famille, travail et parcours professionnel. L’article conclut par certaines réflexions sur la justice sociale dans une perspective axée sur les ressources et les capacités, en évaluant l’impact des politiques italiennes d’équilibre travail-vie privée sur la vie des travailleurs flexibles, et en présentant des propositions d’amélioration effective des capacités individuelles à cet égard. Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der praktischen Grundlage zur Beurteilung sozialer Gerechtigkeit und insbesondere mit der Qualität des Verhältnisses zwischen Berufs- und Privatleben auf den Arbeitsmärkten von heute. Nach einer Beschreibung der wichtigsten europäischen und italienischen Maßnahmen zur Förderung der Vereinbarkeit von Arbeits- und Privatleben werden die Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Forschungsarbeit über junge “flexible” Erwachsenenpaare in Italien vorgestellt. Ausgehend vom Ansatz der Verwirklichungschancen im Sinne von Amartya Sen wird untersucht, wie sich externe Flexibilität auf die Verwirklichungsmöglichkeiten in Bezug auf Wahlfreiheit bei der Vereinbarung von Familienleben, Beruf und dem Arbeitsleben insgesamt auswirkt. Der Beitrag schließt mit Überlegungen zur sozialen Gerechtigkeit aus der Perspektive der Verknüpfung von Ressourcen und Verwirklichungschancen. Die Auswirkungen italienischer Maßnahmen für eine bessere Vereinbarkeit von Berufs- und Privatleben auf flexible Arbeitnehmer werden bewertet, und es werden Möglichkeiten vorgeschlagen, um die individuellen Verwirklichungschancen in diesem Bereich zu stärken.

scholarly journals Emergent Trust and Work Life Relationships: How to Approach the Relational Moment of Trust

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tone Bergljot Eikeland
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Basic Mechanism ◽  
Work Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Risk And Uncertainty ◽  
Positive Part ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Cognitive Attitude

How do we trust? What does the basic mechanism of trust look like? These questions define the starting point for a comparison of the classic ideas of how trust works by Mayer et al. (1995), Möllering’s (2006) re-adaption of Giddens’, Simmel’s, and James’ classic ideas of trust, and a phenomenological approach focusing on “emergent trust.” Introducing the concept of emergent trust, the idea is to suggest a phenomenological approach to studies of trust in work-life relationships in professional organizations, as an alternative to trust as a cognitive attitude, where trust becomes a stable, individual possession. The term “emergent” demonstrates a trust that emerges in meetings between persons, it has an immediate, unconditional quality, and shows itself in situations of life where there is a potential for trust to appear. Trust’s basic relationality makes the person morally responsible for the other. Trust appears between persons, as an event, constituting risk and uncertainty as a natural and positive part of our lives. Still, in larger social settings, the responsibility of trust also disperses on to the work itself, and our wider social networks.

Late Modern English in a Dutch context

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
INGRID TIEKEN-BOON VAN OSTADE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
World Language ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The University ◽  
Late Modern

The translation of Lindley Murray's English Grammar (1795) into many different languages is often taken as a starting point for the spread of English as a world language. This article places the developing European interest in English much earlier than that, and it does so by analysing a series of letters in the library of the University of Leiden written by Englishmen from the Late Modern English period to men of letters in the Netherlands. The letters show that English as a medium of communication was not as a rule an issue, even though Dutch letter writers were rarely exposed to English and often lacked the tools – or the teachers – to acquire the language, a situation which would change drastically during the nineteenth century. The article also analyses the earliest attempts at writing in English by Johannes Stinstra, the Dutch translator of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.

scholarly journals “Magic through many minor measures”: How introducing a flowline production mode in six steps enables journalist team autonomy in local news organizations

AI & Society ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aina Landsverk Hagen ◽  
Ingrid M. Tolstad ◽  
Arne Lindseth Bygdås
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Continuous Basis ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Lasting Change

AbstractWhile facing cuts, downsizing and revenue losses, media organizations experience paradoxical demands in being organized for print or linear production with daily deadlines and simultaneously striving to be ‘digital first’ and produce and publish stories online on a continuous basis throughout the day. In this paper, we describe efforts applied when introducing the metaphor flowline in a medium-sized newspaper organization in Norway with the aim of aligning their production and publishing processes to readers’ consumption of online news. Both the production volume of journalistic content, reader consumption and the newsroom workers’ experience of mastering their everyday work life increased dramatically in a very short time. The involvement of a temporary autonomous team in the planning and designing of a test pilot aiming to make flowline “as practice”, was integral to the digital transformation success, allowing for participative action across newsroom boundaries. Based on the empirical findings from the local newspaper organization and drawing on theories on liminality (Turner 1982, 1986) and metaphorical work (Schön 1993), this article presents a set of six interrelated steps incorporating a structure for autonomous teams and their role in enabling lasting change in organizations facing digital transformation.

scholarly journals Robust and Automatic Skyline Detection Algorithm Based on MSSDN

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 750-762
Author(s):  
Fan Guo ◽  
Yuxiang Mai ◽  
Jin Tang ◽  
Yu Huang ◽  
Lijun Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Flight Control ◽  
Dynamic Programming Algorithm ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Programming Algorithm ◽  
Port Security ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
Peak Recognition ◽  
Control Port

Automatic detection of the skyline plays an important role in several applications, such as visual geo-localization, flight control, port security, and mountain peak recognition. Existing skyline detection methods are mostly used under common weather conditions; however, they do not consider bad weather situations, such as rain, which limits their application in real scenes. In this paper, we propose a multi-stream-stage DenseNet to detect skyline automatically under different weather conditions. This model fully considers the adverse factors influencing the skyline and outputs a probability graph of the skyline. Finally, a dynamic programming algorithm is implemented to detect the skyline in images accurately. A comparison with the existing state-of-the-art methods proves that the proposed model shows a good performance under rainy or common weather conditions and exhibits the best detection precision for the public database.

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