The status Quo and Problems on the Industries of Chemical Plants and Machineries (Minor Special Issue on Chemical Machinery, Equipment and Plant)

1971 ◽  
Vol 74 (635) ◽  
pp. 1602-1607
Author(s):  
Eiichi Kaneko
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Chemical Plants ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Chemical Machinery ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals The Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Baldwin ◽  
Valia Kordoni
Keyword(s):  
Computational Linguistic ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Status

Our purpose in this special issue is partly to reflect on the status quo and, in the process, identify potential areas where greater crossover between the fields of linguistics and computational linguistics can and perhaps should occur. It is also, however, to highlight sub-areas of computational linguistics where that crossover is happening, and can be seen to have enhanced the linguistic and computational linguistic impact of the research.

Introduction to Special Issue on Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amardo Rodriguez ◽  
Mohan J. Dutta ◽  
Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Do So

Hegemons arise by smashing and terrorizing human diversity. They do so structurally, institutionally, and discursively—that is, through logics, rationales, and schemes. In this special issue, we grapple with the racism problem that pervades communication studies. In fact, the discipline has long had a racism problem, silenced by overarching structures that deploy the language of civility to erase conversations that call out this problem. This special issue, “Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege,” focuses on the racial, ideological, and epistemological logics, rationales, and schemes, such as falsely separating scholarly merit from diversity, that the status quo in communication studies employs to keep minority peoples marginalized. We contend that looking at the racism problem that pervades communication studies from a perspective of whiteness deepens our understanding of this problem in profound ways.

scholarly journals Political Masculinities, Crisis Tendencies, and Social Transition: Toward an Understanding of Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Starck ◽  
Russell Luyt
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Social Transition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Transitions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
Rapid Industrialization ◽  
Definition Of

This introduction to the special issue on “Political Masculinities and Social Transition” rethinks the notion of “crisis in masculinity” and points to its weaknesses, such as cyclical patterns and chronicity. Rather than viewing key moments in history as points of rupture, we understand social change as encompassing ongoing transitions marked by a “fluid nature” (Montecinos 2017, 2). In line with this, the contributions examine how political masculinities are implicated within a wide range of social transitions, such as nation building after war, the founding of a new political party in response to an economic crisis, an “authoritarian relapse” in a democracy, attempts at changing society through terrorism, rapid industrialization as well as peace building in conflict areas. Building on Starck and Sauer’s definition of “political masculinities” we suggest applying the concept to instances in which power is explicitly either being (re)produced or challenged. We distinguish between political masculinities that are more readily identified as such (e.g., professional politicians) and less readily identified political masculinities (e.g., citizens), emphasizing how these interact with each other. We ask whether there is a discernible trajectory in the characteristics of political masculinities brought about by social transition that can be confirmed across cultures. The contributors’ findings indicate that these political masculinities can contribute to different kinds of change that either maintain the status quo, are progressive, retrogressive, or a mixture of these. Revolutionary transitions, it seems, often promote the adherence to traditional forms of political masculinity, whereas more reformatory transition leaves discursive spaces for argument.

Inhabiting Cultures as a Way to Other Worlds

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (04) ◽  
pp. 982-990
Author(s):  
GEORGE LIPSITZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
New World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Form

In a powerful but frequently overlooked passage in The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon describes expressive culture as a register of incipient social relations. He maintains that long before liberation struggles assume organized political form, perceptive observers will detect the emergence of unusual kinds of expression popping up to summon the people to view the status quo as both unreal and unacceptable.1 The essays in this special issue dedicated to the theme of Inhabiting Cultures display precisely this evidence of incipient critique and transformation. They demonstrate that tomorrow is today; that the reigning cultural forms authored and authorized by domination, exclusion and oppression have become exhausted and obsolete; and that the stirrings of a new world in the making are already here.

That Really Escalated Quickly—Online Learning Moves Into the Mainstream: Introduction to the Special Issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 016264342110060
Author(s):  
Michael J. Kennedy ◽  
Joseph R. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Online Teachers ◽  
The Status

Early in 2020, it became clear the COVID-19 pandemic was on its way toward disrupting the status quo in education in a substantial manner. As schools reacted by moving teaching and learning online, teachers, staff, parents, students, and other stakeholders were thrust into a world of learning previously discussed in this journal, but unknown to most in the field of special education. In this introduction to the special issue on online learning, we highlight key themes across the six articles, as well as lay out a vision for additional research and development that is required in our field.

scholarly journals Climate governance entrepreneurship: Emerging findings and a new research agenda

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 1343-1361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Lerum Boasson ◽  
Dave Huitema
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
International Trends ◽  
The Status ◽  
Policy Windows ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
New Research

This is an introductory paper to a special issue on climate governance entrepreneurship, where entrepreneurship is understood as acts performed by actors seeking to ‘punch above their weight’. By contrast, actors who are merely doing their job are not ‘entrepreneurs’. In order to understand climate policy and governance, we need to learn more about the factors that condition variance in entrepreneurial activity, strategies and success. In this introduction, we present a comprehensive review of the literature on entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in policy in governance, with special attention to the recent upsurge in studies of climate governance entrepreneurship. We distinguish two types of entrepreneurship: (1) acts aimed at enhancing governance influence by altering the distribution of authority and information; and (2) acts aimed at altering or diffusing norms and cognitive frameworks, worldviews or institutional logics. The contributions in this special issue offer valuable insights into how personal motivations, policy windows, international trends, cultural-institutional traditions and the distribution of structural power influence entrepreneurship. However, more work is needed – not least as regards whether actors that seek change are more active and/or more successful as entrepreneurs compared to those that defend the status quo, and whether there is more successful entrepreneurship in public or in private arenas of governance.

scholarly journals Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hogan ◽  
Michael Howlett ◽  
Mary Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Path Creation ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This article joins with others in this special issue to examine the evolution of our understanding of how the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic impacted policy ideas and routines across a wide variety of sectors of government activity. Did policy ideas and routines transform as a result of the pandemic or were they merely a continuation of the status quo ante? If they did transform, are the transformations temporary in nature or likely to lead to significant, deep and permanent reform to existing policy paths and trajectories? As this article sets out, the literature on policy punctuations has evolved and helps us understand the impact of COVID-19 on policy-making but tends to conflate several distinct aspects of path trajectories and deviations under the general concept of “critical junctures” which muddy reflections and findings. Once the different possible types of punctuations have been clarified, however, the result is a set of concepts related to path creation and disruption—especially that of “path clearing”—which are better able to provide an explanation of the kinds of policy change to be expected to result from the impact of events such as the 2019 coronavirus pandemic.

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