scholarly journals Resilience: The Power of Interactive Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-67
Author(s):  
Jonathan Pugh ◽  
David Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Adaptive Change ◽  
Feedback Effects ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Resilience Thinking ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Interactive Feedback

Chapter 2 examines the heuristic of ‘Resilience’, through which island ontologies have been most obviously adopted by mainstream academic and policy-thinking. Resilience is conceptualised here as an analytical field through which islands have emerged in postmodern framings of governance, as an alternative to linear thinking about progress and sustainability in the Anthropocene. Resilience seeks to capture the art of adaptation or of adaptive change. Working with islands has been significant to the rise of Resilience thinking because islands are imagined to have powers of creative and productive differentiation and individuation, faced with unprecedented changes and challenges. The chapter also turns to the work of Charles Darwin, and the power he attributed to islands as powerful, adaptative, differentiating ‘engines’ for life itself. Island life has become a high-profile symbol of non-linear emergence and diversification as islands are seen to enable contexts to intensify and magnify interactive feedback effects as well as acting as a baseline for understanding ‘vulnerability and resilience’, relational contingencies and ‘system effects’ that cannot be accessed directly by way of modern frameworks of reasoning. The island, as an important figure for working through the central problematic of relational entanglements, makes it particularly generative and productive for Resilience thinking in the Anthropocene.

On the Nexus Between Environmental Conflict, Migration and Governance: Concluding Remarks

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-230
Author(s):  
Günther G. Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Feedback Effects ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Important Direction ◽  
And Migration

This chapter summarizes the “Environmental conflicts, migration and governance” book’s key insights and reflects on theoretical and methodological challenges tied to the study of the nexus between environmental problems, conflict dynamics, and migration. The author argues that it is not entirely clear what is the most important direction(s) of causality in the environment, conflict, migration nexus. Multiple feedback effects exist that make the interdependencies non-linear in nature, reason why the author calls upon a cybernetic approach to further study the nexus. Understanding the different relations of the variables in this nexus provides entry points for good governance. However, the chapter argues the need to examine the interplay between environmental conflicts, migration and governance more comprehensively and context-specifically.

scholarly journals Influences of Unemployment Rates and S&P 500 Movements On Eight Selected U.S. Casino Stock Performances

1970 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-240
Author(s):  
Matiur Rahman ◽  
Muhammad Mustafa ◽  
Stephen Caples
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Feedback Effects ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Interactive Feedback ◽  
Causal Variables

This paper studies the causal effects of changes in unemployment rates andU.S. S&P 500 returns on changes in stock returns of selected eight U.S. casinos individually.Monthly data from January, 1982 through July, 2012 are employed. Thetime series data in percentage changes are found stationary. As a result, multivariateVAR in first-difference is implemented since the objective is to investigate the effectsof changes in causal variables on changes in individual selected casino stockreturns. The estimates depict weakly positive and somewhat mixed causal influencesof changes in unemployment rates on changes in casino stock returns. In the caseof the changes in S&P 500, the results are uniformly positive and relatively strong.In other words, the latter unleash stronger influence than the former on changes incasino stock returns with mixed net short-run interactive feedback effects.

SENSATIONAL SERMONIZING: ELLEN WOOD,GOOD WORDS, AND THE CONVERSION OF THE POPULAR

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Bizzotto
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Ellen Wood ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
The Impact

In the nineteenth century Britainunderwent a period of immense religious doubt and spiritual instability, prompted in part by German biblical criticism, the development of advanced geological and evolutionary ideas forwarded by men such as Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, and the crisis in faith demonstrated by many high profile Church members, particularly John Henry Newman's conversion to Catholicism in 1845. In tracing the development of this religious disbelief, historian Owen Chadwick comments that “mid-Victorian England asked itself the question, for the first time in popular understanding, is Christian faith true?” (Victorian Church: Part I1). Noting the impact of the 1859 publication of Darwin'sOrigin of Speciesand the multi-authored collectionEssays and Reviewsin 1860, Chadwick further posits that “part of the traditional teaching of the Christian churches was being proved, little by little, to be untrue” (Victorian Church: Part I88). As the theological debate over the truth of the Bible intensified so did the question of how to reach, preach, and convert the urbanized and empowered working and middle classes. Indicative of this debate was the immense popularity of the Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon, who was commonly referred to as the “Prince of Preachers.” Spurgeon exploded onto the religious scene in the mid-1850s and his theatrical and expressive form of oratory polarized mid-Victorian society as to the proper, most effective mode of preaching. In print culture, the emergence of the religious periodicalGood Words, with its unique fusion of spiritual and secular material contributed by authors from an array of denominations, demonstrated a concurrent re-evaluation within the religious press of the evolving methods of disseminating religious discourse. The 1864 serialization of Ellen Wood'sOswald CrayinGood Wordsemphasizes the magazine's interest in combining and synthesizing religious and popular material as a means of revitalizing interest in religious sentiment. In 1860 Wood's novelEast Lynnewas critically categorized as one of the first sensation novels of the 1860s, a decade in which “sensational” became the modifier of the age. Wood, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, was subsequently referred to as one of the original creators of sensation fiction, a genre frequently denigrated as scandalous and immoral.Oswald Cray, however, sits snugly among the sermons, parables, and social mission essays that fill the pages ofGood Words.

scholarly journals Critical Security History: (De)securitisation, ontological security, and insecure memories

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Donnelly ◽  
Brent J. Steele
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Future Research ◽  
History Plays ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Non Linear

AbstractThis article makes a case for incorporating the concept of ‘Critical Security History’ (CSH) into security studies. While history plays a powerful role in a cornucopia of security stories, we contend that it often goes unnoticed in scholarly research and teaching. Against this backdrop, we present a detailed guide to study how history is told and enacted in non-linear ways. To do this, the article outlines how CSH can contribute to securitisation and ontological security studies. As shown, this lens casts a new light on the legacies of (de)securitisation processes and how they are commemorated. It also illustrates that ontological security studies have only begun to call into question the concept of historicity. Working through these observations, the article marshals insights from Halvard Leira's notion of ‘engaged historical amateurism’ to entice scholars interested in ‘doing’ CSH. While acknowledging that this research agenda is hard to achieve, our study of the 2012 Sarajevo Red Line project helps to illustrate the added value of trying to ‘do’ CSH in theory and in practice. We end with some reflections for future research and continued conversations.

Network

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost van Loon
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Linear Complexity ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Concept Network

Network is a device for organizing and conceptualizing non-linear complexity. Networks defy narrative, chronology and thus also genealogy because they entail a multiplicity of traces. Networks problematize boundaries and centrality but intensify our ability to think in terms of flows and simultaneity. As a concept, network has been highly conducive to theorizing phenomena and processes such as globalization, digital media (Internet), speed, symbiosis and complexity. This in turn enables us to rethink what constitutes the foundations of intelligence, knowledge and even life itself. One particularly useful application of network as a concept is the notion of the gift, which is often seen as the archetypical figure for understanding the nature of economics and social relationships.

B. The Non-Linear Calculations for Pulsating Stars

1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 105-176
Author(s):  
Robert F. Christy
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Afternoon Session ◽  
Discussion Session ◽  
Pulsating Stars ◽  
Fourth Symposium ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Considerable Discussion ◽  
Informal Approach ◽  
Preceding Session

(Ed. note: The custom in these Symposia has been to have a summary-introductory presentation which lasts about 1 to 1.5 hours, during which discussion from the floor is minor and usually directed at technical clarification. The remainder of the session is then devoted to discussion of the whole subject, oriented around the summary-introduction. The preceding session, I-A, at Nice, followed this pattern. Christy suggested that we might experiment in his presentation with a much more informal approach, allowing considerable discussion of the points raised in the summary-introduction during its presentation, with perhaps the entire morning spent in this way, reserving the afternoon session for discussion only. At Varenna, in the Fourth Symposium, several of the summaryintroductory papers presented from the astronomical viewpoint had been so full of concepts unfamiliar to a number of the aerodynamicists-physicists present, that a major part of the following discussion session had been devoted to simply clarifying concepts and then repeating a considerable amount of what had been summarized. So, always looking for alternatives which help to increase the understanding between the different disciplines by introducing clarification of concept as expeditiously as possible, we tried Christy's suggestion. Thus you will find the pattern of the following different from that in session I-A. I am much indebted to Christy for extensive collaboration in editing the resulting combined presentation and discussion. As always, however, I have taken upon myself the responsibility for the final editing, and so all shortcomings are on my head.)

Computers and diffraction analysis

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
J. A. Eades
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Analysis ◽  
Electron Diffraction Analysis ◽  
Image Simulation ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
High Profile ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Image Simulations

For well over two decades computers have played an important role in electron microscopy; they now pervade the whole field - as indeed they do in so many other aspects of our lives. The initial use of computers was mainly for large (as it seemed then) off-line calculations for image simulations; for example, of dislocation images.Image simulation has continued to be one of the most notable uses of computers particularly since it is essential to the correct interpretation of high resolution images. In microanalysis, too, the computer has had a rather high profile. In this case because it has been a necessary part of the equipment delivered by manufacturers. By contrast the use of computers for electron diffraction analysis has been slow to prominence. This is not to say that there has been no activity, quite the contrary; however it has not had such a great impact on the field.

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