Facets of Crisis in a Greek Island: The Ikarian Case

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Maria Bareli
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Greek Island

Since 2008, "crisis" discourse has emerged as one of the key issues for practicing anthropologists. According to a review of the field of practicing anthropology in 2009, practicing anthropologists made substantial contributions on topical areas like fiscal, ecological, and human crisis and relevant issues, like civil rights and displacement among others. At the same time, they have turned to action-orientated anthropological research with varying degrees of collaboration with the communities they study (Brondo 2010). This article emerges from the researcher's active engagement with local-based communities and collectivities and discusses the experience of the current "crisis" on the Greek island of Ikaria from the actors' point of view, as well as the ways these communities perceive their struggles against crisis.1

What Kind of Firms Has Investment Programs in the Crisis Times and What Kind of Barriers Do They Face?

2009 ◽  
pp. 100-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yakovlev
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Firms ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Doing Business

The paper considers the behavior of Russian enterprises during the current crisis using the data of the latest survey of 1000 manufacturing firms. Special attention is paid to features of firms planning big investment for the next 12 months. The links between current investment plans, previous investment in 2005-2008 and other factors are shown. Finally we analyze the most important barriers for doing business from the point of view of investors.

Remembering From-the-Outside

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher McCarroll
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Visual Perspective ◽  
Observer Perspective ◽  
The Status ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Way Of Thinking

This chapter sets out some key issues related to a philosophical analysis of point of view in memory. It does so by looking at examples of psychological, philosophical, and literary accounts of the phenomenon, as well as examples of the author’s own observer perspective memories. The chapter provides an overview of some of the empirical evidence related to visual perspective in memory. Despite these consistent empirical findings, however, a number of doubts and misconceptions about remembering from-the-outside still linger, especially concerning the status of observer perspectives in memory. This chapter outlines some of the skepticism to the possibility of remembering from-the-outside and points to a possible diagnosis of why such skepticism arises. This chapter points to a way of thinking about memory—to be developed through the course of the book—which eases the worries about remembering from-the-outside.

A Typology of Moral Progress

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Moral Status ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Premarital Sex ◽  
Moral Progress ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Point

This chapter identifies a number of developments that are candidates for moral progress: abolition of the Atlantic chattel slavery, improvements in civil rights for minorities, equal rights for women, better treatment of (some) non-human animals, and abolition of the cruellest punishments in most parts of the world. This bottom-up approach is then used to construct a typology of moral progress, including improvements in moral reasoning, recognition of the moral standing or equal basic moral status of beings formerly thought to lack them, improvements in understandings of the domain of justice, the recognition that some behaviors formerly thought to be morally impermissible (such as premarital sex, masturbation, lending money at interest, and refusal to die “for king and country”) can be morally permissible, and improvements in understandings of morality itself. Finally, a distinction is made between improvements from a moral point of view and moral progress in the fullest sense.

Die Form des ›Helfens‹ und ihre (Soll-)Bruchstellen

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 406-413
Author(s):  
Norbert Ricken
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Breaking Points

Abstract As familiar and self-evident as what is meant by ›helping‹ may seem at first, it is difficult to define ›helping‹ in a precise conceptual way. Against this backdrop, the question of what ›helping‹ is will be taken up and dealt with from a theoretical point of view. The path taken to work out and systematically define the form of helping leads to the discussion of some of the (predetermined) breaking points built into it and to the conclusion that ›helping‹ must be categorically defined differently. Recent anthropological research also suggests this by referring to the social-theoretical embedding of individuals and leaving behind individual-theoretical understandings of isolated individuals who would then enter into a relationship with each other.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS AN ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL MEANS OF PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihor Binko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Public Property ◽  
Procedural Basis

The article explores the idea that public administration can act as an independent means of protection of civil rights, complementing such tools as civil law types of protection of rights, which consist in proving the legality of possession of the property itself. Protection of property rights is traditionally considered a field of private law, built on the principles of respect for private property, equality of arms, independence of the court and a fair settlement of legal disputes. It is stated that, unlike civil law methods of protection of rights, public administration as a method of protection of rights is aimed not at protecting the issue of legality of possession but at protecting the registration record from wrongful distortion. A large array of rules on the protection of private property is of a public law nature and is associated with the administration of relevant records. It is argued that from the point of view of protection of property rights, in particular property rights to real estate and their derivatives - the rights of the mortgagee, rights of claim, which are notarized, etc., the activities of state bodies are an organizational means of protecting such rights in the form of public administration. Publicity means that any decisions regarding changes in registered rights are made in public and, in accordance with the procedures provided by law, become public property, including stakeholders and an indefinite number of entities. It is determined that the essence of administration is that rights are protected on a procedural basis and the need for certain legal preconditions for making a management decision on changes in registered rights cannot be replaced by other legal preconditions, or a decision cannot be made without sufficient legal grounds.

An Overview of the Impact of Racial Hate and Its Manifestation of Homegrown Terrorism in America

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-56
Author(s):  
Benson G. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Civil Rights Organizations ◽  
Racial Hatred ◽  
American President ◽  
Homegrown Terrorism ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Groups

Since the 2008 election of the first African American President of the United States, Barack Obama, racial hatred has been on the rise. During the 2016 presidential election, right-wing extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Ultra-Right groups have become more vocal resulting in civil rights organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center reporting a significant rise in hate crimes and threats. Unfortunately, President Donald Trump helped to stoke the fears of these hate groups with his incendiary campaign rhetoric of hate mostly against immigrants. This chapter provides a historical overview of racial hate and its manifestation of homegrown terrorism in America. Additionally, this chapter examines how hatred and fear became the source of lynching and race riots in America from the 18th to the 21st century. Understanding the past and present history of hatred directed at racial, ethnic and gender groups can help to bring a factual and more truthful point of view that can help reduce the recurrence of homegrown terrorism.

An Overview of the Impact of Racial Hate and Its Manifestation of Homegrown Terrorism in America

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Benson G. Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Civil Rights Organizations ◽  
Racial Hatred ◽  
American President ◽  
Homegrown Terrorism ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Groups

Since the 2008 election of the first African American President of the United States, Barack Obama, racial hatred has been on the rise. During the 2016 presidential election, right-wing extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Ultra-Right groups have become more vocal resulting in civil rights organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center reporting a significant rise in hate crimes and threats. Unfortunately, President Donald Trump helped to stoke the fears of these hate groups with his incendiary campaign rhetoric of hate mostly against immigrants. This chapter provides a historical overview of racial hate and its manifestation of homegrown terrorism in America. Additionally, this chapter examines how hatred and fear became the source of lynching and race riots in America from the 18th to the 21st century. Understanding the past and present history of hatred directed at racial, ethnic and gender groups can help to bring a factual and more truthful point of view that can help reduce the recurrence of homegrown terrorism.

scholarly journals Optimal Stopping and Utility in a Simple Modelof Unemployment Insurance

Risks ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Jason S. Anquandah ◽  
Leonid V. Bogachev
Keyword(s):  
Simple Model ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Optimal Stopping ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Call Option ◽  
Optimal Stopping Problem ◽  
Optimal Decisions ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
New Jobs

Managing unemployment is one of the key issues in social policies. Unemployment insurance schemes are designed to cushion the financial and morale blow of loss of job but also to encourage the unemployed to seek new jobs more proactively due to the continuous reduction of benefit payments. In the present paper, a simple model of unemployment insurance is proposed with a focus on optimality of the individual’s entry to the scheme. The corresponding optimal stopping problem is solved, and its similarity and differences with the perpetual American call option are discussed. Beyond a purely financial point of view, we argue that in the actuarial context the optimal decisions should take into account other possible preferences through a suitable utility function. Some examples in this direction are worked out.

Expectations and realities in welfare technologies

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bendik Bygstad ◽  
Gjermund Lanestedt
Keyword(s):  
Work Force ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
The Status ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Welfare Technology ◽  
Generative Mechanisms ◽  
High Level

Purpose The paper aims to add knowledge on the status of the welfare technology field. Politicians in mature economies expect welfare technologies – especially digital technologies – to contribute to bridging the gap between an increasing number of elderly and a shrinking work force. Theoretically, the paper deals with welfare technologies in a digital infrastructure perspective. Design/methodology/approach A multilevel and comparative study was conducted to understand the interplay of high-level policies and implementation projects and highlight key issues through comparative analysis of different national approaches. Japan and Norway were the chosen countries because they are both in the forefront in the use of welfare technologies. Findings Findings reveal similarities between the two countries, which are echoed in many other countries: although government expectations are high, the field of welfare technology is still in its infancy and only rather simple solutions (such as safety alarms) are widely used. Key differences in innovation strategies for welfare technology in the two countries are highlighted, where Japan seem to be aiming for a vertical integration through large corporations’ solutions, whereas Norway aims for a more open innovation arena through standardization. Originality/value From a practical point of view, the two countries have something to learn from each other, but, in particular, both countries are recommended – together with other similar countries – a more platform-oriented approach. Theoretically, it is shown that a successful implementation of welfare technologies should adopt a digital infrastructure approach and exploit the generative mechanisms of this approach.

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