scholarly journals Talking Trash: The Rhetoric of Waste Bins

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia P. Rosenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Reflective Design ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Rhetoric Of The Everyday ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Plastic Containers ◽  
Insight Into

There is no mythical “land of away.” We have a trash problem, and plastic is a major contributor. In 2015, we generated 34.5 million tons of municipal solid plastic waste (EPA, “National Overview”), and it is only a part of our waste. Ironically, plastic containers, from household cans to plastic liners to the large green curbside bins, held that solid waste at one time—and were soon to be their own contribution to the 3.4 million tons. The banality, opacity, and capacity of our waste bins facilitate consumer culture. Reflective design, however, can help us query our trash practices by defamiliarizing the trashcan through making its attributes and properties visible and explorable. “Talking Trash” is an act of reflective design in which I wove a waste bin from the environmental articles of various magazines. Next, I set up a Twitter account, @Talking_Trash_, to tweet about items I was placing in the bin. Then, I considered the pedagogical value of Talking Trash and similar reflective design projects in environment humanities classes. Ultimately, I argue that our trashcans engage in a rhetoric of the everyday that encourages consumer practice and waste-world-making. Talking Trash provides insight into the public and private natures of waste, the revealing and concealing our bins promote, and the affordances of materiality present in our waste bins. Talking Trash is an intervention of hope.

What Can Economists Contribute to the Common Good Tradition?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Yuengert
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

Although most economists are skeptical of or puzzled by the Catholic concept of the common good, a rejection of the economic approach as inimical to the common good would be hasty and counterproductive. Economic analysis can enrich the common good tradition in four ways. First, economics embodies a deep respect for economic agency and for the effects of policy and institutions on individual agents. Second, economics offers a rich literature on the nature of unplanned order and how it might be shaped by policy. Third, economics offers insight into the public and private provision of various kinds of goods (private, public, common pool resources). Fourth, recent work on the development and logic of institutions and norms emphasizes sustainability rooted in the good of the individual.

Research from China finds no significant difference in impact of public service motivation (PSM) in public and private sectors

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The authors assumed PSM would be higher in the public sector, but they set up a trial to find out if this was the case. Design/methodology/approach To test their theories, the authors conducted two independent surveys. The first consisted of 220 usable responses from public sector employees in Changsha, China. The second survey involved 260 usable responses from private sector employees taking an MBA course at a university in the Changsha district. A questionnaire was used to assess attitudes. Findings The results found no significant difference between the impact of public sector motivation (PSM) on employee performance across the public and private sectors. The data showed that PSM had a significant impact on self-reported employee performance, but the relationship did not differ much between sectors. Meanwhile, it was in the private sector that PSM had the greatest impact on intention to leave. Originality/value The authors said the research project was one of the first to test if the concept of PSM operated in the same way across sectors. It also contributed, they said, to the ongoing debate about PSM in China.

scholarly journals Nineteenth Century Public And Private Spheres

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-117
Author(s):  
REMINA SIMA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract The aim of this paper is to illustrate the public and private spheres. The former represents the area in which each of us carries out their daily activities, while the latter is mirrored by the home. Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman are two salient nineteenth-century writers who shape the everyday life of the historical period they lived in, within their literary works that shed light on the areas under discussion.

scholarly journals New terms for collective action in the public sector in Denmark: Lessons learned from the teacher lock-out in 2013

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 593-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laust Høgedahl ◽  
Flemming Ibsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Finding ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Labour Disputes

This article investigates the use of collective action in the public sector by analysing the Danish teacher lock-out in 2013. The social partners in the public sector in Denmark (and the other Nordic countries) engage in negotiations and reach agreements regarding wages and working conditions in accordance with an institutional set-up developed in the private sector. This also applies to the use of the so-called weapons of conflict – strikes/blockades and lock-outs/boycotts – in connection with labour disputes if the parties are unable to reach agreement through negotiations or mediation. But there is a big difference in the premises and conditions upon which collective industrial conflict as an institutionalised form of collective action proceeds when comparing the public and private sectors in Denmark. The article shows how the use of collective industrial conflicts in the public sector has a number of built-in systemic institutional flaws, as the public employers are the budgetary authority and legislators at the same time. This is not a new finding; however, these multiple roles become problematic when public employers use the lock-out weapon offensively in combination with state intervention to end the dispute, which was the case during the teacher lock-out in 2013 in Denmark. The article concludes with the presentation of a number of proposed institutional adjustments for bringing the public bargaining model into balance.

scholarly journals Legal position of a notary public and specific features of his professional liability insurance

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
Slobodan Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Liability Insurance ◽  
Professional Liability ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Public Setting ◽  
Notary Public ◽  
Insight Into

The legal position of a notary public and the types of services he provides crucially affect the complexity of his liability, which arises from performing legally prescribed activities. Actions to protect and realize the public and private interest for a fee represent a risk from which the professional liability of a notary public may arise, which is equated with errors and omissions insurance. This leads to multiple types of liability: civil, disciplinary, offence and criminal. In this paper, the author explores the interest of the state, parties and notaries public in relation to the performance of notary public services to the extent relevant to this paper, the legal basis and manner of concluding professional liability insurance of notaries public, setting cover limits and some specific excluded risks and specific features of occurrence of insured event in professional liability insurance by getting an insight into comparative legal solutions of the law regulating notary public services, and finally the views of domestic and foreign legal theory.

scholarly journals Professionalizing the Imam in Europe: Imam Training Programs as Sites of Deliberative Engagement

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
Welmoet Boender
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
Insight Into

This article discusses the first experiences of a supplementary imam training program that has been designed in the Netherlands for community-based imams, female religious leaders and mosque committee members. This “Professionalization of Imams in the Netherlands” program (PIN) was set up as a cooperation of the Representative Council of Muslims (CMO) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, supported by state-subsidy. The article discusses how the initiators maneuvered within and beyond the politicized burden of expectation that has surrounded the establishment of European-based imam training programs for decades now. The article provides a unique insight into the program’s design, its collaborative partners and participants’ experiences, understanding the program as a site of deliberative engagement. It shows how the stakeholders ideally see ownership of the curriculum and trainee recruitment as a shared responsibility for the Muslim community and the public educational institution, whereas the state is willing to finance it. The article outlines how in this attempt the stakeholders must deal with some paradoxical dynamics that influence this notion of “shared ownership”. Sharing these analytical observations and recommendations will hopefully help stakeholders involved in setting up similar European programs to make rational decisions on content and format of (future) supplementary programs, within and beyond fields of power, authority and interest.

scholarly journals An Insight into Operational Urban Development in Hungary in the Light of Regulation-Based Urban Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-64
Author(s):  
László Bajnai ◽  
Attila Józsa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Democratic Rule ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Eu

Abstract An operational urban development relying on the structured cooperation of the public and private sectors is indispensable to purposefully address the challenges posed by sustainable development. Its evolution in Hungary may serve as inspiration for other countries as well. In the period preceding the regime change, it underwent a much more significant disruption as compared to regulation-based urban development. Afterwards, its methods, procedures, and instruments suitable for use in a democratic rule-of-law state and under market economy conditions had to be rebuilt from scratch. For this to happen, two external factors provided assistance: the French–Hungarian urban development cooperation and the EU. As a result, we could witness the successful development of the methods as well as of the conceptual, strategic, and operational planning tools forming a coherent system of operational urban development planning carried through with the public sector’s physical intervention into the urban tissue.

scholarly journals Gardening the City: Neighbourliness and Appropriation of the Common Spaces in Bulgaria

2015 ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Meglena Ivanova Zlatkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Common ◽  
Long Term Observation ◽  
The City

Gardening the City: Neighbourliness and Appropriation of the Common Spaces in BulgariaThe paper discusses the forms of public-private space division in a postcosialist Bulgarian city as everyday practices of inhabiting and appropriation of the common spaces in one neighborhood of Plovdiv. The anthropological research of the urban spaces includes a long term observation of the everyday practices in the city of socialism, the city in transition and the changed cities nowadays, following the line of the changing boundaries, distinction and expression of the public and private, common and individual.The cases of particular interest in my research are the forms of transgression of the physical borders and social boundaries as well as establishing new ones, according to the changing identities, social hierarchies, power relations, forms of social solidarity and networking and investment in social capital. The paper presents cases of blurring borders and boundaries as urban discourses – of the socialist city, the city in transition and the other – the city after 2007 when Bulgaria joined the EU. These cases are studied on the base of the everyday practices of urban gardening in common spaces – around block of flats, on the windowed balconies and small gardens (vegetable plots) in the town outskirts. Uprawianie miasta: sąsiedzkość i zawłaszczanie przestrzeni wspólnej w BułgariiArtykuł omawia formy publiczno-prywatnego podziału przestrzeni w postsocjalistycznym mieście bułgarskim jako codzienne praktyki zamieszkiwania i zawłaszczania przestrzeni wspólnej na jednym z osiedli w Płowdiw. Antropologiczne badanie przestrzeni miejskiej koncentruje się na długookresowej obserwacji codziennych praktyk w mieście socjalistycznym, następnie przechodzącym okres transformacji, a wreszcie w mieście współczesnym, idąc za zmieniającą się linią granic, rozróżnieniem i wyrażaniem się publicznego i prywatnego, wspólnego i indywidualnego.Uwaga autorki skupia się szczególnie na formach transgresji fizycznych i społecznych granic oraz na tworzeniu nowych zgodnie ze zmieniającymi się tożsamościami, hierarchią społeczną, relacjami władzy, formami solidarności społecznej, usieciowieniem oraz inwestycjami w kapitał społeczny. W artykule omówiono przypadki naruszenia granic oraz podziały jako dyskursy miejskie – o mieście socjalistycznym, mieście transformacji i inne, tworzone po 2007 roku po wstąpieniu Bułgarii do UE. Przypadki te badano w perspektywie codziennych praktyk miejskiego ogrodnictwa prowadzonego w przestrzeni wspólnej, wokół bloków, na balkonach i w ogródkach na obrzeżach miasta.

scholarly journals Business Turnaround: Looking From a Diagnostic View

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Sunita Panicker
Keyword(s):  
Business Environment ◽  
Leadership Team ◽  
Public Enterprises ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Management Association ◽  
Turnaround Strategies ◽  
A Company ◽  
Insight Into

A business turnaround appears on the surface to be a difficult task for any manager. The reasons for the company downturn are always not clear. You never know for sure if a poor decision, a poor leadership team or general industry downturn is to blame. Nevertheless, what is clear is the firm needs a business turnaround... and fast! A turnaround situation demands immediate attention to problems, arising from the client's customers, creditors, employees or competitors. The utmost confidentiality must be maintained to protect the market image of the company through out this time. Restructuring is for the best of times as it is for the worst of times. Most managers think of restructuring only when it is the worst of times. This compels them to restructure leaving not much leverage for options. Restructuring is best achieved when the enterprise is healthy and robust. Restructuring is relevant to all organization, failing and faltering as it is to healthy, robust and growing. Restructuring is as relevant intervention for public enterprises, as it is for private ones. In the past before the the economic reforms both public and private enterprises were relatively inflexible. Today, restructuring is more rampant in the private sector, than in the public sector. Both need it urgently and continuously. The business environment metamorphosed by globalisation. IT and Telecom has made restructuring necessary for survival. Sickness had wider ramifications. One must look at the problem from a diagnostic angle. There are various stages of turnaround, which is prescribed by Turnaround Management Association for successful turnarounds. The turnaround strategies adopted by various companies will give us insight into the success of a company.

Germany

1912 ◽  
Vol 58 (242) ◽  
pp. 502-505
Author(s):  
Johannes Bresler
Keyword(s):  
International Congress ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Biographical Sketches ◽  
Special Number ◽  
Weekly Journal ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Insight Into

The most important event in the department of psychiatry in Germany since my report in 1910 has been the Fourth International Congress for the Care of the Insane, which was held at the house of the Prussian Deputies in Berlin, from October 3rd till the 7th, 1910. The Congress was attended by about six hundred members. It compared favourably with its predecessors in the number and practical and scientific importance of the reports and in its general arrangements; it was evident that the interest of psychiatrists and of laymen in those congresses is on the increase. In addition to the meetings of the members, there was an important exhibition of models, plans and photographs of establishments and institutions for the insane, of sick-rooms and of machinery, of work done by patients in public and private institutions, and of scientific apparatus and books, which was visited with great interest, and which gave a very true idea of the progress in Germany in the care of the insane. The exhibition had been arranged by Dr. Alt, at Uchtspringe (Altmark). A no less true insight into German methods is given by a work on German Hospitals, which was edited by Dr. Bresler. A copy of this work was presented as a souvenir to each member of the Congress. It was edited with the assistance of the superintendents of the public and private asylums, and contains in an elegant volume of 666 pages the description of about seventy institutions for the insane, illustrated with numerous plans and photographs. This work has since been continued, and a second volume of 465 pages, with illustrations, has recently appeared. At the same time a similar work has been edited by Dr. Schloess, of Vienna, on Austrian asylums for the insane, copies of which (and of the second volume of the above-mentioned work) were also presented to the members of the Berlin Congress. So that it may be truly said that seldom have members returned from a congress with so abundant a supply of literature. A special number of my Weekly Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology was devoted to the members of the Congress, and contained about fifty portraits with short biographical sketches of the most distinguished alienists present. The more important papers are perhaps worthy of mention in this retrospect.

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