Recent Experience with the Initiative and Referendum

1916 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 532-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
Recent Experience ◽  
Know How ◽  
The People ◽  
Direct Legislation ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Legislative Measures ◽  
The Way

The more intensively one tries to study the interesting phenomena of direct legislation the more humble does he become. To look closely, for example, at the two hundred and ninety-one constitutional and legislative measures which the people of thirty-two States voted upon in 1914 is to be impressed with the number and significance of the things about that remarkable election which one cannot possibly know. How superficial at best must be our insight into that complex of social, political, economic and human forces which lay back of the presentation of those measures and the popular decision upon them. It is in full realization of the peril which lies in the way of sweeping classifications and glib generalizations that the conclusions drawn in the course of this brief discussion of the recent experience with the initiative and referendum petition are offered with considerable hesitancy.

scholarly journals Heteronomy of architecture

2021 ◽  
pp. 337-359
Author(s):  
Maria Pilar Vettori
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Know How ◽  
The People ◽  
Way Of Knowing ◽  
The Way

I’m not calling today about the competition we are holding for Reinventing Cities here in Lambrate - I am calling to ask you if you would like it if we had a dialogue together on the Heteronomy of Architecture. Benedetta Tagliabue: Hello Matteo! Don’t even talk about it, everything is so sad. You know just how important it is for me to travel and meet people all the time... in person. Dialogue? Absolutely! But... what is this “heteronomy”? You don’t mean it’s something that excludes someone? You know I don’t like it...   M.R. Come on, we’ve known each other for years! Look, it’s exactly the opposite. A very interesting concept which Giancarlo De Carlo summed up well in a sentence I am going to read to you. «As you can tell as you listen, one cannot help but think of your way of knowing, investigating and reading the places and cities in which you design. It is also impossible not to think of how you live together with others, and how this has always been the way you live architecture on a daily basis, and how you know how to transmit it and build it together with all the people you meet: collaborators, citizens, users, clients, politicians, artists, producers of materials, craftsmen, friends, etc. [...]». B.T. Oh well... I was actually joking a bit, you know it amuses me. I remembered this idea of Giancarlo’s from when I was studying at the Faculty of Architecture in Venice, and I was struck by his strength and energy in knowing how to interpret it at its best and translate it into splendid practice on many occasions. Thank you also for your kind words, it was so kind of you to have thought of me. It certainly is an interesting theme to delve into in a monographic issue of a magazine, and I would like to congratulate those who thought of it. So... Yes, I like it: let’s dialogue! You already know that we’ll have to talk again a few times. M.R. Of course I know... it’s always a great pleasure!

scholarly journals Social work in confinement: the spatiality of social work in carceral settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Marina Richter ◽  
Julia Emprechtinger
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
The People ◽  
Situated Practice ◽  
Carceral Geography ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Abstract. Social work in prisons not only works with and for people who are confined; it also constitutes a form of social work that is carried out under conditions of confinement. This article draws on carceral geography to understand the corporeal and spatial aspects of social work in prison settings. Based on insights from two prisons in Switzerland, we argue that understanding carceral social work as a spatial and materially situated practice helps to gain deep insight into the intricate layers of meaning and powerful modes of functioning of prisons and of the people involved. In particular, it shows how the way social work is carried out in prison is supported and strongly structured by the spatiality of the prison itself, allowing for counselling, desk-type social work, rather than for social work that actively initiates and creates spaces for encounters or activities.

Beyond Nationality: Opportunities for Trans-Boundary Wildlife Conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeraj Mahar ◽  
Ninad Avinash Mungi ◽  
Sutirtha Lahiri
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Flagship Species ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
The People ◽  
Peace Parks ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Ecological Flows ◽  
The Way

Unlike humans, political and physical boundaries do not limit animals that are long ranging. However, due to political, economic and social conflicts between countries, it is the wildlife that takes a hit. This has been recognized by many countries and effective measures of trans-boundary conservation have successfully been implemented. This has not only paved the way for the conservation of species that range in multiple countries but has also enhanced cooperation between countries on several fronts. In this article, we highlight the need for similar trans-boundary measures between India and Pakistan and focus on a few species which can act as potential flagship species in this regard. In the background of global commitments by India and nations for conserving the freedom of movement, and for securing the services offered by these ecological flows to the people of both nations, we propose a scientific discussion for establishing trans-boundary peace parks.

scholarly journals A Importância da Gestão Estratégica de Pessoas no Âmbito Organizacional

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (39) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
Maycon da Cruz Marinho ◽  
Bruno Gomes de Souza ◽  
Marcos Aurélio Cavalcante Ayres ◽  
Rogério Sales Silva ◽  
Thiago Souza
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Know How ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
The People ◽  
Managing Innovation ◽  
Capital Humano ◽  
The Way

ResumoO advento da globalização, especificamente, no que se refere à esfera empresarial permitiu a adoção de importantes mudanças em se tratando da gestão administrativa das empresas. Tais mudanças se referem, principalmente, à forma como se encaram as pessoas que compõem as empresas. Acredita-se que sejam as pessoas a parte essencial de todas as empresas. Este artigo pretendeu discutir sobre a importância das pessoas, bem como de saber qual a forma de lidar com elas e como isto pode influenciar, positiva ou negativamente, nos resultados das empresas. Assim, observa-se que para gerir as pessoas não se deve ter apenas visão mecanicista ou mesmo metódica, é necessário que se discuta e compreendam as diferenças existentes entre técnicas obsoletas antigas e as modernas, que atuam conjuntamente com uma gestão eficaz. Precisa ser resgatado o papel que o ser humano representa dentro das organizações quanto a sua atuação nas atividades que executa como colaboradores dentro das empresas. Tal atitude, por parte das organizações, lhes permitirá ver que o capital humano poderá ser o seu grande diferencial em se tratando de competitividade. Diante do exposto, o artigo foi desenvolvido baseado em diversas literaturas bibliográficas, apresentando uma análise da importância da gestão de pessoas para as organizações, bem como demonstrar o quanto elas possuem um reflexo positivo nos resultados finais das empresas. Afinal, quando uma gestão de pessoas é eficaz, aliada ao processo de gestão da inovação e conhecimento terá condição de garantir muitas vantagens competitivas, que podem ser difíceis ou mesmo impossíveis de serem copiadas pelas empresas concorrentes. Palavras-chave: Empresa. Gestão de Pessoas. Globalização. Resultado. AbstractThe advent of globalization, specifically regarding the business sphere, has allowed the adoption of important changes in the companies administrative management. These changes are mainly related to the way the people who make up the companies are viewed. It is believed that people are the essential part of all businesses. This article aimed to discuss the people’s importance as well as to know how to deal with them and how this can influence positively or negatively in the companies' results. Thus, it should be noted that in order to manage people one should not only have a mechanistic or even methodical view, it is necessary to discuss and understand the differences between old and modern obsolete techniques that work together with effective management. The role needs to be rescued that the human being represents within the organizations as to their performance in the activities that perform as collaborators within the companies. Such an attitude on the part of the organizations will allow them to see that human capital can be their great differential when it comes to competitiveness. Considering the above, the article sought based on several bibliographical literatures, present an analysis of the importance of people management for organizations, as well as demonstrate how they have a positive reflection on the companies' final results. After all, when people management is effective, allied to the process of managing innovation and knowledge will be able to guarantee many competitive advantages that may be difficult or even impossible to be copied by the competing companies. Keywords: Company. People management. Globalization. Result.

Building Citizens

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-78
Author(s):  
Erika Lorraine Milam
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
The People ◽  
Curriculum Project ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way ◽  
Course Of Study

This chapter explores the research behind Man: A Course of Study (MACOS). It provides insight into why, for the people involved, the curriculum project was so profoundly personal. Many of the researchers and teachers involved in its creation embraced the liberal aspirations of the decade. Anthropology promised a means by which students could come to appreciate the cultural patterns of communities vastly different from their own while recognizing the fundamental equality of all peoples. If education held the key to securing the nation's place in world, they imagined, it would also play a significant role in teaching students how to overcome any racial apprehensions they may have acquired from parents or peers. Making visible the careful labor that went into MACOS's creation at every level reveals the political and personal stakes inherent to the administrative vision, the ethnographic footage, and the finalized classroom booklets and films, where each sought to transform the way students thought about themselves and the society in which they lived.

scholarly journals The Power of Social Class and Its Impact to Language Use

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Sopian Saupi Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Know How ◽  
The People ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Way ◽  
Voice Recording

The aim of this paper was to know how social class particularly nobility affected the language use within the people of Sukadana village. Sukadana Village is a place in which most of the people are belonging to nobility. The phenomena in the society dealing with language use and the culture of society in term of how they treat the language become the interest of the discussion in this paper. Research design is qualitative descriptive. The data gathered which by means of interview and voice recording. The data was analyzed by the way of transcribing and describing such as words, sentences, and utterances. Furthermore, every theory relates to the topic was selected to support the idea. In the daily life, the power of social class and the manifestation of nobility have an impact to the language within people of Sukadana Village.

Life as a Raw Material: Illusions of Control

Somatechnics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oron Catts ◽  
Ionat Zurr
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Cognitive Engineering ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Short History ◽  
Know How ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The paper discusses and critiques the concept of the single engineering paradigm. This concepts allude to a future in which the control of matter and life, and life as matter, will be achieved by applying engineering principles; through nanotechnology, synthetic biology and, as some suggest, geo-engineering, cognitive engineering and neuro-engineering. We outline some issues in the short history of the field labelled as Synthetic Biology. Furthermore; we examine the way engineers, scientists, designers and artists are positioned and articulating the use of the tools of Synthetic Biology to expose some of the philosophical, ethical and political forces and considerations of today as well as some future scenarios. We suggest that one way to enable the possibilities of alternative frames of thought is to open up the know-how and the access to these technologies to other disciplines, including artistic.

LEADERS AND TIMES OF CRISIS: JEREMIAH 5:1–6 A CASE IN POINT

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 657-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm J. Wessels
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary People ◽  
Covenant Theology ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Book Of Jeremiah ◽  
Definitive Role ◽  
Ethical Obligations ◽  
Moral Demands ◽  
The Way ◽  
Crisis Situations

The book of Jeremiah reflects a particular period in the history of Judah, certain theological perspectives and a particular portrayal of the prophet Jeremiah. Covenant theology played a major role in Jeremiah’s view of life and determined his expectations of leaders and ordinary people. He placed high value on justice and trustworthiness, and people who did not adhere to this would in his view bear the consequences of disobedience to Yahweh’s moral demands and unfaithfulness. The prophet expected those in positions of leadership to adhere to certain ethical obligations as is clear from most of the nouns which appear in Jeremiah 5:1–6. This article argues that crisis situations in history affect leaders’ communication, attitudes and responses. Leaders’ worldviews and ideologies play a definitive role in their responses to crises. Jeremiah’s religious views are reflected in his criticism and demands of people in his society. This is also true as seen from the way the people and leaders in Judah responded to the prophet’s proclamation. Jeremiah 5:1–6 emphasises that knowledge and accountability are expected of leaders at all times, but in particular during unstable political times.

Rediseñando las Organizaciones del Futuro. El impacto de la transformación digital en el mundo del trabajo

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-226
Author(s):  
Ricardo M. Piñeyro Prins ◽  
Guadalupe E. Estrada Narvaez
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
The Way

We are witnessing how new technologies are radically changing the design of organizations, the way in which they produce and manage both their objectives and their strategies, and -above all- how digital transformation impacts the people who are part of it. Even today in our country, many organizations think that digitalizing is having a presence on social networks, a web page or venturing into cases of success in corporate social intranet. Others begin to invest a large part of their budget in training their teams and adapting them to the digital age. But given this current scenario, do we know exactly what the digital transformation of organizations means? It is necessary? Implying? Is there a roadmap to follow that leads to the success of this process? How are organizations that have been born 100% digital from their business conception to the way of producing services through the use of platforms? What role does the organizational culture play in this scenario? The challenge of the digital transformation of businesses and organizations, which is part of the paradigm of the industrial revolution 4.0, is happening here and now in all types of organizations, whether are they private, public or third sector. The challenge to take into account in this process is to identify the digital competences that each worker must face in order to accompany these changes and not be left out of it. In this sense, the present work seeks to analyze the main characteristics of the current technological advances that make up the digital transformation of organizations and how they must be accompanied by a digital culture and skills that allow their successful development. In order to approach this project, we will carry out an exploratory research, collecting data from the sector of new actors in the world of work such as employment platforms in its various areas (gastronomy, delivery, transportation, recreation, domestic service, etc) and an analysis of the main technological changes that impact on the digital transformation of organizations in Argentina.

A Glimpse of Light in the Mid of Darkness Perspectives of Hope in the poetry of E. A. Robinson

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (34) ◽  
pp. 593-612
Author(s):  
Salih Abdullah Abdulrahman
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
Inner Light ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Urgent Necessity

       This paper examines the concept of the light as a symbol of hope and a guide in the poetry of  E. A. Robinson who is considered to be America’s first modern poet. Robinson lived in an age that witnessed the decadence and the disintegration of America and the whole world at all levels: social, political, economic, and spiritual. Unimpeachably, his role as a poet demanded for him to reflect upon the problems arising and to inseminate in the people of his time a glimmer of hope which would help them continue living. Such an optimistic vision manifests itself in his concept of light which is symptomatic of hope. The individuals he portrays in his poetry are led by this guiding light whose absence testifies to the fact that darkness dominates the situation.  For example, Credo, Richard Cory, and other characters seem to have lost sight of the inner light, a light that is parallel to faith. They move between moments of despair and hope, pessimism and optimism, darkness and light. Eventually, the paper concludes that Robinson presented in his poetry a kind of optimistic philosophy that was an urgent necessity in his age in order to encounter the pressures of life with bravery, fortitude, and determination.

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