Conspicuous Conservation: Using Semiotics to Understand Sustainable Luxury

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 695-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Cécile Cervellon
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Target Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Primary Target ◽  
Brand Meaning ◽  
Manufacturing Techniques ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing ◽  
Conspicuous Conservation

This paper investigates the meaning of sustainable luxury among the wealthy, who are the primary target group of luxury brands. In doing so, it highlights the interest of using a combination of semiotics tools (Peirce's and Greimas' paradigms) to analyse consumers' discourses. Indeed, understanding the signvalue of a brand in relation to the natural environment and society is paramount to the development of CSR activities, in order to avoid, on one side, being perceived as greenwashing and, on the other, losing the brand meaning and authenticity. Findings indicate that the luxury clientele opposes ‘ascribed luxury’ (discreet and emphasising traditional manufacturing techniques) to ‘achieved luxury’ (conspicuous and marketed). The contribution of luxury brands to society welfare should be located on a continuum between sustainability in ethos and along the supply chain, and pure philanthropic actions, both being worthy in consumers' views, and both being expected from luxury brands to different degrees, depending on the brand ascribed or achieved status.

‘He Brought the Cold Death on my Harandra’: The Cosmic Trilogy and the Ecotheology of Laudato si'

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-182
Author(s):  
Maria Poggi Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
The Relationship

In his trilogy of space travel novels, published between 1938 and 1945, C.S. Lewis strikingly anticipates, and incarnates in imaginative form, the insights and concerns central to the modern discipline of ecotheology. The moral and spiritual battle that forms the plot of the novels is enacted and informed by the relationship between humans and the natural environment, Rebellion against, and alienation from, the Creator inevitably manifests in a violent and alienated attitude to creation, which is seen as something to be mastered and exploited. Lives and cultures in harmony with the divine will, on the other hand, are expressed in relationships of care and respect for the environment. The imaginative premise of the Trilogy is that of ecotheology; that the human relationships with God, neighbour, and earth and are deeply and inextricably intertwined.

scholarly journals Forced labour in supply chains: Rolling back the debate on gender, migration and sexual commerce

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050682110207
Author(s):  
Rutvica Andrijasevic
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Labour Exploitation ◽  
Separate Treatment ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Sexual Commerce

This article makes a conceptual contribution to the broader literature on unfree labour by challenging the separate treatment of sexual and industrial labour exploitation both by researchers and in law and policy. This article argues that the prevailing focus of the supply chain literature on industrial labour has inadvertently posited sexual labour as the ‘other’ of industrial labour thus obfuscating how the legal blurring of boundaries between industrial and service labour is engendering new modalities of the erosion of workers’ rights that are increasingly resembling those typical of sex work. This article advances the debate on unfree labour both conceptually and empirically. Conceptually, it highlights the relevance of social reproduction in understanding forms of labour unfreedom. Empirically, it demonstrates the similarities in forms of control and exploitation between sex work and industrial work by illustrating how debt and housing operate in both settings.

No man is an island: The sustainability awareness effect of geography on hedonic fashion consumption and connection with nature – evidence from Galápagos and Hawaiʻi

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 205-221
Author(s):  
Attila Pohlmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Galapagos Island ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Connection With Nature

The demand for ever-accelerating fast fashion is unprecedented, while its supply chain burdens environmental systems. Hedonic fashion consumption is generally unfettered by sustainability concerns, but evidence suggests that island geographies–with dense boundaries between the built and the natural environment–have a heightening effect on eco-consciousness. A framework based on the contemporary condition of hyperconsumption is proposed: island geography heightens sustainability awareness; consequently, fashion consumers located on islands trade-off perceived hedonic benefits of fashion consumption against perceived moral benefits of connection with nature. The framework is supported by visual evidence collected on the Galápagos island Santa Cruz, indicating that male fashion consumers express connection with nature by means of tattoos, slogans on clothing and choice of eco-friendly materials. Quantitative tests with survey data from the United States and Ecuador show that residents in Hawaiʻi and the Galápagos have higher levels of connection with nature compared to residents on the associated continental areas. This effect is mediated by decreased perceived rewards of hedonic fashion consumption, but the effect is overall weaker in Ecuador compared to the United States due to differences in purchasing power and attitudes towards consumerism. Because of the stereotype that eco-friendly is unmanly, men are generally less likely to embrace environmentally friendly products and the findings of this research point to avenues to overcome this barrier.

Stability Analysis of Supply Chain Cooperation Contract under Asymmetric Information

2010 ◽  
Vol 44-47 ◽  
pp. 794-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Ma
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Repeated Games ◽  
Information Structure ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Information Economics ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Game Equilibrium ◽  
The Stability

The stability of cooperation contract is the result of abandon opportunistic behavior in the process of repeated games among the enterprise and the other subjects in the supply chain from long-term interests, and is also the foundation of healthy development for the whole supply chain. But in real life cooperation contract instability everywhere for a variety of reasons, such as ethical considerations, institutional factors, cultural factors and special reasons during the transition period and so on. From the perspective of information economics and game theory, the main game process of cooperation between enterprise and the other subjects in supply chain is not only the game of information, but also the game of interests. Information structure and the interesting structure are the important factors for the subjects of the game of the implementation of decisions and the basic contractual constraints for cooperative game equilibrium. Cooperation behaviors among the enterprise and the other subjects in the supply chain were studied on the basis of game theory, and the stability of cooperation contract is also being discussed in this paper.

Build Direction Effects on Additively Manufactured Channels

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob C. Snyder ◽  
Curtis K. Stimpson ◽  
Karen A. Thole ◽  
Dominic Mongillo
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Pressure Loss ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Turbine Cooling ◽  
Gas Turbine Cooling ◽  
Gas Turbine Heat Transfer ◽  
Manufacturing Techniques ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing

With the advances of Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), also generically referred to as additive manufacturing, novel geometric features of internal channels for gas turbine cooling can be achieved beyond those features using traditional manufacturing techniques. There are many variables, however, in the DMLS process that affect the final quality of the part. Of most interest to gas turbine heat transfer designers are the roughness levels and tolerance levels that can be held for the internal channels. This study investigates the effect of DMLS build direction and channel shape on the pressure loss and heat transfer measurements of small scale channels. Results indicate that differences in pressure loss occur between the test cases with differing channel shapes and build directions, while little change is measured in heat transfer performance.

scholarly journals What is Happening in Supply Chain Management? From Push to Pull through Best Value Thinking

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Sicco Santema
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
The Other ◽  
Supply Management ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Best Value ◽  
Pull Through ◽  
Main Change

In this paper we take a closer look at developments in supply management. The main change in this discipline seems to be (2011) that cooperation and risk management are taking over the classical silo based way of looking at business. Companies start to learn that transactions block the profits throughout the chain. Or, to put it the other way around, supply chain parties learn that sharing interests is earning much more money and that supply chains become ‘faster, cheaper and better’.

scholarly journals PERMUKIMAN KUMUH, SEBUAH KEGAGALAN PEMENUHAN ASPEK PERMUKIMAN ISLAMI

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aisyah Nur Handryant
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Other ◽  
Settlement House ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Gathering Place

<p>As a social being, interaction with others is one of human’s essential needs. These interaction and socialization in a society is often conducted in a settlement. A settlement as a community ecosystem has an important role in shaping people’s characters in a society. The condition of settlement can be an indication of the condition of its community. On the other hand, Islam as a <em>rahmatan lil 'alamin </em>religion actually provides its followers a set of values on islamic aspects in  the house and settlement. Islam gives some lessons of how a house could become not only as a gathering place for family members, but could also be a place of education and learning for  its  inhabitants.  Islam  also  gives us lessons of  how a house is  closely related to its settlement  and environment, and how every elements in a house should be in harmony and unity with its social and natural environment. This paper tries to analyze many aspects of slums based on some aspects of islamic housing. The deficiencies and problems found in slums are expected as a consideration in the future efforts to overcome the problems holistically and integrally.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>K</strong><strong>e</strong><strong>y</strong><strong>w</strong><strong>o</strong><strong>r</strong><strong>d</strong><strong>s</strong><strong>: </strong>Slum, islamic settlement, house</p>

scholarly journals Pásztori múzsa a nagyvárosban

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Gergő Gellérfi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Locus Amoenus ◽  
Bucolic Poetry

The title of my paper refers to a remark of Charles Witke, who specifies Juvenal’s Satire 3 in his monograph of Latin Satire as the eclogue of the urban poor. The interlocutor (who is also the main speaker in this case) of the satire says farewell to a friend before leaving his home for good, just like Meliboeus in Vergil’s First Eclogue. Both dialogues take place in natural environment, so to say, in a locus amoenus, however the setting of the satire is somewhat different from the traditional bucolic scenes. In my paper, I present the aforementioned bucolic features of the beginning and closure of Satire 3, after a brief summary of the other Juvenalian Satires showing the influence of bucolic poetry.

scholarly journals 3D printing technologies for creating models and nozzles in an aerodynamic shock tunnel experiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 2103 (1) ◽  
pp. 012033
Author(s):  
M A Kotov ◽  
N A Monakhov ◽  
S A Poniaev ◽  
P A Popov ◽  
K V Tverdokhlebov
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Additive Technologies ◽  
Structure And Properties ◽  
Dynamic Experiment ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Nozzle Block ◽  
Rapid Prototyping And Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Techniques ◽  
Traditional Manufacturing

Abstract The features of 3D printing method for rapid prototyping and manufacturing of models for a pulsed high-speed gas-dynamic experiment are considered. Modern additive technologies allow the production of models. The basic properties of the materials and the advantages of 3D printing methods are described. The structure and properties of the obtained models can be unattainable using traditional manufacturing techniques. The design of the wind tunnel nozzle block is considered, which provides for the production of profiled contours using 3D printing. The advantages and disadvantages of use of such units on the shock tube are considered.

scholarly journals Omamori: Harmonization of Humans and Their Environment in Cultural Symbols

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 07073
Author(s):  
Yuliani Rahmah
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Form Type ◽  
And Function

Omamori is known as an important part of religious life in Japanese society. Omamori, which has been known since the Tokugawa era and still survives in modern Japanese society, is often known as part of the collective culture of Japanese society. However, behind its function as a spiritual medium, Omamori holds a meaning of harmony between humans and nature. With the library research, this article aims to explain the other meanings contained in an Omamori. It is in line with the teachings of Shinto whose concept is centered on nature and the environment. The form, type, and function of an Omamori also symbolize the meaning of harmony between humans and their environment that gives birth to attitudes that support the preservation of the natural environment.

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