scholarly journals L’Osservatorio della Provincia autonoma di Trento

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Tecilla
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Management ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Operational Strategies ◽  
Individual Actions ◽  
Autonomous Province ◽  
Short Essay

The Landscape Observatory of the Autonomous Province of Trento has been active since 2010. Over the decade, the Observatory has established new forms of landscape management, starting from the assumption that a pleasant landscape is the result of responsible individual actions and collective initiatives. The experiences presented in this short essay describe the outcomes of an activity aimed at citizens, public administrators, and professionals in the field, with the purpose of encouraging an increasing awareness through the development of operational strategies and effective technical approaches.

Social representations of human rights violations: Further evidence

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Clémence ◽  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Willem Doise
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
High Tolerance ◽  
Individual Actions

Social representations of human rights violations were investigated in a questionnaire study conducted in five countries (Costa Rica, France, Italy, Romania, and Switzerland) (N = 1239 young people). We were able to show that respondents organize their understanding of human rights violations in similar ways across nations. At the same time, systematic variations characterized opinions about human rights violations, and the structure of these variations was similar across national contexts. Differences in definitions of human rights violations were identified by a cluster analysis. A broader definition was related to critical attitudes toward governmental and institutional abuses of power, whereas a more restricted definition was rooted in a fatalistic conception of social reality, approval of social regulations, and greater tolerance for institutional infringements of privacy. An atypical definition was anchored either in a strong rejection of social regulations or in a strong condemnation of immoral individual actions linked with a high tolerance for governmental interference. These findings support the idea that contrasting definitions of human rights coexist and that these definitions are underpinned by a set of beliefs regarding the relationships between individuals and institutions.

Maclaurin on Occasionalism: A Reply to Ablondi

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Gravitational Attraction ◽  
Matter Theory ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The Way

In a recent article Fred Ablondi compares the different approaches to occasionalism put forward by two eighteenth-century Newtonians, Colin Maclaurin and Andrew Baxter. The goal of this short essay is to respond to Ablondi by clarifying some key features of Maclaurin's views on occasionalism and the cause of gravitational attraction. In particular, I explore Maclaurin's matter theory, his views on the explanatory limits of mechanism, and his appeals to the authority of Newton. This leads to a clearer picture of the way in which Maclaurin understood gravitational attraction and the workings of nature.

‘Family Romance’ and the Oedipalization of Freudian Psychoanalysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Herman Westerink ◽  
Philippe Van Haute
Keyword(s):  
Object Relations ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Difference Family ◽  
Radical Theory ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Informative Text

Although Freud's ‘Family Romances’ from 1909 is hardly ever discussed at length in secondary literature, this article highlights this short essay as an important and informative text about Freud's changing perspectives on sexuality in the period in which the text was written. Given the fact that Freud, in his 1905 Three Essays, develops a radical theory of infantile sexuality as polymorphously perverse and as autoerotic pleasure, we argue that ‘Family Romances’, together with the closely related essay on infantile sexual theories (1908), paves the way for new theories of sexuality defined in terms of object relations informed by knowledge of sexual difference. ‘Family Romances’, in other words, preludes the introduction of the Oedipus complex, but also – interestingly – gives room for a Jungian view of sexuality and sexual phantasy. ‘Family Romances’ is thus a good illustration of the complex way in which Freud's theories of sexuality developed through time.

Anita Maris Boggs

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Isabel Serna
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Educational Film ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Short Essay

This short essay sketches the career of Anita Uada Maris Boggs, cofounder of the Bureau of Commercial Education, a charitable organization that from the 1910s through the 1930s circulated a library of sponsored films. I argue that Boggs's absence from film historiography has been doubly determined: first by the relative invisibility of educational film, and second by ideologies of gender that obscured women's work in the film industry, broadly construed, behind that of their male collaborators.

Editor’s Corner: Critics or Caretakers?

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Philip Tite
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Academic Study

A short essay, in responding to an online roundtable (the Religious Studies Project), explores the role of progressive ideology in the academic study of religion, specifically with a focus on debates over Russell McCutcheon's distinction between scholars functioning as cultural critics or caretakers of religious traditions. This short piece is part of the "Editor's Corner" (an occasional section of the Bulletin where the editors offer provocative musings on theoretical challenges facing the discipline).

EDUCAÇÃO PARA A SUSTENTABILIDADE: PESQUISA SOB A PERCEPÇÃO DOS ACADÊMICOS DA FAP (FACULDADE ADVENTISTA PARANAENSE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Deyverson Ruy Nogueira Da Cruz ◽  
Fernanda Mazzaro Mucillo
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Sustainability ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Business Course ◽  
Individual Actions ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

This study aims to analyze the perception of academics in the business course at Faculdade Adventista Paranaense (FAP) about organizational sustainability. To achieve this goal, it was decided to apply in person a questionnaire already validated based on the research by Serafim (2016), with the students of the administration course being classified as population. The final sample had 51 participants representing 94.44% of the population. Methodologically, the research is classified as quantitative, descriptive and survey. The results obtained conclude that academics consider it important to work on the concept of sustainability in the disciplines of undergraduate courses, where the formation of ideas arise, thus being able to help in the development of this awareness in the business sphere, however, when questioned individually, academics still they understand that the concept is very broad, and that individual actions alone are not enough for an effective improvement. 

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