scholarly journals Happiness Studies and Wellbeing: A Lacanian Critique of Contemporary Conceptualisations of the Cure

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Wright
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Third ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Psychoanalytic Perspective ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Offers ◽  
Critical Resources

Criticising the discourse of happiness and wellbeing from a psychoanalytic perspective, this article is in five parts. The first offers a brief philosophical genealogy of happiness, charting its diverse meanings from ancient Greece, through Medieval Scholasticism and on to bourgeois liberalism, utilitarianism and neoliberalism. The second contextualizes contemporary happiness in the wider milieu of self-help culture and positive psychology. The third explores the growing influence but also methodological weaknesses of the field of Happiness Studies. The fourth then focuses specifically on the notion of wellbeing and the impact it has had on changing definitions of health itself, particularly mental health. The fifth and final section then turns to psychoanalysis, its Lacanian orientation especially, to explore the critical resources it offers to counter today’s dominant therapeutic cultures. It also emphasises psychoanalytic clinical practice as itself an ethico-political challenge to the injunction to be happy that lies at the heart of consumer culture.

scholarly journals Reformation and Music

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
BILLY KRISTANTO
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Contemporary Context

Abstract: This article explores the impact of the Reformation and the post- Reformation era on the Christian understanding of music, as well as the historical development of music. The article begins with Martin Luther’s unique contribution to the theology of music. The second section deals with John Calvin’s complementary theology of music. The third section shows that some Lutheran post-Reformation theologians have developed their thoughts not only from the central tenets of Luther’s theology of music but also from those of Calvin. The final section shows the relevance of reformational and post-reformational theologies of music to contemporary issues in worship. In conclusion, an eclectic and principled ecumenical understanding of those various theologies of music can help to challenge in a sensitive way the current shortage of high-quality music our contemporary context.

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 31

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Jewish Involvement ◽  
The Impact

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Jewish communities of Poland and Hungary were the largest in the world and arguably the most culturally vibrant, yet they have rarely been studied comparatively. Despite the obvious similarities, historians have mainly preferred to highlight the differences and emphasize instead the central European character of Hungarian Jewry. Collectively, the chapters here offer a different perspective. The volume has five sections. The first compares Jewish acculturation and integration in the two countries, analysing the symbiosis of magnates and Jews in each country's elites and the complexity of integration in multi-ethnic environments. The second considers the similarities and differences in Jewish religious life, discussing the impact of Polish hasidism in Hungary and the nature of 'progressive' Judaism in Poland and the Neolog movement in Hungary. Jewish popular culture is the theme of the third section, with accounts of the Jewish involvement in Polish and Hungarian cabaret and film. The fourth examines the deterioration of the situation in both countries in the interwar years, while the final section compares the implementation of the Holocaust and the way it is remembered. The volume concludes with a long interview with the doyen of historians of Hungary, István Deák.

Ethnographies of Organized Crime

2021 ◽  
pp. 339-359
Author(s):  
Federico Varese
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
Seminal Contribution ◽  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
Street Corner ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Official Data

This chapter discusses how the ethnographic method has been used to study organized crime (OC). The first part defines OC, the mafia, and ethnography. The second section reviews early field studies, and the third focuses on the seminal contribution by W.F. Whyte, Street Corner Society (1943/1993). Whyte has set the model for subsequent ethnographies of OC and the mafia as involving (1) extensive periods in the field, (2) a project that is independent of authorities, (3) developing an intimate knowledge of the place or an organization, (4) the observation of interactions, and (5) a concern for the validity and the reliability of the data collected, including the impact of the ethnographer’s position on the information gathered. The fourth section offers a selective review of subsequent ethnographies of OC which are compared and contrasted with Street Corner Society. The final section discusses risk, the use of official data, the issue of anonymity, “rapid ethnographies,” and the limitations of fieldwork.

ŞİRKET BİRLEŞME VE SATIN ALMALARININ FİRMA VE SEKTÖR DÜZEYİNDE ETKİLERİ: BİR LİTERATÜR TARAMASI

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Akben Selçuk ◽  
Emin Köksal ◽  
Ayşe Altıok Yılmaz
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Mergers And Acquisition

The objective of this study is to provide a literature review consisting of studies investigating the impact of mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions at the micro and macro levels. The review has three different parts. In the first part, the focus is on the macro effects of M&A transactions and the impact of these transactions at the industry and market levels as well as their determinants are investigated. The second part comprises studies analyzing the effects of M&A transactions on the financial performance of the acquirer and target companies. In the third and final section, the factors affecting the financial performance changes as a result of M&A transactions are discussed.

Globalization and Security

2018 ◽  
pp. 398-414
Author(s):  
Monica Duffy Toft ◽  
Allard Duursma
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
The State ◽  
State System ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Threat Environment

This chapter provides an overview of how globalization has changed what security is and how security can be achieved most effectively. The first section provides a brief overview of the literature on globalization and security, highlighting a disconnect between the state-centric security literature and the focus on transnational linkages within the literature on globalization. The second section shows the importance of accounting for the effects of globalization when studying security. Globalization has made the threat environment more diverse and complicated for understanding the dynamics of the states system. The third section addresses the interaction of core issues at the domestic, international, and transnational levels highlighting how these interactions challenge or reinforce the traditional basis of legitimacy and authority of states and the state system. The final section concludes with a discussion of implications of the impact of globalization on security.

scholarly journals The Impact of Meta-Induction: From Skepticism to Optimality

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Gerhard Schurz
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Final Section ◽  
A Priori ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Problem Of Induction ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
A Priori Justification ◽  
The Third ◽  
Track Record ◽  
The Impact

In the first section, five major attempts to solve the problem of induction and their failures are discussed. In the second section, an account of meta-induction is introduced. It offers a novel solution to the problem of induction, based on mathematical theorems about the predictive optimality of attractivity-weighted meta-induction. In the third section, how the a priori justification of meta-induction provides a non-circular a posteriori justification of object-induction, based on its superior track record, is explained. In the fourth section, four important extensions and refinements of the method of meta-induction are presented. The final section, summarizes the major impacts of the program of meta-induction for epistemology, the philosophy of science and cognitive science.

scholarly journals Impact of Multifunctional Agriculture on Territorial Competitiveness: Theoretical Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Vilma Atkociuniene ◽  
Dovile Petruliene
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Multifunctional Agriculture ◽  
Scientific Problem ◽  
The Third ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Impact

The topic of this paper remains actual and new as the interrelationship between multifunctional agriculture and territorial competitiveness has not yet been deeply analysed. Those observations prompted us to analyse the scientific problem of how multifunctional agriculture affects territorial competitiveness. The purpose of the study is to analyse a potential impact of multifunctional agriculture on territorial competitiveness. The key method applied in the paper is a comparative analysis of scientific literature, documents and reports. The article is structured as follows: the first section deals with the conception of multifunctional agriculture; the second section explores the territorial competitiveness background; the third section outlines the effect of multifunctional agriculture on territorial competitiveness by presenting the conceptual framework of the impact of multifunctional agriculture on territorial competitiveness and the final section provides the main conclusions.

Entomology in the Service of the State: Queensland Scientists and the Campaign against Cane Beetles, 1895 - 1950

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Griggs
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
White Grubs ◽  
The Third ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
Benzene Hexachloride ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Losses

The Queensland sugar industry between 1880 and 1950 faced a major agricultural crisis. The annual cane crops were attacked periodically by white grubs, the larvae of different species of native beetles found along the Queensland coast. Both canegrower and miller suffered considerable financial losses during these outbreaks. Entomologists engaged by the Queensland Government sought strategies to reduce this damage. This paper begins by discussing the biology of the beetles that troubled the Queensland sugar industry. The organizations and personalities involved in the research to combat the depredation by the white grubs are outlined in the second part of this paper. The extent of the canegrowers' adoption of the entomologists' advice on ways to reduce the impact of white grubs is reviewed in the third section of this paper. In the final section, the solution to the canegrowers' woes is discussed, although it will be highlighted that the widespread adoption of benzene hexachloride in the 1950s only provided protection until the Queensland Government banned the use of this insecticide in 1987.

scholarly journals Facts, Truth and Post-truth

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Fischer ◽  
Erin Klazar
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
South African ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
The Third ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Selection Of

This article addresses facts, truth, post-truth, and the impact on access to cognitively and socially just information. It is predominantly situated within the post-truth context where information is manipulated to such an extent that it becomes disinformation, disguised as truth. The article consists of four main sections: the first section will provide an introduction and overview of key concepts intrinsic to understanding the concerns at hand. The next section is a case study of the role the PR firm, Bell Pottinger, played in South Africa and Iraq and the cognitive and social injustices visible in the corresponding events. The selection of these countries provides an opportunity to demonstrate the effect of post-truth and whistleblowing in relation to the challenges experienced in the Global South. The third section, on Cambridge Analytica and Digitality, is a discussion of the infamous Cambridge Analytica and its interferences in political campaigns in Trinidad and Tobago and the U.S. These discussions lead to the final section as an antidote to post-truth influences, which reflects on the way forward. This section makes recommendations for South African and international initiatives based on UNESCO’s intergovernmental programme known as the Information for All Programme (IFAP).

Impact of Supply Chain Digitalisation on a Connected Global Market

2020 ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Farooq Habib ◽  
Murtaza Farooq Khan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Impact

This chapter focuses on the impact of supply chain digitalisation on a connected global market. The first section focuses on the dynamic consumer requirements and preferences. The second section appraised the segmentation and mapping of digital technologies. The third section examines the contemporary application of digital technologies including: big data, blockchains, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics. The final section analysises the rules and regulations the form the basis of a contemporary framework for the governance of digital technologies.

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