scholarly journals Klimat i jego pole leksykalne jako słowa klucze współczesnego dyskursu publicznego

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Marek Łaziński
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Foreign Word ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Frequency Monitoring ◽  
Climate And Health ◽  
Tree Cutting ◽  
The University

This paper presents increased frequency of vocabulary related to climate and health in public discourse and the position of this vocabulary in Polish and foreign word of the year contests. The fi rst part of the text discusses the notion of keywords, methods of their distinction, and word frequency monitoring works at the University of Warsaw. These works are composed of: 1) monitoring of the frequency of the vocabulary in daily newspapers against a comparable corpus covering 12 months, 2) selection of the word of the month from the most frequent words and describing it in philological terms, 3) word of the year contests using the most frequent words as propositions. The second part of the paper presents individual words from the lexical fi eld of climate selected as words of the month and of the year, such as upał (heat), nawałnica (a storm), smog (smog), drzewo (a tree), puszcza (a forest), klimat (climate). Part three demonstrates words from this lexical fi eld in Polish and foreign word of the year contests. The discussed lexical fi eld was divided into working categories: 1) “What the nature can do to a human being”, e.g. nawałnica (a storm), smog (smog), and 2) “What a human being does to the nature”, e.g. drzewo (a tree), puszcza (a forest) (tree cutting in a forest), klimat (climate) (climate change). The latter category gathers words with a greater symbolic power, more abstract, more appropriate as keywords in the long run. Keywords: keywords – frequency – word of the year contest – signifi cance of a word – climate

scholarly journals Public perceptions of Lyme disease and climate change in southern Manitoba, Canada: making a case for strategic decoupling of climate and health messages

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Cameron ◽  
Rhéa Rocque ◽  
Kailey Penner ◽  
Ian Mauro
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Lyme Disease ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Health Messages ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Climate And Health

Abstract Background Despite scientific evidence that climate change has profound and far reaching implications for public health, translating this knowledge in a manner that supports citizen engagement, applied decision-making, and behavioural change can be challenging. This is especially true for complex vector-borne zoonotic diseases such as Lyme disease, a tick-borne disease which is increasing in range and impact across Canada and internationally in large part due to climate change. This exploratory research aims to better understand public risk perceptions of climate change and Lyme disease in order to increase engagement and motivate behavioural change. Methods A focus group study involving 61 participants was conducted in three communities in the Canadian Prairie province of Manitoba in 2019. Focus groups were segmented by urban, rural, and urban-rural geographies, and between participants with high and low levels of self-reported concern regarding climate change. Results Findings indicate a broad range of knowledge and risk perceptions on both climate change and Lyme disease, which seem to reflect the controversy and complexity of both issues in the larger public discourse. Participants in high climate concern groups were found to have greater climate change knowledge, higher perception of risk, and less skepticism than those in low concern groups. Participants outside of the urban centre were found to have more familiarity with ticks, Lyme disease, and preventative behaviours, identifying differential sources of resilience and vulnerability. Risk perceptions of climate change and Lyme disease were found to vary independently rather than correlate, meaning that high climate change risk perception did not necessarily indicate high Lyme disease risk perception and vice versa. Conclusions This research contributes to the growing literature framing climate change as a public health issue, and suggests that in certain cases climate and health messages might be framed in a way that strategically decouples the issue when addressing climate skeptical audiences. A model showing the potential relationship between Lyme disease and climate change perceptions is proposed, and implications for engagement on climate change health impacts are discussed.

scholarly journals Aboagora 2013: The Human Machine

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The editorial introduces the articles of the issue, all pertaining to the arts and sciences event, Aboagora, which gathered artists, academics and a wide range of interested listeners together to discuss the relationship between technology and the human being in Turku/Åbo in August, 2013. Aboagora is arranged as a joint venture between Turku Music Festival and scholars from the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University and the Donner Institute.

scholarly journals Tenure, Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Derek Hum
Keyword(s):  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Job Security ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Government Grants ◽  
Faculty Unions ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Academic Employment ◽  
The University ◽  
Better Than

Tenure is sometimes charged as giving faculty lifetime job security, with little accountability and sporadic monitoring of performance. Scholars have traditionally defended tenure as necessary for academic freedom. This paper takes a different approach by examining the academic "employment contract relationship," and explaining how tenure can lead to bargaining conflict. Tenure is costly to the university but extremely valued by the faculty member. The opportunity cost of granting tenure to someone is the lost teaching and research output of younger people who cannot be hired in future. Tenure is necessary because without it, incumbents would never recommend hiring people who might be better than they are, for fear of being replaced. Tenure is also efficient because faculty have better information about incumbents than either university administrators or outside consultants. Tenure is therefore necessary to motivate older faculty to hire the best. With staff budget dollars able to be shifted back or forwards across time periods, tenure secures the truthful revelation of who are the good candidates over all periods, and the university is guaranteed that those who are in the best position to judge (namely, faculty rather than administrators) have every incentive to make the best decisions. It follows, then, that the naive suggestion to get rid of tenure so that older, expensive professors can be fired and replaced with younger, cheaper professors would be disastrous in the long run. A simple model is presented explaining why (a) recent cutbacks in government grants, (b) cost pressures on university budgets, (c) limits to tuition increases, and (d) declining interests in attending a less "excellent" university have all resulted in pressure on tenure. Because there is no previously agreed-to mechanism in place to adjust staff, university administrations and faculty unions are not so much bargaining over an acceptable contract outcome as they are contesting the very rules of the bargaining game. Accordingly, unless tenure is reconsidered, universities may increasingly face bargaining conflict. Tenure could be reformed by making the term of tenure limited but related to rank, and establishing a maximum eligibility period during which a faculty may apply for promotion.

scholarly journals ‘De ridder is gestorven’

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (94) ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Dirk van Keulen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Heart Attack ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
World War ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

Abstract Arnold Albert van Ruler (1908-1970) was one of the leading theologians in the Dutch Reformed Church in the second half of the twentieth century. After having worked as a minister in Kubaard (1933-1940) and Hilversum (1940-1947) he was professor at the University of Utrecht (1947-1970). Van Ruler had a special place in the Dutch theological landscape. The development of his views took the opposite direction of the mainstream of Dutch protestant theology, which can be illustrated with his reception of the theology of Karl Barth. Before the Second World War Van Ruler was a Barthian theologian; after the War he distanced himself from Barth. As a result of this, some of Van Ruler’s theological views were controversial. Van Ruler himself felt somewhat lonely and complained that he was neglected by his colleagues. On the morning of December 15, 1970, Van Ruler had his third heart attack and dead sitting at his writing desk. In this contribution the reactions on Van Ruler’s death are documented. In many daily newspapers his death is mentioned and in several the significance of his work is described. During the months after his death in many ecclesiastical weekly’s and in theological journals in Memoriams were published. We find personal memories and praise for his style of theologising, which was experienced as sparkling and bright. Van Ruler’s colleagues recognised his originality. His views on theocracy, however, remained as controversial as they were during his lifetime.

scholarly journals The Need for Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education in a Globalized World

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basarab Nicolescu
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Being ◽  
New Production ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Integral Education ◽  
New Type ◽  
The University ◽  
Globalized World

A viable education can only be an integral education of the human being. Transdisciplinary education is founded on the inexhaustible richness of the scientific spirit which is based on questioning and of the refusal of all a priori answers and all certitude contradictory to the facts. At the same time, it revalues the role of the deeply rooted intuition, of the imaginary, of sensitivity, and of the body in the transmission of knowledge. It is only in this way that the society of the twenty-first century can reconcile effectivity and respect for the potentiality of every human being. The transdisciplinary approach will be an indispensable complement to the disciplinary approach because it will mean the emergence of continually connected beings, who are able to adapt themselves to the changing exigencies of professional life, and who are endowed with permanent flexibility which is always oriented towards the actualization of their interior potentialities. If the University intends to be a valid actor in sustainable development it has first to recognize the emergence of a new type of knowledge: transdisciplinary knowledge. The new production of knowledge implies a necessary multidimensional opening of the process of learning: towards civil society; towards cyber-space-time; towards the aim of universality; towards a redefinition of the values governing its own existence.

Animals in Rome

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elizabeth Janda
Keyword(s):  
Animal Behavior ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Natural Basis ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Humans have coexisted intimately with animals for thousands of years, yet our relationship with them is still fraught with uncertainty. Animal behavior is so similar to our own, while sometimes taking such alien forms, that animals have often been used as the natural basis of comparison for defining what a human being is and what a human being is not. Yet teasing out precisely what that definition is and what it means for us can be as elusive as it is illuminating. What is an animal and what does it mean to be a human? This dissertation examines how Romans constructed the differences between humans and animals and how they viewed their similarities in four different aspects of their society: the possession of reason as the key distinction between humans and animals; human interactions with animals that depended on assumed human dominance; the emotional connections that existed between humans and animals; and the stories of metamorphosis. It may appear that in antiquity people placed a greater emphasis on the differences that existed between them and animals, but the conclusion drawn from these studies is that the connections they felt with them were ultimately stronger and more meaningful.

In the Long Run: Rights, Sovereignty, and Bombing

PMLA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 1638-1642
Author(s):  
Bruce Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The University ◽  
Human Rights Discourse ◽  
University Of Connecticut

Will historians looking back a hundred years from now see the rise of human rights as an agent or reflection of the decline of national sovereignty? I take this question (asked at a recent meeting by Richard Wilson, director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut) as an expression of worry about the effects that the decline of national sovereignty is likely to have, including effects on human rights themselves. Human rights advocates will recognize an obvious reason for this worry. Human rights are often seen, correctly but narrowly, as a key line of protection against an invasive and oppressive state. But the project of winning respect for human rights also relies heavily on the state's legal and bureaucratic powers—the power to enforce, to educate, to take positive measures, and so on. This is especially true in the domain of economic, social, and cultural rights, which require for their fulfillment that states exercise what has come to be called “due diligence.” Violence against women, for example, which has only been classified as an abuse of human rights since 1993, is often perpetrated not by states but by private individuals and groups. It can come under the protection of human rights discourse only if a sovereign state, which is held responsible for intervening to punish and prevent, is strong enough to do so. Weaken national sovereignty, and you may subvert the cause of women's rights.

Looking Inside

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-179
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Diversity Awareness ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
The University ◽  
Political Turmoil

Running a college is no easy task. Amid complex diversity issues, political turmoil, and ever-changing student narratives, the campus environment represents a sea of countless challenges. To ensure success in the long run, administration officials must construct well-designed plans that review past events while carefully assessing future possibilities. Such plans should include a sustained and comprehensive focus on diversity awareness, implementation of multicultural education frameworks, and additional initiatives such as mentoring and community outreach programs. Above all, administrations must work closely with all members of the university including staff, faculty, alumni, and students to promote positive outcomes despite the inherent uncertainties that lay ahead.

Nancy Abelmann: Anthropologist, Citizen, and Thinker in/on the Global University

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 953-970
Author(s):  
Jiyeon Kang
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
Global Institutions ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Global University ◽  
The University ◽  
Korean Universities

This article discusses Nancy Abelmann's scholarship on the university and includes a new study of the South Korean media discourse on Chinese international students—a work she planned but could not undertake. Abelmann studied the university, viewing it as a window to society's particular desires and anxieties regarding the future. Her research on South Korean university students reveals their personal fervor and struggle to stay afloat amidst the country's rapid modernization and globalization. Her later work on the American university considers the struggles of Asian American and Asian international students, illuminating the new realities of a global educational market and exploring new ethics of sharing the same university. The study in the second part of this article demonstrates how South Korean universities and public discourse have attempted to “optimize” the increasing numbers of Chinese international students as financial and symbolic capital. The shift between 2001 and 2016 from maximizing to distancing shows that Korean universities were straddling a line between the desire to become global institutions and the realization that they are a second-choice destination in the global higher-education market.

J. Laurence Laughlin versus Irving Fisher on the quantity theory of money, 1894 to 1913

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 1032-1049
Author(s):  
Robert W Dimand
Keyword(s):  
Federal Reserve ◽  
Price Level ◽  
Monetary Theory ◽  
Monetary Reform ◽  
Quantity Theory ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University

Abstract In the controversy leading to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, J. Laurence Laughlin of the University of Chicago and Irving Fisher of Yale were the leading opponent and proponent, respectively, of the quantity theory of money as the theoretical basis for reorganizing the US monetary system. Laughlin identified the quantity theory with bimetallist claims that monetizing silver would have lasting real benefits. Laughlin offered a cost of production theory of the value of gold as an alternative to the quantity theory, while his students published empirical critiques of the quantity theory. Fisher upheld the quantity theory as explaining price movements while distancing the theory from assertions of long-run non-neutrality of money. Laughlin and Fisher vigorously debated monetary theory and monetary reform, notably at American Economic Association meetings. Their confrontations illuminate the monetary controversies preceding the Federal Reserve Act, which reflected the views of Laughlin and Willis (adviser to Congressman Carter Glass) while rejecting the mandate to stabilize the price level proposed by Senator Owen and his adviser Fisher.

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