Toward a Living Systems Framework for Unifying Technology and Knowledge Management, Organizational, Cultural and Economic Change

2010 ◽  
pp. 108-132
Author(s):  
Peter L. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Systems Framework

This chapter raises difficult questions regarding the validity and motive for prolonging current forms of economic development and competition in the face of the much heralded global environmental crisis threatened by humankind’s success as a species. In response, a living systems theoretical framework is introduced that provides many elements of a possible new paradigm of economic development one that closes the gap between the social and natural sciences. New forms of explanation for organization and culture are developed from the perspective of complexity science to produce a synthesis of knowledge management and new philosophical, sociological, anthropological, and, distinctively, biological perspectives of technology, which effectively reconciles the practices of technology, knowledge and cultural change management.

Impotence and Intransigence: State Behavior in the Throes of Deepening Global Crisis

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuwa Wong
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
State Behavior ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
Common Descent ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So

This article approaches the current global environmental crisis from an evolutionary perspective. It identifies two features in contemporary states' behavior: impotence and intransigence in the face of global crisis. These traits stem from humanity's evolutionary past, in which groups had to maintain their integrity while surviving intergroup competition. Contemporary sovereign states are groups that have survived this process, and they guard their sovereignty vigilantly. They do so by instituting coercive measures on the one hand and cultivating members' loyalty on the other. A belief of common descent must be articulated successfully in order for members to feel group solidarity. Hence, states are intransigent in maintaining that they truly represent the welfare of their members. To the extent that states are successful in inculcating a belief of common descent and identity, they are also constrained in acting altruistically—hence, their impotence in the face of deepening global crisis. To find a way out of this dilemma, strategic alternatives are explored. The emerging role of nongovernment organizations, with certain caveats, is seen as promising.

scholarly journals PALEONTOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: MAKING CONNECTIONS THROUGH POLITICAL ECOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Neves Silva ◽  
Angélica Cosenza
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Science

Abstract Far from studying only beings from the past, Paleontology is a current science which can situate human existence in the context of the global environmental crisis before inequalities and socio-environmental conflicts which occur in Brazilian paleontological sites. Aiming to discuss possible connections between Paleontology and Environmental Justice, this essay arises from a survey on environmental conflicts existing in the paleontological sites in Minas Gerais. Stemming from the issues found and the contribution of the Political Ecology theoretical framework, the struggle for territory and decoloniality is discussed as crucial dimensions for a view that seeks to restore the populations’ right to their (paleo) territories. The connections between these fields are presented here as references for the fight against the social inequalities found in paleontological sites, such as those in Minas Gerais, and for the inclusion of their communities in participatory management.

A case study of unquiet translators

Target ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Monzó-Nebot
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Gray Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Made In

Abstract Remarkable efforts have been made in Translation and Interpreting Studies to test the subservient habitus hypothesis formulated by Simeoni (1998) in his seminal work. In the face of increasing evidence that translators tend to reproduce a given society’s or community’s prevalent norms and contribute to the stability of such norms (Toury 1978), subversive translation practices have been reported (Delabastita 2011; Woods 2012) and indeed promoted as a way of fostering social and cultural change (Levine 1991; Venuti 1992). However, insights into how translators’ subservient or subversive habitus develop and depart from each other are still lacking. In order to shed light on this gray area, this article scrutinizes the contrasts between the habitus of professional legal translators who acquiesce to and who reject the norms governing their positions in the field. Special attention is given to those who decide to abandon the translation field. Their behavior is examined by relating habitus to forms of socialization and studying the implications of their strategies. Based on a case study drawn from interview data, this article focuses on the social practices of resistance and rebellion vis-à-vis subservience, and the impact of both on translation workplaces, work processes, and translators’ futures.

ABOUT MODERN STATISTICS ECONOMIC GROWTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-19
Author(s):  
A. I. AMOSOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Food Industries ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Face ◽  
Rate Of Recovery ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact

The conceptual part of the article reveals the features of the transition to the phase of economic growth in the face of emerging from the virus pandemic, which unfolded against the background of the global environmental crisis that engulfed all of humanity in the post-industrial era. Changes in the directions of economic growth in the post-industrial Russian economy are investigated in comparison with trends at the stages of the spread of industrial technologies in the XX century. The dynamics of the main socio-economic indicators in the Russian Federation in the period 1990–2017 is analyzed. The factors that influenced the decline in production volumes and the rates of recovery growth in 1990–2019 are being studied. in the context of individual types of products in the basic industries of mechanical engineering, the fuel and energy complex, agriculture, animal husbandry, light and food industries. An assessment of the impact on the rate of recovery growth of an increase in export volumes is given.

Repression and endurance: anathematized Hindu and Sikh women of Afghanistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 628-645
Author(s):  
Hafizullah Emadi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

Hindus and Sikhs, longtime minority religious communities in Afghanistan, have played a major role in the social, cultural, and economic development of the country. Their history in Afghanistan has not been faithfully documented nor relayed beyond the country's borders by their resident educated strata or religious leaders, rendering them virtually invisible and voiceless within and outside of their country borders. The situation of Hindu and Sikh women in Afghanistan is significantly more marginalized socially and politically. Gender equality and women's rights were central to the teachings of Guru Nanak, but gradually became irrelevant to the daily lives of his followers in Afghanistan. Hindu and Sikh women have sustained their hope for change and seized any opportunity presented to play a role in the process. Active participants in the social, cultural, and religious life of their respective communities as well as in Afghanistan's government, their contributions to social changes and the political process have gone mostly unnoticed and undocumented as their rights, equality, and standing in the domestic and public arena in Afghanistan continue to erode in the face of continuous discrimination and harassment.

Challenges of Knowledge Management amidst Rapidly Evolving Tools of Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 745-760
Author(s):  
Ritesh Chugh ◽  
Mahesh Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
The Right

Social media technologies have been embraced by individuals and organizations on such a massive scale in the last decade that knowledge sharing and application has molded into a totally new paradigm. It has not only changed the social discourse of communication but also affected the knowledge management strategies of organizations. This raises quite a number of fundamental challenges out of which three are being dealt in this chapter. The first challenge is whether knowledge management has fully embraced social media as a channel of mass reach the way it did in case of other means of mass communication. The second one is the question of speed and extent of knowledge sharing in social media. The third challenge is whether social media strategy can provide a high advantage to smaller and newer companies in comparison to older but larger organizations. It is apparent that the commercial aspect of social media is easy for a tête-à-tête but difficult to articulate and design the right strategy because it needs a lot of refinements owing to inherent complexities in the process.

scholarly journals Getting out of Crises: Environmental, Social-ecological and Evolutionary Research Needed to Avoid Future Risks of Pandemics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delphine Destoumieux-Garzon ◽  
Franziska Matthies-Wiesler ◽  
Nicolas Bierne ◽  
Aurélie Binot ◽  
Jérôme Boissier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Climate And Health ◽  
Relationship Of

The implementation of One Health/EcoHealth/Planetary Health approaches has been identified as key (i) to address the strong interconnections between risk for pandemics, climate change and biodiversity loss, and (ii) to develop and implement solutions to these interlinked crises. As a response to the multiple calls of scientists in that direction, we have put forward seven long term research questions regarding COVID-19 and emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) that are based on an effective integration of environmental, ecological, evolutionary, and social sciences to better anticipate and mitigate EIDs. Research needs cover the social-ecology of infectious disease agents, their evolution, the determinants of susceptibility of humans and animals to infections, and the human and ecological factors accelerating infectious disease emergence. For comprehensive investigation, they include the development of nature-based solutions to interlinked global planetary crises, addressing ethical and philosophical questions regarding the relationship of humans to nature and regarding transformative changes to safeguard the environment and human health. In support of this research, we propose the implementation of innovative multidisciplinary facilities embedded in social-ecosystems locally: the “ecological health observatories” and the “living laboratories”. This work has been carried out in the frame of the EC project HERA (www.HERAresearchEU.eu) that aims to set the priorities for an environment, climate and health research agenda in the EU by adopting a systemic approach in the face of global environmental change.

scholarly journals Emerging Threats to Liberal Values

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Albertus Jacobus Meintjes
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Human Security ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Face ◽  
Bureaucratic Institutions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Norms ◽  
Individual Security ◽  
Shared Norms

The values of individual security and the responsibilities of states as laid down in the 1994 UNDP human development report have changed the face of social and political interactions in the 21st century, as liberal movements and shared norms pave the way for understanding while diplomacy and economic development keep the peace. These new liberal values have created a new paradigm that establishes the needs of the individual as a basis for peace. However, threats have emerged to challenge this new paradigm. These threats range from emerging populist leaders to the rigid nature of bureaucratic institutions unable to shift along with developing social and political norms. This paper examines the importance this new liberal paradigm and its link to human security, theorising why human security has become an important concept in political theory and real politick, and examines why the threats are a dangerous precedent.

scholarly journals ‘Urbanisation of Everybody’, Institutional Imperatives, and Social Transformation in Pakistan

1999 ◽  
Vol 38 (4II) ◽  
pp. 1193-1210
Author(s):  
Muhammad A . Qadeer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Organisation Development ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

Cultural change and social transformation are essential elements of the process of development. They complement and sustain economic growth. Economic historians acknowledge that the rise of the West from poverty to wealth was as much the result of improvements in trade, savings, investment and productivity as of emerging norms of thrift, trust, specialisation, rationality and contractual relations [Rosenberg and Birdzell (1986)]. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that economic development is essentially a phenomenon of cultural change. The recognition of the role of cultural and social factors in economic growth has led to a subtle revision of the terminology from ‘economic development’ to the adjectiveless term ‘development’ or the fully spelled out title of economic and social development. Yet this acknowledgement has remained largely on the conceptual plane. It has not been translated into policies and programmes to deliberately set the direction of cultural change and define the alignment of social organisation. Development strategies have, by and large, treated social and cultural factors as exogenous variables. This is true of development planning in general and in particular of its practice in Pakistan. In fifty years of economic planning in Pakistan, little attention has been paid to the social and cultural aspects of development.

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