Maritime Safety: Critical Aspects of the New Economic Context

2017 ◽  
pp. 88-101
Keyword(s):  
Maritime Safety ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Critical Aspects

scholarly journals Work as Done? Understanding the Practice of Sociotechnical Work in the Maritime Domain

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Maritime Safety ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Resonance Analysis ◽  
Real Work ◽  
Geographical Locations

Pilots and vessel traffic services (VTS) operators work to improve the safety of navigation of seagoing vessels. As in many other safety-critical domains, work is increasingly characterized by the integration and dissemination of information between humans and technology, across disciplines, and over multiple geographical locations. Empirical studies of navigational assistance were analyzed with the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) to understand what pilots and VTS operators do and how it contributes toward maritime safety. Successful assistance was found to be dependent on (1) the use of local knowledge, preparation, and foresight to integrate information from a range of sources and (2) communication and trust between the pilot, VTS operator, and the master and crew of the vessel to provide timely assistance to vessels. FRAM was found to be a valuable tool for describing sociotechnical work but was enriched by borrowing from ethnographically inspired work studies traditions, with their strong grounding in empirical studies and themes of “making work visible,” symmetry between human and nonhuman, and work as activity. This approach indicates that bringing ideas from different traditions together to understand a real work practice may bring us closer to describing “work as done” and its contribution to safe everyday operations.

scholarly journals A new hierarchical software architecture towards safety-critical aspects of a drone system

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-362
Author(s):  
Xiao-rui Zhu ◽  
Chen Liang ◽  
Zhen-guo Yin ◽  
Zhong Shao ◽  
Meng-qi Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Critical Aspects

Stepping in the Shoes of Leaders of Populist Right-Wing Parties

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanda Jetten ◽  
Rachel Ryan ◽  
Frank Mols
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Condition ◽  
Baseline Condition ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Economic Context

Abstract. What narrative is deemed most compelling to justify anti-immigrant sentiments when a country’s economy is not a cause for concern? We predicted that flourishing economies constrain the viability of realistic threat arguments. We found support for this prediction in an experiment in which participants were asked to take on the role of speechwriter for a leader with an anti-immigrant message (N = 75). As predicted, a greater percentage of realistic threat arguments and fewer symbolic threat arguments were generated in a condition in which the economy was expected to decline than when it was expected to grow or a baseline condition. Perhaps more interesting, in the economic growth condition, the percentage realistic entitlements and symbolic threat arguments generated were higher than when the economy was declining. We conclude that threat narratives to provide a legitimizing discourse for anti-immigrant sentiments are tailored to the economic context.

Translating Deleuze: On the Uses of Deleuze in a Non-Western Context

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-329
Author(s):  
Yu-lin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
East West ◽  
Critical Aspects

This paper aims to explore the appropriation of Deleuzian literary theory in the Chinese context and its potential for mapping a new global poetics. The purpose of this treatment is thus twofold: first, it will redefine the East–West literary relationship, and second, it will seek a new ethics of life, as endorsed by Deleuze's philosophy of immanence. One finds an affinity between literature and life in Deleuze's philosophy: in short, literature appears as the passage of life and an enterprise of health and thus seeks new possibilities of life, which consists in the invention of a new language and a new people. But what kind of health may such a view provide for a non-Western individual, people, literature and culture? This investigation further appeals to the medium of translation. This paper argues that the act of translation functions as a means of deterritorialisation that displays continuing variations of a language, and through translation, Deleuze's clinical and critical aspects of literature promote a transversal poetics that transcends the binary, oppositional conception of East–West and an immanent ethics of life that overcomes the sentiment of ressentiment.

To Tweet or Not To Tweet?

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
James LoRusso
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Economic Context

This piece argues that new technologies generally, and social media in particular, are too often accepted uncritically and incorporated hastily into course designs for the humanities. The author encourages teachers to ask two basic questions when considering social media in the classroom: 1. Does social media actually improve the learning process? And 2. How are these technologies embedded in the larger socio-economic context?

Ambiguities of “Insider-ness” in the Study of Religion

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-169
Author(s):  
Serawit Debele
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Ethnic Background ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Ambiguous Position ◽  
Political Persuasion

Based on the author’s experience in conducting fieldwork on religion in Ethiopia, in this article she analyses the complexities of being an insider in a certain socio-political and economic context. Instead of ascribing an essence to insider-ness as a straightforward and definite category, it is argued that insider-ness is a product of dynamic and complex intersubjective interactions and processes. It is an ambiguous position marked by a continuous shift resulting from the researcher’s navigations between multiple identities at different times and environments in relation to research participants. As pointed out by Bourke (2014), the perpetual flux of one’s identity as an insider or an outsider stems from the researcher’s position: gender, class, ethnic background and religious as well as political persuasion. Furthermore, in as much as one enjoys the associated benefits thereof, the insider is faced with myriad challenges due to her or his variegated identities that in turn inform interlocutors’ perceptions, expectations and responses.

AFRICA’S RENAISSANCE AND POTENTIAL IN THE LEATHER SECTOR WITH REFLECTION TO THE GLOBAL PERFORMANCE

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mwinyihija M.
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Socioeconomic Indicators ◽  
Value Add ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Productivity And Competitiveness ◽  
Critical Aspects

Africa’s renaissance is inevitable and rapidly emerging as a reality in tandem with the continent’s continued exploration of its natural resources in a more sustained way than previously done. Currently, the clarion call is to value add, avoid plundering and involve its population through the SME’s to adapt modern methods of entrepreneurship. During the study, critical aspects that are envisaged to trigger the growth and development of Africa, included the entry of major countries of the continent into the global emerging markets such as MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). For the leather sector, certain socioeconomic indicators such as the youthful participation in the value chain, ownership status, literacy levels and acquired experiences are all contributing to a vibrant sector. It was observed that these indicators if well aligned with individual member states of African Union Commission and structured than productivity and competitiveness of leather products will be attained. As such, ease of either foreign direct investment, local recapitalization and development of the SME’s could become feasible. Indeed, with the emergence of over 300 million youth at middle level income level is construed to start building on the impact of the continents purchasing power. Therefore, Africa needs to respond by address on development of ICT, develop affordable financial support to provide stimulus packages to SME’s (Small and Medium Enterprises) to transform, improve on inter and intra trade to optimize on unexplored synergies and enhance mobility of persons with in Africa as preamble to Africa’s renaissance.

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