Temporary and permanent organizing in systemic crises: A study of professional responses to Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 14377
Author(s):  
Amelia Compagni ◽  
Giulia Cappellaro
Keyword(s):  
Professional Responses ◽  
Systemic Crises

A Moment to Come Together: Personal Reflections on Trayvon Martin

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Roxanne Christensen ◽  
LaSonia Barlow ◽  
Demetrius E. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Professional Psychology ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Professional Responses ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Unique Individual

Three personal reflections provided by doctoral students of the Michigan School of Professional Psychology (Farmington Hills, Michigan) address identification of individual perspectives on the tragic events surrounding Trayvon Martin’s death. The historical ramifications of a culture-in-context and the way civil rights, racism, and community traumatization play a role in the social construction of criminals are explored. A justice orientation is applied to both the community and the individual via internal reflection about the unique individual and collective roles social justice plays in the outcome of these events. Finally, the personal and professional responses of a practitioner who is also a mother of minority young men brings to light the need to educate against stereotypes, assist a community to heal, and simultaneously manage the direct effects of such events on youth in society. In all three essays, common themes of community and growth are addressed from varying viewpoints. As worlds collided, a historical division has given rise to a present unity geared toward breaking the cycle of violence and trauma. The authors plead that if there is no other service in the name of this tragedy, let it at least contribute to the actualization of a society toward growth and healing.

The Anarchical Society and a Global Political Economy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis W. Pauly
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Famous Book ◽  
Economic Ideology ◽  
Hedley Bull ◽  
Systemic Crises ◽  
Complex Capacity

If Hedley Bull came back today and revised his most famous book, he would likely devote a chapter to the economic forces that transformed our world during the past four decades. Among other systemic changes, the radical unleashing of finance and the partial return of a pre-1914 economic ideology justifying open and integrating capital markets might surprise an advocate of the virtues of the states system. But by following Bull’s reasoning, his model of empirical observation, and his underlying moral sensibilities—as well as suggestions from his constructive critics—this essay traces the emergence since the late 1970s of a variegated global capacity to assess systemic financial risks, design collaborative policies to prevent systemic crises, and manage them when they nevertheless occur. The challenge of deeply legitimating that nuanced and complex capacity remains, which, as Bull anticipated, means that considerations of justice must soon be addressed.

Новый геополитический контекст взаимоотношений Армении и России в условиях изменения баланса военно-политических сил региональных и мировых держав в регионе

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Maksim Vaskov
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Greater Caucasus ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Systemic Crises ◽  
Negative Phenomena ◽  
New System ◽  
Geopolitical Context

The purpose of the article is to consider various historical and political aspects that form the geopolitical context of Russian-Armenian relations. The author tried to take into account the factors that appeared as the consequences of Azerbaijan's aggression and the results of the Second Artsakh War. Using the methods of factorial and system analysis the article studies various combinations of interaction between states, both directly located in the region and being global political players for which political processes in the Transcaucasia are only a part of more global political projects. The existing system of political relations is distinguished by instability and the formation of a new system of political and military risks. All participants in political relations have reasons to seek complications in Russian-Armenian relations. There are also threats for them in the context of the domestic policy of Russia and Armenia. Overcoming these negative phenomena is a condition for the preservation and development of statehood in both Russia and Armenia. The development of a negative scenario will lead to new military conflicts and systemic crises of the entire Greater Caucasus.

Policy and Professional Responses to Forced Marriage in Scotland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khatidja Chantler ◽  
Nughmana Mirza ◽  
Mhairi Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Forced Marriage ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Level Ii ◽  
Structural Competency ◽  
Scottish Government ◽  
Professional Responses ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

Abstract This article draws from our mixed methods study of forced marriage (FM) in Scotland focusing on policy and practice responses to FM in Scotland using the concepts of candidacy and structural competency. Through an analysis of FM policy in six case-study areas, interviews with Child or Adult Protection Leads and twenty-one interviews with a range of welfare professionals, we discuss the conceptual, emotional and practical challenges of responding to FM. Despite a standard Scottish Government policy and statutory framework, the varied policy and professional responses to FM across local authorities demonstrate a need for practitioners to be fully cognisant of the ways in which structural inequalities play out in individual lives. The four key themes explored in this article are as follows: (i) patchy ownership of FM policy at a local level; (ii) ‘race anxiety’; (iii) event versus process-based understandings of FM and (iv) the challenges of protecting adults experiencing FM who have capacity. These themes are highly relevant to social work practice and offer a significant and original analysis of the ways in which structural, social and cultural factors shape practitioner understanding, response and support of victims of FM.

scholarly journals Social Movements Facing Authoritarian-Style Neoliberal Governments: Comparative Positioning Towards Violence in Indonesia and France

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 226
Author(s):  
Gabriel Facal ◽  
Gloria Truly Estrelita
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Neoliberal Policies ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Systemic Crises

Faced with global and systemic crises, neoliberal oriented governments are taking on more authoritarian forms of governance. By using the power of the media, justice, the police, and a set of government technologies, this authoritarian style manifests itself in alternating phases of low-key brutality and crises of ostentatious repression designed to frighten and demoralize opposition social movements. Confronted with these modes of government, the social movements adopt different tactics of mobilization, ranging from direct confrontation to forms of compromise and civil disobedience. With the climate crisis as well as the globalization of social struggles, these movements adopt new political strategies, which question the dichotomy between violence and non-violence. Using a historical and anthropological approach, this paper studies two cases in contemporary Indonesia and France. It shows that the objectives of the groups involved and the national socio-political and cultural background shape the local specificities of these strategies. The comparison, however, reveals similarities at both levels. It shows the persistence and even strengthening of class and oligarchy networks in the implementation of authoritarian-style neoliberal policies. It also points to the respective effectiveness of violent and non-violent tactics in the implementation of militant strategies.

scholarly journals Estimating probability of banking crises using random forest

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
Sri Hartini ◽  
Zuherman Rustam ◽  
Glori Stephani Saragih ◽  
María Jesús Segovia Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Banking Crises ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
Classification And Regression ◽  
Systemic Crises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Better Than

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4935b5ce-7fff-d9fa-75c7-0c6a5aa1f9a6"><span>Banks have a crucial role in the financial system. When many banks suffer from the crisis, it can lead to financial instability. According to the impact of the crises, the banking crisis can be divided into two categories, namely systemic and non-systemic crisis. When systemic crises happen, it may cause even stable banks bankrupt. Hence, this paper proposed a random forest for estimating the probability of banking crises as prevention action. Random forest is well-known as a robust technique both in classification and regression, which is far from the intervention of outliers and overfitting. The experiments were then constructed using the financial crisis database, containing a sample of 79 countries in the period 1981-1999 (annual data). This dataset has 521 samples consisting of 164 crisis samples and 357 non-crisis cases. From the experiments, it was concluded that utilizing 90 percent of training data would deliver 0.98 accuracy, 0.92 sensitivity, 1.00 precision, and 0.96 F1-Score as the highest score than other percentages of training data. These results are also better than state-of-the-art methods used in the same dataset. Therefore, the proposed method is shown promising results to predict the probability of banking crises.</span></span>

THE PRINCIPLES OF GUIDED EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY – A SYSTEMIC PERSPECTIVE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damir Marinić ◽  
Ida Marinić
Keyword(s):  
Human Society ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Interdependent System ◽  
Local Citizenship ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Systemic Crises

Since the beginning of the 21st century, many regions in the world have faced with economic volatility, political instability, environmental degradation, cultural wars and various cyber threats, which only intensified during the coronavirus pandemic. The reason behind these crises is a fragmented character of human interactions that are motivated by self or local interest, despite the fact that we are becoming increasingly interconnected in complex global networks. From a systemic perspective, human interactions in contemporary society are motivated by centrifugal social forces, promoting independence and an increased sense of entitlement, exclusive individualism, hostile competitiveness, all of which are completely purposeless, even harmful in today's global society. We are constantly trying to implement pre-global individualistic values in a global interdependent system, thus causing "cracks" in the social fabric of reality, which we could especially witness during the coronavirus pandemic. In order to bring about a change in current trends, a paradigm shift is required, first of all in human values, which would increase existing centripetal social forces. This means that the generation living today must formulate a commitment to global citizenship alongside involvement in local citizenship. In order to protect ourselves from future outbursts of pandemics and other similar systemic crises, a new vision of human society is required which fosters openness, care for the "other", and mutual responsibility across national borders, as well as cultural, religious, racial, gendered and other divides. The only effective response to global crises is – global response.

Audiences and Critics: Dialogue and Disagreement

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Perriam ◽  
Darren Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reception ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Pedro Almodovar ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
Professional Responses ◽  
Professional Critics

The chapter compares audience responses with critical reception. It contrasts professional reviews of La Vie d’Adèle and L’Inconnu du lac in Spain with reactions of ‘amateur’ LGBTQ cinephiles and general audience members online and as collected via questionnaires. It compares critical and non-professional responses to François Ozon, André Téchiné, and Pedro Almodóvar, specifically his La piel que habito and Los amantes pasajeros. Overall it reveals how details of fine response often displace the generalities of the more professional critics or offer more telling readings than those of academic writers or the quality media’s star reviewers.

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