Exploring When and Why Gender and Structural Power Influence Retaliation Against Moral Objectors

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 15659
Author(s):  
Timothy Kundro ◽  
Nancy Rothbard
Keyword(s):  
Structural Power

Fiber-reinforced Monolithic Supercapacitor with Interdigitated Interfaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanshu Yuan ◽  
Devashish Salpekar ◽  
Abhijit Baburaj ◽  
Anand B. Puthirath ◽  
Sakib Hassan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Distributed Energy ◽  
Power Devices ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Distributed Energy Storage ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Storage Networks

Supercapacitors will serve as essential components of distributed energy storage networks and structural power devices in many emerging technologies. Current supercapacitors are engineered, however, using ‘sandwich’ architecture that undermines their...

What is Human? Reading Social Idealism against the Reality of Blackman and Azaria

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 365-391
Author(s):  
Ka Lok Yip
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Dominant Focus ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the oscillation between individualism and holism and between voluntarism and determinism underlying Philip Allott’s philosophy of social idealism and attributes it to an under-analysis of the relationship between human agency, culture, and structure. Drawing on different social theoretical perspectives and philosophical approaches, it examines this aspect of social idealism through the lens of two recent cases, Alexander Blackman in the United Kingdom and Elor Azaria in Israel. It argues that a dominant focus on either the individuals or their context is necessarily reductionist while collapsing the two risks obscuring causality and responsibility and relegating their apportionment to those in possession of cultural and structural power. Only by differentiating between the relative degrees of human freedom and constraints in different situations, can the limits to human agency become recognisable, comprehensible, and therefore amenable to being tackled, transformed, and potentially overcome.

scholarly journals Trade unions in transnational automotive companies in Russia and Slovakia: Prospects for working-class power

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hinz ◽  
Jeremy Morris
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
Class Power ◽  
Unconventional Methods

This article compares industrial relations in production sites in Slovakia and Russia owned by a single transnational automotive firm, Volkswagen. We analyse the empirical data using a working-class power approach. In Slovakia, associational and institutional power is well developed and influenced by the model of German work councils, but structural power is weakly exercised and unions rely on non-conflictual engagement with management. In Russia, structural working-class power remains strong, but the opportunities for transforming this into lasting associational, let alone institutional power, remain limited; thus, new unions make use of unconventional methods of protest to promote worker interests.

scholarly journals Why did it not work? Reflections on regulating Airbnb and the complexity and agency of platform capitalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-257
Author(s):  
Christian Smigiel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Mobile Capital ◽  
Urban Institution ◽  
The One

Abstract. This article deals with one of the most controversial topics in urban studies related to mobile capital and mobile people. At first glance this seems to be contradictory since numbers of short-term rentals have decreased dramatically due to the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. However, this paper is not about numbers and statistics. Instead it discusses structural issues regarding governance and power relations which remain important topics (especially) in times of crisis. It provides insights regarding the following issues: firstly, it deconstructs different “myths” that still surround short-term rentals and Airbnb and secondly, it delineates the structural power of Airbnb as a new urban institution. This helps us to understand some of the conflicts over Airbnb and the pitfalls with current forms of regulation on the one side as well as showing the complexity and agency of short-term rentals on the other.

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