Introduction: unsettling subjects of justice and ethics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Democratic Life

This chapter begins with an ethnographic account of the high profile student conflicts around free speech and racism which unfolded across UK campuses in 2008-9 in response to ‘Operation Cast Lead’. The discussion focuses on the unsettling quality of these events in order to introduce a number of key elements in the framing of this study. First, the chapter highlights how campus struggles around Palestine-Israel are not only constituted through competing discourses in the abstract but are also the locus of intense feelings, contradictory desires and visceral interpersonal encounters. Second, is argued that these raging campus conflicts over Palestine-Israel involve the destabilisation of established spatial boundaries under conditions of globalisation and so can be helpfully connected to Nancy Fraser’s theory of ‘abnormal justice’. Third, by highlighting how this case is also the focus of disputed historical claims, the chapter introduces helpful resonances with aesthetic notions of the tragic. The chapter concludes by introducing some key interlocutors - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell and Veena Das - who will help with a key task of this book: to develop an ethnographic imagination attentive to movements between the discursive/embodied and public/personal dimensions of democratic life.

scholarly journals HWN* Mobility Management Considering QoS, Optimisation and Cross Layer Issues

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Shen
Keyword(s):  
Mobility Management ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Cross Layer ◽  
Cross Layer Design ◽  
Relay Nodes ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Avoidance Control

In this paper, we address mobility management for 4th generation heterogeneous networks from a quality of service (QoS), optimisation and cross layer design perspective. Users are classified as high profile, normal profile and low profile according to their differentiated service requirements. Congestion avoidance control and adaptive handover mechanisms are implemented for efficient cooperation within the mobile heterogeneous network environment consisting of a TDMA network, ad hoc network and relay nodes. A previous proposed routing algorithm is also revised to include mobility management.

Freedom, Equality and the Quality of Democracy

2015 ◽  
pp. 1778-1804
Author(s):  
Thorsten D. Barth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
Quintuple Helix ◽  
Essential Questions ◽  
Democratic Life

Freedom and equality are the content, the substance and the tension in a liberal democracy of today. Freedom and equality describe the design, stability and the quality of a democracy. Especially in a Quintuple Helix Model, the quality of democracy and sustainable development are closely related, because a high-quality democracy is a prerequisite for promoting sustainability in democracies. By investigating the quality of democracy this article develops two theses: 1.) Democracy with their quality rises or falls with the expression of freedom and/or equality; 2.) Democracy generates its stability from a balanced interaction between freedom and equality. With the concept of Democratic Life this article examines these two theses: Democratic Life as newly developed concept measures the quality of democracy with providing information about the type of a democracy and an approach to measure a democracy´s democratic development for the top 20 of the Democracy Ranking (2009). The central keys of the Democratic Life concept are the ‘Index of Classification' and the ‘Democratic-Life-Index', which are formed from an ‘Index of Freedom' and an ‘Index of Equality'. By empirical examination of the research question of Democratic Life two essential questions in the modern democratic theory can be investigated: 1.) How democratic is a democracy? 2.) How much freedom and equality does a liberal democracy need? The countries analyzed for the Democratic Life concept in this article are the United States, Australia, Sweden and Germany in comparison between 1995 and 2008. This degree of democratic quality will create a lot of problems towards developing sustainability in a democracy, because in the United States there is currently a big disparity between freedom and equality.

Addressing the Barriers and Political Pressures to Safety

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Barach
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Academic Medical Centers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Patient Harm ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
External Pressures

<p>Numerous high profile inquiries in UK, Australia, and U.S. reveal subtle and overt external pressures that enable and support unsafe care. Understanding these ‘political’ pressures on clinical service executives to execute a government policy regardless of evidence on quality of care is essential to transforming healthcare systems. This article reviews key findings and recommendations from several international inquiries and identifies how to overcome barriers to improvement. Identifying the barriers that contribute to patient harm in national inquiries shows the important influence of external political pressures. Reviewing the commitment across professions represented by specialty boards, royal colleges, academic medical centers, and professional unions to protect patients is key. Understanding that a culture of blame can affect patient safety in healthcare systems and how they manifest depends on the political and healthcare provision characteristics of each country. Transparency the ability to openly discuss and address opportunities for improvement in the healthcare system are a recurring theme in national inquiries. All stakeholders must be involved at all stages and mechanisms for ongoing, effective consultation and communication should be provided at the local and state levels.</p>

Overtourism

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Hio Kuan Lai ◽  
Patrícia Pinto ◽  
Pedro Pintassilgo
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Material Community ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Local Residents

The concept of overtourism has been popularly discussed in recent years, upon local residents starting to recognize the tourism disturbances in some high-profile destinations. For a sustainable tourism development, it is crucial to investigate potential impacts of overtourism towards the local residents living in the destination. Thus, this chapter employs the existing academic work on quality of life (QoL) concepts, to examine the correlations between residents' perception of tourism's impact to them in material, community, emotional, and health & safety life domains, and their satisfaction with QoL in corresponding life domains, and their overall life satisfaction. This chapter involves a survey taken place in Macau, which represents a case of plausible overtourism. The research reveals that residents who perceived more negative impact from tourism on QoL, were more unsatisfied with QoL. Thus, tourism planners and policy makers should be aware of such threat on sustainable tourism development and search out a solution balancing different stakeholders in overtourism destinations.

scholarly journals Fair trade in building digital knowledge repositories: the knowledge economy as if researchers mattered

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni De Grandis
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Knowledge Repositories ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Digital Knowledge

Abstract Both a significant body of literature and the case study presented here show that digital knowledge repositories struggle to attract the needed level of data and knowledge contribution that they need to be successful. This happens also to high profile and prestigious initiatives. The paper argues that the reluctance of researchers to contribute can only be understood in light of the highly competitive context in which research careers need to be built nowadays and how this affects researchers’ quality of life. Competition and managerialism limit the discretion of researchers in sharing their results and in donating their working time. A growing corpus of research shows that academic researchers are increasingly overworked and highly stressed. This corroborates the point that the room for undertaking additional tasks with future and uncertain benefits is very limited. The paper thus recommends that promoters of digital knowledge repositories focus on the needs of the researchers who are expected to contribute their knowledge. In order to treat them fairly and to ensure the success of the repositories, knowledge sharing needs to be rewarded so as to improve the working conditions of contributors. In order to help implementing this researcher-centred approach, the paper proposes the idea of expediential trust: rewards for contributing should be such that rational, self-interested researchers would freely decide to contribute their knowledge and effort trusting that this would make them better off.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-236
Author(s):  
Cristian Vaccari ◽  
Augusto Valeriani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Democratic Life ◽  
Political Apathy ◽  
The Relationship

Social media can contribute to the quality of democratic life by expanding the scope of citizens’ political participation and broadening the pool of participants. However, the relationship between political experiences on social media and political participation is not so strong as to justify unmitigated enthusiasm. Social media cannot and will not “save democracy” from citizens’ political apathy and distrust. While political experiences on social media do not disproportionately stimulate participation among ideologically extremist citizens, nor among those who voted for populist political actors, treating all forms of participation as equally desirable obscures important nuances that are key to evaluating social media’s contribution to democracy. Still, social media can be part of the solution to at least two important democratic ills—citizens’ disconnection from politics and inequalities between those who choose to exercise their voice and those who remain silent.

Media reporting of suicide and adherence to media guidelines

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 536-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niall McTernan ◽  
Ailbhe Spillane ◽  
Grace Cully ◽  
Eimear Cusack ◽  
Theresa O’Reilly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Quality Of Reporting ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Suicide Note ◽  
The Media

Background: International research consistently shows evidence for an association between sensationalised and detailed media reporting, and suicidal behaviour. Aim: This study examined the quality of media reporting of suicide and adherence to media guidelines in Ireland. Methods: In accordance with the criteria outlined in the media guidelines for reporting suicide, 243 media articles were screened and analysed for quality of reporting of two high-profile cases of suicide and two cases of suicide that became high profile following a period of intense media coverage that occurred between September 2009 and December 2012. Results: A minority of articles breached the media guidelines in relation to sensationalised language (11.8%), placement of reports on the front page of the newspaper (9.5%), publishing of inappropriate photographs (4.2%) and mention of location of suicide (2.4%), while no articles disclosed the contents of a suicide note. However, in the majority of articles analysed, journalists did not refer to appropriate support services for people vulnerable to, and at risk of suicide (75.8%) or mention wider issues that are related to suicidal behaviour (53.8%). Overemphasis of community grief (48.3%) was also common. Nearly all articles (99.2%) breached at least one guideline and 58.9% of articles breached three or more guidelines. Conclusion: Overall, adherence to media guidelines on reporting suicide in Ireland improved in certain key areas from September 2009 until December 2012. Nonetheless, important challenges remain. Increased monitoring by media monitoring agencies, regulators and government departments is required. Implementation should be conducted using a pro-active approach and form part of the curriculum of journalists and editors. The inclusion of guidelines for the reporting of suicidal behaviour in press codes of conduct for journalists warrants consideration.

Doubt, our modern Crown of Thorns

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 437-455
Author(s):  
Charles M. Stang
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
As If

This essay uses T. E. Lawrence's characterization of doubt as ‘our modern crown of thorns’, as an entrée into thinking through the coincidence of doubt and faith in the four canonical gospels. However much each of the gospels may wish to induce faith, it leaves its readers with the distinct impression that doubt, understood differently in each, cannot be fully dispelled. The gospels thereby testify to a lively, ancient appreciation for the irrepressibility of doubt. This essay then turns to the problem of scepticism in modern philosophy. In his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein, the American philosopher Stanley Cavell suggests that scepticism is a ‘condition’ of knowledge, both in the sense of something from which we suffer as if from a chronic illness, and in the sense of that which makes knowledge possible at all. The reader is invited to think of the dialectics of doubt and faith in a similar way, of doubt as the very condition of faith.

scholarly journals In Search of Quality: Using Quality Matters to Analyze the Quality of Massive, Open, Online Courses (MOOCs)

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Lowenthal ◽  
Charles Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
College Credit ◽  
Quality Matters ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
The University

<p>The concept of the massive, open, online course (MOOC) is not new, but high-profile initiatives have moved MOOCs into the forefront of higher education news over the past few years. Members of institutions of higher education have mixed feelings about MOOCs, ranging from those who want to offer college credit for the successful completion of MOOCs to those who fear MOOCs are the end of the university as we know it. We set forth to investigate the quality of MOOCs by using the Quality Matters quality control framework. In this article, we present the results of our inquiry, with a specific focus on the implications the results have on day-to-day practice of designing online courses.</p>

Research on Path of Contact Wheel for Ruled Blade Grinding

2014 ◽  
Vol 536-537 ◽  
pp. 1343-1346
Author(s):  
Da Qi Li ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Wei Dong Ye ◽  
Hai Ying Zu
Keyword(s):  
Belt Grinding ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Wind Generators ◽  
Aero Engine ◽  
Wrap Angle ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Profile Accuracy ◽  
Grinding System ◽  
Selection Of

Blade is one of the important components in aero-engine, turbine, and wind generators. The quality of the blades has big influence on the performance of the machine. So high profile accuracy and low surface roughness were put forward. Ruled blade is just one of the blades of aero-engine, which has simple profile and little distort. This blade was grinded by two sides together in the paper. Therefore, in this thesis, the main objects are as fallow: firstly, according to the characteristics of the abrasive belt grinding, analysis the selection of grinding distance for the blade. Secondly, established the model of contact wheel compare grinding system, derived the range of wrap angle of contact wheel, and then two region were make out, one is the region can be directly grinding, and another region which may lead to wheel interference. At last the grinding path of the center of the contact wheel was obtained by calculated the blade model.

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