The Decisive Role of Intangible Assets in the Development of More Humane and Profitable Organizations in the Post-Pandemic Context

This chapter aims to describe the role of intangible assets (trust, love, and well-being) in the development of organizations. After a first approach in which the authors point out distortions of the traditional organizational management models and politics in Brazil, they propose solutions adopted by several companies in construing of humanized models. Based on these successful experiences, they highlight several indicators that demonstrate the profitability of these organizations and their differentials in tackling the post-pandemic economic and social crisis.

Budzhak Population: an experience of a fugitive review of 18th-century observations

Budzhak (in modern Moldova and Ukraine) is the western part of the Eurasian steppe, the natural character of which had determined the ways of the local life for centuries. The Ottoman and the Russian Empires had clashed here in the eighteenth century, on the eve of the European Enlightenment. This fight was to determine further prospects for development, while many contemporaries and eyewitnesses tried to guess any signs of these prospects. A profound social crisis in south-eastern Europe contributed to political and ethnic and confessional changes and was changing the natural landscape. The Turkic Muslim population had to leave these lands under the growing pressure of these changes, and the new population was predominantly Christian. Now the Christians determined the way of life in Budzhak, even its flora and fauna.

Arte asociacionista cubano para un fin de siglo: artivismo, performance y revolución

This article analyzes some of the most significant groups of artists of the exuberant eighties in Cuba. Among the great variety of groups that appeared in this period, we are going to focus on those that, with greater clarity, use performance as a fundamental medium. This use of an ephemeral and unconventional discipline will reinforce the ties between the community of artists and the Cuban people at large, at a time when many still considered it possible to solve the many failures of the system through spontaneous and disinterested art. Pursuing this objective, the artists held firm to the hope that something could change and, sure of this conviction, they promoted collaborative work such as had not been seen since the historical avant-gardes in Cuba. After the devastating economic and social crisis of the 1990s, hope started to disappear. The arrival of the new century perpetuated hardship and managed to squander the former spirit of solidarity - not only among artists - but also among an important part of society. However, it seems correct to conclude that the current tense political context can function as a deterrent of disunity and individualism. The important popular protests against the government that took place on July 11, 2021, have caused a large number of creators, intellectuals and people outside the artistic field to decide to work again in community. El presente artículo propone analizar algunos de los grupos de artistas más significativos de la explosiva década de los ochenta en Cuba. Dentro de la gran variedad de colectivos que aparecen en este periodo, vamos a centrarnos en aquellos que, con mayor claridad, utilizan la performance como medio fundamental. Este uso de una disciplina efímera y poco convencional reforzará los lazos de unión entre la comunidad de artistas y el pueblo en un momento en el que todavía se veía posible solventar los numerosos fallos del sistema a través de un arte espontáneo y desinteresado. Persiguiendo este objetivo, los artistas mantuvieron firme la esperanza de que algo podía cambiar y, seguros de esta convicción, potenciaron el trabajo colaborativo como no se había visto desde las vanguardias históricas en Cuba. Tras la devastadora crisis económica y de valores de los noventa, la esperanza desaparece. La llegada del nuevo siglo perpetuó la penuria y consiguió dilapidar el otrora espíritu grupal y solidario -no sólo de los artistas- sino de una parte importante de la sociedad. Sin embargo, parece acertado concluir que el tenso contexto político actual anima a sortear la desunión y el individualismo. Las importantes protestas populares contra el gobierno que tuvieron lugar el 11 de julio de 2021, han propiciado que una nutrida representación de creadores, intelectuales y personas ajenas al campo artístico hayan decidido trabajar nuevamente en comunidad.

The New Zombie Apocalypse and Social Crisis in South Korean Cinema (translation into Russian)

The popular culture version of the zombie, developed over the latter half of the twentieth century, made only sporadic appearances in South Korean film, which may in part be attributed to the restrictions on the distribution of American and Japanese films before 1988. Thus the first zombie film Monstrous Corpse (Goeshi 1980, directed by Gang Beom-Gu), was a loose remake of the Spanish-Italian Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (1974). Monstrous Corpse was largely forgotten until given a screening by KBS in 2011. Zombies don’t appear again for a quarter of a century. This article examines four zombie films released between 2012 and 2018: “Ambulance”, the fourth film in Horror Stories (2012), a popular horror portmanteau film; Train to Busan (2016) (directed by Yeon Sang-Ho), the first South Korean blockbuster film in the “zombie apocalypse” sub-genre; Seoul Station (2016), an animation prequel to Train to Busan (also directed by Yeon Sang-Ho); and Rampant (2018, directed by Kim Seong-Hun ), a costume drama set in Korea’s Joseon era. Based on a cognitive studies approach, this article examines two conceptual metaphors which underlie these films: the very common metaphor, LIFE IS A JOURNEY, and the endemically Korean metaphor THE NATION IS A FAMILY.

Career or culture? : a study of the relation of vocation & culture in education

At the commencement of a lecture entitled 'Cultural Aspects of Vocational Education' Sir Fred Clarke said: 'The more I have thought about the implications of the topic under discussion, the more do i realize how momentous and far reaching-they are. I now feel that in this innocent-looking title the whole crisis of our times is involved.'<br>The judgement explains the raison d'etre of this thesis, viz., that the problem of relating vocation and culture in education has implications which are 'momentous and far-reaching' for the present day social crisis.<br>The statement indicates the aim of the dissertation: this is to trace the historical growth of the educational relation of vocation and culture in order to perceive more clearly the present situation and its widespread implications. To do so is to see more clearly, in one special field, something of the problems the educator is faced with in a world which everywhere cries out for reconstruction.

Career or culture? : a study of the relation of vocation & culture in education

At the commencement of a lecture entitled 'Cultural Aspects of Vocational Education' Sir Fred Clarke said: 'The more I have thought about the implications of the topic under discussion, the more do i realize how momentous and far reaching-they are. I now feel that in this innocent-looking title the whole crisis of our times is involved.'<br>The judgement explains the raison d'etre of this thesis, viz., that the problem of relating vocation and culture in education has implications which are 'momentous and far-reaching' for the present day social crisis.<br>The statement indicates the aim of the dissertation: this is to trace the historical growth of the educational relation of vocation and culture in order to perceive more clearly the present situation and its widespread implications. To do so is to see more clearly, in one special field, something of the problems the educator is faced with in a world which everywhere cries out for reconstruction.

Political Potency and the Impotency of European Sovereignism: Pandemic and Technocracy

The covid-19 pandemic and the parallel economic and social crisis mark both a decline of neoliberal globalisation and a return of public intervention. As many have stated, the economic policy triptych of the past decades – the opening of markets, withdrawal of the state and privatisation – has substantially disappeared from the agendas of governments around the world. The ‘political’, in a sense, is back. But in what sense? Can we talk about a real paradigm shift? The return of the political that we are witnessing manifests itself in the permanence and persistence of the neoliberal anthropology of the masses, which is the legacy of globalism, of the Maastricht order and of its idea of civilisation (even more than its political economy dogmas).

Masked mimicry: The way of neo-culturalism

Currently, the world is in the grip of a new health and social crisis linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this article, we opt for a descriptive and analytical sociological analysis of behaviours and reactions resulting from the introduction of barrier measures, imposed for the prevention of COVID-19 disease, in particular wearing of a mask, while focusing our interest on the Algerian society. The reactions are multiple and inform us about the issues and negotiation strategies for the integration of this new behaviour qualified as preventive to contain the pandemic: a societal phenomenon on a global scale which has triggered a process of normalisation through the integration of neo-culturalism of the Proxemic type with a pandemic character. According to the recommendations of the study, a Proxemic neo-culturalism is in the process of spreading in a pandemic manner, to establish an interactional balance through the emergence of a new social dynamic made concrete by the adaptation of ‘honest signals’. Keywords: Facial mimicry, mask, COVID-19, protection, social distancing, neo-culturalism.