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Culture-Civilization-Organizational Culture and Managerial Performance
2015
Abstract The paper aims at unfolding the organizational culture as a background idea, with genuine connections it has with the concept of culture and civilization, inseparable and complementary concepts in modernizing organizational culture and in the more successful integration within the EU.
Reframing Climate Justice : A Three-dimensional View on Just Climate Negotiations
2016
This article proposes reframing the justice discourse in climate negotiations. In so doing, it makes two claims. First, global climate negotiations deserve to be addressed as an issue of justice on their own due to their peculiar characteristics. Second, a multidimensional theory of justice is superior to distributional theories for this task. To support these arguments, I apply the multidimensional theory of justice to global climate negotiations. This analysis reveals that injustice in the negotiations is multidimensional and irreducible to distributional questions. Furthermore, it shows how promoting justice in this broad sense would have significant effect on the negotiation procedures …
How Terrorism Changed the Ways of Interpreting Hospitality
2017
The consolidation of Thana-Capitalism doubtless affected the tourism industry, but also changed the ways in which the Other is conceived. Needless to say, anthropology should play a leading role in providing new theories to understand ‘cosmopolitanism’, and the position of this global dangerous Other in Europe. Discussing and engaging directly with Derrida as well as other scholars, this chapter focuses on how hospitality is dying. The end of hospitality represents a serious challenge of Europe simply because it was ‘the alma matter’ of its rationality and social trust. At times, terrorism targets ‘the exemplary centre of consumption’ to extortionate the developed nation-states, the surveil…
Humanismo tecnológico: fundamento para una inteligencia artificial responsable
2019
Los rápidos avances en el campo de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en las últimas décadas ponen de relieve la necesidad de incorporar criterios éticos de responsabilidad. Esa incorporación permitirá el planteamiento de una inteligencia artificial responsable (IAR) que tendrá que fundamentarse en la formulación de un nuevo humanismo. Se entiende que a partir de un humanismo tecnológico se podría impulsar la IAR en el contexto tecnológico actual. Los desafíos de la IA imponen el imperativo de plantear un humanismo de este tipo que asuma un compromiso con miras al futuro. En ese sentido, el humanismo tecnológico representa la exigencia de un tiempo de desafíos tecnológicos y a la vez una prem…
Resilience, security and the politics of processes
2014
The prominence of resilience thinking in contemporary governance and security policies has received increasing critical attention. By engaging in dialogue with some of these recent critiques, predominantly leaning on biopolitics or neoliberal governmentality, this article develops an Arendtian reading of resilience as a temporal regime of processuality. Originating from life sciences such as ecology and complexity thinking, the increasingly malleable resilience discourse privileges the functioning of societal life processes over political action and human artifice. The article argues that this ‘rule of nobody’ is in danger of suffocating the concept of public space, so crucial for politics …
Ethical Assumptions: A Criticism against Modern Pragmatism
2016
The advent of neoliberalism in the early 1970s marked a new age for ethical practices. Although pragmatism as an approach to ethics pre-dated neoliberalism, the neoliberal approach to political economy ushered in a new kind of pragmatism, owing little to Jeremy Bentham, even less to the American philosophical pragmatists Charles S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Today’s pragmatism has permeated the penal systems of the central countries of the world capitalist system. A new ethics emerged, a neopragmatism. Acts came to be judged by their effects and not by the motives that led to the actions. This altered the doctrine of Abrahamic religions, and led to the disappearance of forgivene…
Religious toleration and the limits of liberal secularism: The case of India
2019
In recent years there has been a resurgence of public discourse about the role of tolerance as one of the key elements of the Western philosophical heritage. The fact that Western societies remain ...
Theorizing cultural work: labour, continuity and change in the cultural and creative industries
2014
Theorizing Cultural Work, edited by Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill, and Stephanie Taylor, deals with contemporary cultural work and creative industries by elaborating the specificities of the present th...
Historical perspectives on preventive conservation: readings in conservation
2013
The book is a sixth volume of the Readings in Conservation series by the Getty Conservation Institute. The first volume, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage...
The definition of culture in culture-based urban development strategies: antagonisms in the construction of a culture-based development discourse
2013
Implementing culture-based development strategies is a recent trend in large and small cities all over Europe. The definition of culture and the objectives of cultural strategies are highly contested in the public debate. Analysing the newspaper debates on the establishment of the Cultiva foundation in Kristiansand, Norway, this article discusses how and why the discursive debate on the definition of culture creates different discursive positions in the public debate on culture-based development. In the different discourses on what these strategies should be, there are a number of antagonisms that contribute to defining the relationships and interfaces between the different discursive posit…