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Ontological differences and the pursuit of planetary well-being
2024
This chapter emphasizes the importance of ontological dialogue and methodological choices to the conceptual development and practical enactment of planetary well-being. Starting from the premise that cultural practices, including scientific concepts and methods, shape realities, the chapter suggests approaching nature and culture as entangled with each other. From this perspective, this chapter deals with divergent biocultural realities rather than a single, universal Nature viewed from multiple cultural perspectives. Biocultural realities differ in terms of how well they enable more-than-human communities to regenerate themselves. The chapter proposes anthropologist Anna Tsing’s conceptual…
Towards cultural transformation : Culture as planetary well-being
2024
Culture covers myriad aspects of human life. Most often it is understood as intellectual or artistic practices, but in a broader view, culture covers the habits, lifestyles, traditions, beliefs, values, and worldviews that shape human lives and societies. Culture also undergoes continuous change and is affected by human actions. Current ecological and well-being crises caused by destructive cultural practices and actions pose an existential risk to both humans and nonhumans. This chapter argues that when challenging, preventing, and changing such destructive human practices and actions, the role of culture is indispensable. Building on and rethinking cultural sustainability, the chapter out…
A landscape approach to planetary well-being
2024
“Landscape” refers to a perceivable spatial level shaped by socio-ecological interactions and represents the systems where people live. Human societies have globally transformed landscapes to meet their needs, e.g., nutrition or shelter, according to cultural preferences. This human domination of land has resulted in considerable competition for space with other lifeforms, driving biodiversity loss through land-use change and intensification, as well as coming into conflict with planetary well-being. Recent research has highlighted the relevance of the landscape level when articulating human activities with and in their environment and maintaining human and nonhuman cohabitation. Indeed, th…
A giant planet beyond the snow line in microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251
2013
We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting microlensing observations towards the Galactic Bulge. Based on detailed modelling of the observed light curve, we find that the lens is composed of two masses with a mass ratio q=1.9 x 10^-3. Thanks to our detection of higher-order effects on the light curve due to the Earth's orbital motion and the finite size of source, we are able to measure the mass and distance to the lens unambiguously. We find that the lens is made up of a planet of mass 0.53 +- 0.21,M_Jup orbiting an M dwarf host star with a mass of 0.26 +- 0.…
Podporządkowanie technologiczne w zatrudnieniu
2022
The employee is not, as yet, separated from the working environment by their 'humanity'. The working environment becomes a kind of network, connected to other employees and the enterprise through invisible threads of dependencies and influences woven from personal data that can be algorithmically arranged and given new meaning and ownership. Authority and subordination are their physical representations. These interdependencies have one thing in common, regardless of the type of organised complexity. Each employee is equally subjected to informational authority, regardless of their profession, tion and industry. Everywhere, they are equally networked, subject to the same pressure and superv…
Active lighting applied to three-dimensional reconstruction of specular metallic surfaces by polarization imaging
2006
International audience; In the field of industrial vision, the three-dimensional inspection of highly reflective metallic objects is still a delicate task. We deal with a new automated three-dimensional inspection system based on polarization analysis. We first present an extension of the shape-from-polarization method for dielectric surfaces to metallic surfaces. Then, we describe what we believe to be a new way of solving the ambiguity concerning the normal orientation with an active lighting system. Finally, applications to shape-defect detection are discussed, and the efficiency of the system to discriminate defects on specular metallic objects made by stamping and polishing is presente…
Analysis of FBG reflection spectra under uniform and non-uniform transverse loads
2019
Loads applied transversely on the external surface of waveguides change their circular cross-sectional geometry generating birefringence. Due to this effect the reflected spectrum of a Fibre Bragg grating (FBG) undergoes a splitting of the single peak of the Bragg wavelength. In this work, we employed the Transfer Matrix Method (TMM) for x- and y-polarized wave-modes to model the uniform FBG reflection spectra for uniform and non-uniform transverse loads. We also performed experimental measurements for two different transverse load scenarios. The load profiles chosen for these experiments were applied on the FBG sensor through a block of steel and a roll bearing pin. Then, the modelled and …
"Toivon tiestä tulee tie helvettiin" : Välimeren paperittomat siirtolaiset kiistakysymyksenä Italian politiikassa
2016
Tämä pro gradu -tutkielma käsittelee Välimeren paperittomia siirtolaisia Italian politiikassa vuosina 2002–2011. Tutkimuksen teoreettisena lähtökohtana on Italian senaatin täysistunnoissa käytävien keskustelujen retorinen analyysi, jonka muodostamisessa hyödynnän erityisesti Chaïm Perelmanin argumentaatioanalyysia sekä diskurssitutkija Teun A. van Dijkin näkemyksiä käytetyimmistä topoksista siirtolaisaiheisissa parlamenttidebateissa. Topos-retorinen luenta helpottaa käytetyimpien argumenttien jäsentelyä. Senaatissa käytyjen keskustelujen kronologinen tarkastelu mahdollistaa niiden kytkemisen laajempaan kontekstiinsa. Merkittävät kontekstit käytetylle kielelle ovat ajanjakson aikana yhä tiuk…
Citizenship, populism and social work in the Finnish welfare state
2020
This chapter ties together discussions of citizenship and social work practice in the context of growing populist and neoliberal political trends in Finland. These political trends are manifested in populist right-wing nationalist movements on the one hand, and in the neoliberal dismantling of the welfare state on the other. Both political trends – right-wing nationalist populism and neoliberalism – tend to separate people into two groups: those who are ‘deserving’ and those who are ‘undeserving’. Simultaneously, the dynamics of globalisation have radically changed nation states and their traditional concepts of citizenship and related social rights. There is thus a need to redefine the und…