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Historical memory and forgetting in the teaching of history : the case of Japan and Italy
2015
En el presente artículo, se revisan algunas investigaciones y publicaciones relevantes donde se analizan aspectos vinculados con la inclusión de la memoria en la enseñanza de la historia (en los casos de Italia y, en mayor medida, Japón) y la conexión existente entre política y gestión de la memoria. Respecto a este último asunto, se evidencia la importancia de la política en relación a la selección y los olvidos en la memoria institucional y cómo los rituales conmemorativos o la construcción de una historia oficial implican un posicionamiento respecto a la memoria. Se observan posicionamientos políticos que determinan la selección de la memoria en la Historia oficial que, al mismo tiempo, …
Distinctive and comparative places: Alternative narratives of distinction within international student mobility
2017
Moving beyond the ‘world-class’ institutional model of international student mobility, this paper examines alternative narratives of distinction relating to place of study. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with international students at universities in the UK, Austria and Latvia, we illustrate how students inside and outside mainstream reputable higher education institutions narrate and reconfigure markers of distinction to validate their international mobility and location of study, in part to compete with peers at other (more prestigious) institutions. We demonstrate the importance of lifestyle and experiential places within a global differentiated higher education landscape and argu…
A study on Norwegian companies in China: Challenges & successful strategies
2016
Master thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2016 This paper examines what governmental and cultural challenges Norwegian companies face when entering and doing business in China. In addition, this paper also discusses what strategies to implement to overcome these challenges. With China becoming a bigger player in the global marketplace, this is an important matter not only for companies across the world but also for Norwegian companies. Through a qualitative research method with semi-structured interviews, the research is conducted on four Norwegian companies who does business in China. The findings shows that there are many variables affecting the choice of entry mod…
Regional Security Cooperation and the SADC’s Organ for Politics, Defence and Security: A Picture of Mixed Performance
2017
This chapter provides a profound analysis of regional security cooperation in the SADC and focusses on the institutionalisation and performance of the organisation’s central conflict management institution, the Organ for Politics, Defence and Security (OPDS). By clarifying the regional security complex in every detail, Muntschick highlights the countries’ common demand for institutionalised regional security cooperation and reflects on the conflicting interstate interests on the institutional design of the SADC’s central security organ. External actors play no significant role, but a lack of compromise between the leading military powers, South Africa and Zimbabwe, is initially responsible …
Occupations of Housing and Social Centers in Rome: A Durable Resistance to Neoliberalism and Institutionalization
2017
Squatting for housing and social centers has a long tradition in Rome since the end of the 1960s. By the mid-1970s, the occupation of buildings to set up political and social activities became part of the repertoire of left radical movements. In this chapter a set of 34 squatted spaces for housing and social centers in Rome active in 2014 is analysed. Squatting practices thus provide a lens to interpret the evolution of urban struggles, urban development and the changing sociopolitical contexts. Furthermore, Mudu and Rossini examine the role played by the processes of neutralization, co-optation, normalization and contention that explain the institutionalization of squatting in the city of …
Intellectuals and the end of revolution: the functionalist view
2013
This article's main aim is to present a basic picture of the central functionalist theories on intellectuals developed in the United States during the sixties and seventies. Today, it seems that the main debates arising during that period were placed in Europe (Sartre, Aron, Foucault) and they tended to be linked to Marxism. However, American theorists focused on the specialization and institutionalization of the intellectual and, in this sense, presented a model of this social actor resemblant, in some cases, with the present figures of the intellectual.
Managerial understanding and attitudes towards beyond budgeting in Ukraine
2019
In order to find out how Ukrainian practitioners understand and evaluate management control innovation - beyond budgeting - this study examines their attitudes towards this concept and meanings they attach to it in the process of learning and sensemaking. Results show how the content and meaning of novel management innovation is reinterpreted and negotiated in new institutional context. Empirical evidences support the central statement of institutional theory, namely a replacement of practice's former technical functions by institutional facts, specific symbolic meanings and collective understandings. The findings reported serve to demonstrate the gradual replacement of brute facts and empi…
De la atención de los problemas de la audición y lenguaje a la logopedia como disciplina
2015
Las dificultades del lenguaje han estado presentes en el ser humano desde la antigüedad. La sensibilización social e institucional hacia este tipo de trastornos ha mejorado lentamente hasta nuestros días. Ya en la Edad Moderna (siglos XVI al XVIII) se informa de educación de sujetos con problemas de lenguaje. Destaca el trabajo de Pedro Ponce de León como precursor del tratamiento estas dificultades. De forma progresiva, se tomó conciencia de la importancia del tratamiento de las dificultades del lenguaje. En los siglos XIX y XX se produce la institucionalización de la atención a personas con trastornos del lenguaje. La Orientación Educativa atiende tradicionalmente esta problemática. Poste…
HOME COUNTRY INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS
2023
La qualità delle istituzioni di un Paese ha un effetto significativo sulla sua performance economica. Istituzioni forti possono garantire un'allocazione efficiente delle risorse, ridurre l'incertezza e gli attriti e favorire il coordinamento tra gli agenti economici. Al contrario, istituzioni deboli determinano una riduzione degli investimenti, un rallentamento della crescita della produttività e una minore crescita del PIL. Buone istituzioni favoriscono le sinergie tra gli investimenti diretti esteri e le imprese locali, nonché le ricadute di produttività. Al contrario, istituzioni poco sviluppate possono interferire con le attività produttive e impedire lo sfruttamento delle ricadute di c…
Do local proxy advisors matter? – Evidence from Germany
2021
Prior research documents that the large US-based proxy advisors, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis (GL), play an important role as information intermediaries in corporate gov...