Search results for "postmodernity"

Paradoxes of postmodern tourists and innovation in tourism marketing

2018

Innovation challenges tourism experiences in a new digitalized era. The new scenario is showing some paradoxical changes that lead to new approaches for tourism production, distribution, and financing. This chapter focuses on innovation in marketing, involving market processes, new changes in tourist behavior and new approaches adopted by companies to face new trends. An emphasis is given to service innovation in tourism, with a special focus on companies, tourist destinations, and the digital environment. Likewise, the chapter examines a series of paradoxes of postmodern tourists and how companies develop new products and services to try to address them.

Apuntes sobre la metáfora en Fredric Jameson y en Richard Rorty

2016

En la novela titulada Los nombres , de Don DeLillo, al igual que sucede en todas las novelas del autor estadounidense, se evidencian muchos de los grandes problemas que la contemporaneidad afronta, pero entre todos ellos aflora de manera paulatina la crisis de la proliferacion de metaforas en nuestro tiempo. Tal y como ha mostrado la antropologia desde los inicios del siglo XX, la metafora posee un fuerte caracter performativo, lo que hace de ella uno de los ejes fundamentales sobre los que giran las posibles interpretaciones de todo fenomeno cultural. Dicha cuestion ha sido estudiada, inicialmente desde posiciones muy diversas, por Fredric Jameson y por Richard Rorty, alcanzando en ambos c…

Postmodernity, insecurity and job loss Focus on the unemployed's suffering

2017

International audience; Objectives Recent research shows clear correlations between the subjective perception of job's insecurity and physical, mental and relational health. This article highlights the difficulties of workers , and particularly the impact of uncertainty and job loss on their self-esteem and psycho-physical well-being. The work presents and contextualizes the perception of job insecurity as an effect of postmodern society.Methods The research involved 60 subjects that have lost the jobs and received a 3 month intervention of active policies organized in groups focusing on empowerment and employability. At two times before and after group participants filled in Rosenberg Self…

Postmodernity: clinical and social reflections about new forms of psychopathology

2016

International audience; This article proposes a reflection on the impact that some postmodern features can have on the sense of identity and on mental functioning to propose possible explanations for identity changes and new forms of psychopathology. After revisiting the most recent literature on the theme, this study proposes a clinical consideration for a possible link between new forms of psychopathology and mental suffering. It particularly suggests that the changes observed in affectivity (including increase in dysphoria, irritability, restlessness, boredom, feeling of emptiness) and behaviour (reduction in impulse control ability, in interpersonal skills and reflective function, etc.)…

Disidentità: una chiave di lettura per le nuove forme di psicopatologia?

2012

Le trasformazioni cui è andata incontro la società nel passaggio dalla modernità alla post-modernità hanno scosso la dimensione gruppale e, perciò stesso, l’identità personale. Lo sfilacciarsi del senso d’appartenenza legato al considerare proprie alcune tradizioni culturali, linguistiche, religiose, ecc. rende difficile non solo la comprensione del mondo, ma anche la possibilità d’interiorizzare tutti quegli aspetti legati all’esperienza stessa di “appartenere” che, slegandosi, si perdono in frammenti di un mondo essenzialmente incerto e provvisorio. L’articolo propone una riflessione sul perché alcuni recenti mutamenti socio-antropologici possono rappresentare una minaccia rispetto allo s…

Hyperreality and Simulacrum: Jean Baudrillard and European Postmodernism

2017

The aim of this paper is to present and explore one of the most fundamental concepts of postmodernity, that is, Jean Baudrillard’s elaboration of the ideas of hyperreality and simulacrum that characterise today’s global consumer culture in which the image of the product is more significant that the product itself. Some attention has also been devoted to European postmodernism, Jean-François Lyotard’s concept of the postmodern articulated in his renown book, The Postmodern Condition, in particular, and the merging of high and popular cultures to form consumer culture of late capitalism.

Independence and involvement : an actor-perspective on building intercultural local societies in a globalised, postmodern world

2004

Newspapers on sustainable development - a postmodern business perspective

2009

The paper departs from an urge to understand the operating environment of business firms in the postmodern society. In identifying sustainable development as a key concept, we make use of daily newspapers to explore which values these attach to reporting on sustainable development. After identifying these norms of society, we argue that firms have taken on a role in people’s lives that former pertained to the religious, collective culture. Business organizations provide a sense of belonging in times when people look for new areas of selfidentification. This role has been accepted opportunistically and strategically in the business world. We thus identify a weak SD paradigm, which seems to i…