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This pioneering Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and
in-depth scholarly overview of the field of soft law, exploring the
scope of current thinking in the field as well as proposing future
pathways for soft law research. Organized into four broad themes,
the Research Handbook offers important and unique insights into the
dynamic and complex nature of soft law. The first section delves
into the conceptual history and development of soft law. Second,
the Handbook explores the disciplinary understandings of soft law,
examining how scholars from different fields investigate the topic.
The third theme focuses on the public and private actors and
institutions involved in soft law-making, providing a detailed
analysis of the complex relationships that shape soft law. Finally,
the fourth theme explores the role of soft law in addressing major
global societal challenges, including among others climate change,
gender inequality, and the regulation of artificial intelligence.
This Research Handbook will be a key resource for students and
scholars in constitutional and administrative law, public
international law, regulation and governance, public administration
and policy, and law and politics. Practitioners and policymakers
seeking to better understand the role of soft law in domestic and
international law, policy and governance will also find this book
beneficial.
This comprehensive Handbook offers an extensive overview of current
knowledge of corporate communication from a digital perspective. It
provides a state-of-the-art view of the ubiquitous impact, both
positive and negative, of digital technologies and digitalisation
processes on corporate communication. Bringing together insights
from leading thinkers in the field of digital corporate
communication (DCC), the book explores how digitalisation is
transforming organisations and corporate communication. Chapters
examine new, emerging and progressive topics and future trends in
DCC, including digital hijacking, disinformation and the role of
artificial intelligence. Collectively, they present over 30 case
studies from around the world to help relate theory to practice.
Analysing the changing practices and functions of digitalisation,
the Handbook illuminates how organisations are striving to be
continuously available 24/7 while embracing the new demands of
digital stakeholders. Addressing future challenges facing
increasingly digital organisations, this Handbook will be a
valuable resource for scholars and students interested in strategic
management, branding, marketing and organisational behaviour. Its
overview of CommTech development will also be beneficial for
communication practitioners and organisational leaders seeking to
navigate the expectations of digitally-active stakeholders.
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Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people
talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other.
This book examines language use and social interaction through the
lens of complexity, focusing on how participants establish and
maintain shared understanding in multi-layered situations and
settings. This book will find readership among students and
scholars who use video-based methods and are interested in
interaction, intersubjectivity and multimodality.
Maelstrom: Christian Dominionism and Far-Right Insurgence
illuminates the latest outbreak of right-wing extremism in America.
The book reviews the cyclical nature of right-wing resurgences in
American history, dismisses the appropriateness of the word
‘fascism’ to explain them, and then describes in depth the goal
of “reconstructing” American institutions on the basis of
biblical principles. It critiques the popular view that far-right
politics is carried by stupid, socially isolated, nuts. To this
end, it discusses the logicality of the “big lie,” and examines
in detail how people are recruited into the far-right, by
entertaining the theories of authoritarianism and resource
mobilization. Finally, it characterizes how the ends-oriented
rationality of far-right activists differs from the mini-max
criterion of rationality utilized by the ordinary person. This can
motivate them to be violent and can frustrate efforts by the
government to control them.
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves
as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society
and television's prominent voice and place in the home, it is
likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories.
These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful
socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in
it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media
Representation brings together a diverse group of scholars to
investigate the role television plays in shaping our understanding
of self and family. This edited collection's rich and diverse
research demonstrates how television plays an important role in
negotiating self, and goes far beyond the treacly "very special"
episodes found in family sit-coms in the 1980s. Instead, the
authors show how television reflects our reality and helps us to
sort out what it means to be a twenty-first-century man or woman.
This volume discusses current and emerging trends in
Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on
step-by-step procedures of talk and interaction in real time, EMCA
explores how people – through locally-produced, public, and
common-sensical practices – accomplish activities together and
thereby make sense and create social order as part of their
everyday lives. The volume is divided into four parts, and it
provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new
questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the
study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical diversity
in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing its
boundaries, and paves way for the development of future interaction
research. At the same time, the book offers readers a glimpse into
the ways in which human and non-human participants operate with
each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors
represent diverse fields of research, such as language studies,
sociology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, and
cognitive science. Ultimately, the book is a conversation opener
that invites critical and constructive dialogue on how EMCA’s
methodology and toolbox could be developed for the purpose of
acquiring richer perspectives on endogenous social action. This is
key reading for researchers and advanced students on a range of
courses on conversation analysis, language in interaction,
discourse studies, multimodality and more.
Does your wife feel like you understand her? Does your husband feel
like you respect him? Do your children feel important to you? Do
your co-workers feel a part of the team? Do your employees feel
empowered?
Working in the worlds of business and ministry, John E. heard
stories of how leaders treated those around them. Within his own
leadership and taking note of leaders around him, John E. noticed a
common theme. Leaders who focused on the feelings of the people
around them found their co-workers liked working for them, their
friends liked hanging around them, and their family liked living
with them.
With stories from business and family life, John E. paints a
picture of what life looks like as people develop their vision for
those around them. If the relationships around you need work, you
may want to "Look At It This Way."
This collection of course notes from a number theory summer school
focus on aspects of Diophantine Analysis, addressed to Master and
doctoral students as well as everyone who wants to learn the
subject. The topics range from Baker's method of bounding linear
forms in logarithms (authored by Sanda Bujacic and Alan Filipin),
metric diophantine approximation discussing in particular the yet
unsolved Littlewood conjecture (by Simon Kristensen), Minkowski's
geometry of numbers and modern variations by Bombieri and Schmidt
(Tapani Matala-aho), and a historical account of related number
theory(ists) at the turn of the 19th Century (Nicola M.R. Oswald).
Each of these notes serves as an essentially self-contained
introduction to the topic. The reader gets a thorough impression of
Diophantine Analysis by its central results, relevant applications
and open problems. The notes are complemented with many references
and an extensive register which makes it easy to navigate through
the book.
This book explores how Lean – a global management doctrine –
operates and is adopted in real, corporeal, collective and
affective environments of health and social care services. During
Lean implementation processes, knowledges, affects, skills and
materialities come together in manifold, complex ways. Based on
ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and observation, and with
empirical and theoretical rigour, the book provides an answer to
the question of what happens to care work when processes become
‘Leaned’. As in many other fields, the predominantly female
health and social care sectors suffer from devaluation in terms of
wages and working conditions. The book explores how Lean management
is ultimately lived in this gendered context of work and labour.
Moreover, the book situates Lean and related management doctrines
in the current mutation of capitalism – that is, biocapitalism
– in which bios, life itself, becomes the core of value
production. The book adds to the corpus of work, organization and
management studies on Lean that have rarely focused on gender,
affect or sociomateriality. It provides scholars in Social Science,
Management and Gender Studies with a fresh outlook and a
cross-disciplinary take on Lean management.
Maelstrom: Christian Dominionism and Far-Right Insurgence
illuminates the latest outbreak of right-wing extremism in America.
The book reviews the cyclical nature of right-wing resurgences in
American history, dismisses the appropriateness of the word
‘fascism’ to explain them, and then describes in depth the goal
of “reconstructing” American institutions on the basis of
biblical principles. It critiques the popular view that far-right
politics is carried by stupid, socially isolated, nuts. To this
end, it discusses the logicality of the “big lie,” and examines
in detail how people are recruited into the far-right, by
entertaining the theories of authoritarianism and resource
mobilization. Finally, it characterizes how the ends-oriented
rationality of far-right activists differs from the mini-max
criterion of rationality utilized by the ordinary person. This can
motivate them to be violent and can frustrate efforts by the
government to control them.
This volume discusses current and emerging trends in
Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis (EMCA). Focusing on
step-by-step procedures of talk and interaction in real time, EMCA
explores how people – through locally-produced, public, and
common-sensical practices – accomplish activities together and
thereby make sense and create social order as part of their
everyday lives. The volume is divided into four parts, and it
provides a timely methodological contribution by exploring new
questions, settings, and recording technologies in EMCA for the
study of social interaction. It addresses the methodical diversity
in EMCA, including current practices as well as those testing its
boundaries, and paves way for the development of future interaction
research. At the same time, the book offers readers a glimpse into
the ways in which human and non-human participants operate with
each other and make sense of the world around them. The authors
represent diverse fields of research, such as language studies,
sociology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, and
cognitive science. Ultimately, the book is a conversation opener
that invites critical and constructive dialogue on how EMCA’s
methodology and toolbox could be developed for the purpose of
acquiring richer perspectives on endogenous social action. This is
key reading for researchers and advanced students on a range of
courses on conversation analysis, language in interaction,
discourse studies, multimodality and more.
Do librarians rock the boat ? Do they challenge those around them
to win influence and advantage? Why is it that librarians are
little found on the influence grid of personality assessment tests?
The Machiavellian Librarian offers real life examples of librarians
who use their knowledge and skill to project influence, and turn
the tide in their, and their library s, favor. Authors offer first
hand and clear examples to help librarians learn to use their
influence effectively, for the betterment of their library and
their career. Opening chapters cover visualizing data, as well as
networking and strategic alignment. Following chapters discuss
influence without authority-making fierce allies, communicating
results in accessible language and user-centered planning. Closing
chapters address using accreditation and regulation reporting to
better position the library, as well as political positioning and
outcome assessment.
Throws the spotlight on librarian s professional and personality
traits, many of which are deleterious to the long-term viability of
library fundingShows how best to boost the value proposition of
libraries, through enhanced influenceIncludes how-to chapters on
influencing others in the organization"
Am Beispiel der Initiationssakramente (Taufe, Firmung,
Eucharistiefeier) und der Priesterweihe wird einerseits die
Konsekration der Materie (Wasser, Myronoel, Brot und Wein) und des
Empfangers dargestellt, anderseits das Konsekrationsgeschehen der
einzelnen liturgischen Vollzuge nach der syrisch antiochenischen
Liturgie miteinander verglichen, analysiert und kommentiert.
An edition and translation of the four treatises of John of Dara
(d. 860) On the Resurrection of Human Bodies.
Far-Right Fantasy is a straight-forward, jargon-free study of
contemporary American right-wing extremism. Accessible to both
professional and lay audiences, it allows activists to speak for
themselves in their own words. It takes the self-announced
religious motivations of extremists seriously, and illustrates this
by citing numerous cases of radical politics. The book addresses
the strengths and weaknesses of the standard psycho-social-cultural
explanations of far-right activism. It shows how extremists are
similar educationally and psychologically to their more
conventional neighbors; that they get into the movement in the same
way that others become peace activists or radical
environmentalists, namely, through their ties with fellow workers
and church-goers, family members, and classmates; and that their
views are given a patina of certainty by being repeatedly
corroborated within closed, non-contaminated communication systems.
The book avoids being preachy or judgmental, but it does try to
challenge readers morally by submitting far-right fantasy to a
formal ideology critique. It does this by showing how the reforms
it recommends - a marketplace free of regulation, draconian
immigration restrictions; an end to the federal reserve bank and
the income tax; a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution;
anti-union "right to work" laws and a return to debt slavery; the
privatization of schools, the post office, and the commons, and so
on - contradict its ostensible goal, which is to protect and
enhance middle class interests. Far-Right Fantasy is suitable for
adoption as a supplemental text in political psychology and
sociology, sociologies of religion and knowledge, collective
behavior, and American political history.
ResponsAbility challenges conventional thinking about our
governance and legal frameworks. The cross-currents of persisting,
established worldviews, knowledge systems, institutions, law and
forms of governance are now at odds with future-facing innovations
designed to help societies transition to both low-carbon economies
and social equity. This book explores the ways in which we can move
to new governance and legal structures that more effectively
reflect our changed relationship with the Earth in the
Anthropocene. The book is written by a group of eminent scholars
and leading experts from a diverse range of backgrounds, all of
whom bring new knowledge and analysis from across oceanic and
continental regions. Many are from the discipline of law, whilst
others bring expertise on indigenous knowledge, climate, water,
governance and philosophy to engage with law. Contributors include
His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi, Head of State of
Samoa, Judge Sir E. Taikakurei Durie, Dame Anne Salmond, Pierre
Calame and Adrian Macey. A number of scenarios are presented
throughout the book for the realignment of global and local law to
institutionalise responsibility for social, environmental and
earth-centered equity.
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