Collective Character Research Articles

Indigenous Voices in the Knowledge Production

In Brazil, in recent years, we have observed an increase in the access of indigenous people in Higher Education and Postgraduate Studies. They demand recognition as producers of scientific knowledge, overcoming the colonial paradigms that objectify them in the production of knowledge. However, in the case of Public Health, persists a very low visibility of indigenous participation in academia. This experience report presents the project “Indigenous Voices in the Production of Knowledge”, carried out through a partnership between a collective of indigenous researchers from different regions of the country and researchers from “Academic Institution”. A network of 20 indigenous researchers was organized, who met in 2019 and highlighted the need to “give recognition to indigenous knowledge” as a scientific expression; the difficulties of mastering the Portuguese language; the collective character of indigenous authorship and the need to make indigenous identities visible in authorship in scientific productions. An Indigenous Editorial Board was formed and prepared a public call for indigenous authors, which resulted in an open access publication with 21 texts. The editorial process sought to qualify the editorial board in the editorial production process; indigenous researchers carried out the peer review of the submitted texts; and virtual meetings were held with the authors to discuss the opinions. In addition to a quality academic production by indigenous authors, the project strengthened the network of indigenous researchers in collective health area, involving them in other events and initiatives, and triggered institutional changes at “Academic Institution”.

Urban identity versus national identity in the global city: Evidence from six European cities

AbstractThis study explores the prioritization of urban identity over national identity in the context of the global city. Scholars have extensively discussed the fragmentation of national identity among individuals in the globalized world, and the relative proliferation of other communal identities, whether more cosmopolitan or place‐based. As globalization gradually erodes the cultural distinctiveness of nation states, cities are revealed as arenas within which inhabitants nurture a particular collective character, which is used as an attractive source of local, communal belonging. Global cities, in particular, are a compelling case to inquire into the interplay between national and urban identity. Due to their relative independence vis‐à‐vis the state, the global city can promote the values shared by inhabitants while constituting significant competition for nation‐based self‐determination and providing a unique source of urban identity that is simultaneously cosmopolitan and place‐based.In this paper we ask whether city‐zens living in highly globalized cities are more likely to prioritize their urban identity over their national identity. Utilizing the GaWC Index of cities’ globalization levels, we analyze the results of an original survey conducted among residents of six European cities: Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Utrecht and Glasgow. Our empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that in globalized cities a higher level of globalism accords with a more explicit tendency to prioritize urban identity over national identity. In conclusion, we interpret this evidence as an identities trade‐off that challenges the coexistence of urban and national identities within globalized cities, discussing its implications for future studies of contemporary politics.

Oil embargo as a diplomacy tool: possibilities and limitations on the example of the Israeli crisis

In the following article the possibility of application of the oil embargo tool as a mean of impacting the crisis settlement is considered. The chosen case is the Palestine-Israel confl ict in its active phase since October 2023. The Yom Kippur war of 1973 and the invasion of Israel by Hamas of 7 October 2023 are compared, distinguishing similarities and diff erences. The common features are the start of the operation exactly 50 years after the historical precedent, collective character of the attack, its suddenness, and also a huge potential of Arab countries in the world oil market. There are some distinctive features revealed by the author, though. The Arab states are to a bigger extent aimed at conducting negotiations and resolving the confl ict by diplomatic means than in 1973, the structure of the world oil market is different compared to how it was 50 years ago, giving the OPEC members less possibilities for action, as well as fragmentation among the cartel members themselves, decreasing the opportunity agree on the embargo. The author remarks the intention of several Arab countries, in particular, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, to mediate the confl ict, as well as their aspiration to preserve the trend of restoring relations with Israel. The article highlights the position of researchers about the importance of network diplomacy during confl ict settlement. The shares of countries non entering the OPEC, namely, the United States of America, Russia, Canada are investigated. The conclusion about their important role as oil producers, what limits the possibility of oil embargo,is done. The question of lack of political unity among the OPEC members, as, for example, Saudi Arabia and Iran, Iran and Iraq, is unveiled. The factor of political instability in Libya is emphasised. The author comes to the conclusion about necessity to possess a significant share in the oil market, as well as the political consensus for an effective usage of the oil embargo tool. The relevance of the article is based on an increasing role of the Palestine-Israeli confl ict in contemporary international relations, but also the necessity to study the possibility of using the oil embargo in the current conditions, being based on the successful experience of 1970s. The chosen methods are historical and comparative analysis.

Role-ing The Dice

Tabletop roleplaying games are not new hobbies but have a distinct contemporary affiliation with pop culture. Many shows and podcasts feature popular TTRPG Dungeons and Dragons, among various additional games. These games have the powerful potential to examine identity, identity formation, and many personal issues through roleplaying potential. Collective storytelling and character development are cornerstones of this process. With this potential, it is important to realize the potential for negative experiences and tabletop spaces that could potentially cause more harm than good for players. This article examines the connections between TTRPGs and the intimacy process. Mainly exploring how intimacy tools such as the “button,” boundary practice, and consent-based world-building can significantly impact the game experience. As a result, I discuss how these processes additionally benefit the individual player. Ultimately, I argue that TTRPGs are strengthened through engagement with the intimacy process.

Lições de Epicuro

No decurso de toda a antiguidade, a filosofia caracterizou-se como uma atividade prática, como um modo de vida composto por ideias, valores e discursos aos quais os indivíduos aderiam voluntariamente. Para o filósofo da era helenística Epicuro (341 – 270 a.C.), a filosofia se caracterizava como uma prática de vida que visava a obtenção de prazeres e a conquista da felicidade. Ao contrário da realidade intrínseca, inerente à filosofia antiga, a filosofia na contemporaneidade se caracteriza em grande medida pelo aspecto teorético e acadêmico, que privilegia o discurso enquanto estrutura formal, em detrimento da prática, da ação cotidiana relacionada ao cuidado de si e à transformação do próprio modo de vida. Utilizando como referencial teórico o pensamento de Epicuro (2005), bem como o conceito de filosofia apresentado por Pierre Hadot (2014) e por Michel Onfray (2010), este trabalho objetiva refletir sobre os contrastes entre a vivência da filosofia na antiguidade e sua produção na contemporaneidade, bem como intenta analisar a possibilidade de um retorno à filosofia enquanto atividade prática, cotidiana, de caráter individual e/ou coletivo.

Lições de Epicuro: A filosofia como modo de vida

Throughout all Antiquity, philosophy was characterized as a practical activity, as a way of life composed of ideas, values and discourses to which individuals voluntarily joined. For the Hellenistic era philosopher, Epicurus (341 – 270 BC), philosophy was characterized as a life practice aimed at obtaining pleasures and the achievement of happiness. Unlike the intrinsic reality inherent to ancient philosophy, the contemporary philosophy is largely characterized by the theoretical and academic aspect that privileges the discourse as a formal structure, to the detriment of practice, of daily action related to self-care and to the transformation of the lifestyle. By using Epicurus’ thought (2005) as theoretical reference, as well as the concept of philosophy presented by Pierre Hadot (2014) and Michel Onfray (2010), this work aims to reflect about the contrasts between the experience of philosophy in Antiquity and its production in contemporaneity, as well as it aims to analyze the possibility of a return to philosophy as a practical, daily activity of an individual character and/or collective character.

Rational Dialogues and Its Constructive Social-Cultural Functions

One of the tools that human civilizations use today to understand each other and resolve misunderstandings is dialogue. Dialogue can reduce social distances and bridge human and cultural gaps. In this research, the social and path-opening functions of dialogue as a bridge between social, political and cultural groups have been discussed. Dialogue is a dynamic process, which has two aspects of collective and social nature. Also, with the logic of dialogue and the method of conversation, it is possible to create a bridge over social, political and ethnic gaps and connect people and groups together. The purpose of writing this article is to explain and describe the functions of dialogue, whether it is possible to fill the social, gender, cultural and cognitive gaps in a society with this method. Today's democratic political systems use dialogue as a communication and cognitive bridge between themselves and the nations. Because there are many similarities between bridge and dialogue, which are also discussed in this article. Due to the fact that dialogue has a collective nature and gathering character, this research with a survey method seeks to know the importance, position and role of dialogue in reducing conflicts in social and cultural relationships. The question is, can this collective character and collection of dialogue prevent the separation and division of people and social groups and reduce misunderstandings towards each other. In addition to the theoretical part of this article, a descriptive-analytical method has been used by distributing the questionnaire. The statistical population of Badakhshan University is considered. The findings of this research indicate that dialogue is one of the appropriate ways to connect social division in a society. Based on the findings, dialogue is like a bridge, which can fill and connect social, linguistic, cultural, ethnic and political gaps. (80%) of the sample population considered the role and importance of dialogue in reducing social misunderstandings, preventing violent social, linguistic and ethnic conflicts.

Feeling Moved: Upward Mobility Stories in Socialism

Abstract: This article offers a theorization of socialist upward mobility stories, a heterogenous genre that aimed to capture the experience of class advancement in state socialism, on the example of the Polish People's Republic. Socialist upward mobility stories developed over time in response to the evolving class politics of the state and transforming class relations, and influenced the ways in which class was thought and lived. The genre was characterized by four recurring motifs: the collective character of socialist upward mobility, the state's role as benefactor, the diffusion of upward mobility, and a heightened emotionality.

Provision of services to the community of a collective and territorial character: strengths, theoretical references and challenges of this methodological strategy

O estudo teve como enfoque a medida socioeducativa de Prestação de Serviços à Comunidade (PSC), cujo objetivo geral foi sistematizar a estratégia metodológica da PSC COLETIVA, em seus aspectos históricos, processos, referências teóricas e experiências. Utilizou-se pesquisa documental, entrevistas com atores relevantes à implementação da proposta e grupo focal com profissionais do serviço. A análise indicou a existência de duas fases no desenvolvimento da metodologia estudada, sendo a segunda redenominada de PSC COLETIVA E TERRITORIAL (PSC-CT), que se tornou o foco do estudo, pois sua proposta favorece a construção coletiva, participativa e territorial da PSC, trazendo novos sentidos para os processos de engajamento, responsabilização e transformação vividos pelos adolescentes no cumprimento da medida. Seus eixos centrais são: a atividade como principal recurso de mediação, o trabalho grupal, a ação territorial e o acompanhamento familiar. A PSC-CT se sustenta na socioeducação, com um efetivo trabalho educativo e pedagógico, crítico e participativo, na perspectiva da garantia de direitos para os adolescentes autores de atos infracionais. Esta proposta metodológica pode ser considerada uma tecnologia social que contribui para o campo das medidas socioeducativas em meio aberto no Brasil e fortalece o trabalho da terapia ocupacional no Sistema Único de Assistência Social.

Коллективная природа низкотемпературных фотопроводимости и проводимости в Пайерлсовском проводнике ромбическом TаS3

This work summarizes the results of series of works devoted to the study of the mechanisms of low-temperature conduction and photoconduction in the Peierls conductor orthorhombic TaS3 (o-TaS3). We used the tools we discovered to change the relationship between the single-particle and collective components of low-temperature photoconduction and conduction in o-TaS3 – illumination and uniaxial stretching of the sample. Using them, we were able to separate single-particle and collective contributions and show that the collective contribution dominates both low-temperature conduction (T ≲ 100 K) and low-temperature photoconduction (T ≲ 45 K). In addition, the discovered analogy between the influence of illumination and stretching on low-temperature conduction and photoconduction made it possible to establish the dimension of charge density wave (CDW) pinning in samples of different cross-sections at low temperatures. It was found that for all samples, including bulk ones, one-dimensional pinning is observed at temperatures T < 40 K, and it also has a collective character.

Investigating the pygmy dipole resonance in 96Mo using the (p,d) reaction

The pygmy dipole resonance (PDR) thus far has been described microscopically as a cluster of 1− states around the neutron separation energy (S n ). This study is an attempt to probe the nature of the PDR, specifically the single-particle or collective character of these states. One-step transfer reactions represents a good probe for this study due to their selectivity in exciting single-particle states. The 97Mo(p,d) 96Mo and 95Mo(d,p)96Mo reactions, were used to populate the nucleus of interest. The experiment was conducted at the INFN-LNS facility in Catania, Italy. The ejectiles were momentum-analysed by the MAGNEX spectrometer and detected by its focal-plane detector. In this paper, preliminary results for the 97Mo(p, d) 96Mo reaction will be presented.

Modified dipole-dipole interactions in the presence of a nanophotonic waveguide

When an emitter ensemble interacts with the electromagnetic field, dipole-dipole interactions are induced between the emitters. The magnitude and shape of these interactions are fully determined by the specific form of the electromagnetic field modes. If the emitters are placed in the vicinity of a nanophotonic waveguide, such as a cylindrical nanofiber, the complex functional form of these modes makes the analytical evaluation of the dipole-dipole interaction cumbersome and numerically costly. In this work, we provide a full detailed description of how to successfully calculate these interactions, outlining a method that can be easily extended to other environments and boundary conditions. Such exact evaluation is of importance as, due to the collective character of the interactions and dissipation in this kind of systems, any small modification of the interactions may lead to dramatic changes in experimental observables, particularly as the number of emitters increases. We illustrate this by calculating the transmission signal of the light guided by a cylindrical nanofiber in the presence of a nearby chain of emitters.

Entanglement propagation and dynamics in non-additive quantum systems

The prominent collective character of long-range interacting quantum systems makes them promising candidates for quantum technological applications. Yet, lack of additivity overthrows the traditional picture for entanglement scaling and transport, due to the breakdown of the common mechanism based on excitations propagation and confinement. Here, we describe the dynamics of the entanglement entropy in many-body quantum systems with a diverging contribution to the internal energy from the long-range two body potential. While in the strict thermodynamic limit entanglement dynamics is shown to be suppressed, a rich mosaic of novel scaling regimes is observed at intermediate system sizes, due to the possibility to trigger multiple resonant modes in the global dynamics. Quantitative predictions on the shape and timescales of entanglement propagation are made, paving the way to the observation of these phases in current quantum simulators. This picture is connected and contrasted with the case of local many body systems subject to Floquet driving.

Collective emotional labor and subgroup dynamics in global virtual teams: a dramaturgical perspective

Emotional labor is a performance of job-required emotions, staged before an audience. Typically, this performance is not only individual but also collective in nature: it is an emotional display put on jointly by teams of employees. And yet, research into emotional labor has tended to neglect its collective aspects, analyzing it primarily as an individual rather than as a group act. This study aims to redress this gap. Drawing on Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis of social groups as “performance teams,” we reframe emotional labor as a collaborative performance at the group level. We then apply this framework to examine the intricacies of collective emotional labor between national subgroups in global virtual teams (GVTs), which communicate both cross-culturally and virtually. Based on semi-structured interviews with members of Indian-Israeli virtual teams in high-tech organizations, we show that each national subgroup in GVTs acts as an “emotional performance team” in front of the other subgroup/s as an audience; that this emotional labor tends to be suppressive rather than expressive and shallow rather than deep; and that the collective, suppressive, and shallow character of this emotional labor might fuel a paradoxical vicious cycle that exacerbates ethnocentrism and estrangement between national subgroups in GVTs rather than alleviating them.

The Collective Character of a Farmers’ Group and the Expected Behavior for its Member: A Comparative Study of Two Different Types of Farmers’ Groups

The Collective Character of a Farmers’ Group and the Expected Behavior for its Member: A Comparative Study of Two Different Types of Farmers’ Groups

Transformational Leadership, Basic Needs Satisfaction and Public Service Motivation: Evidence from Social Workers in Catalonia

ABSTRACT This study tests the relationship between transformational leadership and public service motivation (PSM), as well as the role that the basic needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness play in this relationship. Using a sample of 439 social workers in Barcelona and the Catalonia region, the results support a positive effect of transformational leadership on PSM. Of the three basic psychological needs, the satisfaction of the need of relatedness appears to be the primary driver in developing PSM, as relatedness has been recognized as a source of intrinsic motivation and is the only one of the three basic needs with a collective character. These results have clear practical implications. Transformational leaders designing their organizations to promote mutual support and encourage feelings of relatedness among their employees can contribute to increasing employees’ PSM.

Logarithmic, fractal and volume-law entanglement in a Kitaev chain with long-range hopping and pairing

Thanks to their prominent collective character, long-range interactions promote information spreading and generate forms of entanglement scaling, which cannot be observed in traditional systems with local interactions. In this work, we study the asymptotic behavior of the entanglement entropy for Kitaev chains with long-range hopping and pairing couplings decaying with a power law of the distance. We provide a fully-fledged analytical and numerical characterization of the asymptotic growth of the ground state entanglement in the large subsystem size limit, finding that the truly non-local nature of the model leads to an extremely rich phenomenology. Most significantly, in the strong long-range regime, we discovered that the system ground state may have a logarithmic, fractal, or volume-law entanglement scaling, depending on the value of the chemical potential and on the strength of the power law decay.

From Vices to Corruption to Misanthropy

The main part of the paper describes the deep connections between the concepts of vices, corruption, and misanthropy. I argue that the full significance of the concept of human vices or failings is only fully appreciated when it is connected to an account of the ways that our social practices and institutions are corrupting, in the sense of facilitating or encouraging the development and exercise of those failings. Moreover, reflection on failings and corruption can lead us to misanthropy, defined in a revisionary sense as a negative, critical verdict on the collective moral character and performance of humankind as it has come to be. At the end of the paper, I tentatively ask if there can be forms of Christian misanthropy.

The Spectrum of XR Marketing – Collective Case Study

The main aim of the article is to discuss XR in marketing in the context of phygital category. Five examples from 2016–2022 have been selected to find the answers for proposed research questions: Q1. What is the impact of XR on marketing? Q2. What are the similarities and differences between the analyzed XR marketing projects? Q3. What is the importance of XR in the context of phygital? Q4. Is the combination of physical and digital elements crucial in helping the audience to get accustomed to immersive media? According to Stake this case study has collective character. Selected cases represent different sectors (sport, tourism and fashion) and approaches to XR in marketing. This collective case study was based on desk research, as well as ethnography and autoethnography elements.

Harnessing internal communities: the role of boundary structures

Relying on two case studies, this paper investigates how new knowledge produced by internal communities is integrated in the hosting firms’ activities and procedures. Its main contribution highlights the key role played by boundary structures lying at the interface between communities and the managerial strata of the organization. These structures are instrumental in the boundary work underpinning integration: aligning the communities’ outputs with the firms’ strategy and negotiating their acceptance by top managers. Their role goes beyond a mere diffusion process and includes combining and adapting the managerial and communitarian logics while preserving the autonomy and internal functioning of communities. Due to their collective character, this integration mechanism differs from the sponsor-leader dyad found in the literature on communities.