Continuous Process Of Negotiation Research Articles

Clearing Up Correlationism

In After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux speculates from the principle of noncontradiction’s a priori enclosure toward a standpoint of absolute contingency. Based on his propositions, I argue that his thinking continues to reproduce a contradiction between the finitude of the subject and the infinitude of the noumenal world. Accordingly, I eschew the principle of noncontradiction in favor of a principle of contradiction derived from Hermann Levin Goldschmidt’s Contradiction Set Free. Goldschmidt formulates contradiction as an Either-And-Or whereby the two contradictory terms share a space between them in which there elapses a continuous process of negotiation. If the relation between finitude and infinitude is an Either-And-Or, then there is an interpenetration between the finite and the infinite, between bounded subject and noumenal world. Goldschmidt’s method reinvigorates the contradiction with which Meillassoux is grappling and introduces a more immanent mode of infinitude that echoes certain Spinozist and pre-Spinozist strains of Jewish thought.

Efficiency-Aware Dynamic Service Pricing Strategy for Geo-Distributed Fog Computing

Fog computing provides new ideas for solving big data problems in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. With fog, we can save much time on long-distance transmission, thereby increasing the efficiency of network service. However, to transform fog computing from a technology to a service, we first need to properly handle the trading relationship between users and service provider in fog. In this paper, we design an efficiency-aware dynamic service pricing strategy to optimize the payoffs of both users and provider in fog computing. In the modeling, we design a Stackelberg competition-based model while regarding provider as the market leader, and each individual user as a follower. Users in this model care about how to obtain the most cost-effective services. And provider pays attention to taking full advantage of the geo-distributed characteristic in setting prices with multiple customers. In the performance evaluation part, we carry out experiments using real-world datasets to simulate this continuous negotiation process between supply and demand in fog pricing. The results show that our strategy can solve the dual-objective optimization problem while establishing a stable trading relationship between the two sides.

‘Monkeys play by sizes’: the reconstruction of military hierarchy in Ghana's armed forces

AbstractGhana's post-independence era has been shaped by a series of coups and numerous attempted military interventions. While the involvement of the Ghana Armed Forces in politics has received widespread academic attention, the detrimental effects of these events on the military as an institution remain largely understudied. Using the coups of 1979 and 1981 as a point of departure, the article explores from an institutional perspective how the disruption of the everyday in the Ghanaian barracks resulted in the temporal breakdown of discipline and the collapse of military hierarchy. The article further examines the measures taken by the Provisional National Defence Council junta to rebuild and nurture hierarchy following its breakdown. It is also argued that restoration of hierarchy in the Ghanaian barracks called not only for an appeal to soldierly values, such as respect for rank and authority, but also for dramatic performances of authority and military hierarchy. The article depicts hierarchy in various settings, while exploring how the military order is expressed and lived in the current constellation. In short, the article not only illustrates a historical evolution, but also demonstrates that the maintenance of order and hierarchy in a closed institution such as the military is an ongoing and continuous negotiation process.

A qualitative study of young childhood cancer survivors and their parents' experiences with treatment-related late effects in everyday life post-treatment.

The purpose of this secondary analysis was to explore how young cancer survivors and their parents experience and manage treatment-related late effects in daily life post-treatment. A phenomenological-hermeneutic explorative study. Using purposive sampling, we included 15 childhood cancer survivors (aged 11-18years) and their parents who participated in semi-structured interviews from September 2019 through May 2020. We analysed the interviews paired using a thematic approach focused on meaning. The central theme, 'Negotiation daily life', emerged as well as three interrelated sub-themes, that is 'A changed everyday life', 'Physical activity as a tool' and 'Friends as a tool'. The childhood cancer survivors and their parents experienced, understood and interpreted the late effects differently. The difference between the survivors' perceptions and those of their parents in managing treatment-related late effects in everyday life resulted in a continuous negotiation process between the parties. Parents highlighted the negative impact of late effects on their child's daily life in relation to physical activity, school and socialization while the survivors wished to leave the cancer experience behind and 'move on' with their friends. As a result, most of the survivors developed strategies to manage their social activities while their parents felt that the survivors neglected the late effects. The ongoing negotiation process between the childhood cancer survivors and their parents show the complexity of the new family dynamics on returning to everyday life post-treatment. For clinical nurses, that means that there should be focus on family dynamics and how the childhood cancer survivors and parents, respectively, manage the childhood cancer survivors' late effects. Healthcare providers should distinguish between the needs of the survivors and those of their parents as they transition from treatment to everyday life, and especially in the management of late effects caused by the treatment.

Revealing the hidden performances of social work practice: The ethnographic process of gaining access, getting into place and impression management

Whilst the empirical process of research highlights substantive findings, understanding the methodological approach in which access is gained and sustained on field sites is also an integral part of the data. Gaining access in ethnographic studies, in particular, is a complex task which requires researchers to continually negotiate systems and processes in order that they may reflect on the socially embedded practices of their chosen fields. However, once the researchers are accepted, the ethnographer then has to be aware of the effect their presence has on the field and that access is a continual process of negotiation and contestation. Based on a longitudinal study, which conducted a 15-month ethnography in two social work organizations, this article will explore the dilemmas various members of a research team experienced when trying to blend into the different sites. And then, once having achieved their desired position, the challenges they encountered when they realized that their presence was affecting the performances of their participants. We conclude by discussing the importance of reflexivity, power and ethics. Ethnographic research may be a more natural way for researchers to collect data, but it is also a method which positions researchers in situations, where they can easily influence encounters and, in effect, become part of the findings as well.

TRADUZIR UMA TRADUÇÃO: ALGUMAS OBSERVAÇÕES SOBRE A TRADUÇÃO DO PRIMEIRO LIVRO DE MACABEUS

Este artigo apresenta as dificuldades e desafios para a tradução do primeiro livro de Macabeus na língua portuguesa, tendo em vista as características do grego desta obra, bem como do seu caráter de tradução de um original semítico. A tentativa de se produzir uma tradução em português seguindo o princípio da equivalência dinâmica impõe ao tradutor um constante processo de negociação quando o texto grego a ser traduzido é já uma tradução que buscou correspondência formal com o texto hebraico original. As etapas dessa negociação e as considerações do tradutor são apresentadas neste artigo através da discussão de vários exemplos.

From West to East: British sojourners’ acculturation in China

PurposeThe previous literature has often focussed on Asian migrants’ acculturation to western cultures with data collected in the western contexts. The purpose of this paper is to explore western consumers’ acculturation to East Asian cultures and their consumption behaviour, which fulfils the research scarcity in this area.Design/methodology/approachThis study was conducted via carrying out in-depth interviews with 18 British sojourners in China, exploring how they acculturated to Chinese culture, with a particular focus on their food and media consumption choices. This study applied inductive qualitative data analysis to build on but explore beyond existing theory.FindingsThe findings show that British consumers display a diversified acculturation strategy towards different products. They present an integrative approach to food consumption with a negotiable identity to host culture value whilst they adopt a separated approach relating to traditional media consumption, showing a non-negotiable consumption stance. They apply an assimilated approach for pragmatic reasons in terms of social media adoption.Originality/valueBritish sojourners in China hold a different cultural stance in different areas of consumption. The study contributes to existing theory by arguing the complexity of a continuous negotiation process between different value systems in sojourning consumers’ consumption choices, which existing acculturation models have not yet examined. By emphasising the context speciality, the findings give marketers clear marketing implications when targeting sojourning consumers who declare their value stance via consumption practice.

“Você é viado? Você gosta de homem?”: Professores/as homossexuais e o dispositivo de sexualidade na escola

Neste texto, são apresentadas narrativas produzidas durante uma pesquisa de mestrado a partir dos encontros com sete professores/as que se auto identificaram como homossexuais. Foi utilizado como referencial teórico-metodológico a perspectiva pós-estruturalista. Por meio dessa perspectiva puderam ser problematizadas as formas pelas quais os/as professores/as vão se constituindo enquanto docentes homossexuais e discutir como esses/as professores/as vão se produzindo nas relações de poder, nas relações com o outro e, sobretudo, como se relacionam com a instituição escolar. As narrativas obtidas apontam que assumir-se enquanto professor/a homossexual organiza a forma com que o sujeito se comporta dentro escola, vivenciando um contínuo processo de negociação com o outro e consigo mesmo. Além disso, esses/as professores/as vão corajosamente criando suas próprias existências e se distanciando do padrão heteronormativo de ser. Isso é significativo, pois eles e elas rompem com a heteronormatividade, colocam em suspensão as crenças e as lógicas binárias que estão ao nosso redor nos cerceando da experienciação de diferentes modos de vida.

Religion, Family, and Justice: A Narrative Study of Adults Learning to Teach for Social Justice in the Deep South

The Deep South is a distinctive, complex sociogeographic region of the U.S. whose history and politics have been marred by societal inequities and injustices. This research considered theories of social justice education and transformative learning to understand the processes by which adults learn to teach for social justice in the Deep Southern context. The study included from adult students enrolled in a doctoral-level class in education at a large, urban university in the Deep South. Narrative inquiry and Voice-Centered Relational Method were used in the process of data collection and analysis. Among the participants, familial and cultural religious narratives pervaded, deeply affecting a continual process of negotiation among the participants’ understanding of teaching for social justice and their own socially constructed identities. The religious backgrounds and family ethos fostered new notions of social justice and contributed to the participants’ perceptions of confidence to teach for social justice.

Between narratives of reconciliation and resistance: Re-locating social cohesion in the current South African statue debates

“Social cohesion” is a complex concept, characterised by a “prism of meanings”. In South Africa social cohesion has been tied to the question of nation building, with the arts, culture and heritage domains having been identified as key players in this ethical task, since the idea is that social cohesion would be promoted if citizens were sensitised to the diversity of identities. Despite these ideals, however, social cohesion among South Africans still seems far away. This is not merely due to practical capacity and economic issues, but also because of operational challenges. In this article, I argue that the ongoing statue debates on South African public university campuses (specifically a case study of events at the University of the Free State from 2008 to date) offer a critical opportunity to reflect on the relationship between social cohesion and identity. However, the moment risks being lost due to the current understanding that the statue debates represent only identity polarisation and the breakdown of social cohesion, cynicism about these very concepts, and operational confusion. The question arises of whether we could think differently regarding heritage and social cohesion. Could we view the conflicts and contradictions around these statues as spaces for ongoing re-imagination, and the pursuit of identity as a continual process of negotiation?

The development of integration in the elderly care sector: a qualitative analysis of national policies and local initiatives in France and Sweden

ABSTRACTDue to a significant increase in the complexity of the care demands of older people having multiple care needs, the necessity for integrated care is increasingly acknowledged. Proposing a qualitative approach based on a secondary literature analysis and an empirical survey, this paper explores the integration policy of health and social care for older people having complex needs in two European countries – France and Sweden – where various policy measures aiming at developing and delivering integrated care can be identified: at the national level, through the supportive measures of organisational, institutional and/or professional integration from central government, and at the local level, with the implementation of concrete integrative initiatives. Using a comparative qualitative approach, the authors investigate both of these levels, as well as the interplay between them. They show the importance of this double – local and national – approach of the issue of integration and highlight the continuous negotiation process which underlies the integration activities. Local integration initiatives are in fact constantly reshaped by top-down and bottom-up dynamics which appear to be strongly interconnected.

Participatory film-making for social change: Dilemmas in balancing participatory and artistic qualities

Abstract This study contributes to the field of films for social change by exploring the production process of participatory film-making for social change, whereby explicit claims of community empowerment, participation and social change are the very justification of the production. To do so, it investigates the definitions and production processes of community art, participatory video and mediated participation. Using ‘practice as research’ as a key method of enquiry, we examine three film practices to explore aspects of professionalism. The objective of this examination is to elucidate the process of community member participation in collaboration with film-makers, facilitators and action researchers. People participate in film production processes by contributing to the script, acting, location scouting or any other activity at any stage of the film production. In examining this collaborative process, we focus on dilemmas encountered in relation to integrating participatory qualities and artistic qualities in a work of overall interdisciplinary and professional quality. The material used for the enquiry consists of participatory observations, scripts, films, course materials, audience observations, evaluation forms and in-depth interviews collected over the years in different projects. The analysis of the material indicates that the film-makers deal with dilemmas regarding the balance of the film’s participatory and artistic qualities and the production process. The expectations of the film-making community regarding the process, the resulting film and the related audience influence the balance between the participatory quality of the process and the artistic quality of the film. Finding a balance between participatory quality and artistic quality is a challenge, and in practice the stakeholders involved experience tensions in a continuous process of negotiation. This article demonstrates the tensions and illustrates the continuous process of negotiation between the (roles of) film-makers, facilitators, action researchers and community members.

A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China by Jenny T. Chio (review)

Jenny T. Chio, A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism Rural Ethnic China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. 304 pp.In A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism Rural Ethnic China, Jenny Chio skillfully unpacks complexities of ethnic-tourism development rural China. Based on substantial ethnographic fieldwork Ping'an (a Zhuang village Guangxi) and Upper Jidao (a Miao village Guizhou), she lays bare regimes of mobility and visuality that turn one person's leisure into another person's labor. Situating her research within and guests framework (Smith 1989), Chio criticizes overemphasis on tourists studies. Instead, her focuses on residents of village destinations. More precisely, she disentangles discourses and practices of those who do of tourism, thereby blurring fine line between hosts and often-neglected intermediary category of service providers.In preface and introduction to book, Chio gives readers more information about theoretical and methodological tools that she uses. Her main analytical focus on doing examines landscape of travel, which the act and imagination of travel become key nodes through which tourists, migrants, ethnic minorities, mainstream majorities, rural villagers, and urban dwellers negotiate and make sense of current social, economic, and political (xvii). As a conceptual framework for tracing social relations, this landscape of travel illuminates complex networks of ambitions, expectations, and opportunities that are shaping transformations (14). Such approach allows Chio to zoom on two fundamental social processes that shape work of tourism, namely human mobility (particularly and migration) and visuality (the social fact of vision).Chapter 1 sketches larger context of Chio's case studies. It describes history of and current conditions villages, and discusses broader issues of ethnic identity and visual representations of ethnicity China. This reveals lasting importance of imaginaries of difference, point that has also been made by other anthropologists of (e.g., Salazar and Graburn 2014). The construction of ethnic minorities China involves continuous process of negotiation between national, mainstream, local, and individual imaginations and aspirations (34). The way this plays out development of field sites, however, is slightly dissimilar. Whereas Ping'an beautiful views of Longsheng rice terraces are primary tourist focus, Upper Jidao was developed from very beginning as ethnic destination.In second chapter, Chio discusses tourism as development, or tight connection between rural household-based enterprises (nong jia le, or family business happiness) and general Chinese policies for rural development (particularly campaign to build New Socialist Countryside). Both formed part of an effort to increase rural incomes and also to raise suzhi [quality] of ethnic minorities by modernizing them (98). Moreover, aimed at curbing rural-to-urban migration and encouraging villagers to stay, or return, home. After all, domestic migrant workers China continue to be regarded by many as low quality (92). By discussing larger frame of national development policies (to keep rural population in place), Chio nicely illustrates here how tourism China was bound tightly with explicit attempts to construct new Chinese countryside, new Chinese tourist, and new rural Chinese subject (97).Chapter 3 focuses on mobility, which Chio defines as both ability to travel and...all of attendant desires and notions of agency associated with this capacity to envision travel as socially significant element of one's subjectivity and life experiences (102). …

‘Unwalling’ the classroom: teacher reaction and adaptation

Modern open school architecture abstractly expresses ideas about choice, flexibility and autonomy. While open spaces express and authorise different teaching practice, these versions of school and classrooms present challenges to teaching routines and practice. This paper examines how teachers adapt as they move into new school buildings designed and built on the concept of openness. After considering how modern architectural and education concepts of openness authorise different approaches to teaching and learning, a case study is provided of how teachers perceive and respond to these action possibilities. The main conclusions are that the nature of open schools and classrooms means that it is difficult to achieve a mature system with coherent pedagogical practice, a shared culture and mutuality between teacher and student learning. Rather, there is a continual process of negotiation as teachers react and adapt to the affordances of open learning environments. Hybrid pedagogy tends to result from the friction between routine and possible practice within open space, increasing the intensity of teaching practice.

MANIFESTASI IDENTITAS ISLAM SUKU BAJO DALAM NASKAH LONTARAK ASSALENNA BAJO

The Bajo people are known as the sea wanderers because they always wander the sea. However, aside from their unique characteristic as people of the sea, the Bajo are also known as Muslims. Therefore, Islam is an important element of their identity, either reflected in their daily life or written in the manuscript Lontarak Assalenna Bajo as the form of self-narration of their cultural history. Islam has been accepted through a continual process of negotiation and development.The Bajo people were not Muslim before they became sea wanderes. They received the influence of Islam from the land-bound people surrounding them as a result of interactions between the two groups.

Coordinating sales and operations management in automobile industry under long procurement lead times

The automobile industry is characterized by a very volatile demand and impatient customers. Furthermore, globalization has grown longer procurement lead times of vehicle assembly plants. Therefore a challenge for automotive manufacturers is to cleverly adjust production capacities with customer demands. To satisfy car buyers in a competitive market, sales dealers require short delivery lead time and the possibility to order customized vehicles as late as possible. However, plants need to order parts several weeks beforehand for distant suppliers, when the demand is not known yet. The issue is to find the best trade-off between these sales requirements and industrial constraints while limiting stock levels and emergency supplies due to parts shortages. This study is based on the actual situation of a global automotive manufacturer where a continuous negotiation process is done between sales and supply chain departments to manage this trade-off. During the sales and operations planning, flexibility levels are defined and represent the maximum number of a given vehicle type that sales dealers can order during a week. Since this process is new, supply chain managers lack insights about how this flexibility may impact inventories and delivery lead time. Our objective is to model the dynamics of this sales and operations planning and to study how to improve logistics performance without deteriorating customer satisfaction. We show how flexibility levels impact delivery time and logistic costs by using a simulation approach based on actual industrial data.

Young People and Social Capital: Transition from Primary Schools to Lower Secondary Level in Ireland

Acquisition and enhancement of social capital is a continuous process of negotiation and interaction between self and social context. While the concept of social capital has been dealt with extensively in international research, relatively few studies have explored social capital among young people, particularly in the school context. This paper considers access of first-year students (age twelve to thirteen years) to school-based social capital in secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland. Drawing on several theories dealing with social capital, the paper describes factors that are likely to have an impact on the acquisition process. It is argued in the paper that access to teacher- and peer-based social capital may provide valuable resources that ease the transition process for students as they move from primary schools to secondary level.

Conceptualisation of volunteering in palliative care: a narrative synthesis of the literature

BackgroundVolunteering in the UK has recently been embraced under the banner of the ‘Big Society’ but its history has long been aligned to the development of the hospice movement. As...

Medicine and the making of interprofessional education.

Interprofessional education is a distillation of the investment made by the participating professions — medicine, nursing, allied health, social work and others — each instilling its values, knowledge, and skills accompanied by its preferred learning methods during a continuous process of negotiation and accommodation. This paper focuses on the contribution made in the UK by medicine. It distinguishes between two phases: Interprofessional education took root in the UK during the late 1960s, driven by developments in primary and community care. Teamwork became the cornerstone for effective collaboration as primary care centres were established, but no panacea. Relationships between professions which may have worked well enough at arms length became fraught at close quarters. GPs were enthusiastic about the work of the district nurses, but critical of health visitors whose role some failed to understand. Others understood well enough, but felt that the advice given by the health visitors was at best unnecessary and at worst ill-conceived to the point of being harmful.1,2 These women stood accused of being interfering, even officious and impertinent towards patients, giving medical advice, often incorrect or in conflict with the GP's treatment, and undermining their authority with their patients.3 As for social workers, GPs regarded them as relatively junior employees of the local authority, whose main functions were to find home helps, sort out financial problems, and rescue battered babies. Neither GPs nor health visitors thought that social workers were trustworthy. They were hard to contact and slow to take action, did not offer a 24-hour service or remain long in the same post, never made time to discuss individual cases, …

Is There Potential for the Historical Range of Variability to Guide Conservation Given the Social Range of Variability?

Thompson, J. R., S. L. Duncan, and K. N. Johnson. 2008. Is there potential for the historical range of variability to guide conservation given the social range of variability? Ecology and Society 14(1): 18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02482-140118