Face Of Chaos Research Articles

Social Justice, Human Rights, and Environmental Crisis in Álvaro Colomer's Ahora llega el silencio (2019)

The novel Ahora llega el silencio (2019) by Álvaro Colomer is a recent example of Spanish ecofiction, exploring themes of environmental and social justice in a post-apocalyptic setting. This article shows the novel’s potential to address human rights, gender equality, social justice, climate and environmental issues. Through a story of survival and unity in the face of chaos, Colomer's work delivers a timely message about the need for cooperation, respect, and environmental stewardship for a better future.

Ziyaüddin Sardar’ın Postnormal Zamanlar Teorisi Çerçevesinde Toplumsal Değişim Sürecinde Din Eğitimi Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

Toplumsal değişim, hızı, etkisi ve kapsadığı alan değişmekle birlikte her dönemde gerçekleşmiş bir olgudur. Toplumsal değişim sürecinden etkilenen pek çok faktör arasında din ve eğitim de vardır. Dolayısıyla din eğitiminde de toplumsal değişimle birlikte farklılaşmalar görülmektedir. Postnormal zamanlar; belirsizlik, hızlı değişim, gücün yeniden düzenlenmesi, karışık ve kaotik davranışlarla karakterize edilir. Ziyaüddin Sardar, postnormal zamanların özelliklerini üç ‘K’ ile açıklamaktadır. Bunlar, karmaşa, kaos ve karşıtlıktır. Sardar’a göre ilişkide bulunduğumuz her şey karmaşık/komplikedir. Postnormal zamanların ikinci özelliği kaostur. Kaosun asıl sebebi ise iletişim ağının doğasının, kapsamının ve işlevinin değişmesidir. Sardar, karşıtlığı hızlı değişim ve bilgiye ulaşma, bilgiyi kullanma ve yorumlamada meydana gelen değişimle ilişkilendirerek bu üç husus çerçevesinde yaşadığımız çağın özelliklerinden bahsetmektedir. Bu makalede Ziyaüddin Sardar’ın toplumsal değişimin geldiği noktayı betimlerken kullandığı postnormal zamanlar teorisi çerçevesinde Türkiye’de örgün ve yaygın din eğitimi incelenerek bu teorinin ortaya koyduğu dönemsel özelliklere göre yorumlamak amaçlanmıştır. Teorik olan bu çalışmanın, toplumsal değişim sürecinde ortaya çıkan ihtiyaçlar karşısında, örgün ve yaygın din eğitiminin mahiyetini değerlendirmesi bakımından alana katkı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir.

We Need Resilient School Leaders in the face of Chaos and Complexity

Exploring the nonideal situations affecting today schools, I conceptualize a resilient leadership model with reference to the school system in the face of chaos and complexity. In general, the resilient leadership conceptualized in this preliminary study can be defined as displaying high level of endeavor to overcome both internal and external obstacles that the organization faces and generating different solutions despite the fact that many nonideal situations affect the organization. In conclusion, it seems to me that the resilient school leaders at least should be mentally, emotionally, socially, ethically, and physically strong humans who beat the odds.

Music as intersubjectivity: A problematic for the sociology of the arts

Music has the power of establishing a sense of personal closeness and of confirming the existence of a meaningful reality. This is because it creates, or imitates a face-to face situation in which participants experience the same events during shared time. Face-to-face interaction is the primary means by which humans are able to conduct a ?reality check? in the face of chaos, sense of meaninglessness and unreality. However, this interaction is basically ?about nothing?; in this sense, it is an instance of ?pure sociality?. Musical phenomena are semiotic in nature only insofar as they do not stand for themselves, but for something else. When describing social facts and social practices, we are heavily dependent on words and concepts. At the same time, the arts do, by definition, endeavour to bring about experiences that are untranslatable to any other form of expression. Arts sociologists? answer to this dilemma has most often been to turn away from the arts themselves and to concentrate instead on the social fields and activities that surround them. This essay suggests a perspective of music as interaction creating an intersubjectively shared experience. At the same time, it is admitted that music, similarly to any other kind of interaction, can also fail in this, or be used deliberately for exclusion. This essay invites discussion on possible uses of this perspective in sociological and cultural research.

Union Blues: Melville's Poetic In(ter)ventions

Both Walt Whitman and Herman Melville wrote poetry about the Civil War, and while Whitman's is better known, Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) remains an interesting experiment in improvisation, a kind of “blues” lament for a loss that could not be reconstructed. Melville pursues several key questions: Is art meaningful in the face of chaos? Can imagination counter traumatic events? Melville's poetry provides no sure answers and is therefore troubling, if not annihilating, to the concept of art as therapeutic. But the question of whether art is useful in times of conflict was one that long engaged Melville. Much could be said about Moby-Dick and irresponsible bloodshed. This essay revisits Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855), which anticipates the tenor, form, and loss of hope that comes to the fore in Battle-Pieces. I make this turn to the serial novel for several reasons. First, I will demonstrate that what some call Potter's incoherence is evidence of Melville's lost faith in narrative; second, Potter is about war and politics, as is the poetry; and third, I will show that it was not until Melville faced the Civil War in a poetic form of his own that he understood the Republic as lost.

The Millennia Long Migration into Bengal: Rich Genetic Material and Enormous Promise in the Face of Chaos, Corruption, and Criminalization

The Millennia Long Migration into Bengal: Rich Genetic Material and Enormous Promise in the Face of Chaos, Corruption, and Criminalization

The Architecture of Domination: Reflections on Conducting the Symposium Large Group in Dublin

Reflections on the Large Group at the 14th Group-Analytic Symposium in Dublin: Despair, Dialogue and Desire: The Transformative Power of the Analytic Group in the Movement from Despair to Desire through Dialogue. 567 people from 39 countries came to Dublin. As the largest and probably the most diverse group ever to participate in a group-analytic symposium, the large group inevitably forced a shift in consciousness. Not only was the group challenged to accommodate an expanded picture of the group-analytic society and of the world society we live in, but it was also faced with a new variation in the form of the conducting team. Three people working together replaced the usual single conductor or pair. Göran Ahlin from Stockholm, who was initially invited to take on this role, decided to follow his long-held vision of conducting a large group with a small group by asking David O’Brien from Dublin and me to join him. Despite the unprecedented number of people, we met on a flat floor sitting in 10 concentric circles, arranged like a gigantic wheel. This configuration, although presenting the whole community with extreme difficulties in hearing and seeing each other, also presented us with a rare opportunity: to make sense of the hidden forces that reinforce the political, social, environmental and economic status quo at a moment when the world is on the edge of a profound shift reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution. This article is offered as a reflection to inform our experiences in future symposia. It is written from my perspective as one of the three conductors and as a woman. Working as a threesome was intensely rewarding. We spent many hours together before, during and after the symposium preparing for and metabolizing the material. Our explicit group-analytic intention was to refrain from leading but to encourage leadership from within the group. Keeping to this stance was challenging in an environment where it was difficult to discover who was responsible for conducting. This situation, in all its frustration, exposed a logic that demonstrated the importance of encouraging a joint thinking space that is rare in the face of chaos. Working together enabled each of us to overcome feelings of demoralization and powerlessness to survive the experience and to keep thinking creatively.

Contingency planning for natural disasters

Contingency planning for natural disasters

Leading in the chaos of the 21st century

AbstractIn the transition from a Newtonian paradigm of control and equilibrium to one of chaos and disequilibrium, organizations have substantially changed their structures (e.g., moving to diverse project‐based teams, advancing knowledge management, and building innovative cultures), but they have only minimally changed their leadership styles and practices. This paper describes a model of leadership proposed by Ron Heifetz that optimizes the characteristics of the 21st century in which the leader's role is to disturb equilibrium, differentiate between technical and adaptive challenges, and engage the followers in solving the organization's problems. This model is contrasted with other leadership models to validate its usefulness in the face of chaos, ambiguity, and rapid change. The commitment of the leader to holding steady in the face of predictably strong resistance and the dangers to the leader in using this model are discussed.

Opting out while fitting in: How residents make sense of assisted living and cope with community life

This paper explores how assisted living residents construct personal understandings of congregate settings through the stories they tell. Using the narratives of Dorothy and Estelle, two 91-year-old participants, we examine how linkages between past experiences and present conditions enable residents to make sense of assisted living and cope with membership in a community comprised of diverse interests, backgrounds, and impairments. Our narrative analysis focuses on how individuals strive for continuity or new meaning in the face of chaos or disruption. Both participants characterize life in the facility in terms of prior personal and professional experiences that then inform their current behavior and feelings toward fellow residents. Although they profess to have little in common with these residents, both constitute assisted living in ways that enable them to enjoy their lives within the facility. Implications for studies using narrative analysis to examine transition into and satisfaction with congregate living are examined.

A Return to Virtue

A Return to Virtue

The challenges of purpose in the face of chaos: commentary paper by Professor Beverley Raphael

This paper addresses the issues and purposes of psychiatric research into disaster. Purposes include those that are focused on basic scientific questions, such as the role of disaster stressors in contributing to the development of psychiatric morbidity, and research attempting to identify the level of mental health need. There is also intervention research but this is limited in the acute emergency and longer term. These questions and the methodologies to address them, overlap significantly. Many studies use different measures of exposure, disorder and other disaster variables. There is also a wide range of population groups studied, making comparison of findings difficult. Thus, for these large scale events affecting populations, studies may not readily meet either the purposes of affected populations or government funders. Nor are interventions systematically operationalized to promoted replication. Challenges lie in the diversity of researchers, the pluralistic nature of Western society and the rapid development of the field. It is suggested that a set of disaster mental health research standards, based on core principles and data, would facilitate national and international collaboration and the interests of individual researcher. This could lead to comparable studies that could progress the field, while at the same time fostering innovations which could link to these research programmes. Strategic partnerships with government and other funders, as well as affected communities, could strengthen advocacy and commitment for disaster mental health research.

Learning How To Fall: The Not So Secret Narratives of Matthew Sweeney

Poor poetry. Like imperturbable Buster Keaton alone with the woman he loves on an ocean liner set adrift on the stormy sea. Or an even better example: Again drifting over an endless ocean, he comes across a billboard, actually a target for battleship practice. Keaton climbs it, takes out his fishing rod and bait, and fishes peacefully. That's what great poetry is. A superb serenity in the face of chaos. Wise enough to play the fool. Charles Simic1