Kind Of Survival Research Articles

Discomforting ethnography and contentious biographies: the case of Argentina

This article explores the entanglements of emotion and thought that are a pre-condition to personal and professional engagements with place, particularly where temporal and spatial dislocations produce unexpected gaps and connections between the ethnographer and her or his research subjects. Personal memory and experience provide an awkward but necessary guide when exploring Argentina's history of violence and its connection to different kinds of survival and recognition that shape the interactions between different political and generational cohorts. I explore the contradictory ways in which memory and politics may contribute to defining and redefining historical subjects by focusing on the example of a victim of violence who does not fit easily within the commemorative and politicised delineations of what is considered to be a lost and, sometimes, a heroic generation. Through this exploration, the article aims to reconnect the personal and the political through a dialogue between ethnographic and biographical encounters as discussed in the Introduction to this collection.

Putting in the Graft: Philosophy and Immunology

How does one testify and, moreover, testify philosophically to the experience of receiving an organ transplant? What kinds of survival or forms of living are being fostered by newly emerging conjunctions between philosophy and biomedicine? Focusing on transplantation and immunology, we are going to reflect on some of the ways and styles in which motifs drawn from these biomedical fields have come to occupy an increasingly prominent place in recent philosophy expressing and formulating different concerns and paradigms. Spurred on by Francisco J. Varela and Jean-Luc Nancy's autobiographical reflections on transplantation, we are going to consider distinct moments and preoccupations at work in the motifs of immunity, autoimmunity, the pharmakon and the graft in the thought of Jacques Derrida, Roberto Esposito and Bernard Stiegler.

Innovation under globalization of retailing –Case study of a leading brand in Taiwan

Taiwan Economy has undergone a turbulent time for the past two decades. Long time recession coupled with uncertainty in business environment (both politically as well as economically) rendered many businesses into bust. Those which have barely survived are all considering kinds of survival or revival strategy. Local retailing business firms (especially those Department stores majoring in high – street sales items) are of course no exception to this turbulent impact. Due to opening up of the local retailing market and foreign competitor's entry in the wake of WTO, fierce competition come hands in hands with innovation on merchandising & proactive strategy. The turnaround andinnovative strategy of Far-Eastern Department Store (a leading retailing brand short as FED) comes just in time to rescue it out of the chaotic situation & difficulty. This paper will first review how this strategy, which is called FE21’ Mega Project, is formulated & implemented, and later explain how it can be exemplified as the typical case of localized innovation of Taiwanese merchandisers under globalization of retailing.

Russian Byronism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

This essay discusses a period of Byron's reception in Russia characterised not only by an intensified interest in Byron's works, but also the modification of Byron's influence by Russian literary tradition, contemporary aesthetic and philosophical ideas, a particular interest in Byron in relation to the perceived 'end' of European culture and an attention to Byron's 'metaphysical' dramas in connection with a more general turn to ontological/ metaphysical questions in Russian thought. Most striking, however, is the fact that between the 1880s and 1910s, the theoretical, literary and philosophical discussion of Byron in Russia played a significant part in the much larger national debate then going on about the kinds of survival and development available to humanity in general and Russian civilisation in particular. The essay shows that during this period Byron's life and work were read as containing the prototypes of contemporary individualistic and pessimistic 'diseases', as offering profound insights into...

Life Writing And Illness:

In the recent past a number of scholars, scientists, and university teachers have published autobiographical accounts of their experience of illness and integrated these texts into their exploration of theoretical concepts of construction of illness. This combination of two different discourses calls for particular attention because the dialogue established between the autobiographical act and the theoretical debate continuously generates new questions necessary for theory. Furthermore, experiencing a serious illness the narrator/patient/academic is confronted with possible death. Thus, these texts on the one hand provide evidence for some kind of survival and on the other hand explore a realm beyond the writer's knowledge, which can be seen as a stimulus for further inquiry. This essay explores the specific ways in which feminist academics like Eve Sedgwick, Jackie Stacey, and brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor integrate their experience of illness into their own theoretical study of illness.

Characterization of Critical Values of Branching Random Walks on Weighted Graphs through Infinite-Type Branching Processes

We study the branching random walk on weighted graphs; site-breeding and edge-breeding branching random walks on graphs are seen as particular cases. Two kinds of survival can be identified: a weak survival (with positive probability there is at least one particle alive somewhere at any time) and a strong survival (with positive probability the colony survives by returning infinitely often to a fixed site). The behavior of the process depends on the value of a certain parameter which controls the birth rates; the threshold between survival and (almost sure) extinction is called critical value. We describe the strong critical value in terms of a geometrical parameter of the graph. We characterize the weak critical value and relate it to another geometrical parameter. We prove that, at the strong critical value, the process dies out locally almost surely; while, at the weak critical value, global survival and global extinction are both possible.

Will the Marxist Theory of Exploitation Survive?

The reference [in our title] is to two kinds of survival: ontological (objectively given confirmations) and gnoseological (as an instrument of scientific cognition of modern social beings). To be sure, behind the survival problem stands another, more complex problem: does modern social science need such a theory?

A Letter from Prison

I am holding these old papers, crumpled and worn for having changed hiding-places so often, and I read them over again. They were written in secret, unknown to my jail-keepers, and as such, they express a kind of survival of my independence; that is why they are dear to me, if only as mere objects-the plain reality of paper. They were written at times when I was struggling, through writing, to overcome the anguish of being in prison. This explains why they are not clearly formulated thoughts-nor letters, of course. They are simply fragments of that anguish. And yet I did not write them for myself alone. Among so many other things, the anguish of being in prison is also a deep need to communicate with one's fellow human beings. It is a need that suffocates one, at times. Now I understand why shipwrecks stranded on desert islands slip messages inside bottles and cast them into the sea. These writings are something like that. I am not a shipwreck, and I don't feel like one. But I have the same desperate need for communication; hence these forlorn messages. I even know for whom I have written them and whom I would like them to reach. They are the people who, while not actually living the drama of my country, are capable of understanding it. Being in prison is a catharsis, and it clears up a great many things in one's mind, almost automatically. Locked up in here, I often think of the various friends I have, scattered all over Eurol2, wd I have a feeling that they are thinking of me too. We speak the same idiom, and we understand each other. There are friends in other countries as well, but my European friends are naturally closest to me. And y-t we are mercilessly separated by the barbed wire which fences in humanity in this country today. It is as if they were standing on dry land, while we are being drawn far away at sea by a strong dark current. It is only natural, then, that these signals of diitress should be addressed to them. This is precisely what I am doing, sending signals to my friends, both to those I have known and to those I have not chanced to meet. Signals that do not say very much and that certainly do not ask for anything. Buit they do give me something very precious: the feeling that I still exist, and that they exist too, quite close to ma. We can still see each other.