Process Of Reinvention Research Articles

Re-examining the philosopher’s stone of leadership

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the phenomenon of leadership at the intersection of aesthetics, identity and self within a dynamic, fluid and interactive compositional mixture which is part of a leader’s continuous process of invention and reinvention. Design/methodology/approach The methodology of this paper is a conceptual analysis and presentation involving some of the extant literature in the field of aesthetics, identity and leadership, including Harold Bloom’s theory of poetry that provides an entrance point to understand the problem of identity. The authors argue that a person, such as a leader, has multiple identities and interactions with others which lead to the co-construction of the self. To demonstrate this argument, the authors explore a case study of the life of the opera diva, Maria Callas. Findings An exploratory conceptual model demonstrating the relationship between identity and self, and insights and Bloom’s theory are applied to illuminate the case study of Maria Callas’ life. A key finding of the analysis is that identity is linked to performance and co-constructed in relation to others. Practical implications The paper concludes by discussing two implications for developing school leadership performance: the need for an aesthetic perspective of leadership and the need to provide a range of teaching approaches to teach leadership. Originality/value There have been few, if any, significant breakthroughs in understanding more about leadership from the traditional methods of social science. It is argued that until and unless researchers move towards working in aesthetic traditions there is not likely to be new understandings of it.

Inquiry-oriented differential equations: a guided journey of learning

AbstractThis study conducted at the Lebanese American University in spring 2018 reports on an inquiry-oriented differential equations class where the course curriculum falls within the realm of Realistic Mathematics Education. The focus of the study is on some curriculum tasks and how they assist students reinvent successfully key mathematical notions covered in most introductory differential equations courses. While the results show remarkable cognitive gains in understanding and thinking, reinventing knowledge was demanding and in some cases required the intervention of the instructor to control and lead the discussion. Results also show that the lack of appropriate mathematical knowledge was sometimes an obstacle for the reinvention process, and the traditional view of mathematical learning a hindrance for accepting that an inquiry-oriented approach can fulfil the course outcomes.

Homeland holidays as anchors of immigrant identity: New Year (Novy God) celebration among young Russian Israelis

ABSTRACTThe article presents the emerging forms of ethno-cultural activism among the so-called Generation 1.5 of Russian-speakers, who immigrated as older children or adolescents and came of age in Israel. It describes and interprets two episodes of the New Year’s Eve (Novy God) celebrations organized by these 1.5ers in Israel in 2015 and 2016 through the constructionist lens applied to ethnic identity in migration. The article explores the process of reinvention of homeland rituals by the children of immigrants by focusing on the emerging hybrid forms of New Year celebration in the Israeli context where, until recently, this holiday was deemed illegitimate. It examines the hybrid components of this invented (or renovated) ritual, which combines Russian-Soviet traditions with the local repertoire of Eastern Jews and other components borrowed from Orthodox and Secular Judaism. The main argument is that ritual celebrations are expressions of immigrant evolving ethnic identity, the need for empowerment, a claim for public visibility, belonging and social inclusion.

How does public-private collaboration reinvent? A comparative analysis of urban bicycle-sharing policy diffusion in China

The public–private collaboration process reinvents itself during policy diffusion. To reveal the cooperative-reinvention process, this study integrates theories of policy reinvention and collaborative governance to develop a framework outlining the interplay between initial conditions, learning, the reinvention process, the governance structure, and outcomes of reinvention. This study uses the framework to conduct an exploratory in-depth case study of Mobike urban bicycle-sharing service in China to examine such interplay. Findings showed that the combinations of leadership, formalization of cooperation mechanisms, and centralization of governance structure led to reinvent outcomes of institution innovation and content innovation.

Bringing (The History of) Capitalism Back In

Bringing (The History of) Capitalism Back In Noam Maggor (bio) Bhu Srinivasan. Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism. New York: Penguin Press, 2017. 576 pp. $30.00. Peter Kolozi. Conservatives Against Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. 264 pp. $60.00. Harry S. Stout. American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism. New York, Basic Books, 2017. 432 pp. $32.00. William J. Novak and Naomi R. Lamoreaux. Corporations and American Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. 528 pp. $35.00. Ten years after the financial crisis that announced the arrival of the "history of capitalism," the impact of this new scholarship remains uneven. "Capitalism" has certainly caught on as a focal point of debate, generating a steady stream of monographs, edited collections, conferences, manifestos, and critical assessments. This lively debate, however, has failed to crystalize any methodological consensus. It has also struggled to broaden the scope of inquiry beyond a few, and mostly U.S.-centered, topics. The effort to foster a broad conversation that would bring together scholars from separate fields and backgrounds, at least thus far, seems to have generated more friction than cooperation. The four works under consideration here, hailing from the subfields of business history, intellectual history, social history, and legal history (or history of the state), demonstrate why continued fragmentation is deeply unfortunate. Each one of the books offers insights from the vantage point of a well-defined subfield. Each exploration brings attention to a neglected topic, deepening and complicating our historical understanding of the American political economy. As works in discrete areas of study, however, the books are nevertheless powerless to more fundamentally dislodge traditional meta-narratives and analytical frameworks. They demonstrate why the pursuit of greater synthesis—of the type historians of capitalism have called for—remains a worthwhile goal. [End Page 140] Bhu Srinivasan's Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism, the least scholarly of the four books, is also most symptomatic of the tendency to use the history of capitalism as a new bottle for very old wine. A tech entrepreneur-turned-author, Srinivasan is an informed and lively narrator. He builds on work in business history to offer a fast-clipped narrative, moving through thirty-five "Next Big Things," from the Virginia Company, through Standard Oil and Henry Ford, to Apple and Facebook. As with many popular histories, the past in this account is emphatically not a foreign country. With terms drawn from the corporate world, capitalism is insinuated into American history as folklore, hence the book's title. The Virginia Company, we are told, was formed via "adventure capital" and had "an unlimited upside" (pp. 6–7). Slaves in the antebellum South were "the single most valuable asset class in America" (p. 126). Federal regulation under Theodore Roosevelt was not anti-business but merely helped "correct for excesses" in the market (p. 275). Capitalism in the U.S., in this rendition, did not emerge over time but has been integral to American society from its inception. All major pivots or collisions in this history are subsumed under a relentless but ultimately benign process of invention and reinvention. The dark chapters—racial slavery, violent labor conflict, residential segregation—are not ignored, but neither are they allowed to cast more than a passing shadow on the overall arc of progress. The result typifies the sensibility of what Nancy Fraser has called progressive neoliberalism: forward-looking, pragmatic, and optimistic about markets. It tells an exceptionally American story of how entrepreneurs, with the helping hand of government (always in a supporting role), transformed the world time and time again. The only real enemy, it proposes, has been misguided dogmatism of any sort, of the libertarian or the socialist variety. That Srinivasan so easily and unproblematically assimilates capitalism into the American past suggests that political economy and cultural methods have not yet made their way into the core of business history, despite considerable efforts to this effect in recent years. The notion that capitalism has always been as American as apple pie, not a historically specific and controversial formation, remains firmly in place. The attempt to rethink U...

Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914 by Leslie Topp

Reviewed by: Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914 by Leslie Topp Ebba Högström Leslie Topp. Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914. Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies 10. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. xxii + 232 pp. Ill. $99.95 (978-0-271-07710-9). “The media is the message”—these famous words by Marshall McLuhan come to my mind when reading Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914 by the American architectural historian Leslie Topp. Beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century and continuing for almost a hundred years, the expansion of psychiatric institutional care—the asylums— carried hopes of better care, treatment, and physical environments. The visibility and grandness of these buildings can be seen as a McLuhanian media designed to convey a message of care, treatment, and perhaps even cure to any person afflicted with mental illness, while at the same time reassuring the public there was enough surveillance and control. How did these institutions emerge? What objectives, negotiations, compromises, and revisions occurred “behind the scenes” during the design process? By [End Page 559] analyzing briefs, building processes, and architectural configurations, the author investigates thoroughly how this “media,” represented by turn-of-the-former-century psychiatric institutions of Central Europe, conveyed messages of care and treatment to people with mental illness. In the center of the story lies rich architectural material comprising drawings, buildings, landscapes, and documents of the building process. This is contextualized by adding two other areas to the story, influential in this institutional development: psychiatry (especially asylum planning) and regional politics. By doing this, the author enhances the richness of detailed accounts of the interplay and interactions of architecture and wider society. This positions the work in the contemporary strands of architectural history where architecture is part of a societal, political, and economic context and where importance is put on what buildings do rather than solely a matter of style. Freedom and the Cage is an analysis of seven mental institutions established in the Austro-Hungarian Empire between the late 1890s and World War I. The book is divided into eight chapters, with thematic analysis of the seven institutions. Each chapter thus explores an aspect of the paradox of “caged freedom” (p. 11) and how this was represented differently by the institutions. Concepts such as freedom, regional politics, aesthetic rhetorics, utopia, spatial configurations, and boundaries are used as analytical lenses throughout the chapters. The author argues how psychiatric institutions in the late Habsburg Empire underwent a process of reinvention as key cultural and political monuments. Architecture, urban planning, and spatial configuration were important parts in this process, and architecture especially was used to enhance the asylums’ importance and influence (in terms of material and semiotic impact), under the umbrella of how freedom, through control and design, could be manufactured and instrumentalized. The paradoxes of design are intriguingly shown as promoting an illusion of “freedom” to the patients, while exerting social and spatial control. One aim is to develop more deeply the richness of the interplay between architecture and nonarchitecture (i.e., psychiatry and regional politics). The built environments are here seen as “documents of an interaction” (p. 187) and not as a direct outcome of discussions among psychiatrists. Local and time-specific links between modern architecture and psychiatry in Central Europe are brought to the fore, as well as regional and national links. The two analytical chapters at the end of the book summarize the investigation very well by highlighting two fundamental asylum features: the spatial configuration and the boundary. Through a spatial analysis (i.e., by looking closely into asylum plans), the author examines different ways of solving the paradoxical and dual problems of controlling the patients and giving them freedom. Ideas stemming from domestic architecture were drivers of the design, leading to other ways of solving the distributional aims of the architectural plan. The corridor was not seen (and still is not) as a device to produce a more progressive asylum architecture. The author shows convincingly how these controversies go far into the discourses of psychiatry and architecture. By...

Producing Heritage: Politics, Patrimony, and Palatability in the Reinvention of Lowcountry Cuisine

This article explores the way heritage agrobiodiversity provides fertile terrain for staking new claims of locality, culinary regional identity, and deliciousness in the United States. To do so it considers the contemporary reinvention of an “authentic” southern cuisine in the Carolina Lowcountry. In this region, heritage grains—otherwise perceived to be bland or unremarkable—are being strategically positioned to serve as a vehicle for promoting a culinary and cultural distinctiveness rooted in biodiversity and Lowcountry cuisine is being built on discourses of heritage and taste. Focusing in depth on two instrumental actors in the region’s agricultural and culinary reinvention, it is suggested that, much like the concept of terroir, heirloom grains are being employed to leverage new values on the marketplace and construct new definitions of deliciousness. The reinvention process, however, is riddled with accentuations and erasures, emphasizing the “tasty” aspects while eliding unsavory others.

ORÍGENES DEL ‘NEW URBANISM’ Y SU INFLUENCIA EN LOS PARADIGMAS DE DESARROLLO URBANO CONTEMPORÁNEOS

There exist cities which have inherited issues from the industrialized modernism, these have been analyzed by processes of reinvention by using a post-modernist sustainability-based theoretical approach that justifies specific requirements to create a new urban paradigm, in accordance with the interests of citizens in the late twentieth century. With regard to the premises of the mentioned design movement these have enhanced environmentally friendly habits throughout the world, conversely Ibero-American areas does not have a complete performance of adaptation according with its local conditions, instead of this American standards of construction, conceived in different economic conditions, have been employed; hence it is relevant to point out views form New Urbanism have influenced the architectural proposals in the Caribbean Region of Colombia by using not only conceptual features but also building procedures addressed to the estate market

Los museos de antropología: del colonialismo al multiculturalismo. Debates y estrategias de adaptación ante los nuevos retos políticos, científicos y sociales

O auge dos museus de antropologia na Europa e América do Norte foi desde a metade do século XIX até inícios do século XX. Sob o amparo do colonialismo, no aspecto político, e do evolucionismo cultural, no aspecto científico, muitos dos grandes museus de antropologia abriram as suas portas. No entanto, após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, as bases desse colonialismo começaram a ser questionadas nas grandes metrópoles e nas colônias e, muitas delas tinham iniciado o caminho da independência. Tudo isso permitiu que os museus de antropologia entrassem em crise e começassem a se reinventar, eliminando ou minimizando toda expressão colonialista, tentando resignificar os objetivos originários dos espólios perpetrados em décadas anteriores e se adequando, além disso, a sociedades cada vez mais multiculturais. Desse modo, o objetivo deste artigo é descrever e analisar as diferentes estratégias desenvolvidas por esses museus de antropologia no processo de reinvenção. Centramo-nos nas novas propostas museugráficas e de ressignificação dos objetos coloniais e na participação das comunidades colonizadas em décadas anteriores, ou de seus descendentes na instituição museística ou em suas propostas museógrafas.

A Review of Collaborative Commerce Business based on Enterprise Application Integration in Vietnam

The systems in enterprises are often disjointed together and not interchangeable. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is essential to accommodate new business needs in the short- to moderate-term future by providing a right architecture. EAI has helped system to integrate various sources including plug-and-play interoperability. With the pressure in the business environment of information technology field, a demand for financial and security is getting drastically high which enforces the enterprises to learn how to use the existing database and services, reinvent business processes and databases. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of collaborative commerce business in Vietnam that based on EAI as a solution to the demand. The outcome of this paper reveals that to have an effective integration, applications in enterprises need to be merged in terms of platform, data format, protocol and EAI technologies.

Índia Ocidental, China Tropical: uma “espiritualidade do corpo” como elemento propiciador de encontros culturais no Brasil

<p>O presente artigo objetiva fornecer elementos para uma melhor compreensão a respeito de como determinadas práticas espirituais e corporais de origem indiana e chinesa vêm se (re)configurando em terras brasileiras, a saber o Yoga e o Tai Chi Chuan. Apesar das singularidades que marcam cada uma destas práticas, tanto em suas propostas constitutivas quanto em suas trajetórias históricas em solo brasileiro, destacamos uma semelhança importante entre estes distintos universos de práticas: em ambas a compreensão do corpo pode preceder a compreensão das palavras. Justamente por isso, tais práticas estariam servindo como verdadeiros veículos para diálogos interculturais e religiosos. Os elementos espirituais que nestas tradições são passives de transmissão através de gestos e posturas corporais, constituem a nosso ver, uma autêntica “espiritualidade do corpo”, que se caracterizam entre outras coisas por ser dinâmica e mutável, como são os próprios corpos humanos. Defendemos que esta característica fluida e dinâmica tem permitido um amplo processo de reinvenção de tais práticas no Brasil, seja no âmbito de nosso campo religioso, seja no âmbito de nossas corporeidades características, cuja feição peculiar só pode ser compreendida a partir de uma análise de processos históricos que incidem na formação de nossa sociedade.</p>

Patients' long-term experiences following obesity surgery with a focus on eating behaviour: A qualitative study.

This study explored long-term consequences of obesity surgery. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse transcripts of 10 interviews with patients who underwent surgery 8 or more years ago. Experiences were described under three broad themes: eating behaviours, relationship with food and quality of life. Although patients described variability within these themes, describing different patterns of change, analysis revealed associations between themes and outcomes. In particular, those who reported successful weight loss also described the functionalization of food, the development of new coping strategies and a process of positive reinvention creating a new sense of self.

Solos and the Reinvention Process

On January 28, 2014, an announcement of another hospital library closure was announced on the medical librarians’ listserv, MEDLIB-L. This notice provoked almost 70 responses over two days that inc...

Rethinking creativity in journalism: Implicit theories of creativity in the Finnish magazine industry

This article explores conceptions of creativity in the media industry, specifically among professionals of journalism working in the magazine industry. It contributes to the development of the theory of creativity from a media industry perspective and produces new conceptual knowledge about creative media work. The article finds that in the magazine industry, journalistic creativity is understood as a practical and multidimensional concept that can be interpreted and applied in many different ways. The different conceptions of creativity reflect both the traditions of the journalistic profession and the challenges now faced by the media and the magazine industry. It is concluded that creative work in the magazine industry is typically goal driven, commercially minded and collaboratively oriented. Also, creative work in the magazine industry is characterized by ongoing processes of gradual reinvention. Other major creative challenges include the development of new ways of working, new media products and new commercial solutions.

Bangkok, Creole City: War Slaves, Refugees, and the Transformation of Culture in Urban Southeast Asia

AbstractSlave‐gathering warfare was an endemic feature of Southeast Asian statecraft in the pre‐colonial era. In this lightly populated region, capturing people was more important than seizing new lands. Armies laid siege to rival urban centers and carried thousands of people into captivity, among them artisans, performers, and musicians. This is a well‐understood feature of Southeast Asian statecraft, but the histories of captive people have gone largely unstudied. My project is to examine slave‐gathering warfare as a vector for cultural exchange. The forced relocation of skilled people laid the groundwork for processes of transculturation and cultural reinvention, but the evidence of these exchanges lays mostly outside the archive in the artistic, musical, and theatrical practices of the captive communities themselves. In this article, I examine a cluster of neighborhoods in Thonburi, one of the oldest areas in metropolitan Bangkok. Descendants of non‐Thai war captives and refugees populate this area, most brought to Bangkok in the late‐18th and 19th centuries from Laos, coastal Burma, and the Malay border region. I examine the cultural practices that originated in these communities through the lens of creolization theory, which allows us to better examine and comprehend the cultural contribution of foreign captives to Bangkok's urban culture.

“The Great Sea Voyage Which Marriage Can Be”

This essay takes up the challenge, issued by Fredric Jameson in a 1976 minnesota review essay, to become attentive to the “presence of some Utopian content even within the most degraded and degrading type of commercial product.” It does so through a reading of the Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore film 50 First Dates (2004) as an example of the utopian film genre that Stanley Cavell identifies as “the comedy of remarriage.” It further draws upon the insights of Alain Badiou to theorize a larger schema of related practices that I name the “evental genres” before exploring in some detail how the deep fidelity practiced by the central couple in the film — most powerfully on display in its unexpected climax — develops a concrete figure of the day-by-day labors, the unending process of remaking, renewal, and reinvention required in any authentic marriage and hence any truly utopian project.

Brand Design: Identity and Cultural Mediation

Generally, the brand raises a double problem of value: its own identity, generator of a myth, as a tale of its origins, supporting the deep axiology of its discourses; and its cultural background, that is, its universe of reference shaped by the genuine perception and concepts of a specific population. My thinking focuses on value management through brand design. The brand Shiseido, born in Japan just before The Meiji Era, managed to develop a new approach of the cosmetics market and reinforce its mythic existence with an original graphic identity. We can observe the transition from a cultural oriented communication, highlighting traditional Japanese beauty – to a remediation via the meeting with the Occident, ‘another’ woman, another beauty – allowing the brand to recreate its expression. I am looking for traces of Shiseido's identity background in its culture, that is, the Place where the establishment of invariants relies on canonical discourses and on the process of re-invention itself, a dynamic process encompassing a relation with space-time and multiple operations of translation allowing innovation and the transmission of values. I propose to analyse a corpus of images where Shiseido uses an intercultural blended discourse. The transcultural strategy of the brand builds its myth through a social discourse analysable by semiotics; this ‘game’ of rhetoric regulated by the expression plane allows the brand to resolve heterogeneities and create mediations between contradictory elements emerging from cultural hybridization and the use of new forms.

A Socio-Cultural Approach to ELP: Accessing the Language and Culture of Law through Fictional Television Series

Although the field of ESP studies is, comparatively speaking, a relatively new area of academic enquiry, it has nevertheless well over half a century of existence and evolution to its name. Present in the most far-flung reaches of the world today, ESP is undoubtedly one of the most cross-cultural of disciplines and as such subject to constant processes of adaptation and reinvention, at times calling into question the epistemological core of the discipline itself. In a two-step approach, this study first presents a theoretical overview of the main epistemological trends in ESP studies today. Having established the general theoretical framework, the paper focuses on practitioner-orientated concerns in relation to implementing a wide-angled socio-cultural approach for university level English for Legal Purposes (ELP). In this dual perspective, it looks at the potential offered by the use of specialised fictional narrative in the form of popular television series or fiction à substrat professionnel (FASP).

The Process of Reinvention [President's Message

The Process of Reinvention [President's Message

Repositioning the innovation rationale for public service media

Abstract The values that gave rise to the ethos of public service broadcasting (PSB) almost a century ago, and which have provided the rationale for PSBs around the world across that time, are under question. This article argues that the process of reinvention of PSBs is enhanced through repositioning the innovation rationale for public service media (PSM). It is organized around a differentiation which is part of the standard repertoire of innovation studies – that between product, process and organizational innovation – as they are being practised by the two Australian PSBs, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). The article then considers the general problematics of innovation for PSBs through an analysis of the operations of the public value test in the context of European PSM, and its, to this stage, non-application in Australia. The innovation rationale is argued to be a distinctive via media between complementary and comprehensive roles for PSM, which in turn suggests an international, policy-relevant research agenda focusing on international circumstances in which the public broadcaster is not market dominant.