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Practicing Life Worlds: Theory and Reality in Teaching Design Anthropology Through Entrepreneur Collaboration
Get PDFIn the contemporary neoliberal university, practice-based learning is increasingly necessary as a means to foster dynamic thinking and bolster student employability. However, for students who feel like customers, this type of ‘messy’ practical experience is difficult to reconcile with their expectations and anxieties about the future. Students who embrace the ‘customer’ education approach expect their learning to be packaged in a manner that practice-based programs are ill-equipped to provide. Based on our qualitative observations teaching a collaborative design anthropology subject at the University of Melbourne, we unpack the various ironies and disconnections between theory and practice around practice-based learning. While experimental, practice-based courses such as ours entail multiple challenges, they are nevertheless worthwhile and necessary, not only for the continued evolution of anthropology but also for our students.  
“The air of impossibility has been removed”: Realist Political Drama(dy) and the Trope of Becoming President
Get PDFOver the past ten to fifteen years, film and TV culture have offered new and more complex negotiations of presidential politics through depictions of fictional American presidents. While in the past American popular culture celebrated the president as overwhelmingly positive, larger-than-life figure, recent representations have introduced more complex characters who face, or even trigger, complicated and morally ambiguous conflicts. This article investigates how The West Wing, House of Cards and Veep, three political TV shows, make use of the emerging trope of a brokered nomination convention in order to question one-dimensional fictional representations of the American president and presidential politics
Donald J. Trump: Jacksonian Minoritarian?
Get PDFThe label of the ‘Jacksonian’ has served to add a sense of definition and historical precedent to a seemingly anomalous presidency. Comparisons between Donald Trump and President Andrew Jackson (the progenitor for the Jacksonian creed) have hinged on the perception that the Jacksonian philosophy purveys belief in majoritarian nationalism, diplomatic realism and the preeminence of America’s white male labouring class. Commentators as diverse as New York Times journalists and International Relations theorists have applied such readings. Through investigating the changing paradigms of the Jacksonian, from its incipience in the 1820s to its ascription in Trump’s populism, this article underlines how its shibboleths have gradually shifted towards becoming part of a ‘minoritarian’ phenomenon. Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election, which was achieved in spite of his loss of the popular vote and failure to win former Republican states such as Virginia, indicated that the Jacksonian resurgence perceived in this contest was heavily dependent on the economic decline of the industrial Midwest. This contrasts with the cooption of the Jacksonian under FDR and Ronald Reagan, whose first terms resulted from comprehensive national landslides. Because of this lack of broader support, Trump’s affinity with a decreasing population of white male non-college educated voters forms the existential driver of his presidency. Conveying a reversal of Andrew Jackson’s majoritarianism, my research highlights that Jacksonian survival now hinges on consolidating the kind of minoritarian influence implied by the results of the 2016 presidential election. This analysis, along with my historiography of the Jacksonian, establishes the changes undergone by this significant American ideology
Det samfundsnyttige landbrug: Nye bæredygtige forretningsmodeller for landbrug i Danmark
Get PDFI denne artikel udfoldes en ny strømning indenfor økonomisk tænkning og teori. Baseret på bæredygtige og systemteoretiske tilgange udfordres de klassiske økonomiske teorier og giver nye måder for ledere at arbejde innovativt med bæredygtige forretningsmodeller. Formålet med artiklen er at udfolde, hvordan bæredygtig økonomisk teori kombineret med teorier om innovation af bæredygtige forretningsmodeller kan sætte spørgsmålstegn ved de taget-for-givet forestillinger om økonomisk styring, der præger beslutningsprocesserne i danske virksomheder. Gennem to cases undersøges og eksemplificeres der muligheder og begrænsninger for at skabe bæredygtige forretningsmodeller. Artiklen tager udgangspunkt i projektet ”Det samfundsnyttige landbrug”, der har sat fokus på at udvikle nye forretningsmodeller for økologisk landbrug i Danmark.
 
Bullying as Counter-Conduct
No full textDenne artikel undersøger en systematisk og allestedsnærværende humoristiskog drillende omgangsform blandt læger og sygeplejersker på Rigshospitalet,der defineres som mobning. Med afsæt i Michel Foucaults konceptualiseringeraf magt, modmagt og agonisme belyses, hvordan de humoristiskekrænkende drillerier emergerer i mødet mellem et lægefagligt ideal om ufejlbarlighedog en formel stram styring af arbejdet med det formål, at de ansattekan ventilere frustrationer over fejlbarlige ansatte og urimelige arbejdsvilkårpå ’forbudte’, anti-autoritære måder. Vi argumenterer således for, at mobningenkan forstås som ’funktionel’, fordi den regulerer et komplekst agonistisksamspil mellem den formelle styring af hospitalsarbejde samt en udbredt lægefagligsubjektivering, hvor fejl og inkompetence betragtes som illegitimt,tabuiseret og skamfuldt.Bullying as Counter-ConductThis paper investigates a systematic and omnipresent humorous teasingpractice among doctors and nurses at Rigshospitalet, which is defined as aform of bullying. Drawing on Michel Foucault's conceptualizations of power,counter-power and agonism, it is shown how this humorous and offensivebanter emerges in the intersection between a medical ideal of infallibility anda series of strict formal management systems. It thus functions as a way forhealth personnel to ventilate their frustrations about fallible employees andunfair working conditions in ‘forbidden’, anti-authoritarian ways. We furtherargue that the bullying practice can be understood as ‘functional’ in the sensethat it regulates a complex agonistic dynamic between the formal managementof hospital work and a widespread medical subjectivity, where errorsand incompetence are considered illegitimate, taboo and shameful.Keywords: bullying, humor, power, agonism, struggle, heath care sector
En novembersnak med den nye formand
Get PDF”Nu handler det om at få implementeret de konkrete ting, som vi har snakket om i strategien. Især kompetencebehovet er et af de punkter hvor kollegerne derude rigtig gerne vil bruge foreningen til. At styrke fagligheden på tværs og erfaringsudveksle.” - interview med Karin Englev, nyvalgt DFFU-formand