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Organizing the Public Realm - Sub-theme (n. 22) of Annual Conference of the European Group on Organisational Studies "The Organizing Society - Annual Conference", Bergen, Norway, July 6- 8, 2006
No full textSub-theme 22:
Organizing the Public Realm
Convenors:
Vando Borghi - Department of Sociology, University of Bologna, Italy [email protected]
Daniel Cefai - University of Paris X – Nanterre, France
[email protected]
Ota de Leonardis - University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy [email protected]
Call for papers:
The public realm - as a sphere of several intersecting processes and agencies – has been characterised in the last decades by many substantial transformations. According to many observers, the public realm can be referred to as (1) the social property (public services; public access to the concrete conditions of social citizenship, such as health, social protection, education, etc.) and as (2) the possibility of having voice in the process of constituting the public good (the idea of public interest requiring collectivised expression; the public as public sphere, according to debates opened by Dewey, Habermas, etc.).
We have witnessed significant changes in the structures and processes of defining and enacting the public realm. This takes place in spaces, times and practices of the public in itself, and in the fields of social and labour market policies; business and economic activities; public administration; health services and so on. The role and activity of both private and public organisations and institutions have been deeply reshaped. The change ‘from government to governance’, on the one hand, and the transformations of private organisations on the other are both relevant in the metamorphosis of the public realm.
These transformations come from many different sources:
The introduction of market-like practices in public institutions;
An increasing plurality of actors involved in the organisation of the public realm;
New demands for de-standardised and individualised services/goods;
A redefinition of citizens in terms of consumers;
A growing attention to the environmental and social limits to economic action
The relationship between public and private can develop in different directions. There has been a shift of social responsibilities from the collective to the private sphere and also a rising emphasis on corporate social responsibility. These are examples of divergent development trends in the relationship between the private and public spheres. Of course, some of these trends may be taking place on a (political) rhetorical level. Social discourses have to be part of the inquired processes, however, since they are not separable from the organisational phenomena to which they refer.
Important organisational and institutional changes can be explored and discussed. Relevant questions that may be addressed are:
What does organising the public realm mean today? Which kind of institutional actions, processes, spaces, subjects, forms of co-ordination among actors, etc. can we appropriately classify as public? In which way is the public restructured as a place for organizing a discourse in the interest of the ‘public good’?
The convergent / divergent paths in the public-private relationship: How has the relationship between the private and the public sphere been reshaped during the last decades? Do we see different development trends in different contexts?
What role does the shift ‘from government to governance’ play in this picture?
The social effects of organisational and institutional changes: How do these changes affect social daily life? In which ways are gender relationships affected?
The public relevance of private (economic) organizations: How do private firms influence the public realm?
Vando Borghi (email: [email protected]) is Researcher at the Dept. of Sociology, University of Bologna. He works at the Faculty of Political Sciences, where he teaches “Sociology of Organization” and “Organization and Entrepreneurship”. He is a member of the ‘core group’ of the Active Social Policy European Network (http://..
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are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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