712 research outputs found
Calhoun, Craig/Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar/Taylor, Charles: Degenerations of Democracy, 368 S., Harvard UP, Cambridge, MA/London 2022.
No full textAm Ende des hier rezensierten Buches wird es pastoral: „Politics must be poiesis, working together to make and remake not just government but also society itself“ (S. 286). Auch der in der umfangreichen Literatur über die Krise der Demokratie so beliebte Hinweis fehlt nicht, dass gegen die derzeitigen Übel der Demokratie einzig mehr Demokratie helfe (S. 257). Doch im Unterschied zu einem Großteil der in den letzten Jahren veröffentlichten politikwissenschaftlichen wie populärwissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzungen über die Krisen der Demokratie und den Aufstieg des Populismus begnügen sich die Autoren Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar und Charles Taylor nicht mit der erneuten Beschwörung der Grundprinzipien der liberalen Demokratie. Sie ergehen sich auch nicht in einer wohlfeilen Kritik des Populismus, obwohl durchaus immer wieder deutlich wird, dass sie den meisten der gegenwärtig zu beobachtenden Populismen ablehnend gegenüberstehen. Bei aller Differenz im Detail sind sich die drei Autoren darin einig, dass die aktuelle populistische Revolte als Symptom einer viel tiefergehenden Krise zu deuten ist
Calhoun, Craig/Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar/Taylor, Charles: Degenerations of Democracy, 368 S., Harvard UP, Cambridge, MA/London 2022.
No full textAm Ende des hier rezensierten Buches wird es pastoral: „Politics must be poiesis, working together to make and remake not just government but also society itself“ (S. 286). Auch der in der umfangreichen Literatur über die Krise der Demokratie so beliebte Hinweis fehlt nicht, dass gegen die derzeitigen Übel der Demokratie einzig mehr Demokratie helfe (S. 257). Doch im Unterschied zu einem Großteil der in den letzten Jahren veröffentlichten politikwissenschaftlichen wie populärwissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzungen über die Krisen der Demokratie und den Aufstieg des Populismus begnügen sich die Autoren Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar und Charles Taylor nicht mit der erneuten Beschwörung der Grundprinzipien der liberalen Demokratie. Sie ergehen sich auch nicht in einer wohlfeilen Kritik des Populismus, obwohl durchaus immer wieder deutlich wird, dass sie den meisten der gegenwärtig zu beobachtenden Populismen ablehnend gegenüberstehen. Bei aller Differenz im Detail sind sich die drei Autoren darin einig, dass die aktuelle populistische Revolte als Symptom einer viel tiefergehenden Krise zu deuten ist
Contested crises. Migration regimes as an analytical perspective on todays societies.
No full textKarakayli J, Mecheril P. Contested crises. Migration regimes as an analytical perspective on todays societies. In: Gaonkar AM, Ost Hansen AS, Post HC, Schramm M, eds. Postmigration. Art, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Europe. 1st ed. Bielefeld: transcript; 2021: 75-87
The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East
No full textIn the early nineteenth century, the term “avant-garde” began to capture greater semantic territory. Once purely a military phrase used to distinguish crack troops, it then assumed a high-ranking position within cultural expression, marking out art work that forged ahead and broke new ground. What can it mean to conjoin this French phrase with the word “Arab”? French forces, along with other imperial intruders, are no strangers to Arab terrain. The colonisation of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Greater Syria followed in the wake of the brief Napoleonic “mission” to Egypt between 1798 and 1801. It was during this military foray that some of modern Europe’s most expansive data on Egyptian music was collected, information that comprised two whole volumes of Guillaume André Villoteau’s Description de l’Egypte. The Napoleonic campaign gathered not only military, but also cultural intelligence, if the two can be so easily separated
Competitiveness of India's Manufacturing Sector: An Assessment of Related Issues
No full textThis paper provides an analytical abstract of various parameters of manufacturing competitiveness of the Indian economy. India's manufacturing exports have risen impressively in the past decade or so and found to be directly linked to the world GDP and inversely related to real effective exchange rate (REER). Indian manufacturing industries have certain inherent strengths and advantages in having a relatively inexpensive, adequate and skilled labour force, cost-effective and competitive prices of goods produced, large manufacturing base and proximity to fast growing Asian markets. India is one of the leading producers and exporters in a number of commodities and enjoys significant advantages in terms of lower labour costs as compared to other economies. Nevertheless, India's competitiveness is lost on account of lower labour productivity and higher input and material costs. To improve the competitiveness of the Indian manufacturing goods, issues like further diversification of export basket, upgradation of export quality, improvement in productivity, increased technology intensity in production, enhanced R&D activity, encouraging business environment, less cumbersome regulatory environment, flexible labour laws, removal of infrastructural bottlenecks and SME related issues need attention of all concerned.Manufacturing sector, Competitiveness
The Aesthetics of Displacement:Dissonance and Dissensus in Adorno and Rancière
No full textAesthetics as sensory experience harbours the potential for triggering multiple forms of displacement - in subjective experience, the different fields of art, and across disciplines. Weaving together Jacques Rancière's writings on aesthetics and Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and other works, the first section explores aesthetic experience's derangement of the fit between sensory experience and meaning, in particular through their engagement with Kant. In the second section, their readings of specific artworks are analysed to explore the destabilizing consequences of the aesthetics of displacement for the divisions between the arts. Returning to specific readings of artworks in the third section, and supplementing them with a more recent example (Hervé Guibert), the aesthetics of displacement's consequences for disciplinary thinking are explored. Moving between the general, particular and expansive dimensions of aesthetic experience across the three sections, the essay reframes the aesthetics of displacement from the perspectives of philosophy, aesthetic analysis and the critique of disciplinarity
Some Unexplored Economics of Roaming Child Workers
No full textWithin the net of child labour, there is a section of children who live their lives on the streets, without any kind of attachment with their family and maintain their livelihood through working as informal child workers. This study is based on these children who are termed here as ‘Roaming child workers’. It came out that apart from poverty of the parents there are other socio-economic reasons which force a child to come out from the family and work as child worker in the urban areas. It also came out from field survey that after leaving home a good number of children are economically better off and even able to keep themselves above the poverty line. But still they are very vulnerable. Through this study, effort has been made to prove that average monthly expenditure on substances of these ‘Roaming working children’ increases at a decreasing rate with their average monthly income, whereas, average monthly expenditure on entertainment shares a linear relationship with average monthly income.Child Labour, Poverty and Consumption Pattern
Role of IT Technologies in fostering Business Transformation: Case study of Philips
No full textThe term "digital transformation" (DT) has gained popularity, sparking interest across many academic fields and inspiring new lines of inquiry(Hausberg et al., 2019). With the adoption of new technologies helping deliver secure high-quality patient care and drive greater business efficiency, healthcare sector has gained significant benefits from digital transformation. Digital technologies, driven by the exponential rise in computing power, have successfully altered the majority of economic sectors, from finance to entertainment, with one notable exception: healthcare. The increasing advancements in medical equipment and imaging technology serve as evident illustrations of how high-tech medicine is in many aspects. Nevertheless, healthtech companies are still on a learning curve on how to transform their companies digitally, despite billions of dollars being invested in digital health solutions by both startup and established technology companies(Walsh & Rumsfeld, 2017). This study advances the body of knowledge in the field of digital transformation by identifying the barriers to and enablers of business transformation as well as the role of IT technology as an enabler of business transformation. By creating a theoretical framework for barriers and enablers of business transformation with IT technology as an enabler, it empirically studies Philips to undertake a case study and offers a basis for theory building. On the subject of business transformation, a literature review utilizing the five-step grounded theory methodology was carried out. According to the literature study, this research highlights four primary barriers facing business transformation: organizational, knowledge, financial, and technical. Strategy, people, process, data, and technology are the different categories for business transformation enablers. The theoretical framework for this study is developed using the results of this literature review. A case study is performed on the digital transformation journey of Philips by identifying the IT technologies of the acquired firms that are part of Philip’s healthcare transformation portfolio. This research captures the goal of business transformation while identifying the barriers and enablers of business transformation at Philips by conducting inductive qualitative research by interviewing. Analysis of data is carried out by following the steps stated by Miles & Huberman (1994) and using content analysis to analyze the interview data. The results of this study show that At Philips, the organizational barrier has emerged as the most pervasive barrier to business transformation. This study demonstrates that Philips' organizational structure, or the way they are set up, is a significant impediment to business transformation. The matrix organizational structure of Philips makes organizational change challenging. According to researchers, business transformation begins with establishing a strategy and achieving the organization's aim. According to the research, this strategy is misleading, and that any business transformation strategy should be developed by first comprehending customer demands before being in line with the intended outcome of the business transformation. According to this study, people with proper experience and knowledge in the field of business transformation are the key enabler of business transformation. This study supports the resource-based hypothesis, which contends that an organization has a great chance to outperform its rivals when it possesses strategic resources that can provide it an advantage in the market and could even help it generate sizable profits. This research examines three important IT technologies provided by the acquired companies of Philips, namely Tomtec, RDT, and Capsule technologies as resources that can enable business transformation. According to this study, Philips' business transformation was made possible by the IT technologies' significant contributions to the company's sales and revenues following the acquisition of these companies. By integrating these IT resources into other products in their portfolio to facilitate business transformation, Philips can further develop these technologies and achieve their objective of becoming a fully solutions-based firm. However, the findings of this study also suggest that IT technologies have not yet reached their peak value since Philips lacks the competencies and innovation culture to fully utilize these technologies and add value as a result of preexisting limitations.Management of Technology (MoT
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