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Introduction: Decadence, Culture, and Society
No full textThis introduction argues that even though decadence and culture are incompatible concepts, the former based on the idea of decay and the latter on the concept of growth, decadence is a type of culture in its own right, however much it may go against the grain of culture at large. This basic paradox is evident in the literature produced by such figures as Charles Baudelaire, J.-K. Huysmans, Rachilde, Arthur Symons, Oscar Wilde, and many others, all of whom drew creative energy from a sense of historical decline, philosophical pessimism, and sexual perversity. Moreover, the culture of decadence concerns not only forms of aesthetic expression such as literature and art, but also sensuous, lived experience, however self-destructive such experience might be. This “lived decadence,” moreover, was—and is—available not only to artists and writers on the margins of society but also to the economically secure and socially ascendant bourgeoisie, the beneficiaries of that very modernity so many decadents set themselves against
Some Futures for the Police: Scenario and Science
No full textWe live in complex times; however, policing still holds a central role in the maintenance of law and order. There is an uncertain future for policing especially as the organisational concept, practice and function of the police are undergoing transition. This chapter explores the current complex socio-political, technical and operational environment of policing, before considering possible key topics that will impact upon the future of policing including terrorism, cyber crime, organised crime and threats created by climate change or infectious diseases. Finally it will consider how leaders and the police organisation can forecast, plan, and manage the future policing response to meet the changing environment, whilst remaining flexible and able to work through uncertainty
Taste: Savoring Decadence
No full textThis article examines the confluence of cuisine and the culture of decadence by first describing the difficulty of identifying any type of food as inherently “decadent” in physiological terms. After acknowledging that the meaning of “decadence” depends on moral, social, and aesthetic contexts, the article focuses on the dissemination of aristocratic tastes in food following the French Revolution, when chefs who had formerly cooked for nobility opened their own restaurants; on the development of the idea of the gourmand subsequent to the publication of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s Physiologie du Goût (The Physiology of Taste, 1825); on Charles Baudelaire’s decadent response to Brillat-Savarin in Les Paradis Artificiels (Artificial Paradises, 1860); on the role of Roman history in the development of popular conceptions of decadent cuisine; and on J.-K. Huysmans’s surprisingly limited interest in “decadent dining” in À rebours (Against Nature, 1884), despite his use of elaborate food metaphors to describe the literature of decadence
Prose Poetry: All the Rest is Literature
No full textThis chapter treats the prose poem as the decadent genre par excellence by focusing on Charles Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris (Paris Spleen, 1869). The prose poem is well suited to the expression of decadent culture because of its formal subversion of conventional poetry, especially as adapted by Baudelaire to articulate “the bump and lurch” of urban experience. J. K. Huysmans certified the decadent credentials of the genre when he described it in À rebours (Against Nature, 1884) as “the osmazome of literature, the essential oil of art,” a literary distillation that makes it “an aesthetic treat to none but the most discerning.” The article analyzes “Any Where Out of the World” and other prose poems in relation to certain poems in Le Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857), observing no loss of metaphorical power in the more “prosaic” medium despite Baudelaire’s secular and subversive treatment of many of the same poetic material given more elevated, spiritual treatment in the earlier collection
Introduction: Understanding the Management of Police Services
No full textThis chapter sets the scene for the first of a three volume edited series on the leadership and management perspectives in the three main blue light emergency services (Police, Ambulance and the Fire & Rescue Services). It provides the rationale behind this volume and its relevance to a wide audience of students, academics, practitioners, professionals including the management practitioners in police forces. The chapter first sets the changing context of policing drawing the evidence from the UK. The chapter then details the aims of this book and provides a brief summary of each of the chapters and the plan of this volume. One of the highlights of the volume is the assembly of experts from academia, serving and former police officers & staff and police practitioners both in the UK and abroad, giving an international perspective on the future of policing. The chapter also makes reference to the challenge of covering all the possible management themes in a single volume but the editors remain confident that the chosen topics will provide a rounded understanding and critical insights into the leadership and management of police services
Power, control and the protean Career: a critical perspective on multinational organizations' permanent international assignees
Full text linkMainstream management literature and research regarding the international
career has long focused on the traditional expatriate experience
(for example Adler 1986; Boyacigiller 1995; Dowling and Welch 2004;
Feldman and Tompson 1993; Mendenhall and Oddou 2000). In this
discourse, the tendency has been to outline the benefits and issues to be
considered for organizations and individuals embarking on international
assignments. In contrast, this chapter focuses on a special group whose
positioning in the structures of employment and organization is in some
ways exemplary of developing trends in the global labor force. They
are the highly educated permanent expatriates1 who remain in the host
country indefinitely (that is without a pre-determined organizational
option of repatriation to their initial home country). We engage with the
mainstream ways of dealing with this group and take a critical approach
in exploring their international careers. In fact, we take a critical stance
on the notion of ‘career’ itself and question its ubiquitous application.
Adopting a loose and critical review of Foucault’s governmentality, technologies
of power and domination and technologies of the self, we aim to
explore organizational and individual power and control with regard to
an individual’s career in an international context, and to propose a practical
model for professionals working in areas such as human resource
management (HRM), human resource development (HRD) and career
management consultancy
What makes the Autoethnographic Analysis Authentic?
Full text linkThis paper engages with current issues raised, among others, by Delamont (Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, 5–8 September 2007), relating to the merits of autoethnographic accounts. Delamont criticizes much current work in autoethnographic styles on a number of grounds as, for example, “intellectually lazy” and unrooted in general theoretical and structural frames. This paper uses an analysis and comparison of two separate productions using autoethnographic methods to develop, support, and to nuance these critiques and draws attention to relevant uses of the autoethnographic mode in both scholarly research and pedagogy
Weir (David R) — Family income, mortality and fertility on the eve of the demographic transition : a case study of Rosny-sous-Bois
No full textHoudaille Jacques. Weir (David R) — Family income, mortality and fertility on the eve of the demographic transition : a case study of Rosny-sous-Bois. In: Population, 50ᵉ année, n°4-5, 1995. p. 1274
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
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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