Search results

This article suggests an answer to the question of national identity and belonging to nation-states in an avant-garde Europe. In other words, it examines: what might the avant-garde of national identity in Europe in the XXI century be; will nationalities and simple belonging to nation-states be sufficient for Europeans; what is the vitality and the potential of pan-European identity to fill the gaps of national identity; and how the two strains of belonging relate to each other. The central argument is built around the idea of the clash between neonationalism and postnationalism in the form of pan-Europeanism, in which new forms of collective identity in Europe are emerging.

This dissertation is a study of the experimental artistic practice of the group called Dvizhenie (The Movement) that was active in Moscow between 1964 and 1976 and associated with the Kinetic movement. The period of the group's activity coincided with a political transition in the USSR from later stages of The Khrushchev's Thaw characterised by cultural liberation and political reforms into The Stagnation era already defined by Leonid Brezhnev's rule and subsequently a more conservative and stricter governmental attitude towards artistic production. In this period of a little more than a decade, The Movement group was a single experimental union in the USSR that enjoyed public success and achieved a rapid transformation of their activities from small-scale exhibitions into public state commissions. In the course of this transition, the members of the group formed an entirely new artistic language that was neither similar to Socialist Realism nor to the tendencies of Abstract painting, which gained importance in the circles of experimental Soviet artists at the time. Instead, they turned to the aesthetics of Kinetic art, science- fiction and design and found inspiration in a dialogue with Russian Avant-garde tradition. The narrative of the dissertation follows the specificity of the experimental group's development in the defined stages and analyses how the group met with the challenges of censorship and opportunities of ideological collaborations. On a broader scale, the dissertation offers an investigation into the functions of experimental thinking in the USSR in the 1960s and evaluates the role of futuristic planning and artists' dialogue with the restored tradition of the 1920s Avant-garde projects.:Table of Contents List of illustrations.5 Acknowledgements.13 Introduction.15 State of Research.21 Methodology.29 Chapter I. 1960s Alternative Culture: in the USSR and Abroad.53 1.1. Defence of individualism: The Thaw (1954–1968).53 1.2. Open work against individualism: 1960s movement of Kinetic art.65 1.3. In transition to Kinetic art: the formation of The Movement group.71 Chapter II. Theory and Practice Of The Movement.81 2.1.Theoretical principles of the group: synthesis, symmetry, and movement.81 2.2."Towards Synthesis In Arts", 1964, Moscow.90 2.3.Architects or artists, 1965, Leningrad.102 2.4. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, 1966, Moscow.107 Chapter III. The Movement's Performances and Theatre Productions.115 3.1.Artistic strategies of performance in The Movement's practice.115 3.2.Humans and machines.123 3.3. Manifestation of the synthesis principle in performances.135 3.4.The symbolism of history in The Movement's productions.139 3.5.Escapism of the nature performances.143 3.6.The strategy of an artefact in Infante's work.150 Chapter IV. Sciences, State, and Culture.154 4.1.Kinetic art in urban and exhibition designs.154 4.2. Agitational art at the 1967 October Festival.159 4.3. Value of creativity and designs for "Orlenok", 1968.170 4.4.Exhibition designs.172 4.5.Art and the Stagnation period in the USSR.182 Chapter V. Futurism In The Movement's Projects.187 5.1. Artificial environments of the next century.187 5.2. The future is cybernetic.192 5.3. The power of play.195 5.4. Rationalising the unknown: transhumanism and space travel in The Movement's futurism.199 3 5.5. Why we need another utopia?.207 Chapter VI. The Movement: Separate and Abroad.217 6.1. The Movement as a part of the global network.217 6.2. The Movement as a part of dissident art and contemporary interpretations.222 6.3. Separate ways: Infante, Nussberg, Koleichuk.231 Epilogue.243 Bibliography.252 Illustrations.265

Explores impact of global capitalism and imperialism on African economic development, Africa's ties to the global economy, and inequalities within the new forms of African capital formation that have emerged; Marxist perspective; 9 articles. Contents: Regulating capital in accumulation: negotiating the imperial "frontier", by Sarah Bracking; The civilised horrors of over-work: marxism, imperialism & development of Africa, by Branwen Gruffydd Jones; Conflict in Central Africa: clandestine networks & regional/global configurations, by Ian Taylor; A back door to globalisation? structural adjustment, globalisation & transborder trade in West Africa, by Kate Meagher; Imperialism & international governance: the case of US policy towards Africa, by Robert Biel; Reflections on Somaliland & Africa's territorial order, by Ian S. Spears; Regulating illicit trade in natural resources: the role of regional actors in West Africa, by Emmanuel Kwesi Aning; The life & times of Babu: the age of liberation & revolution, by Issa G. Shivji; Imperialism & economic reform: NEPAD, by John Loxley.

Many social work practitioners consider social work an art form. The author considers the nature of this art form and describes how practitioners use style, relationship, and metaphor to create an aesthetic experience for both clients and practitioners in the therapeutic process.

AbstractThe United Nations and other multilateral organizations have always been prominent in the health field. UN agencies like the World Health Organization (WHO), however, have come increasingly under the influence of major individual donors which provide earmarked funding. Since 2000, two major vertical funds in the health field – the Global Fund and the GAVI Alliance – provide new models of multilateralism and their funding patterns, together with those of WHO, are examined in some detail. We review the extent to which the two new funds and WHO conform to traditional definitions of multilateralism by reference to several test areas: degrees of concentration of funding sources; the influence of individual funders; sustainability; and transparency. We also draw lessons from the analysis for the UN development organizations.

"Der Aufsatz untersucht die Gründe und Motivationen von Arbeitgebern zur Gründung von Arbeitgeberverbänden sowie ihre Bereitschaft, diese mit ausreichenden Ressourcen und tarifpolitischer Handlungsfähigkeit auszustatten. Basierend auf der Analyse von vier Fällen neu gegründeter Arbeitgeberverbände werden mit der gewerkschaftlichen Gegenmacht, dem staatlichen Handeln und der Bereitstellung von Kollektivgütern drei Gründe für die Organisationsfähigkeit der Arbeitgeber vorgestellt, die sich in ihrer Wirksamkeit nicht gegenseitig ausschließen. Für die erfolgreiche Gründung eines Arbeitgeberverbandes kann jeder dieser drei Faktoren, ob nun für sich genommen oder in Kombinationen mit anderen, ausreichend sein. Die Analyse kommt auch zu dem Ergebnis, dass es keine Belege für eine klare Hierarchie in Bezug auf ihr Potential für eine Verbandsgründung gibt." (Autorenreferat)

During the last two decades, we have witnessed the spreading of shared spaces of work and production in different urban contexts, attracting attention from both policymakers and scholars in economic geography and urban studies. In particular, Fablabs are considered open workshops for grassroots innovation, which is enabled by the availability of shared digital fabrication machines and by the possibility to share knowledge with peers and work together on a project, either in person or online. People attending Fablabs are usually called Makers and, according to the discourse surrounding them, they are deemed the harbingers of a democratisation of production and part of a broader transformation of urban economies and work in the era of digital capitalism. The book is the result of a PhD research on Makers and Fablabs in Turin, mainly based on an ethnographic observation conducted at Fablab Torino. It offers an original theoretical framework inspired by the recent strand of post-structuralist economic geography, together with a reliance on ontological tenets coming from Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the study is therefore of interest for scholars in different social sciences who study the reconfiguration of work and production in cities and digitally mediated economic transformations. The analysis unpacks the enactment of Making as a new form of work and production through three different conceptual foci – knowledge, materiality, and work. Notably, the inquiry looks at how Fablab Torino and the urban 'Maker scene' in Turin are performatively enacted through the entanglement between economic theories on the phenomenon with specific socio-technical arrangements aiming at making those economic theories true. The geographical relevance of the phenomenon is identified not in some static spatial configuration but, on the one hand, in the heterogeneous and emergent spatialities that emerge from individual practices of Making and, on the other, in the sociomaterial practices of organising that bring into being economic organisations such as Fablabs.

This paper outlines an alternative theory of organization-environment coevolution that generalizes a model of organization adaptation first proposed by March (1991), linking firm-level exploration and exploitation adaptations to changes in the population of organizations. The theory considers organizations, their populations, and their environments as the interdependent outcome of managerial actions, institutional influences, and extra-institutional changes (technological, sociopolitical, and other environmental phenomena). In particular, the theory incorporates potential differences and equifinal outcomes related to country-specific variation. The basic theses of this paper are that firm strategic and organization adaptations coevolve with changes in the environment (competitive dynamics, technological, and institutional) and organization population and forms, and that new organizational forms can mutate and emerge from the existing population of organizations. The theory has guided a multicountry research collaboration on strategic and organization adaptations and the mutation and emergence of new organizational forms from within the existing population of organizations.

The article's main theme is national identity & its questionable role in establishing identity of a European political community. It is argued that political integration within the European Union requires a normative & conceptual reexamination of the concept of national identity. 'Europeanization' in the context of this article suggests the integration of national groups within & between the states of the Union is a project rooted in the political future. Consequently, national identity, inspired historically, may have reached a stage whereby its utility has expired. Adapted from the source document.

Any copyright on this work is most likely expired, given life expectancy and copyright duration at the time of publication, or when rolling copyright occurred (i.e., changes to the legislation extending the copyright term). In case of a takedown request, the depositor requests to be provided with legal documentation from the person/organization instigating the takedown request and to be heard by Zenodo before making a decision about the takedown. ; This file was uploaded by Chris Hartgerink (chris@libscie.org), not the original authors or the publisher. This upload is part of ensuring public access to the public domain. Please see description for legal justification of why this work is (likely to be) in the public domain and it is considered reasonable to be uploaded to Zenodo.