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Abstract This article discusses points related to "disaster culture" and "safety culture" in Brazil, and debates how societal-structural factors influence the management of low incidence and high consequence disasters, such as dam breaks, which appear to provide limited evidence for preventive decision making. Discussion of the occurrence of disasters considers the "Swiss Cheese Model" of risk analysis proposed by James Reason. The article uses this to indicate some potential paths forward.

Die Autorin befaßt sich mit den Auswirkungen und Manifestation der Gorbatschowschen Perestrojka- und Glasnost-Politik in der Kulturpolitik und im kulturellen Leben der Sowjetunion. Insbesondere untersucht sie, wie die Gewerkschaften der Kunstschaffenden (Film, Theater, Schriftsteller) auf die Reformpolitik Gorbatschows reagiert haben bzw. welche Haltung sie zur Glasnost-Politik einnehmen. In diesem Zusammenhang informiert sie kurz über die in den sowjetischen Literaturzeitschriften zwischen "Liberalen" und "Konservativen" ausgetragene politische Reformdebatte sowie über die Themenschwerpunktsetzung in den sowjetischen Literaturzeitschriften. (BIOst-klk)

An emotional and intellectual affinity between Chinese culture and psychoanalysis has surprised and attracted many of us who work and teach in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan. A primary motive for seeking analysis and psychoanalytic training is because psychoanalysis serves as an inner resource for modern Chinese to resist the authority and moral coercion from family, repressive institutions, and the state. Despite the current focus on the narcissism of wealth, power, and fame among affluent urban Chinese, the reception of psychoanalysis is conditioned by contemporary and ancient cultural factors. For contemporary Chinese, psychoanalysis is an exciting tool of personal liberation to build a sense of an autonomous self that is not a part of traditional Chinese values and family structures.
This article will focus on the traditional imperatives, suggesting that explicit trends in Chinese culture and philosophical and religious traditions contribute to explaining why there is currently an enthusiastic responsiveness to psychoanalysis in China (Scharff & Varvin, 2014). To those who have worked and taught in China there appears to be a cultural aptitude for the psychodynamic modes of thought, its dialectics, the coexistence of contradictions, the suspension and collapse of linear time categories that allows Chinese students and candidates to "take to" and under-stand analytic thought and practice. I believe the Chinese will, in the tradition of their rich and ancient intellectual heritage, develop a form of "Chinese psychoanalysis" which will synthesise the Western psychoanalytic "schools" and teachings with uniquely Chinese tempers, flavours, registers, and characteristics (Gerlach et al., 2013).

Modern Egypt blends African history and geography with Arab culture and religion. With its position at the crossroads of Africa, its status as a major Islamic nation, and continuing interest in its ancient monuments, Egypt makes for fascinating study. This volume provides an accessible, up-to-date overview of a society that greatly evolved, yet retains traces of attitudes and behaviors from the days of the Pharaohs.||This volume's insights into everyday life, sociopolitical structures, and cultural institutions transcend ordinary guide books. Asante, a noted Africanist, authoritatively present

Chapter 1 Economics, culture, and development -- chapter 2 Classical political economy and the rise of Neoclassicism -- chapter 3 Neoclassical economics and culture -- chapter 4 Institutional economics: Veblen's tradition -- chapter 5 The New Institutional Economics -- chapter 6 Marxian economics: from modern to postmodern -- chapter 7 Development economics: three stances on culture -- chapter 8 Feminist Economics: women, culture, and development -- chapter 9 Conclusion.

Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptions of the distinctive nature of British society, and on ideas about education and the teaching of literature more generally. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects - Democracy, Equality, and The Function of Criticism at the Present Time. The editor's substantial introduction situates these works in the context both of Arnold's life and other writings, and of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names, books, and historical events mentioned in the texts