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This article analyzes to what extent new knowledge & ignorance-structures within financial markets challenge basic assumptions in scientific discourse. "Ignorance" is seen as an inherent part of governance-regimes. It is argued that the self-fulfilling prophecy of a bank run as the dominant metaphor for systemic risks is insufficient to capture today's dynamics & categorical changes. Therefore, the paper seeks to show that "science" has not sufficiently attempted to fully come to terms with issues of uncertainty & self-reference. 38 References. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractBefore International Studies can confront the future, it needs to get a better grip on its past and present. The discipline lacks agreement on both its own name and the name of its object of study. More importantly, key concepts used to describe phenomena have changed continuously: no concept emerging in the 19th century has remained untouched, no envisioned future of the past could have prepared us for the present. Old concepts have been discarded, new ones adopted, and existing ones modified. This implies that any exercise in 'futurology' must necessarily come with an openness towards conceptual change, and that a key challenge for International Studies going forward will consist in matching our conceptual toolbox to an ever-changing world. The importance of conceptual change has until recently been neglected in the study of global politics. Thus, in this paper we start by presenting the empirical case for incorporating conceptual change by laying out key past and present conceptual changes in the international realm. We then move on to a presentation of conceptual history and the tools it provides us for grasping conceptual change, before discussing how to tackle conceptual developments when thinking about the future of global politics.

This article advances the argument that the acceleration of practices introduced by digital technologies also impact key concepts of social theory. Digital technologies not only give rise to new concepts, but they also reconfigure our entire socio-political conceptual vocabulary. In particular, this acceleration reorganises the relationship between the spatial and temporal dimensions of political concepts. As a consequence, our spatially defined understanding of authority, hierarchy or relation underestimates the repercussions of shifting temporalities. This article pursues this shift from space to time and outlines how temporal relationality is gradually impacting the representations and images we live by.

Die Zahl der betagten Menschen, die während kürzeren Episoden oder längeren Lebensphasen pflegebedürftig sind oder Hilfe und Betreuung benötigen, wächst stetig. Die spitalexterne ambulante und stationäre Pflege ist in einem starken Wandel begriffen. Die Publikation richtet ihren Fokus auf die Frage der Finanzierung, Organisation und Steuerung der Langzeitpflege. Welche übergeordneten gesellschaftlichen und politischen Ziele werden im Bereich der Pflege und Betreuung verfolgt? Was sind die Stärken und Schwächen des heutigen Organisations- und Finanzierungsmodells in der Langzeit-, Akut- und Übergangspflege, mit dem sich die Schweiz vor acht Jahren bewusst gegen die Einführung einer obligatorischen Pflegeversicherung entschieden hat? Hat sich die Aufgabenteilung zwischen Bund, Kantonen, Gemeinden, Krankenversicherungen, Leistungserbringern und der Gesellschaft bewährt? Und zum Schluss stellt sich die Frage, was eine Pflegeversicherung respektive eine Mischung von einem obligatorischen Pflegesparmodell und einem Versicherungsteil verändern würde. Die Publikation versucht, die oben genannten Fragen zumindest ansatzweise zu beantworten und damit zur Weiterentwicklung des schweizerischen Modells der Organisation und Finanzierung der Pflege und Betreuung im Altersbereich beizutragen. ; + ID der Publikation: hslu_57800 + Art des Beitrages: Buch (Monographie) + Reihe: CONCORDIA research – eine Schriftenreihe der Stiftung Kranken- und Unfallkasse Konkordia, Nr. 3 + Sprache: Deutsch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2020-01-21 16:20:57

This article explores the relationship between race and finance. By looking closer at risk, this article seeks to contribute to the literature in three ways: First, the concepts of risk and uncertainty need to be understood from a post-colonial perspective. Second, through a post-colonial reading of risk, we seek to develop a different concept of risk itself which emphasises its three qualities of de-humanisation, de-socialisation, and de-territorialisation. Last but not least, we propose to understand the post-colonial critique not only as a reconstruction of Europe's past, as Dipesh Chakrabarty has named it, but locate it at the intersection of the present and the future: The post-colonial critique is enacted as soon as Europe's future is imagined through risk.