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This book examines Protestant loss of power and self-confidence in Ireland since 1795. David Fitzpatrick charts the declining power and influence of the Protestant community in Ireland and the strategies adopted in the face of this decline, presenting rich personal testimony that illustrates how individuals experienced and perceived 'descendancy'. Focusing on the attitudes and strategies adopted by the eventual losers rather than victors, he addresses contentious issues in Irish history through an analysis of the appeal of the Orange Order, the Ulster Covenant of 1912, and 'ethnic cleansing' in the Irish Revolution. Avoiding both apologetics and sentimentality when probing the psychology of those undergoing 'descendancy', the book examines the social and political ramifications of religious affiliation and belief as practised in fraternities, church congregations and isolated sub-communities

The concepts of green building and sustainable development are not new to the property management industry for long. Yet, there is little correlation between the terms "environmental sustainability" and "shopping mall" in the general public's mind. This mindset maybe built by the mega building structure, bright and air-conditioned indoor environment and ever-changing interior features and decorations of Hong Kong's shopping malls. Looking at Hong Kong, some shopping malls have already taken initiatives to act green for a long time. From placing recycle bins in the mall to installation of rainwater collection plant and food waste decomposers, shopping malls can contribute to environmental sustainability through adopting different green measures in their operation and management. Since there is no past research or study focusing on the increasing trend on green shopping mall management, this research aims to examine how and why Hong Kong's shopping malls implement green measures. It also evaluates on the role of shopping malls in Hong Kong's environmental sustainable development, as well as to explore the future possibility of shopping malls towards better green management and better social responsibility on environmental sustainability. The research is conducted in the form of case study of four shopping malls. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with shopping mall managers and surveys to shoppers and mall tenants accordingly. Through data analysis and discussions, it is concluded that there are both direct and indirect contributions by shopping malls' green measures to Hong Kong's environmental sustainability development. However, it is found that in spite of numerous green measures implemented by some shopping malls, the management is hardly credited by stakeholders, especially the general public, for those green effort they did; also, stakeholders rarely identify the malls as green shopping malls. This may due to the lack of promotions and disclosure of information to stakeholders, as well as poor awareness and concern of stakeholders on the issue. In such, green achievement of shopping malls is only recognized within the industry itself but not all stakeholders and the general public. At the same time, the indirect impact of green measures (influence to other stakeholders) is not maximized. This is surely not a good phenomenon to both the industry and Hong Kong's environmental sustainability development as this could hardly create a green culture in Hong Kong. To tackle this phenomenon, it is recommended shopping malls to involve top management's commitment in green measures, to disclose more information on green effort and achievement to the public, and lastly, to get tenants to involve in green measures in the early stage of tenancy. Meanwhile, the shopping mall management industry should provide practical guide to assist mall managers in starting their green work, and to set up a tutor scheme within company in order to guide the late comers. Finally, the Government should consider having more collaboration and discussion with the industry in future green policy implementation so as to achieve mutual benefits and smoother implementation of green policies. ; published_or_final_version ; Housing Management ; Master ; Master of Housing Management

This interdisciplinary collection places corporate security in a theoretical and global context. Arguing that corporate security is becoming the primary form of security in the twenty-first century and affecting an increasing number of people inside and outside of corporations, this is one of the first books to examine corporate security practices in multiple countries and from multiple perspectives. Bringing together key international scholars from sociology, criminology, political science, critical security studies, international relations, and law, the contributors reveal corporate security practices as diverse, complex, and theoretically-stimulating, and explore a range of issues including regulation, accountability, militarization and strategies of securitization. Providing an enlightening discussion of the implications of corporate security practices for legal, social, and political theory, this book reveals how these practices are conceived, organized, and managed, and assesses the consequences of more spaces, people, and organizations being governed through corporate security.

Kujala's (2017) target article is ostensibly focused on how everyday folk (fail to) make sense of canine emotions. However, the theories outlined in the article apply to making sense of all aspects of the mentality of both human and non-human animals. The target article neglects the fundamental arguments surrounding the problem of other minds. I explore the relevant arguments and briefly review approaches suggesting that our everyday-life sense that both human and non-human animals are thinking, feeling, emotional beings has a secure epistemological basis.

The article examined sin as a deception and the game in the context of the dialectic of sin and hope. Selected philosophical and psychological aspects of the review only correlated to the religious. Based on the modes of "being" and "having" by E. Fromm and "flow" by M. Chiksentmihayi conducted polemics with the postmodern view that for the destruction of the will to power is required the destruction of the subject and its consciousness. Opposes the flow and consumerism, happiness and pleasure, personal development and selfish.

La enseñanza del Derecho en el ámbito de la Pandemia producto del Coronavirus otambién llamado Covid-19, es el motivo que lleva a investigar todo lo referente aaspectos tales como la forma en que ha afectado o beneficiado esta situación alámbito educativo, específicamente en la enseñanza del Derecho como CienciaSocial, directamente relacionado al sujeto como ente social. Por ende, el objetivofue analizar el proceso enseñanza del derecho en el marco de la pandemia Covid-19. Para ello se realizó una revisión exhaustiva en diferentes documentospublicados en Internet con temas relacionados con el objeto de estudio, realizandodesde una clasificación y depuración de la información con el fin de obtener los másrelevantes. y de esa forma concretar las diferentes inferencias que surjan en torno asu estudio. Concluyéndose que la pandemia permitió explorar y/o fortalecerestrategias para la enseñanza del derecho como las nuevas tecnologías, autocapacitándose tanto profesores como estudiantes, aunque siguen considerando quees desde la interacción física que se logra una formación integral del profesional delderecho.
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The teaching of Law in the field of the Pandemic product of the Coronavirus or also called Covid-19, is the reason that leads to investigate everything related to aspects such as the way in which this situation has affected or benefited the educational field, specifically in the teaching of Law as a Social Science, directly related to the subject as a social entity. Therefore, the objective was to analyze the process of teaching law in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this, an exhaustive review was carried out in different documents published on the Internet with topics related to the object of study, carrying out from a classification and purification of the information in order to obtain the most relevant ones. and in this way specify the different inferences that arise around their study. Concluding that the pandemic made it possible to explore and/or strengthen strategies for teaching law such as new technologies, self-training both teachers and students, although they continue to consider that it is from physical interaction that a comprehensive training of the legal professional is achieved.

In the article author focused on the understudied and disputable aspects of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1914–1923, mainly on how Western Ukrainian statehood was established and developed in 1918–1919, as well as some specific issues of the political history of the West-Ukrainian People's Republic (WUPR) in 1918–1923. By applying the theories of randomness introduced by scientists in the 20th – early 21st centuries (generally, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Michele Wucker, Peter Grassberger, Edward Lorenz), the author puts forward an approach to the events of the early 20th century Ukrainian history, which is completely different to what has been suggested before, in its "Galician" form.

This article aims to make a contribution to the literature by addressing an undertheorized aspect of sensemaking: its embodied narrative nature. We do so by integrating a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective of narrative and storytelling with a documentary case taken from a filmed tour of a sports team to illustrate the process of sensemaking around a specific event. We argue that we make our lives, ourselves and our experience 'sensible' in embodied interpretations and interactions with others. We suggest this occurs within contested, embedded, narrative performances in which we try to construct sensible and plausible accounts that are responsive to the moment and to retrospective and anticipatory narratives.

In this article we define and explain private equity, with particular emphasis on the heterogeneity of the phenomenon. We consider different theoretical perspectives of relevance to the study of private equity buyouts. In particular, we distinguish between approaches that take a zero-sum perspective (rational choice and financialization perspectives) and those with a more nuanced, complementary viewpoint (heterodox institutional and theories of action and structure perspectives). We discuss private equity in historical perspective. We then summarize the articles in this special section. Finally, we identify an agenda for further research that focuses upon employee relations and human resource aspects of private equity buyouts.

Argues that NGOs, far from facilitating international cooperation vis-a-vis environmental problems, in fact play a part in creating the problematic circumstances & the realm of conflict, both of which are socially constructed. The focus is on the extent to which the ostensibly apolitical specialization & expertise of NGOs have fostered the entrenchment & thus functions as an aspect of what Gramsci has called the "extended state." The first section examines some key features of the post-Fordist transformation of politics & relationships with the natural environment as a springboard for a close analysis of this field's broad structure & the function of NGOs within it. 84 References. K. Coddon

This introductory chapter looks at the antecedents, the nature and the various dimensions of'teamworking'. Teamworking is drawing on a variety of traditions, which has resulted in a number of different types and designs of teams. It is necessary to keep all dimensions in mind in order to reach a historically informed judgement of the current forms of teamworking and their shortcomings. Variants of teams need to be analysed by employing a multidimensional framework - teamworking will be more appropriate in some settings than in others. This caution, which had been an aspect of sociotechnical systems thinking from its inception, is shared by all the papers selected for this special issue.

What conflict resolution mechanisms do democratic worker cooperatives generate and to what extent could these mechanisms be called democratic? This case study tries to address these questions by examining both conflict and conflict resolution in a democratic organization, a 66-year-old taxi cooperative. The conflicts presented stem from three main sources: ethnic origin, local division of labor, and "class" affiliation. These conflicts are resolved through different processes, ranging from a joke-telling ritual to a formal tribunal composed of elected judges. Discussion centers on unique aspects of conflict resolution in a democratic worker cooperative and their implications for studies of conflict resolution in nondemocratic firms.

This paper reviews aspects of two largely disparate literatures from the adjacent fields of individual and organizational learning and identifies some implications for theory and practice. The focus of attention is the extent to which the individual level construct cognitive style can be meaningfully applied to aid the understanding of learning at the level of the organization as well as at the level of the individual. Attention is given to the ways in which consideration of cognitive style can improve the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve individual and organizational performance. Nine categories of intervention are identified.

"Intellectual Disability: Ethics, Dehumanization, and a New Moral Community presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the roots and evolution of the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. This book: Examines the roots of disability ethics from a psychological, philosophical, and educational perspective ; Presents a coherent, sustained moral perspective in examining the historical dehumanization of people with diminished cognitive abilities ; Includes a series of narratives and case descriptions to illustrate arguments ; Reveals the importance of an interdisciplinary understanding of the social construction of intellectual disability."--Publisher's website.

International audience ; Individual and corporate responsibility is the basis for sustainable development of society and the world. Environmental responsibility of business entities is a prerequisite for the survival of people, which is why it is an important aspect of corporate responsibility. The purpose of the paper is to determine the content of corporate and social responsibility of business entities in the field of environmental protection in terms of its interaction with the state on the basis of public-private partnership. The general scientific method of comparison made it possible to compare the Ukrainian legislative base on environmental protection with the legal framework of regulation and practice in foreign countries. Through the structural and functional analysis, it was possible to consider the features of the interaction between the state and business structures and between other institutions the activities of which are related to environmental protection. The analysis revealed the necessity to consider and include elements of environmental and social responsibility of business in the mechanisms of public-private partnership. The study shows that public-private partnership is an imperative element in the composition of social responsibility. The author proposes a definition of environmental responsibility that encompasses three factors: legal, economic and social. In the future, this research area will be of interest as a comparison of the legislative support of the types of responsibility for foreign and international standards in the context of implementing the relevant standards in the Ukrainian legislative framework and their implementation on practice.