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"Both academic and popular representations of globalization, critical or celebratory, have tended to conceptualize it primarily in spatial terms, rather than simultaneously temporal ones. However, time, in both its ideational and material dimensions, has played an important role in mediating and shaping the directions, courses, and outcomes of globalization. Focusing on the intersection of time and globalization, this book aims to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between the (largely separated) respective literatures on each of these themes. This dialogue will be of both theoretical and empirical significance, since many urgent issues of contemporary human affairs from large epochal problems such as climate change, to everyday struggles with the dynamics of social acceleration involve a complex interplay between temporality and globalization. A critical understanding of the relationship between time and globalization will not only facilitate innovative thinking about globalization; it will also foster our imagination of alternatives that may lead to more socially just and sustainable futures. This innovative collection illustrates the theoretical benefits of bridging time with globalization and also exemplifies the methodological strengths of engaging in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scholarship to better understand the changing economic, social, political, cultural and ecological dynamics in this globalizing world.This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 As We Think about Death -- A History of Death -- Not Thinking about Death: A Failed Experiment -- Your Self-Inventory of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Feelings -- Some Answers-and the Questions They RaiseM -- Man is Mortal: But What Does That Have to Do with Me? -- Anxiety, Denial, and Acceptance: Three Core Concepts -- Studies and Theories of Death Anxiety -- Major Findings From Self-Reports of Death Anxiety -- Theoretical Perspectives on Death Anxiety -- Accepting and Denying Death -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 2 What is Death? What Does Death Mean? -- Ideas About the Nature and Meaning of Death -- Death as Observed, Proclaimed, and Imagined -- Biomedical Approaches to the Definition of Death -- Event Versus State -- Interpretations of the Death State -- Conditions That Resemble Death -- Death as a Person -- Conditions That Death Resembles -- The Undead -- Death as an Agent of Personal, Political, and Social Change -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 3 Denial or Adaptation: the Death System -- A World Without Death -- Basic Characteristics of the Death System -- Components of the Death System -- Functions of the Death System -- Disasters and the Death System -- How our Death System Has Been Changing-and the "Deathniks" Who are Making a Difference -- Causes of Death: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow -- Basic Terms and Concepts -- Summary -- Glossary -- For Further Thought... -- References -- 4 Dying: Transition from Life -- "Dying": Primped and Medicalized -- The Moment of Death: Is it Vanishing? -- What Is Dying, and When Does it Begin? -- Trajectories of Dying: From Beginning to End -- Guarded Feelings, Subtle Communications -- Individuality and Universality in the Experience of Dying

Applied systems‐thinking involves the use of systems methodologies and concepts to facilitate intervention in social situations. In this area, a body of knowledge has been accumulated to promote informed use of systems methodology. Still, how human experience is considered and used in intervention is limited to what methodologies prescribe or what facilitators do with it. In this paper, we revisit the ideas of autopoiesis and in particular the research project pursued by one of his original authors (Francisco Varela). Following Varela's intent to develop a middle way in science, we reflect on how applied systems‐thinkingcould take a step back regarding how human experience is integrated into intervention. We conclude the paper with a number of suggestions to make applied systems‐thinking more permeable and sensitive to human experience and therefore open to compassionate thinking and action. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

What is heuristic inquiry, anyway? -- Locating heuristic inquiry within contemporary qualitative research -- Philosophical and theoretical foundations of heuristic inquiry -- Heuristic processes and phases -- Heuristic research design -- Heuristic data collection, organization, and analysis -- Relationality, reflexivity, and meaning-making -- Evaluating the research: a collaborative process -- Writing a living manuscript: an embodied relational approach -- Ethics of heuristic research -- Universal applications of heuristic inquiry: bridging research and living experience -- An ending, beginning