bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Assessing cognitive appraisals related to sexual function: A scenario-based approach
Authors: Velten Julia , Blackwell Simon Edward , Margraf Jürgen , Woud Marcella Lydia
Published: August 2018

Cognitive factors play an important role in the etiology and maintenance of sexual difficulties. To date, research has mostly relied on self-report measures to assess negative cognitions related to low sexual function. To overcome the limitations of self-report questionnaires, a series of open-ended, ambiguous sexual scenarios was developed and presented to participants (N=600, Mage=34.2) who were asked to generate an ending by entering a continuation for each scenario. Sexual function was assessed with the Female Sexual Function Index and the International Index of Erectile Function. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were performed to assess whether the scenario-based task was associated with sexual function above and beyond other predictors (e.g. sexual distress). Individuals with lower sexual function rated the completed scenarios more negatively and their endings included more references to problems related to low sexual function. In women with low sexual function, fewer endings included sexual communication with a partner or sexually explicit language. Our findings suggest that individuals with low sexual function appraise ambiguous sexual situations more negatively than other individuals. Future studies may investigate whether such biases can be experimentally manipulated and whether changes in cognitive biases may in turn lead to improvements in sexual function.
STILL MOTIVATED TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE? A STUDY OF GOVERNMENT CONTEXT VARIABLES, DISCIPLINE, LOCAL WISDOM, WORK ENVIRONMENT AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS
Authors: Abdurrahman Ahmad Yani , Basalamah H. Salim , Mallongi H. Syahrir , Serang Serlin
Published: August 2018

This study aims to examine and analyze the influence of discipline, motivation, local wisdom, and work environment on job satisfaction and employee performance. This study uses primary data through the obtained through a survey of 257 employees at the Organization of the Regional Revenue Management Area of Ternate. The result of Structural Equation Model analysis using AMOS 18 provides proof that Discipline, motivation, local wisdom, and work environment have positive and significant effect to job satisfaction. Other factors that are motivation, local wisdom, work environment and job satisfaction have positive and significant effect to employee performance, different condition for work discipline is not significant. In indirect effect test found Discipline, motivation, local wisdom, and work environment have positive and significant effect to employee performance through job satisfaction as variable intervening. The recommendation of this research is suggested that the motivation, local wisdom, and work environment that gives significant influence is maintained, while the discipline that has no significant affect on employee performance needs to be improved maximally in order to increase job satisfaction and employee performance in the future.
Who Should Do Replication Labor?
Authors: Romero Felipe
Published: August 2018

Scientists, for the most part, want to get it right. However, the social structures that govern their work undermine that aim, and this leads to nonreplicable findings in many fields. Because the social structure of science is a decentralized system, it is difficult to intervene. In this article, I discuss how we might do so, focusing on self-corrective-labor schemes (i.e., ways of distributing replication efforts within the scientific community). First, I argue that we need to implement a scheme that makes replication work outcome independent, systematic, and sustainable. Second, I use these three criteria to evaluate extant proposals, which place the responsibility for replication on original researchers, consumers of their research, students, or many labs. Third, on the basis of a philosophical analysis of the reward system of science and the benefits of the division of cognitive labor, I propose a scheme that satisfies the criteria better: the professional scheme. This scheme has two main components. First, the scientific community is organized into two groups: discovery researchers, who produce new findings, and confirmation researchers, whose primary function is to do confirmation work (i.e., replication, reproduction, meta-analysis). Second, a distinct reward system is established for confirmation researchers so that their career advancement is separated from whether they obtain positive experimental results.
Heroic video game violence and prosocial behavior
Authors: Lueke Adam , Hilgard Joseph , Zimmerman Ian , Bartholow Bruce D , Gibson Bryan
Published: August 2018

Research into violent videogames has yet to investigate how violence used in videogames for prosocial purposes could affect prosocial behavior. We assigned participants to one of three videogame conditions: an antisocial violence game, a prosocial violence game, or a control game. After gameplay, participants were dismissed from the experiment, but a confederate approached them in the hallway and asked them to help the Red Cross with a blood drive. Contrasts found that participants in the hero violence condition were more prosocial than those in the gratuitous violence condition, but these conditions did not differ from the control condition. This finding is discussed in light of several limitations of the study, including the nonnormal distribution of the dependent variable and issues related to the size of the final sample.
Bridging Global and Local Topology in Whole-brain Networks using the Network Statistic Jackknife
Authors: Henry Teague R , Duffy Kelly A. , Rudolph Marc D. , Nebel Mary Beth , Mostofsky Stewart H. , Cohen Jessica R.
Published: August 2018

Whole-brain network analysis is commonly used to investigate the topology of the brain in a variety of neuroimaging modalities. This approach is notable for its applicability to a large number of domains, such as understanding how brain network organization relates to cognition and behavior, examining disrupted brain network organization in disease, and assessing developmental trajectories across the lifespan. A benefit to this approach is the ability to summarize overall brain network organization with a single number (e.g., global efficiency). However, important local differences in network structure might exist without any corresponding observable differences in overall topology, making a whole-brain analysis strategy unlikely to detect relevant local findings. Here, we propose the network-based statistic (NBS) jackknife as a means of combining the utility of global network analysis strategies with the ability to detect relevant local differences in network structure. We describe the NBS jackknife framework, and demonstrate three specific testing scenarios in a series of examples. Finally, we provide an empirical example comparing global efficiency between children with ADHD and typically developing (TD) children. We demonstrate using functional connectivity data that there are no group differences in whole-brain global efficiency. Using the NBS jackknife, however, we identify group differences in global efficiency specific to the salience and subcortical subnetworks. The NBS jackknife framework has been implemented in a public, open source R package, netjack, available at https://cran.r-project.org/package=netjack.
Aggressive Policing and the Educational Performance of Minority Youth
Authors: Legewie Joscha , Fagan Jeffrey
Published: August 2018

An increasing number of minority youth experience contact with the criminal justice system. But how does the expansion of police presence in poor urban communities affect educational outcomes? Previous research points at multiple mechanisms with opposing effects. This article presents the first causal evidence of the impact of aggressive policing on minority youths’ educational performance. Under Operation Impact, the New York Police Department (NYPD) saturated high-crime areas with additional police officers with the mission to engage in aggressive, order-maintenance policing. To estimate the effect of this policing program, we use administrative data from more than 250,000 adolescents age 9 to 15 and a difference-in-differences approach based on variation in the timing of police surges across neighborhoods. We find that exposure to police surges significantly reduced test scores for African American boys, consistent with their greater exposure to policing. The size of the effect increases with age, but there is no discernible effect for African American girls and Hispanic students. Aggressive policing can thus lower educational performance for some minority groups. These findings provide evidence that the consequences of policing extend into key domains of social life, with implications for the educational trajectories of minority youth and social inequality more broadly.
An Alternative Method of Forecasting Divorce Rates Based on the Parametric Sickle Model
Authors: Wolfinger Nicholas H.
Published: August 2018

Demographers routinely predict that between 40 and 50 percent of new marriages will end in divorce. Based on life tables, these forecasts entail strong assumptions that current marriages will behave in the future like others did in the past. I use data from the 1995 June Marriage and Fertility Supplement of the Current Population Survey to test an alternative method of forecasting divorce rates: predictions based on the parametric sickle model of marital instability. The sickle model corresponds almost perfectly to completed marriage cohorts (30 year marriages unlikely to ever dissolve), but offered implausibly low divorce rate forecasts for newer marriages. It is therefore unlikely to be useful for forecasting divorce rates.
Editorial: Al-Marhum Sheikh Dr. AlyMishal (1938-2018)
Authors: Mohd Nordin Musa
Published: August 2018

Abstract not availableInternational Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 02 No. 04 October’18. Page : 187-188
Herbal Products and Conventional Drugs – an Uneasy Alliance
Authors: Glynn John , Bhikha Rashid
Published: August 2018

This review examines the interaction between herbal remedies and conventional (orthodox) drugs. There has been a substantial increase in the consumption of herbal remedies in recent times for various reasons. They are often combined with one another, and are often used simultaneously with conventional drugs that are taken for a wide range of disorders, both acute and chronic. The probability of a real and substantial interaction between the therapeutic agents originating from different medical paradigms is likewise expanding. Whilst most of the herb-drug interactions are undoubtedly minor, benign, and harmless, there are reports of more serious interactions. Possible reasons for specific herb-drug interactions are examined, particularly from the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics perspectives. International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 02 No. 04 October’18. Page : 193-198
Experiences of the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Raja PerempuanZainab II in handling the Massive Evacuation of Critically-Ill Patients during Flood Disaster.
Authors: Nasruddin WI Wan , Hidayah ZA Nor , Nazri A , Azzlan WI Wan , Ruwaida I , Mazelan O , Jusoh J Aziz , Shahrizam MA , Fatmawati CW Farah , Azhar M
Published: August 2018

In December 2014, Malaysia had suffered nationwide floods after unprecedented monsoon rains overwhelmed several parts of the country. The East Coast areas of Malaysia were especially badly affected, specifically for the state of Kelantan, whereby a total of 170,000 victims were evacuated to the evacuation centres. This was the worst flood in the last 40 years and has been referred to by the locals as ‘Bah Kuning’. As a tertiary centre for the state of Kelantan with a total number of hospital beds of 937, HRPZ II was also badly compromised during this time. The electricity supply to the main hospital building was shut-down during this period and the hospital had managed to maintain its operations hUP_(ÛT_e power from a generator which had faced the risk of being shut down if the water levels had increased further. These issues might have caused a worse impact viaa possible loss of electrical and oxygen supply and non-functional life support systems. In relation to this flood disaster, the Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit of HRPZ II would like to share the experiences of handling ventilated and critically ill-patients for evacuation during the massive floods in 2014 from the ICU of Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab II to “an open stage with no facilities”. During this time, we had a total of 19 patients in our 21-bedded Intensive Care Unit. The challenge was the need to evacuate all the critically ill patients and to set-up a new ICU in a safer place immediately at the time.International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 02 No. 04 October’18. Page : 224-227
Milked and Feathered: The Regressive Welfare Effects of Canada’s Supply Management Regime: Reply
Authors: Cardwell Ryan , Lawley Chad , Xiang Di
Published: August 2018

A comment by Doyon, Bergeron, and Tamini (2018) criticizes the approach and the results of a study by Cardwell, Lawley, and Xiang (2015) that quantifies the distributional effects that Canada’s supply management regime imposes on consumers. In this reply, we show that the main empirical result of Cardwell et al.—the degree of regressive distributional effects—is robust to alternative modelling choices and to alternative counterfactual price scenarios. We present new food price comparisons between Canada and the United States, showing that significant price premiums for supply-managed products persist under different exchange rates. Contrary to the results in Doyon et al., we find no evidence of systematic price premiums for non-supply-managed food products. Our new price comparisons highlight the shortcomings in the price comparisons in Doyon et al. and corroborate the results in Cardwell et al. Finally, we reject suggestions by Doyon et al. that our results are affected by research bias.
Mitteilungas an Information Concept: Kierkegaard and Benjamin
Authors: Pao Lea
Published: August 2018

One of the effects of the history of twentieth-century information technology is to push the meaning of the word Mitteilung into a progressively more technological framework, where it becomes synonymous with the one-way transmission of information from sender to receiver. As a correction to that more recent history, this essay traces the ambivalent structure of Mitteilung through the work of Søren Kierkegaard and Walter Benjamin. Both Kierkegaard and Benjamin, the essay argues, treat Mitteilung (and its Danish equivalent, Meddelelse) as inherently ambiguous, as a socially complex field of sharing, interaction, and exchange. In this way they show, first, that Mitteilung’s conceptual history includes (rather than erases or negates) the oppositional forces between one-way and dialogic communication and, second, that the deep intellectual and social appeal of information extends well beyond its modern theory, technology, or proliferation into its so-called age.
Reading Disability Ethically: Gertrud Kolmar’sSusanna
Authors: Cattell Alec
Published: August 2018

Gertrud Kolmar’s novella Susanna has primarily been analyzed for the ways it negotiates Jewishness and femininity in a climate hostile to them. While recent scholarship has considered the representation of disability in Susanna, a thorough analysis of this theme is needed in light of theoretical developments in disability studies. This essay examines the portrayal of the central figure as disabled with a focus on Kolmar’s use of and departure from tropes that rely on the category of disability. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of these representational and rhetorical strategies with regard to the difficulties and possibilities of portraying disabled characters as “life worthy of life” amid ableist discourses. The analysis demonstrates how Susanna encourages readers to “read illiterately” by providing partial answers and discouraging transgression of the line between compassion and appropriation. While it invites vicarious witnessing of the stigmatization of persons with disabilities, Susanna also encourages readers to recognize the limits of one’s ability to understand another’s experience.
Microstructure and properties of laser interference crystallized amorphous FeSiB ribbon
Authors: Kusinski Jan , Czyz Olaf , Radziszewska Agnieszka , Morgiel Jerzy , Kapusta Czeslaw , Ostrowski Roman , Strzelec Marek , Czyz Krzysztof
Published: August 2018

The influence of Q-switched pulsed Nd:YAG laser interference heating, using 120 mJ of pulse energy and a variable number of consecutive pulses, on the microstructure and magnetic properties of amorphous Fe80Si11B9 alloy was examined. Microstructural analysis, using light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, was complemented by results of Mössbauer spectroscopy and measurement of magnetic properties (vibrating sample magnetometer). Periodically distributed crystallized micro-areas, ∼10 μm in diameter, in an amorphous matrix were produced by the treatments. Magnetization measurements showed that the as-cast ribbon and laser light irradiated samples are magnetically soft materials. The results lead to the conclusion that the dots corresponding to the laser modified regions exhibit a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
Microstructural evolution of semi-solid A356 alloy during reheating
Authors: Hu Yong , Zhao Longzhi , Liu Dejia , Tang Yanchuan , Jiang Hui
Published: August 2018

Semi-solid billets of A356 alloy were fabricated using a sloping-plate device. This study investigated the effects of reheating on the microstructural evolution of the alloy. Prolonged holding times and higher reheating temperatures caused the primary α-aluminum particles to gradually grow and spheroidize, resulting in increased liquid fraction. The optimal reheating condition was 580°C for 25 min, during which the average grain size increased to 89.3 μm and the shape factor reached 1.18. The secondary phases were also refined by the reheating process.
Lewis–Br⊘nsted induction acidity in SBA-15 modified with Zr and P
Authors: Cruz-Rodríguez Karina , García-Alamilla Ricardo , Paraguay-Delgado Francisco , Cárdenas-Galindo María-Guadalupe , Handy Brent E. , Reyes-Gómez Juan
Published: August 2018

In this work, we present the synthesis of SBA-15 materials modified with 6 and 9 mol.% of Zr and P, respectively. Silanol SBA-15 groups were detected by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. X-ray diffractograms revealed that the typical hexagonal arrangement of SBA-15 was preserved after Zr and P introduction, and the structure was confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. After the Zr introduction, the morphology of SBA-15 changed from fibrous particles to a semi-spherical shape according to scanning electron microscopy, while nitrogen physisorption revealed the stability of the textural materials after the P introduction. The infrared spectra of pyridine adsorption indicated that the Zr and P incorporation into SBA-15 generated adequate Lewis and Br⊘nsted acidities to carry out methanol dehydration and direct the selectivity towards dimethyl ether, with medium-strong acid sites being responsible for obtaining up to 99% selectivity towards dimethyl ether.
STRATEGIC REFERENCE POINTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENTERPRISES OF TRANSPORT BUILDING IN THE CONDITIONS OF BRANCH TRANSFORMATION
Authors: Bereza I.V.
Published: August 2018

Results of research of dynamics of development of market mutual relations in sector of transport building and influence of efficiency of functioning of the enterprises of transport building on activity of transport area, as major element of national economy of Ukraine are presented. At application of the developed complex toolkit as a whole, the transportno-building organisation will provide increase of economic efficiency of the activity at the expense of increase of degree of validity of the offers under the price and terms of building of object in mutual relations with the customer at the turnkey contract conclusion. Increase of validity of indicators which pay off, in the course of preparation of offers allows to represent accurately to a contract organisation the planned costs on building of object which in turn, gives the chance to guarantee to the customer of data of object under the given price, to the specified term. Performance of the obligations taken on strengthens competitiveness of the building organisation in the market of contract works. The customer, taking into consideration offers of the contractor, really represents the size of investments on building. As a result, the performed works are paid by the building organisation in due time, that allows to work to it(her) more stably. Besides, reception by the building
organisation of the size of profit according to the proved calculations, allows to conduct to it(her) necessary building of objects of non-productive appointment, to expand manufacture. Besides, use of separate positions of toolkit at formation of strategic reference points of development of the enterprises of transport building allows to do(make) the analysis of the caused aspects of activity, calculation of the size of necessary financial assets for timely elimination of bottlenecks in is industrial-economic activities.
INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF TRANSFORMATION OF PROPERTY RELATIONS IN THE RECREATIONAL LAND USE TOWARDS ECOLOGIZATION OF UKRAINE�S URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS
Authors: Bulysheva D.V.
Published: August 2018

Research is dedicated to institutional capacity development of property relations towards ecologization of economic relations in recreational land use of urban agglomerations. The priority task on the way of ecologization is formation of the perfect institutional basis for recreational land use. Analyzing the current trends in the institutional framework in the system of ecologization of recreational land use, one can conclude that its deeper �haracter, which should be considered from a variety of aspects: natural resource systems, transaction transactions, contractual relations, legislative and regulatory frameworks and governance institutes. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the need and to develop proposals for transformation of the existing institutional basis for recreational land use, based on the formation of the principles of balanced ecological and economic development of these territories. It is proved that in the conditions of the current ecological and economic state of recreational lands, there are certain obstacles on the way to sustainable development of the respective territories. At the present stage of development, sufficiently tense economic relations have been formed and they require reorientation of the institutional basis of the land use process of urban agglomerations, taking into account the socio-ecological and economic aspects of the development of territories. In the article subjects and institutions of ownership of land resources were formed and systematized. Proposals on the transformation processes of property relations on the way to ecologization of recreational land use were made in four directions: basic, normative-legislative, social-informative and market-oriented. So, perfect institutional environment for recreational land use should be a mutually coordinated activity of state, business and public institutions regarding transactions and other types of land relations. This is the most important condition for balanced recreational land use.
METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF STATE ADMINISTRATION OF RECREATION AND TOURISM RESOURCES IN UKRAINE
Authors: Khumarova N.I.
Published: August 2018

In the article, based on the analysis of the regulatory and legal framework for the treatment of recreational and tourist natural resources, their dispersal and lack of a clear definition concerning the recreational and tourist activity itself are determined. It is determined that the recreational activities development is being constructed, planned and forecasted without taking into account the recreational natural potential, the impact on it subjects of various sectors of the economy and the justification the use of natural resources in an alternative way and alternative areas of activity. It has been brought to the conclusion that the state a s a main expresser of the whole people interests in the economy, ecology and societal spheres, it is must keeping cadastres, passport s of the potential territories, that has rich, unique natural recreational resources and can be used with the greatest national efficiency. State regulation of recreational and tourist resources and the basic principles of the institutional basis for their regulation is grounded. The necessity of forecasting and elaboration of the strategy of development of the spheres of economic management of the national economy has been established taking into account the prospects of using natural resources and distributing them in the spheres of economic activity. The scientific basis of recreational activities development is determined on the basis of the state management optimization using natural recreational and tourist resources, which will prevent cases of unreasonable use of natural recreational and tourist resources and increase the degree of environmental hazards. The improvement of the existing legal and regulatory framework based on the regulation of state regulation by natural recreational and tourist resources is proposed. The variety of ownership forms on them is taken into account in order to determine the priority directions of the national economy development and the motivation of the industries whose
activity is related to the recreational sphere.
RESEARCH OF POSSIBILITIES FOR THE APPLICATION OF TRANSFORMED APPROACH-MARKETING LOGISTICS IN UKRAINE
Authors: Yakymchuk T.V. , Samkova V.S.
Published: August 2018

The development of the market of logistics services has been surveyed and its major trends in Ukraine and Europe are compared. It is noted that it is possible to maximize the effect of the enterprise competitive advantage on the market only through integration of marketing and logistics. It is conditioned by the interaction of the market oriented marketing and flow-oriented logistics that creates opportunities for raising information and commodity utility as well as the value of goods for consumers. The key factors of success are identified, perspectives and attractiveness of marketing logistics in Ukraine are determined.
Extended Education for Academic Performance, Whole Person Development and Self-fulfilment: The case of Hong Kong
Authors: Sivan Atara , Po Kwan Siu Gertrude
Published: August 2018

This paper examines the ways in which extended education is manifested in a place where schooling and academic achievement are of primary focus. Over the past few decades, the Hong Kong education system has undergone major reforms that have incorporated various forms of extended education to enhance students’ all-round development. Despite these changes, Hong Kong people continue to put an emphasis on academic excellence resulting in parent-directed activities in a form of private supplementary tutoring. At the same time, extended education is also demonstrated through students’ self-directed engagement in serious leisure activities that contribute to adolescents’ growth. The paper portrays and examines the different activities directed by schools, parents and students within school and out-of-school settings in light of the sociocultural context of Hong Kong. References are made to school based initiatives and studies on outside classroom learning and serious leisure among children and adolescents.
Die Lehrkraft als Repräsentant des Allgemeinen. Professionalisierungstheoretische Überlegungen jenseits der Spannung von Spezifität und Diffusität
Authors: Wenzl Thomas
Published: August 2018

Die Annahme einer Spannung zwischen spezifischen und diffusen Beziehungsmomenten in der schulunterrichtlichen Interaktion stellt ein zentrales Verbindungsstück zwischen dem strukturtheoretischen pädagogischen Professionalisierungsdiskurs und der allgemeinen Professionstheorie dar. Der Aufsatz kritisiert, dass diese Spannung dem kollektiven und gesprächsöffentlichen Charakter des schulischen Unterrichts nicht gerecht wird. Im Anschluss an Emile Durkheim, der sich der Rolle von Lehrer*innen im Unterricht über die Frage nähert, was es für diese bedeute, Schulklassen, und nicht bloß individuellen Schüler*innen, gegenüberzustehen, wird argumentiert, dass die der Professionstheorie entlehnte Annahme einer Spannung zwischen Spezifität und Diffusität in professionellen beruflichen Praxen sich im schulischen Unterricht vor allem als ein Aufeinanderprallen eines unterrichtlichen Allgemeinheitsanspruchs und immer wieder in den Unterricht einbrechenden partikularen gedanklichen Äußerungen von Schüler*innen erweist.
Nach dem Kapitalismus: Warum der Staatssozialismus ökonomisch ineffizient war und was das für Alternativen heute bedeutet
Authors: Zelik Raul
Published: August 2018

In the 20 th centmy, different types of socialist societies failed - not only because of an evident lack of democracy, but also due to their economic inefficiency, Apart from the historical underdevelopment of Russia and other socialist countries, there could be given three main reasons for this inefficiency: 1) Based on the Leninist concepts of party and leadership, the socialist states were characterized by new social contradictions that led the majorities to a kind of silent resistance to central planning, 2) The socialist model of development and modernization didn't offer a real alternative to the economic paradigms in capitalism. Socialist countries turned out to be incomplete copies of fordist societies, 3) The socialist countries didn't find answers to some fundamental systemic problems of planning, as there are: decentralization of decision-making and scope for a self-determined reorganization of working processes,
"Die wirkliche Bewegung, welche den jetztigen Zustand aufhebt"
Authors: Hoffrogge Ralf
Published: August 2018

This article gives a short overview on the German labour movement from its beginnings to the 1920ies and shortly portraits the different concepts of socialism within the German social democratic party, Against the common misperception of a hegemonial, coherent and powerful concept of socialist politics in the past the article argues that even in their heyday the German labour movement did not have a clear concept of socialist politics, that the term socialism itself was an object of permanent discussions, Both the Marxist critique of utopian socialism and the overwhelming domination of the Prussian state often constrained these discussions about the political form of a postcapitalist society, The most interesting concept of socialism was not created by theoretical discussions among leftist intellectuals, but by political actions against the first world war, which ended with the German Revolution of 1918 and the rise of a powerful council movement This movement not only insisted on the principles of class war but practically overturned many authoritarian and state-dominated ideas of socialism which were common at that time,
Prima Klima mit dem Markt?
Authors: Brunnengräber Achim
Published: August 2018

Climate change is a profound crisis of society and of the capitalist mode of production. Nevertheless, hegemonic forms of the regulation of the crisis emerge which correspond to neoliberal political concepts. Primarily economic and 'flexible' instruments, such as Emission Trading (ET), the Clean Development Mechanism (COM) and Joint Implementation ar) are to counteract the trend. In climate policy these mechanisms are the result of diplomatic negotiations, technicalcontrol optimism and a political-economic strategy which follows a 'win-win' logic. The mechanisms are constructed in a 'flexible' form, so that within the framework of a skilful C02 bookkeeping balance-sheet the reductions appear to take place, when in absolute terms no reduction at all has in fact occurred.
Biospritbankrott: Europäische Klimapolitik, Palmöl und kapitalistische Naturverhältnisse in Südostasien
Authors: Pye Oliver
Published: August 2018

This article sketches the European and Southeast Asian interest groups behind the biofuel agenda and discusses its social and ecological ramifications in the context of the palm oil boom in Indonesia. Although biofuels are a key plank in the green modernisation of capitalism, this article argues that they require the imposition of capitalist social relations of nature and thus deepen the ongoing multiple (economic, social, climate and biodiversity) crisis. The article ends with a discussion of the emerging transnational campaign alliances in opposition to the palm oil - biofuel - agenda.
Krise ohne Krisenbewusstsein?
Authors: Dörre Klaus , Behr Michael , Eversberg Dennis , Schierhorn Karen
Published: August 2018

The crisis does not seem to have reached the consciousness of subjects. However, the alleged immunity of subjectivities against it does not result from affirmative internalisation of ‘entrepreneurial’ interpellations, but from the mobilisation of ‘wayward’, non-market compliant practices and dispositions. Rather than as a linear, subsuming process of “subjectivation”, this is to be interpreted as the subjective dimension of capitalist accumulation by dispossession. As our empirical data illustrates, the crisis is indeed present as a permanent state in the daily lives of many people. While there is a widespread critical consciousness of the crisis and of capitalism in general, it fails to result in collective action due to the lack of a political frame of reference that action could relate to.
Extreme Rechte in der Krise – Kämpfe ums Subjekt
Authors: Kaindl Christina
Published: August 2018

The success of right wing parties in Europe is closely linked to the lack of representation that went along with the neoliberal shift of the social democrats. Feelings of injustice going along with altering the trans-national mode of production, concepts of the welfare state and labour politics were taken into account by rightwing “critics” that fight globalization in fighting immigrants. The crisis and bail-out-politics enforced feelings of injustice but at the same time brought the state – and the unions – ‘back in’ e.g. in creating a ‘clash-for-clunkers’ project. That seems to have weakened right-wing parties in Germany and France presenting themselves as an authoritarian fordistic option, but at the same time strengthened racist campaigns in other countries.
Phoenix und Asche
Authors: Al-Taher Hanna , Ebenaus Matthias
Published: August 2018

Against the backdrop of the Global Economic Crisis India's neoliberal elites initially argued, that its economy was safely decoupled from that of western countries, giving way to the fashionable 'decoupling theory': The evolving debate centered on whether or not, and later on how, India would be affected by the global crisis, but failed to recognize that any analysis attempting to grasp the current development fully, must not only connect the crisis to the economic development preceding it but also consider effects beyond the economy's internationalized sectors. We argue that while the economic crisis does affect India's internationalized economic segments adversely, particularly via the channels of foreign trade, international capital flows and availability of credit, the majority of the Indian population suffers from social crises, rooted in the country's economic strategy and expressed through agricultural distress combined with precarious employment conditions, which have persisted for much longer than the current global crisis. The majority of the population which suffered from 'Incredible India's' 'predatory growth' will have to carry the burden of its economic recovery and continued pursuit of the status of a major economic power.
„Rumpf, Arm und Faust“
Authors: Ahn Sook-Young , Havertz Ralf
Published: August 2018

The colonization of Korea by imperialist Japan between 1910 and 1945 has created a colonial consciousness that even after decolonization is still an influential factor in determining the guiding principles of Korean society and the images Koreans have from themselves. For postcolonial studies, the special issue of the colonization of Korea is that one Asian country has been colonized by another one. Even though eurocentrism has an important role in this context, because the colonizing country, Japan of the Meiji times, already was following a European model of development. An analysis of the works of authors like Lee Kwangsu, Dassuo Mitarei and the Japanese propaganda as well as of more contemporary cultural phenomena in Korea shows that reaching high levels in the process of modernization continuously is at the center of the general orientation since the times of colonization.
Grenzen im Transit
Authors: Kron Stefanie
Published: August 2018

This essay deals with the chances and problems of intersectionality and border feminism for empirical research on transnational migration. Empirically based on a qualitative research of the return movement of guatemalan refugees, the focus of the paper will be on the importance of borders and experiences of bordercrossings for the formation of political subjectivities within transmigrant communities. Parting from a postcolonial perspective the theoretical and methodical inputs and limits of the concepts of intersectionality and border feminism will be discussed. Secondly, the developed analytical framework will be applied to the return movement of guatemalan war refugees.
Struktur, Handlung und der ideale Durchschnitt
Authors: Demirović Alex
Published: August 2018

The first part of the article argues in favor of an anti-hermeneutic strategy of reading Marx, taking into account the always shifting character of the meaning of his theory due to historical transformations generated by social struggles and the partisan and interventionist character of any Marxist theory. This has effects upon how the relation of structure and agency has to be conceptualized as a specific historical relation – very often ignored by a misled sociological reading of Marx in the tradition of Weber and Parsons. Decisive is the argument that in Marx’s theory the differentiation and opposition of structure and agency is in itself not pertinent but has to be explained in terms of historical struggles. At the centre of the argument is a reformulation of the law of value as a logic of collective practice and the important meaning of what Marx calls the “ideal average” as a subject of his theory.
Marxsche Theorie und Imperialimus
Authors: Milios Jannis , Sotiropoulos Dimitris P.
Published: August 2018

For more than a century ‘imperialism’ has been a key concept in theoretical discussions and politics, never denoting a single theoretical approach. In classical Marxist theories imperialism was seen as the notion deciphering capital’s global trajectories, to the extent that the different nation-states were not fading away despite the global character of capitalism. Many subsequent narratives of international capitalism represent alternative attempts at conceptualizing the very same problem of the ‘lack of correspondence’ between the territory of the national state on the one hand and the sphere of operations of capital. In our view, all these theoretical strategies share a common point of departure: namely, the rejection of the Marxian concept of social capital. This rejection has significant consequences for the way of understanding how class power is organized within a social formation and so the way in which we should understand imperialism. The concept of the imperialist chain opens up a fertile theoretical terrain in an endeavor to extend the Marxian problematic.
Die Halbierung der Bürgerlichkeit
Authors: Siri Jasmin
Published: August 2018

This article discusses the diagnosis of a rising 'neo-bourgeois' movement. Three different dimensions of 'Bürgerlichkeit' can be distinguished. The first is the historical idea of 'Bürgerlichkeit' as the starting point of all social theory. The second is the empirical rise of 'Bürgerlichkeit' as a strongly loaded concept in the self-description of mass medial actors, who deny the rights of the ‘underclass’ and the merit of the welfare state. The third is the idea of 'Bürgerlichkeit' in the Marxist sense of bourgeois, which is often used by the critiques of the mentioned discourse. A constructivist analysis shows that what has been recently discussed as the rise of a neo-bourgeois movement, can be described more precisely as a mass media phenomenon which does not necessarily find its correspondence in the social structure.
Von Chancen und Statuskämpfen
Authors: Draheim Susanne , Krause Alexandra , Reitz Tilman
Published: August 2018

The authors explore how education policies of increased individual and institutional competition affect class relations. They assume that especially the middle classes, whose strategies of social closure and social mobility are mainly based on education, react with intensified and extended private educational investments. Contrary to what the dominant political discourse suggests, this dynamic would even reinforce existing class boundaries. To substantiate their assumption, the authors analyse recent changes in the educational institutions and the employment system. Moreover, they study recent social and discursive conflicts on educational reforms and their legitimacy.
Finanzbildungsbürgertum und die Finanzialisierung des Alltags
Authors: Weber Beat
Published: August 2018

Discourses around financial education and literacy in Germany are examined and contextualised within recent theories of financialisation as a social process. Recent campaigns for financial education can be understood as aiming at the establishment of a „Finanzbildungsbürgertum“ (financially educated middle class). This concept can contribute to an understanding of financialisation as a process that comprises social differentiation and appeals to aspirations of social distinction.
„Ihr habt alle reiche Eltern, also sagt nicht, ‚Deutschland hat kein Ghetto!‘“
Authors: Seeliger Martin , Knüttel Katharina
Published: August 2018

Gangstarap-images recently have become an important part of the German everyday entertainment culture. Underlying a mode of construction shaped by a current discourse about migrant masculinities and juvenile delinquency, these images derive from references to the speakers ethnic and class-background and their enactment of certain body norms. By approaching these cultural forms from an intersectional perspective, we show two (complementary) ways of interpretation: Thus they can be seen as a way to update hegemonic masculinity by the speakers, as well as references to be used in a scandalizing manner for the cause of a symbolic ‘class war’.
Hartz IV oder: Armut anerkannt, gefördert und gefordert
Authors: Schnath Matthias
Published: August 2018

There is poverty in Germany; it is not only existent, though, but functional as to its competitive impact on the labour-market. By abandoning former social policies relating to the working class and a standard of living for the unemployed, German legislation affirms competition, and thus lasting poverty as a means to its end, while public opinion is occupied with issues of abstract justice beyond the nature of the specific sources of revenue.
Kritik der Politik als Politikwissenschaft?
Authors: Schlemermeyer Jan
Published: August 2018

According to most of the present exponents of a critical theory of the state, the recent transformations in statehood have to be analyzed as results of social struggle und political strategies. But most of them lack a social theory of the specific historical character of heteronomy and the relationship between structure and agency in capitalism. Therefore they tend to overestimate the degree of social contingency and the possibilities for an intrinsic reform of capitalism. The article tries to outline an alternative, but nevertheless non-functionalist, model of the specific logic of the transformations in statehood which is linked to a concept of the historical core dynamic of capitalism in general. In this way the article aims to contribute to an understanding of the vast historical changes from liberal, to Fordist, and then to neo-liberal modes of capitalism by offering a theoretical perspective to analyze the dynamic character of the capitalist reproduction of modern society.
The Role of Marketing Communications in Generating Brand Equity for an Event
Authors: Llopis-Amorós Maria-Pilar , Gil-Saura Irene , Molina María Eugenia Ruiz
Published: August 2018

Marketing academics and businesses consider the creation of brand equity to be fundamental for differentiating products and achieving competitive advantage. Marketing communications controlled by the organization are considered a fundamental antecedent of brand equity. However, the
impact on brand equity of traditional and online communications created by and communications external to an organization have been studied separately in the literature and to the best of our knowledge no works have jointly analyzed various communication instruments controlled by and external
to a company in the area of event tourism. This study therefore aimed to analyze the influence of brand communications controlled and not controlled by the organization on forming brand equity for an event and to estimate the impact of overall brand equity on satisfaction and behavioral intentions
of attendees of the event. Focusing on the main live music festival in Spain and with a sample of 622 attendees, evidence was obtained on the effectiveness of using brand communications on the event to generate brand equity that will help to inform decisions of managers of live music festivals
regarding investment in instruments for communicating the event.
Hybrid and Virtual Conferencing Modes Versus Traditional Face-to-Face Conference Delivery: A Conference Industry Perspective
Authors: Hamm Simon , Frew Elspeth , Lade Clare
Published: August 2018

This study examines the use and impact of multimodal, digitally structured conferences within an existing traditional face-to-face conference paradigm. Thirty-five semistructured interviews were conducted with senior Australian convention industry stakeholders. The purpose was to explore
the use of digital communication technology (DCT) within hybrid and virtual conferences and their relationship with the traditional conference paradigm of face-to-face conferences. Three main findings resulted from the research. Firstly, face-to-face conferences numerically dominate the industry,
while hybrid and virtual conferences represent a miniscule proportion of the conference industry. Secondly, a correlation exists between the interviewee's job role and their level of support for any of the three conference modes. Lastly, the conference industry as a whole has been slow to
engage with both hybrid and virtual conferencing and skeptical as far as embracing DCT utilized within the conference delivery mode.
Delivering Employable Event Studies Graduates: Student Perspectives on the Benefits of Experiential Learning
Authors: Walters Trudie
Published: August 2018

The past decade has seen increasing competition between graduates for jobs, and universities are now frequently scrutinized and evaluated on their graduate employment success rates. This study reports on student perceptions of a revised event management course designed to enhance graduate
employability through the use of experiential learning, based on the new Threshold Learning Outcomes for event studies in higher education in Australia. Thematic analysis of individual student reflections (the final assessment piece in the course) finds that students perceive significant benefits
from the experiential learning activities, and most are able to articulate these in relation to employability. Professional skills and personal attributes developed include communication, problem solving, collaboration, leadership, and confidence. Students also perceive value in being able
to link theory to practice and immerse themselves in a hands-on "real world" events industry experience that cements both events knowledge and events processes.