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Comstock, Cathy. Disruption and delight in the nineteenth-century novel. Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI Research Press, 1988.
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Potter, David. Disruption. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197518823.001.0001.
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Disruption is about radical change—why it happens and how. Drawing on case studies ranging from the fourth century AD through the twentieth century, we look at how long-established systems of government and thought are challenged, how new institutions are created, and new ideas become powerful. While paying attention to the underlying political, intellectual, economic, and environmental sources of social disruption, we will see that no matter what similarities there might be between forces that shake different societies, these underlying factors do not dictate specific outcomes. The human actors are ultimately the most important; their decisions drive the conclusions that we see over time. Through our case studies, we can explore successful and unsuccessful decision making, and the emergence of the ideas that conditioned human actions. We’ll explore the development of Islam and of Christian doctrine, of constitutional thought, of socialism, and social Darwinism. We’ll look at how these ideas, all of them emerging on the fringes of society, became central. We’ll also have our eyes set on whether the sorts of disruptive forces we’ve seen in the past are present at this time. We’ll look at the issues confronting the liberal democracies that have been the dominant political/economic forces on our planet in the last half century and see how they have come under stress in the last few decades. And we will look at the possibility that we’re facing a new period of disruption and at what we can learn from the past about how change can be constructive rather than destructive.
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Fryberg, Stephanie, Rebecca Covarrubias, and Jacob A. Burack. The Ongoing Psychological Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice. Edited by Phillip L. Hammack. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199938735.013.35.
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Colonizing events of the past and present continue to disrupt and change the cultural practices, histories, families, and languages of North American Indigenous peoples. As a result, Indigenous people experience a cultural disconnect between the past and the future, what we refer to as a disruption of traditional cultural cycles, in ways that foster psychological risks. In this chapter, we first discuss how the ongoing colonization of Indigenous people in contemporary society, with specific examples from the media and education, undermines psychological well-being. Second, we offer a theory of culture change as a “promotion” approach to target and mend the cultural disruptions brought on by colonizing practices and thereby to improve well-being. Finally, we offer research-based action items for social psychologists and for society more generally to alleviate the ongoing colonization of Indigenous people.
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Zeeman, Nicolette. The Arts of Disruption. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198860242.001.0001.
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The Arts of Disruption offers a series of new readings of the allegorical poem Piers Plowman: but it is also a book about allegory. It argues not just that there are distinctively disruptive ‘arts’ that occur in allegory, but that allegory, because it is interested in the difficulty of making meaning, is itself a disruptive art. The book approaches this topic via the study of five medieval allegorical narrative structures that exploit diegetic conflict and disruption. Although very different, they all bring together contrasting descriptions of spiritual process, in order to develop new understanding and excite moral or devotional change. These five structures are: the paradiastolic ‘hypocritical figure’ (such as vices masked by being made to look like ‘adjacent’ virtues), personification debate, violent language and gestures of apophasis, narratives of bodily decline, and grail romance. Each appears in a range of texts, which the book explores, along with other connected materials in medieval rhetoric, logic, grammar, spiritual thought, ethics, medicine, and romance iconography. These allegorical narrative structures appear radically transformed in Piers Plowman, where the poem makes further meaning out of the friction between them. Much of the allegorical work of the poem occurs at the points of their intersection, and within the conceptual gaps that open up between them. Ranging across a wide variety of medieval allegorical texts, the book shows from many perspectives allegory’s juxtaposition of the heterogeneous and its questioning of supposed continuities.
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Clark, Daniel J. Disruption in Detroit. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042010.001.0001.
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It is conventional wisdom that because of lucrative contracts negotiated by the United Auto Workers (UAW) under Walter Reuther's leadership, most autoworkers in the U.S. enjoyed steady work, increasing wages, and improved benefits in the postwar boom following World War II. In short, autoworkers entered the middle class. In contrast, this book argues that for Detroit autoworkers there was no postwar boom. Instead, the years from 1945 to 1960 were dominated by job instability and economic insecurity. This argument is based largely on oral history interviews and research in local newspapers, which covered the auto industry extensively. Conditions were worse for African Americans and white women, but almost all autoworkers experienced precarious, often dire circumstances. Recessions, automation, decentralization, and the collapse of independent automakers in Detroit are part of the story, but materials shortages, steel, coal, and copper strikes, parts supplier strikes, wildcat strikes, overproduction (especially in 1955), hot weather, cold weather, plant explosions, age, race, and gender workplace discrimination, and the inability of autoworkers to afford new cars contributed to instability and insecurity. Hardly anyone in the 1950s—whether ordinary autoworkers, union leaders, auto company executives, business analysts, or local shopkeepers—thought that the decade was marked by steady work, improving wages, or anything resembling predictable income for autoworkers.
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Keitz, Sheri A., and David J. Birnbach. Disruptive Behavior. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199366149.003.0019.
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Misbehavior and disruption in the operating room are an all too common problem. Disruptive behaviors have been observed and experienced by all members of the operating room team, and these behaviors need to be addressed in a timely and appropriate fashion. Sometimes, hospital administrators and hospital leadership know about these problems but do not act, and thus they may be complicit in allowing these problems to continue. This chapter reviews the potential reasons for disruptive behavior among nurses and physicians and provides explanations for organizational reluctance to deal with disruptive behaviors, as well as recommendations to address these issues effectively.
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Ray, Saibal, Haresh Gurnani, and Anuj Mehrotra. Supply Chain Disruptions: Theory and Practice of Managing Risk. Springer London, Limited, 2011.
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Ray, Saibal, Haresh Gurnani, and Anuj Mehrotra. Supply Chain Disruptions: Theory and Practice of Managing Risk. Springer, 2014.
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McKee, Kimberly D. Disrupting Kinship. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042287.001.0001.
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Interacting with Cold War ideology, individuals’ Christian Americanism supported the notion that Korean adoptees would enter “good homes” in a democratic society. Many children felt the brunt of this rhetoric as they were told adoption was in their “best interests” and that if not adoption, they would have fallen through the cracks of economic poverty and degradation in the land of their birth. In doing so, rhetorics of gratitude became cemented in international adoption discourse. This book exposes the growth of the transnational adoption industrial complex (TAIC)—the neo-colonial, multi-million dollar global industry that commodifies children’s bodies—in an examination of South Korean adoptions to the United States. The TAIC accounts for how the South Korean social welfare state, orphanages, adoption agencies, and American immigration legislation facilitated the development of transnational adoption between the two countries. Adoption became a rote process whereby government and non-governmental organizations and actors easily facilitated the exchange of children. Yet, the activism of adoptees and their allies expose the inherent messiness of adoption and reveal that adoption cannot be discussed in black and white terms. Using archival research, media texts, and oral histories, this monograph elucidates greater understanding concerning how the TAIC impacts the lived experiences of adoptees and their families. Notions of adoptees as perpetual children are disabused as I examine adoptees’ efforts to reshape adoption discourse to recognize the inherent rights of birth parents and adoptees. In adulthood, adoptees construct a new type of public personhood, one defined by their autonomy and agency. Cold War, Christian Americanism, Korean adoption, adoption, South Korea, gratitude, industrial complex, orphans, immigration, family, kinship
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Mgutshini, Tennyson, Kunle Oparinde, and Vaneshree Govender, eds. Covid-19: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Impacts on Higher Education. African Sun Media, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52779/9781991201195.
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Premised on the disruption and lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic, and in meticulous response to the impact of the pandemic on higher education – especially in South Africa – this collection of chapters spotlights the effects, consequences, and ramifications of an unprecedented pandemic in the areas of knowledge production, knowledge transfer and innovation. With the pandemic, the traditional way of teaching and learning was completely upended. It is within this context that this book presents interdisciplinary perspectives that focus on what the impact of Covid-19 implies for higher education institutions. Contributors have critically reflected from within their specific academic disciplines in their attempt to proffer solutions to the disruptions brought to the South African higher education space. Academics and education leaders have particularly responded to the objective of this book by focusing on how the academia could tackle the Covid-19 motivated disruption and resuscitate teaching, research, and innovation activities in South African higher education, and the whole of Africa by extension.
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Patisaul, Heather B., and Scott M. Belcher. Endocrine Disruptors, Brain, and Behavior. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199935734.001.0001.
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Hormones play a foundational role in the sex-specific organization of the brain and, consequently, the complex behaviors they coordinate. Our world and bodies are becoming increasingly polluted with chemicals capable of interfering with hormone action and thus, possibly, our neural and mental health. If and how these endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) affect the development and function of the brain, and may be contributing to neural disorders that are rapidly rising in prevalence, are the central concerns of this book. This work also examines why even the concept of endocrine disruption is controversial in some circles; how differing definitions of endocrine disruption and “adverse” outcomes shape public policy; and where the current capacity to evaluate chemicals for safety in a regulatory context begins and ends. Fundamental concepts of the EDC hypothesis, including critical windows of exposure and sexually dimorphic effects, are explained. A historical perspective on how the endocrine disruption hypothesis emerged and a summary of how and to what degree prototypical EDCs affect human brain health are provided as a prelude to a critical evaluation of the evidence linking EDC exposures to human neurobehavioral disorders. The book concludes with suggestions for future research needs and a summary of emerging technology that might prove more capable of effectively evaluating existing and new chemicals for endocrine-disrupting properties. The impossibility of disentangling the “science” of EDC action on the brain and behavior from its public health policy implications and economic influence is comprehensively addressed throughout.
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Joshi, Mahesh K., and J. R. Klein. Technological Disruption in Global Finance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827481.003.0004.
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Will the currency of the future be bitcoins or cryptocurrencies? With Fintech and Digital ecosystems growing rapidly, what is the future of banks? Technology is fast replacing paper currency with electronic transactions. Finance has become sophisticated with complex and diversified products. New technology and instruments have enabled growth of global financial assets to more than $160 trillion. Geographical boundaries for financial transactions have disappeared with transactions taking place seamlessly across the globe. Due to the global connectedness of financial markets, any event in one country can impact the whole world instantaneously. The effects of the last decade’s financial crisis are still being felt in major economies. Financing is being used both as a weapon in the balance of power and as a facilitator of cross-border acquisitions. Governments are competing with tax rates to attract global corporations. Individual investors have the opportunities and tools available for geographical diversification of their investments.
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Valeriano, Brandon. How Rival States Employ Cyber Strategy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190618094.003.0002.
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The central question of this book is: how do states use cyber strategies to influence their rivals? This chapter introduces a theory of cyber coercion that considers the three main types of cyber strategies: disruption, espionage, and degradation. As a form of covert action, cyber coercion can represent ambiguous signals designed to probe adversary intentions and manage escalation risks. This chapter dissects the core logic of coercion and coercive diplomacy as they apply to cyber operations. After defining coercion and establishing the expected threshold of concessions based on surveying multiple studies, it then highlights debates about power and resolve in the traditional coercion literature to extract important considerations for empirical investigation. The inherent ambiguity, primacy of signaling, and temporary effects in cyber operations distort power and resolve in the digital domain.
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Clarke, Noel W. Metastatic disease in prostate cancer. Edited by James W. F. Catto. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199659579.003.0068.
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Metastases are the predominant cause of morbidity and death from prostate cancer (CaP). The tendency for cells to migrate from the primary site, enter the vascular/lymphatic circulation, and implant/grow at secondary sites is the principal discriminator of aggressive form indolent disease. But this process is poorly understood. Cells enter the circulation in increasing number as the disease progresses, impinging on endothelial surfaces, particularly in red bone marrow where they bind and transmigrate, forming early cell colonies. This requires chemo-attractants and nutrients enabling cellular survival. Established metastases thrive independently, disrupting local tissue, as characterized by progressive replacement of red bone marrow and disruption of skeletal architecture. Bone disruption includes massive overstimulation of both osteoblasts and osteoclasts, inducing synchronous over-production of abnormal bone and gross osteolysis.
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Segal, David. Disruptive Technologies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804079.003.0009.
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Chapter 9 describes potential disruptive technologies in the 21st century. It covers the expanding area of gene editing, also known as genome editing or CRISPR. It describes ‘wonder materials’ such as graphene and high-temperature superconductors. Three-dimensional printing, also known as 3D printing, is covered in the text. Two materials that have intriguing properties, namely metamaterials and auxetic materials and their properties, are described.
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Mitchell, Arthur M. Disruptions of Daily Life. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752919.001.0001.
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This book explores the mass-media landscape of the early twentieth cspecific authorsentury to uncover the subversive societal impact of four major Japanese authors: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. The book examines the literature against global realities through a modernist lens, studying an alternative modernism that challenges the Western European model. Through broad surveys of discussions surrounding Japanese life in the 1920s, the book locates and examines flourishing divergent ideologies of the early twentieth century, such as gender, ethnicity, and nationalism. It unravels how the narrative and linguistic strategies of modernist texts interrogated the innocence of this language, disrupting their hold on people's imagined relationship to daily life. These modernist works often discursively displaced the authority of their own claims by inadvertently exposing the global epistemology of East versus West. The book expands modernism studies into a more translational dialogue by locating subversions within the local historical culture and allowing readers to make connections to the time and place in which the texts were written. In highlighting the unbreakable link between literature and society, it reaffirms the value of modernist fiction and its ability to make us aware of how realities are constructed — and how those realities can be changed.
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Assisted Reproduction Across Borders: Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Vosko, Leah F. Disrupting Deportability. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501742132.001.0001.
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This book highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. It explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). The book follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. The case study reveals how modalities of deportability—such as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attrition—destabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed exposé, the book concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this “model” temporary migrant work program produces conditions of deportability, making the threat possibility of removal ever-present.
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Tremlett, Paul-François. Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.
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Tremlett, Paul-François. Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.
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Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations. University Press of Florida, 2018.
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Migration and Disruptions: Toward a Unifying Theory of Ancient and Contemporary Migrations. University Press of Florida, 2015.
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Russo, Ann. Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power. NYU Press, 2018.
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Steiner, Hans, Whitney Daniels, Christina Stadler, and Michael Kelly. Disruptive Behavior. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190265458.001.0001.
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Disruptive behavior is extremely common in normal and clinical populations. This book addresses its development, the newly grouped diagnoses associated with it (disruptive behavior disorders), and their biopsychosocial causes and treatment. The past decade has seen a great deal of progress in the psychiatric and psychological literature, which has greatly advanced our understanding of these disorders. The book discusses state-of-the-art studies of taxonomy, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment. Each chapter concludes with a thorough discussion of the clinical implications of this new information, exemplified by real case material. A whole chapter is devoted to the forensic implications of this important grouping of disorders. The chapter begins with a discussion of the exemplary cases in the legal literature, providing the clinician and the expert with a concise briefing of the legal underpinnings of these disorders, which in essence seek to bring the world of medicine to the world of crime. The final chapter provides a concise summary of all preceding chapters, summarizing what we have learned and showing the way into the future in terms of basic research, translational research, and clinical practice. Sources and resources are provided for clinicians, researchers, teachers, primary care physicians, criminologists, forensic experts, and interested lay people.
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Hazzard-Donald, Katrina. Disruptive Intersection. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037290.003.0003.
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This chapter explores the movement and recoalescing of eight essential elements into the African Religion Complex (ARC), thus enabling the Hoodoo religion to emerge briefly: counterclockwise sacred circle dancing; spirit possession; the principle of sacrifice; ritual water immersion; divination; ancestor reverence; belief in spiritual cause of malady; and herbal and naturopathic medicine. Something resembling Hoodoo developed among the first generation of culturally diverse Africans born in the North American colonies. Enslaved Africans manifest a range of responses to contact with both slavery and Christian worship. But whenever they worshipped, these children of Africa expressed spiritual emotion in bodily patterns inherited from African traditional religion. The primary African components from which Hoodoo would be constituted were drawn from a range of different African ethnic cultures that stretched from the area now known as Senegal down the West African coast to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory. The MIT Press, 2021.
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Hampel, Regine. Disruptive Technologies and the Language Classroom: A Complex Systems Theory Approach. Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
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Bereni, Laure. Women’s Movements and Feminism. Edited by Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy G. Mazur. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669691.013.21.
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This chapter starts by exploring the ways in which comparative research on women’s movements has challenged dominant conceptions in social movement theory, notably the antagonism between movements and institutions and the conflation of protest and disruption. The chapter then turns to the specific insights of French research on the women’s movement and feminism. First, a series of studies have explored the politicization of gender identity and the the historical interplay between mobilizing as women and doing so for women. Second, there has been considerable examination of the complex ways in which feminist protest has become ingrained in state institutions. Third, several works have focused on the process of diffusion and individual appropriation of feminist ideas outside the women’s movement. A recent line of research has placed the emphasis on the intersecting power relationships that shape the contemporary women’s movement.
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Banet, Catherine, Hanri Mostert, LeRoy Paddock, Milton Fernando Montoya, and Iñigo del Guayo, eds. Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192864574.001.0001.
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Abstract The number of severe, sometimes catastrophic disruptive events has been rapidly increasing. Extreme weather events including floods, wildfires and hurricanes, and other natural disasters have become both more frequent and more severe. At the same time the COVID-19 pandemic has created a global threat to public health with huge economic effects that recovery packages tried to address. These disruptive events, alone and in combination, have dramatic consequences on nature, human life, and the economy, calling for urgent action to mitigate their causes and adapt to their impacts. In response to discourses of collapsology and end-of-growth theories, this book offers an analytical approach to developing legal responses that can help assure that needs of present and future generations can be met through energy systems, infrastructure development, and natural resources management in times of more frequent and intense disruption. ‘Resilience’ is therefore seen as a common framework for the interpretation and development of energy, infrastructure, and natural resources law. With a mix of thematic chapters and case studies from multiple jurisdictions, the book maps and assesses legal responses to disruptive nature-based events, and examines possible legal pathways for more sustainable outcomes, based on its engagement with the concept of ‘resilience’ and a social-ecological thinking.
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Fanghanel, Alexandra. Disrupting Rape Culture. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529202526.001.0001.
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Issues of social and spatial gendered justice have never been more pertinent in contemporary post-industrialist societies. This book which marks an intervention in contemporary debates about women’s bodies, public space and rape culture, in order to think through ways in which the normalization of violence against women might be contested. It brings together a rich web of thought about politics, embodiment and public space to examine social and spatial justice in the context of the female body in public. Transforming rape culture is not easy; the problems outlined in this book are not things that can be fixed by policy changes or legal reform (alone). They necessitate an overhaul in the ethics of the way in which we think and act in public spaces, including attending to the exclusions that everyone, in part, is complicit in enacting. Through analyses of three provocative case studies (pregnancy in public space, the female body as protest, and BDSM in public spaces), this book opens up generative ideas about transgression and revolt and advances a transformative politics of the possibilities of living without rape culture.
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Vilain, Michael, ed. Wege in die digitale Zukunft. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748907008.
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Digitisation and mechanisation, in conjunction with network phenomena, are fundamentally changing the working and organisational world. They are both a complexity driver and a facilitator. The results of this for the social sector are accordingly multifaceted: new technology-based fields of work are emerging, powerful market players are appearing in changed value creation structures, and both management paradigms and specific requirements for employees and management are changing. Theory and practice are trying to conceptually grasp this new reality from a solution-oriented management perspective: exploration instead of exploitation, disruption instead of evolution or the contradictory concept of organisational ambidexterity. The contributions in this conference volume approach the facets of this complex phenomenon in an interdisciplinary manner, whereby theory and practice can meet on an equal footing, with the result that theoretical and empirical findings alternate with practical tests and findings. With contributions by Michael Vilain, Matthias Heuberger und Michael Vilain, Michael Beier und Sebastian Früh, René Linek, Thomas Klauß, Helmut Kreidenweis, Hartmut Kopf, Jens Runkehl, Christoph Minnig, Max Pascher, Andreas Schmidt, Philipp Köhler
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Thomson, Marie, and Ian Biddle, eds. Sound, Music, Affect. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501382871.
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Sound, Music, Affect features brand new essays that bring together the burgeoning developments in sound studies and affect studies. The first section sets out key methodological and theoretical concerns, focussing on the relationships between affective models and sound. The second section deals with particular musical case studies, exploring how reference to affect theory might change or reshape some of the ways we are able to make sense of musical materials. The third section examines the politics and practice of sonic disruption: from the notion of noise as 'prophecy', to the appropriation of 'bad vibes' for pleasurable aesthetic and affective experiences. And the final section engages with some of the ways in which affect can help us understand the politics of chill, relaxation and intimacy as sonic encounters. The result is a rich and multifaceted consideration of sound, music and the affective, from scholars with backgrounds in cultural theory, history, literary studies, media studies, architecture, philosophy and musicology.
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Bell, Christine, and Rhys Ainsworth. Constitution-Building and Disruption: Addressing Changing Conflict Patterns. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform and the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31752/idea.2022.50.
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The theme for the 2021 Edinburgh Dialogue was ‘The Changing International Order and Its Impact on Constitution Building Support’. This Dialogue sought to contribute new thinking on the constitutional implications likely to be triggered by changes to both the international order and the nature of conflict in the past decade, in particular given their impact on the peacebuilding field, which attempts to revise the underlying political settlement. The discussion was premised on an increasing sense within the social science academy and among practitioners that the post-Cold War global order for dealing with intrastate conflict has been fundamentally disrupted. Debates within comparative politics, international relations and international law—to a much greater extent than in comparative constitutional law—are dealing with the shift in the geopolitical balance of power—even if this shift has not yet reached the institutional architecture of the international order. Acknowledging these changing conflict dynamics, some of the ‘models’ with which international actors attempt to assist stakeholders’ exit from conflict—including by constitutionalizing political and legal institutions—are (or should be) changing.
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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. Brutal Intimacy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.003.0007.
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Chapter 5 begins with risk sociology’s understanding of intimacy as “a dogmatism for two” to explore an interdisciplinary mix of theory, including Tim Palmer’s analysis of the cinema of “brutal intimacy”; Tanya Modleski’s recognition of a current horror genre inflection of new desires for unleashing sexuality, violence, and control; Kelley Conway’s recognition of an authorship of considerable diversity in the context of films made by women about female sexuality in French culture; Raymond Williams’s concept of historical “structures of feeling”; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim’s “normal chaos of love”; and Giddens’s “transformation of intimacy.” Within these contexts, the films Twentynine Palms, Trouble Every Day, and Irréversible are analyzed textually, exploring genre, narrative, visual shot style, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, and spatial mapping (and the disruption of all these categories), with a particular focus on the road film Twentynine Palms.
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Saranakumar, Dr AR, Megha Ojha, Dr Malkar Vinod, and Dr D. Baskaran. Digital Innovation, Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education. SVDES BOOK SERIES, Delhi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52458/9789391842468.2022.eb.
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The theme of this book “Digital Innovation, Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education" was chosen due to its relevance in the global digitalized world. Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new — or modify existing — business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements. This reimagining of business in the digital age is digital transformation. Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing how you operate and deliver value to customers. It's also a cultural change that requires organizations to continually challenge the status quo, experiment, and get comfortable with failure. Technology has the potential to revolutionize the traditional teaching and learning process. It can eliminate the barriers to education imposed by space and time and dramatically expand access to lifelong learning. Students no longer have to meet in the same place at the same time to learn together from an instructor. Digital transformation in higher education refers to an organizational change realized by means of digital technologies and business models with the aim to improve an institution's operational performance. The book encompasses chapters with research-based perspectives in the area of digital innovations & related fields. The book can be read as a compendium of readings of digitization of higher education institutions, business and industry. We editors offer heartfelt thanks to all contributors for their valuable research incorporated in this edited book as a chapter.
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Roberts, Anthea. Disruptions Leading to a Competitive World Order. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696412.003.0006.
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This chapter focuses on how existing patterns of difference and dominance are liable to be disrupted by forces such as technological innovation, changes in domestic political preferences, and shifts in geopolitical power. In particular, global power is shifting from unipolarity to greater multipolarity and from a Western-led era to one marked by greater competition, and increased need for cooperation, among and between Western and non-Western states. As a result, Western states are likely to face more checks and balances in advancing their strategic and normative agendas, and various non-Western states will have greater ability to promote their interests, either singly or collectively. International lawyers need to develop an understanding of the international law approaches of a variety of “unlike-minded” states, as power will be disaggregated among a more diverse group of states. This is relevant in various debates, e.g., over humanitarian intervention, cybersecurity and the law of the sea.
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Hans, Steiner, Daniels Whitney, Kelly Michael, and Stadler Christina. Epidemiology of Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190265458.003.0003.
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This chapter summarizes the available epidemiological evidence supporting the current diagnoses grouped in the disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) cluster. It seems DBDs are common disorders, but although researchers have made great strides in capturing the prevalence of these disorders in normal and clinical populations, and although there are some very solid longitudinal findings, there are still many unknowns that need to be corrected. Most of the difficulties encountered in epidemiology are a function of the ongoing changes in the descriptive diagnostic criteria and the lack of a truly state-of-the-art three-level epidemiological design. This chapter discusses these issues including implications for clinical practice.
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Konopka, Genevieve. FOXP2: Linking Language and Autism. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199744312.003.0019.
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Identifying the genes involved in language not only is important for the understanding of disorders such as ASDs but also provides a window into understanding the evolution of the human brain. Spoken language is only present in humans. For example, while other animals have developed methods of vocal communication, none have the ability to convey recursive ideas (i.e., ideas embedded within other ideas), although the idea of human-specific recursion is still being debated (Hauser, Chomsky, & Fitch, 2002; Penn, Holyoak, & Povinelli, 2008; Pinker & Jackendoff, 2005; Premack, 2007). Other potentially human-specific features of language include teaching language, the use of language to teach an extrinsic skill, and the use of language to develop the theory of mind (Penn et al., 2008; Premack, 2007). It is therefore not surprising that inherently human-specific diseases such as ASDs are defined by disruption of spoken language (Abrahams & Geschwind, 2008).
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Cowa, William Ty. The Slave in the Swamp: Disrupting the Plantation Narrative (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory). Routledge, 2004.
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Jenco, Leigh K., Murad Idris, and Megan C. Thomas, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190253752.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory provides an entry point into this burgeoning field by both synthesizing and challenging the terms that motivate it. The handbook demonstrates how mainstream political theory can and must be enriched through attention to genuinely global, rather than parochially Euro-American, contributions to political thinking. Entries emphasize exploration of substantive questions about political life—ranging from domination to political economy to the politics of knowledge—in a range of global contexts, with attention to whether and how those questions may be shared, contested, or reformulated across differences of time, space, and experience. They connect comparative political theory to cognate disciplines including postcolonial theory, area studies, and comparative politics. Creative organizational tools such as tags and keywords aid in navigation of the handbook to help readers trace disruptions, thematic connections, contrasts, and geographic affinities across entries.
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Hans, Steiner, Daniels Whitney, Kelly Michael, and Stadler Christina. Introduction to Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190265458.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the history of disruptive behavior disorders. The achievements of the Chicago Reformers, who introduced the idea that juveniles should be granted exceptions before the law based on their immaturity, began the process of bringing the world of development, psychiatry, and medicine to delinquents. August Aichhorn, the director of the Vienna Reform School system, is primarily responsible for the idea that abnormal development underlies crime, and, as such, psychoeducational approaches can be helpful in restoring the youth. The concepts of treatment and rehabilitation factor in to this view. The chapter ends by introducing the complexities of diagnosing antisocial and aggressive behavior.
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Brown, Andrew, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Forces Disrupting Relationships at Work: Technology and Globalization. Edited by Andrew Brown, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190697068.003.0004.
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Advances in technology and an increasingly global marketplace have brought about many positive changes in business, but they have also had some negative effects on workplace relationships. Incrementally and over time, these two drivers of change have significantly reshaped workplace relationships at both the company and employee level. Managers work in this ever-changing context each day, facing the impact of technology and globalization on their emotional lives as well as the ways in which they relate to others in their Credibility Crosses—a concept that is developed in this chapter. Unfortunately, managers often have time only to react to these changes rather than consider how they affect the bigger relationship picture. Consciously understanding the interpersonal impact of technology and globalization provides managers with opportunities to improve workplace relationships.
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Kearney, Julia A., and Jennifer S. Ford. Adapting Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199837229.003.0008.
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There is a lack of validated psychotherapeutic interventions for the adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer population, despite years of evidence of significant need. AYAs with cancer experience distress, anxiety, grief, life disruption, and loss of meaning. Meaning-making is a core developmental task of adolescence and contributes to identity development. This chapter reviews narrative and structural theories of identity development, viewed through the lens of a disruptive life event such as cancer. Clinical therapeutic issues are discussed, including the selection of AYA patients for participation in meaning-centered work, the therapeutic approach to difficult subjects such as prognosis or end of life, working with parents and caregivers, and dealing with grief and suicidality in a meaning-centered framework. Formal development of a manualized meaning-centered psychotherapy for AYAs is also discussed. A clinical vignette is presented to illustrate the main themes of a meaning-centered psychotherapeutic approach.
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Moore, Alex M., Nathan O. Rudig, and Mark H. Ashcraft. Affect, Motivation, Working Memory, and Mathematics. Edited by Roi Cohen Kadosh and Ann Dowker. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642342.013.004.
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This article reviews the topics of affect, motivation, working memory, and their relationships to mathematics learning and performance. The underlying factors of interest, motivation, self-efficacy, and maths anxiety, as well as an approach concerning people’s beliefs about fixed versus malleable intelligence, can be grouped into an approach and an avoidance constellation of attitudes and beliefs, with opposite relationships to outcome measures of learning and mastery in maths. This article then considers the research on working memory, showing it to be central to arithmetic and maths processing, and also the principle mental component being disrupted by affective and emotional reactions during problem solving. After discussing the disruptive effects of maths anxiety, choking under pressure, and stereotype threat, the article closes with a brief consideration of how these affective disruptions might be minimized or eliminated.
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Patisaul, Heather B., and Scott M. Belcher. The Path Forward. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199935734.003.0008.
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This chapter focuses on the contemporary approaches of research being used to understand the actions of EDCs and emerging high-throughput screening approaches to examine new and existing chemicals for endocrine-disrupting activities. Concepts arising from the 2007 NRC report “Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy” are delineated and the ongoing development of predictive computational toxicology approaches are addressed. The screening strategies being developed under the Tox21 and Toxicity Forecaster (ToxCast) programs are described, with a review of advantages, challenges, and progress to date. There is a brief overview of the EPA’s Interactive Chemical Safety for Sustainability (iCSS) Dashboard as a portal for accessing the ToxCast data through ToxCastDB, and the EPA’s Aggregated Computational Toxicology data warehouse (ACToR), which contains all publicly available EPA chemical toxicity data. Additional challenges related to the inability of current screening approaches to address complex physiology involved in neuroendocrine disruption are addressed.
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Ristuccia, Nathan J. Disrupting Rites and Profaning the Sacred. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810209.003.0005.
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This chapter evaluates various moments when detailed historical narratives survive for particular Rogation celebrations—such as for the Rogationtide of Paris in 580, a Rogationtide near Rheims in 743, and the Rogationtide of the Milanese Patarenes in 1066. These events have much in common. In all, popular holy men split off their followers from the rest of the congregation, church hierarchies condemned these holy men as heretics, Judaizers, or magicians, and competing processions emphasized factionalism, rather than solidarity. Because the march embodied the local community, the Rogation Days were a period of danger. The procession’s formal unity clashed with actual divisions on the ground. This incongruity guaranteed that the ritual could upset the local order if performed improperly just as easily as the rite could reinforce order.
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Brown, Andrew, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Forces Disrupting Relationships at Work: Litigation. Edited by Andrew Brown, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190697068.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses the psychological impact of litigation on workers and the workplace. Litigation disrupts workplace relationships because of the personal nature of the legal process. Employees and management alike experience litigation as a major breach of trust accompanied by anger, fear, shame, and over time, increasing dependency on legal representatives. Defendant companies may retreat behind organizational defenses that arise in response to litigation, including the creation of new policies and procedures, while managers are caught in the middle in negotiating conflict between aggrieved employees and the company. Litigant employees, who often feel that they have performed a positive societal action in revealing workplace deficiencies, may find themselves increasingly isolated by coworkers and managers. All of the emotional responses can create human and financial costs because of dysfunctional workplace behaviors and the resulting mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, and somatic or paranoid symptoms.
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Dryden, OmiSoore H., and Suzanne Lenon. Disrupting queer inclusion: Canadian homonationalisms and the politics of belonging. 2015.
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Marie, Berard. Part IX Costs, Funding, and Ideas for Optimization, 27 ‘Other Costs’ in International Arbitration: A Review of the Recoverability of Internal and Third-Party Funding Costs. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198783206.003.0028.
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This chapter explores the types of costs that may be awarded in arbitral proceedings, analysing the underlying principles governing the recoverability of costs in international arbitration. In particular, it focuses on how claims relating to the costs of in-house legal counsel; staff and senior management; and third-party funding arrangements are generally decided by arbitral tribunals. While most arbitral rules expressly allow for the recovery of arbitral costs and reasonable legal fees incurred by external counsel, the position is less clear where the fees of in-house lawyers, lost management time, or third-party funding arrangements are concerned. In theory, in-house counsel fees should be recoverable where parties are able to demonstrate the reasonableness and necessity of these costs. As for management costs, a party should in principle be able to recover such costs in arbitration if it can prove that the time spent on the arbitration caused substantial disruption to its business. Costs underwritten by a third-party funding arrangement should, in principle, be similarly recoverable provided the funding arrangement was agreed at arm’s length and is permitted under the applicable laws.