The satisfactory and (possibly) sustainable practice of do-it-yourself: the catalyst role of design

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Salvia
Keyword(s):  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Sustainable Practice

The Legislative Process: The Rise of the New Order in Congress

Congress ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 152-182
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ginsberg ◽  
Kathryn Wagner Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Order ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Congressional Committees ◽  
Do It Yourself

This chapter examines the legislative process, paying particular attention to the role of congressional leaders and the changing impact of party and partisanship. It argues that a “new order” has evolved in Congress. The new order reduces the power of the congressional committees and undermines deliberation, but it can still produce legislation, especially when Congress and the president are of the same party. The new order consists of three key elements, which are discussed in this chapter: “follow-the-leader” lawmaking, “do-it-yourself” (DIY) legislating, and “catching-the-omnibus” budgeting. The chapter also looks in detail at one very important part of the legislative process—the budget and appropriations process through which Congress exercises its constitutional “power of the purse.”

scholarly journals Boundary objects, power, and learning: The matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley Hawkins ◽  
Annie Pye ◽  
Fernando Correia
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Sustainable Practice

This article develops an understanding of the agential role of boundary objects in generating and politicizing learning in organizations, as it emerges from the entangled actions of humans and non-humans. We offer two empirical vignettes in which middle managers seek to develop more sustainable ways of working. Informed by Foucault’s writing on power, our work highlights how power relations enable and foreclose the affordances, or possibilities for action, associated with boundary objects. Our data demonstrate how this impacts the learning that emerges as boundary objects are configured and unraveled over time. In so doing, we illustrate how boundary objects are not fixed entities, but are mutable, relational, and politicized in nature. Connecting boundary objects to affordances within a Foucauldian perspective on power offers a more nuanced understanding of how ‘the material’ plays an agential role in consolidating and disrupting understandings in the accomplishment of learning.

Oryx and Crake and the New Nostalgia for Meat

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jovian Parry
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Oryx And Crake ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Near Future

AbstractRecent years have seen the development of a new trend in gastronomic discourse toward acknowledging and even valorizing the role of animal slaughter in meat production. This development problematizes some of the ideas of influential theorists of meat such as Fiddes (1990) and Adams (1991): namely, that the animal in (post)modernity has been rendered invisible in the process of meat production and consumption (Adams, 1991), and that meat itself is a commodity with a declining reputation (Fiddes, 1990). This paper analyzes the role of nostalgia in this trend toward do-it-yourself (or at least witness-it-yourself) slaughter, and takes these developments in cultural tastes and feelings as a context within which to analyze the special significance of meat in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. In identifying this burgeoning nostalgia for meat and contextualizing it within a risk-reflexive, consumer-driven, dystopian near-future society of the author's own devising, Oryx and Crake foregrounds and illuminates these real-world developments in the meanings of meat.

The role of OR specialists in ‘do it yourself’ spreadsheet development

2000 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S Edwards ◽  
Paul N Finlay ◽  
John M Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Do It Yourself

Do it yourself: The role of early self-care ability in social skills in Japanese preschool settings

2021 ◽  
pp. 014303432110632
Author(s):  
Zhu Zhu ◽  
Emiko Tanaka ◽  
Etsuko Tomisaki ◽  
Taeko Watanabe ◽  
Yuko Sawada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Child Care Centers ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Entrance Age

Self-care ability and social skills are potential areas of difficulty for preschool children. However, values about young children's self-care ability are different worldwide. This longitudinal study examined the influence of early self-care ability on social skills at the end of the preschool years. Participants were 509 children recruited from kindergartens and child care centers across Japan, whose self-care ability and social skills were assessed at baseline year and three years later (Age of children in 2015 at baseline: M  =  35 months, SD  =  6.1 months). The study found that gender was significantly associated with social skills, while preschool facility entrance age was only associated with assertion skills. After controlling gender and entrance age, early self-care ability was still positively related to later assertion and cooperation (Assertion: OR  =  2.55, 95% CI  =  1.00–6.51; Cooperation: OR  =  3.15, 95% CI  =  1.23–8.07). Implications of the findings are discussed in the context of cultural diversity, highlighting the importance of cultivating children's age-appropriate self-care ability based on daily observations and evaluations.

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