scholarly journals From present to future. An academic perspective of Public Archaeology in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Alicia Castillo Mena
Keyword(s):  
Public Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

Ten years seems little time to assess the future of such a relatively young topic as Public Archaeology (PA) is, in special in Spain and in the academic arena. I divide my answer in two classic parts: present and future. By understanding the present (based on the past) we can try to guess (more or less) the future… Even if we think in the context of a pandemic, predicting the future of anything becomes really uncertain and reckless. If I may write, there is a high level of uncertainty and luck in getting it right.

scholarly journals Organizational Renewal in Family Firms

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd ◽  
Vasilis Theoharakis ◽  
Angelo Bisignano
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Succession Planning ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Path Dependency ◽  
Organizational Renewal ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

The authors investigate whether organizational renewal impacts on the performance of family firms and identify aspects of ‘familiness’ acting as facilitators or inhibitors of organizational renewal. A survey instrument captured data on relevant family-related characteristics, organizational renewal and firm performance from the CEOs of 140 family firms in Greece. Regression analysis was used to test hypotheses. Strong evidence was found that organizational renewal impacts positively on the profit growth of family firms. Where CEOs had a strong growth aspiration for the future and were firm founders, and where succession planning was taking place, renewal was more likely to be enacted. Efforts are focused on creating a business that will thrive in the future, and not on curating an organizational heirloom shaped and constrained by the past. Their strong future focus liberates these family firms from possible cross-generational path dependency, allowing the special resources of their family's business to act instead as a springboard for ongoing organizational renewal. Conversely, those family firms with a high level of family altruism indicated by extensive kin employment seem to be more likely to be destined for stagnation than stewardship, as they promote (past-focused) historical family sentiment and tradition. The dangers of cross-generational path dependency indeed seem pronounced in such past-focused firms.

The Future of Psychiatry: Predictions Past and Present

1972 ◽  
Vol 121 (565) ◽  
pp. 579-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ørnulv Ødegård
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level ◽  
Mental Force

Human consciousness includes the dimension of time: As history it reaches back into the past, and as prediction it gropes towards the future. Knowledge of the future must have been felt as a necessity as long as the human mind has existed, and the need for such knowledge was being met on a high level of organization even before culture reached a written stage. Prophets came before authors. At one time prophecy was more important than history because it was nourished by the ancient and powerful mental force of anxiety, anxiety in its true psychiatric form as fear of the unknown.

Millennial archaeology. Locating the discipline in the age of insecurity

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Lee Dawdy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Present Climate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Discussion Article ◽  
The Future

AbstractThis discussion article responds to a forum question posed by the editors of Archaeological dialogues: ‘is archaeology useful?’ My response initially moves backward from the question, considering whether archaeology ought to be useful, how it has been useful in the past, and the millennial overtones of the question in our present climate of crisis. I critique the primary way in which archaeology attempts to be useful, as a dowsing rod for heritage through ‘public archaeology’. While European archaeology has long been aware of the dangers of nationalism, in the Americas this danger is cloaked by a focus on indigenous and minority histories. I then move forward through the question and urge colleagues to embrace an archaeological agenda geared towards the future rather than the past. My hope is that transatlantic dialogue will be politically useful in reorienting archaeological research towards supranational problems such as climate change, hunger and population stress.

The past is now – an interview with Anders Högberg

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Cornelius Holtorf
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Equal Weight ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Anders Högberg is a Swedish archaeologist whose research offers an original perspective on prehistoric flint technology but he has also been directing some innovative projects in archaeological teaching and learning. In this interview I am exploring some of the ideas that have been guiding his work in both realms. Although part of the interview is about work conducted in the past, equal weight is given to new opportunities and developments that affect the future of archaeology. Anders Högberg's ideas cannot be said to be typical or representative for any larger community, but he is operating in very specific historic circumstances that are shared to a greater or lesser extent by many other archaeologists living and working today. This interview documents the particular views on material culture, public archaeology, and the field of archaeology more generally that were held by one European archaeologist in 2008.

The Learning Organization

2014 ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
Deborah Keller
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
After Action Review ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

The practice of using reviews of past events as (often expensive) investments in learning for the future pays off. Why don't all organizations use the practice as a matter of course? The chapter explores how barriers are similar to all other barriers to successful knowledge management and include such obvious elements as high level ownership and a culture of valuing the learning every employee can contribute to the organization's future. A key element is the organizational will to learn from what happened in the past. The After Action Review is used to illustrate a model for organizational learning.

The science, suspicion, and sustainability of opinion polls

2020 ◽  
pp. 324-340
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level ◽  
Election Polls ◽  
Political Scene ◽  
Opinion Polls

The past 30 years have seen political surveys, particularly those related to elections, evolve from an occasional novelty to a staple feature of the Kenyan political scene. This chapter considers several issues with regard to these surveys. These include: (1) the practical challenges in conducting them as well as recent technological advances; (2) the reasons why a high level of suspicion is often attached to election polls in particular, and the main rhetorical forms that such suspicion takes; and, (3) several factors likely to affect the future of such surveys, beyond the widespread awareness of and considerable public support for them, especially the attitudes of those in, and aspiring to, power. It concludes by suggesting that the recent “proliferation” of such polls is no guarantee of their continuation.

scholarly journals Felt as an unsolved code of the past – a bridge to the future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ч.Ж. Тентиева
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
National Museum ◽  
New Materials ◽  
The Past ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Level

В статье рассмотрены вопросы истории развития художественной обработки войлока в Кыргызстане на примере работ из коллекции Кыргызского национального музея изобразительного искусства им. Г. Айтиева. Акцентируется внимание на творчество Джумабая Уметова, который возродил древнейшее ремесло среднеазиатских народов войлока и чия как новой области декоративно-монументального искусства. Продолжая традиции Уметова, работают на качественно новом уровне такие мастера, как Токтогул Касымов, Райгуль Акматова, Галина Турдиева. Современное декоративное искусство выросло на основе народного творчества. Сохраняя традиции, художники Кыргызстана развивают декоративно-прикладное искусство, внося новые темы, решения, осваивая новые виды, материалы и техники, формируя облик нового интерьера. The article discusses the history of felting in Kyrgyzstan based on the works from the collection of Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts by G. Aytiev. The special attention is paid to works made by Jumabai Umetov , who revived the ancient craft of the Central Asian peoples connected with  felt and cane as a new field of decorative and monumental art. Continuing Umetov's traditions such high-level masters as Toktogul Kasymov, Raigul Akmatova, Galina Turdieva work at a qualitatively new level. Modern arts and crafts art grew up from the folk art. Keeping traditions, introducing new themes, solutions, mastering new materials and techniques, forming the new appearance of interior the artists of Kyrgyzstan develop arts and crafts.

Anticipatory practices: Shifting baselines and environmental imaginaries of ecological restoration in the Columbia River Basin

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shana L. Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Restoration Ecology ◽  
Habitat Restoration ◽  
Columbia River ◽  
Columbia River Basin ◽  
Epistemic Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Shifting Baselines ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level

Ecological restorationists working to restore species and habitats must make decisions about how to monitor the effectiveness of their actions. In order to do this, they must determine historical baselines for populations by measuring and monitoring reference habitat sites: analog ecological systems that act as controls for comparison. Yet as climate change alters what is possible in terms of habitat restoration, drawing baselines for recovery has become fraught with difficulty. This article examines the epistemic and legal practices of baseline-setting in the case of the Columbia River Basin as well as the ways that ecological restorationists are dealing with the shifting baselines of a climate-changed river. Restorationists do this by altering their epistemic practices, using trained judgment and establishing alternative, anticipatory baselines. While the field of restoration was born out of the idea that environmental repair was about looking to the past, the discipline has transformed to look forward and even to anticipate the future. One way that this is occurring is through re-thinking baselines to reflect emerging environmental and sociotechnical imaginaries, which are enacted through epistemic practice. Anticipatory practices such as baseline-setting help sensitize the field of restoration ecology to the future, while at the same time facilitating the emergence of ideas that will enable scientifically based decision-making to continue to occur within a high level of uncertainty.

scholarly journals Toward a Decolonial and Denationalized Public Archaeology

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Rafael Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

It has been more than a decade since I completed my own participation in a public archaeology project at Rogem Gannim, in West Jerusalem (Natasha Dudinski, “The Past on our Doorstep,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3fPcrB11c); since then, in the role  of an archaeological activist and advocate, I have observed the progress of public archaeology in Israel and abroad and participated in the local and global dialogue (Clark and Horning 2019), without initiating new fieldwork. This brief note, though looking toward the future as requested by the editors, is therefore retrospective in origin, rather than being a missive from the front lines.

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