Snow in the Tropics

Snow in the Tropics offers the first comprehensive history of the independent reefer operators, companies that are dedicated to transport refrigerated products by ship, from the early 20th century to the present. Readership: All interested in maritime history, particularly those with an interest in the modern history of the shipping industry

Mapping engineering ethics education

Writing a handbook implies describing the fundamental information needed by those teaching or researching in a field. This is a challenging task when the field is still maturing. This handbook grew from the idea that we could ‘collaboratively write’ engineering ethics education. In this introduction, we define the field in three dimensions: engineering, ethics, and education. The latter dimension is divided into three parts: the subjects that shape the teaching of engineering ethics education, the understanding of learners and learning that informs the pedagogical choices made, and the fusion of these two in the pedagogical methods used in teaching engineering ethics. Mapping these three dimensions implies taking an interdisciplinary approach, writing in a multi-perspectival way, and striving to critically reflect on – some in the editorial team would say ‘decolonize’ – the discourses that have traditionally dominated engineering ethics education. Since our starting point was to write engineering ethics education collaboratively, our process in editing this handbook meant we tried to be open to a wide diversity of voices while at the same time working to create coherence within chapters, within thematic sections, and across the book as a whole – without losing the possibility to say something significant about where engineering ethics education is today as a research area and as a topic for teaching. Working with 108 authors, the result is a collaborative, rich, multi-perspectival text

SEFI SIG Workshop:Eager to further develop the field of engineering ethics education?

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A Buddhist future for capitalism? Revising Buddhist economics for the era of light capitalism

This paper discusses Buddhist economics as a potential future for capitalism. In the 1970s, EF Schumacher proposed a form of Buddhist economics aimed at smallness, simplicity and non-violence. The major contribution of the present paper is to revise and update Schumacher’s and others’ work on Buddhist economics, first because of the changing spirit of capitalism from heavy to light capitalism and, second, because Schumacher’s critical perspective of Buddhism has not been sustained to the present day. Rather, Buddhism has been received in the West as a way of coping and as a harmonious philosophy. In order to face the future, the paper proposes a critical development of a Buddhist economics based on the principles of The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path. Apart from revising and updating Buddhist economics, the paper engages in a discussion with the organizational spirituality literature, which contributes to the analysis, and to which contributions are made, first by dividing the field into critical–negative and critical–constructive approaches; and second, by proposing a turn to principles for critical–constructive approaches. </p

Etik för ingenjörer

Vad är etik för ingenjörer? Ingenjörer utvecklar teknik som har stor påverkan, positiv och negativ, på människor och miljö. Det innebär att ingenjören måste ta ställning och göra moraliska bedömningar. Dessutom måste hen ta hänsyn till andra intressenter – medarbetare, ägare, kunder och leverantörer – som kan ha motstridiga intressen.I den här boken presenteras en praktisk, handgriplig process för att hantera etiska dilemman: medvetenhet, ansvarstagande, kritiskt tänkande och handling. Författaren ger många exempel från teknikområden som spänner från byggkonstruktion till transhumanism. I ett genomgående fall får du som läsare tänka till i processens olika steg: att utveckla eller inte utveckla ”Livspartnern” som stöd i vården och i livet. Vad är gott och ont, rätt och fel? Det är frågan.</p

An involuntary ship owner: Swedish state involvement in shipping during the 1970s and 1980s

This article contributes to modern shipping history by analysing the Swedish state’s role as a ship owner in the 1970s and 1980s, when it at most controlled a fleet of 47 ships of six million deadweight tonnes, making it one of the world’s largest ship owners. The article, departing from a theoretical framework of the ‘state as entrepreneur’, describes the conception, functioning and dismantling of two state-owned shipping companies, Zenit and Uddevalla (UV) Shipping, and throws light on a hitherto undocumented aspect of modern Swedish maritime history. It argues that Zenit and UV Shipping had a significant impact on the development of the Swedish shipping industry in the 1970s and the 1980s. </jats:p

Organizational diaspora: The aftermath of the Saléninvest bankruptcy

In this paper, I argue that the concept of diaspora, meaning the mass and usually involuntary migration of people from their homeland, which is widely used in disciplines such as anthropology, can contribute to organization studies both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, the concept of diaspora urges scholars to study the identifications with roots, routes and the new home, the emotional relation the people in the diaspora have to these roots and routes, and the exchanges within the diaspora. This contributes to understanding organizational identity. Empirically, the concept of diaspora brings up issues of remembering and recovery of the homeland, but connotations can also be positive. I focus on diaspora in the aftermath of bankruptcies by drawing on a case study of Swedish shipping firm Saleninvest's bankruptcy in 1984. I will describe the Saleninvest diaspora that both remembered and reconstructed Saleninvest, and whose members did not feel at home in their new workplaces.</p