656 research outputs found
The Division of Labour: An Examination of Certification Requirements
Under Canadian and American labour law, organized workers must be divided into bargaining units. In order to negotiate with employers on behalf of workers, these bargaining units must be certified. This entails receiving the approval of the appropriate labour relations board. The author argues that this requirement informs the outcomes of collective bargaining. This article takes the position that certification is a subtle method for maintaining the existing social order and the consequent distribution of power, without actually appearing to do so. Certification can be understood as a tool for fragmenting the potential power of labour\u27s unity. The present analysis draws on and consolidates some of the major themes in the critical legal, sociological, and political literature on labour/industrial relations
What Keeps A Man Alive: Screenplay and Analysis
Set during WWII, What Keeps a Man Alive tracks the fate of a renowned filmmaker and a crew of concentration camp inmates after they are coerced into producing a fraudulent documentary to deceive inspectors from the Red Cross. Loosely based on events that transpired in Theresienstadt concentration camp in the summer of 1944, the screenplay explores themes of documentary bias, the thin line between truth and fiction, heroism and self-sacrifice, and the strength of familial bonds as they are tested in extreme conditions
Holding Responsible Reconsidered
Following Strawson, many philosophers have claimed that holding someone responsible necessitates its being appropriate to feel or express the negative reactive attitudes (e.g., resentment) toward her. This view, while compelling, is unable to capture the full range of cases in which we hold others responsible in ordinary life. Consider the parent who holds her five-year-old responsible for not teasing his sister, or the therapist who holds her patient responsible for avoiding self-injurious behavior. Holding responsible in such cases requires enforcing normative expectations, but these norms can (and typically should) be enforced without involving the negative reactive attitudes. To demonstrate this, I consider how responsibility attributions function in psychotherapy, as well as in other contexts where the negative reactive attitudes do not have a natural home
Responsibility and the Problem of So-Called Marginal Agents
Philosophical views of responsibility often identify responsible agency with capacities like rationality and self-control. Yet in ordinary life, we frequently hold individuals responsible who are deficient in these capacities, such as children or people with mental illness. The existing literature that addresses these cases has suggested that we merely pretend to hold these agents responsible, or that they are responsible to a diminished degree. In this paper, I demonstrate that neither of these approaches is satisfactory, and offer an alternative focused on the role relationships play in determining whether it is appropriate to hold someone responsible. I argue that relationships are sources of normative expectations about how parties in that relationship ought to behave, and that we can be responsible in virtue of being subject to these norms. This is so, not only for those who are impaired or immature, but for all of us
Aplicando el empirismo trascendental: Deleuze en medio-oriente
This article applies some of Gilles Deleuze’s concepts, particularly the ideas supporting his transcendental empiricism onto a particular field of action: Arab-Jewish radical activism in Israel- Palestine. Specifically, the article interrogates three scenes: housing activism, bilingual education and professional football. Deleuze’s empiricism, the findings help to argue, is not only an approach to understanding but necessarily also an activist perspective on social life
Statistics of inhomogeneous turbulence in large scale quasi-geostrophic dynamics
A remarkable feature of two-dimensional turbulence is the transfer of energy
from small to large scales. This process can result in the self-organization of
the flow into large, coherent structures due to energy condensation at the
largest scales. We investigate the formation of this condensate in a
quasi-geostropic flow in the limit of small Rossby deformation radius, namely
the large scale quasi-geostrophic model. In this model potential energy is
transferred up-scale while kinetic energy is transferred down-scale in a direct
cascade. We focus on a jet mean flow and carry out a thorough investigation of
the second order statistics for this flow, combining a quasi-linear analytical
approach with direct numerical simulations. We show that the quasi-linear
approach applies in regions where jets are strong and is able to capture all
second order correlators in that region, including those related to the kinetic
energy. This is a consequence of the blocking of the direct cascade by the mean
flow in jet regions, suppressing fluctuation-fluctuation interactions. The
suppression of the direct cascade is demonstrated using a local coarse-graining
approach allowing to measure space dependent inter-scale kinetic energy fluxes,
which we show are concentrated in between jets in our simulations. We comment
on the possibility of a similar direct cascade arrest in other two-dimensional
flows, arguing that it is a special feature of flows in which the fluid element
interactions are local in spaceComment: 19 pages, 13 figure
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