Chapter 1 SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAMS AND THE AGILE ORGANIZATION

While organizations need to be agile for ongoing success, becoming and remaining agile, nimble, and flexible is difficult, and requires the involvement and alignment of systems, processes, and people. At the epicenter of never-ending push to maintain agility is the senior leadership team. This team is the focus on this book. In this chapter, we describe the purposes for the book, including our …

Chapter 1 Re-theorizing religious conflict

The nostalgic view that the classical polytheist world is one of religious tolerance and coexistence, whereas monotheism, which is exclusivist, is responsible for much of the religious violence perpetrated between the rise of Christianity and the end of pre-modern history. A dominant model that of the religious marketplace, is related, and similarly benchmarks the conversion of Constantine and …

Chapter 1 Representation: Stuart Hall and the “Politics of Signification”

The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of perspectives, the book is divided into three sections: first, it summarizes the theoretical approaches tha…

Chapter 4 Post-Fukushima anti-nuclear movement

The chapter analyzes the cycle of the anti-nuclear movement that followed the Fukushima accident in March 2011. Employing functional typology, the chapter categorizes the movement’s organizations into seven types (direct action, research and education, policy advocacy, aid, watchdog, legal, and other) and shows that the post-Fukushima wave of protests was much broader in scope and more divers…

Chapter 4 Planetary environing The biosphere and the Earth system

Anthropocene; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media studies

Chapter 4 Numerical Modelling of Industrial Induction

Induction heating is a physical process extensively used in the metallurgical industry for different applications involving metal melting. The main components of an induction heating system are an induction coil connected to a power-supply providing an alternating electric current and a conductive workpiece to be heated, placed inside the coil. The alternating current traversing the coil genera…

Chapter 4 Nanomaterials

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The Risk of Improvised Music

As far as I know, no-one has lost their life directly in the pursuit of Improvised Music-making, but the story nonetheless suggests various important questions.

Repeatability versus Unrepeatability in Free Improvisation

It can be related to many elements of production: to the act of un-notated creation; to the manipulation and amplification of notated materials; to our observance of rigid rules and formulae; or to spontaneous freedom.

Chapter 4 Localizing Aboriginal and Pacific performance on internationalized …

In 1967 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people successfully campaigned for a referendum for constitutional change, releasing them from policies restricting movement outside of their home states and territories of residence. This chapter interrogates the contested space for representation of Aboriginal performance in the years following the referendum. New companies for Aboriginal music an…