ontological and epistemological sense—precisely their nature is, and how they relate to the studies in the other parts of this thematic issue. In the case of Japan, the pandemic increased frictions and contradictions. The issues discussed are (1) the
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Editorial Introduction
The Cases of Japan, Australia, and the United States
Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- 259–261 (3 total)
#Vanlife
Living the Dream or Surviving a Nightmare?
Cody Rodriguez
's rental market’ (BBC 2017), what Rhiannon Craft (2020: S327 ) might refer to as evidence of ontological insecurity: It is suggested that bringing one's immediate surroundings under control facilitates autonomy and identity construction, which can
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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Editorial
The Societal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Explained via Three Frameworks
Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen
The eleven studies, shortly introduced here, are not really consistent in their scientific approaches, both in the ontological sense (propositions on the nature of reality), as well as in the epistemological sense (methodologies to obtain reliable and
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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Compliance
Politics, Sociability and the Constitution of Collective Life
Will Rollason and Eric Hirsch
‘ontological’ approach in anthropology championed by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2004) . For Viveiros de Castro (2015) , following Clastres and Gilles Deleuze, another thinker influenced by Clastres ( Cova and Sarmiento Barletti 2021 ), anthropology's role is
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Introduction
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- 1–31 (31 total)
Editorial Introduction
The Cases of Italy and China
Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen
democracy; and the specific ontology of humans as “social beings” elaborated in SQT ( Herrmann et al. 2012: 86 ; Westbroek et al. 2020 ). The contrasting cases of Italy and China with regard to their governance approaches show just how badly we need to
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- Introduction
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change
Expressions of Global Ecological and Societal Misbalances
Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen
conceptual framework is dedicated to the theorizing of the concept of “the social” with the help of the explication of its ontological assumptions. These assumptions deliver points of departure of the epistemological assumptions expressed in the analytical
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 321–335 (15 total)
Decisiveness in Domestic Public Policies
Case Studies of Israeli Gas Field Development and COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Artur Skorek
these patterns, which provide them with ontological security. The analysis in this article is premised on the assumption that the dominant identity of the Israeli state is associated with policies characterized by swift, decisive, and resolute responses
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The Case of China
The Societal Impact of the “Whole of Government Approach”
Wang Jing and Wang Xue
involved. In order to organize our descriptions, we will make use of the social quality framework. Social quality theory (SQT), born at the end of the twentieth century, is based on the ontological notion that “humans and collective entities do evolve in
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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Technological Inequality and Social Exclusion of Older People during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anna Tsetoura
processes resulting [in] the formation of collective identities” ( van der Maesen and Walker 2012: 46 ). This fundamental (ontological) notion implies that human beings are viewed and need to be approached as basically “social beings.” The “social quality
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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Digital Humanities—Ways Forward; Future Challenges
Honoring David Kammerling Smith and the Digital Public Sphere; Acceleration?; Digital Humanities for the People(?); Infrastructure as Privilege; Computation, Cultures, and Communities; Digital Humanities and Generational Shift
Sally Debra Charnow, Jeff Horn, Jeffrey S. Ravel, Cindy Ermus, David Joseph Wrisley, Christy Pichichero, and David Kammerling Smith
tics of Mass Digitization . Thylstrup builds an analysis centered on “networked assemblages” and “infrapolitics” in order to flesh out ontological as well as political-juridical-economic interactions that subtend the digital sphere. The notion of
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