In modern society, service-related activities are growing in importance. Software is playing a preponderant role. More and more, organizations depend on data-processing processes and on the abilities of highly skilled and scarce personnel. They have been named knowledge workers and this kind of organization is named knowledge intensive firms (Alvesson, 2004, p.5ss) or postmodern organizations. ...

cities have been in different ages influenced the thoughts and ideas numerous. ideas influences have such as socialism, capitalism, industrial and industrial ford ... finally, modern, post-modern and postmodern urban form and life style, urban management and economic. globalization is makes also variation cultures, economics, communications and communities. increased sense of global citizenship...

It is 30 years after Post-Mao reforms, 20 years after Tiananmen Square demonstrations, and the next generation of “comrades” are emerging in China. They are called the Balinghou or “Post80s” generation, referring to the cohort born between 1980 and 1989. This study addresses an empirical gap by exploring the narrative resources Shanghai’s Post-80s young adults call on to construct their identit...

Promotional cultures, to use Wernick’s expression, have transformed communication, as the ideology of the market seeps into every facet of social life. Promotional texts, whether verbal, written or visual, now have great impact upon cultural formation and are contributing to a reflexive transformation of both individual and collective political identities. Much commentary on political change (a...

Acknowledgements: The early draft of this paper has been orally presented at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Annual Conference 2004 “Critique Today”, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Division of SCMP, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 8-10 December, 2004, session 17 “Phenomenology, Semiotics, Ethics”. Th...

This paper examines a range of new penal trends and attempts to assess their significance, in the context of the growing debate on modernist and postmodernist penality. It argues that they can be seen as early indicators of an emerging postmodern penality, even if its contours may still be unclear and unmarked. The paper then goes on to discuss the empirical and theoretical significance of this...