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Record Nr.

UNINA9910135392503321

Autore

Nadler Robert

Titolo

Plug&Play places : lifeworlds of multilocal creative knowledge workers / / Robert Nadler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Warsaw, [Poland] ; ; Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Open, , 2014

©2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 424 pages) : digital, PF

Disciplina

331.12791

Soggetti

Labor mobility

Cultural industries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Creative Industries -- 3. Roots: Understanding Belonging -- 4. Routes: Understanding Mobility -- 5. Synthesis: Evolving Fields of Interest -- 6. Empirical Design and Methodology -- 7. Lifeworlds of Multilocal Creative Knowledge Workers -- 8. Creative Industries, Roots, and Routes: Discussion of the Findings -- 9. Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Statistical Definitions of Creative Industries -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In post-industrial societies more and more people earn an income in creative knowledge work, a highly flexible labour market segment that demands a geographically mobile workforce. Creative knowledge work is based on an understanding of language, culture and symbolic meanings. This can best be obtained through local and national embeddedness. Yet, this necessity for embeddedness stands in contrast to the demand in geographical mobility. How is this contradiction solved by individuals? What new forms of place attachment does this bring about? This book introduces a showcase of 25 multi-local creative knowledge workers, who live in different countries at the same time. It investigates how continuous mobility becomes part of their lifeworld, and how it changes their feelings of belonging and practices of place attachment. Applying an innovative



methodological mix of social phenomenology, hermeneutics and mental mapping, this book takes a detailed look at biographies and the role of places in mobile life worlds. Plug&Play Places brings forth the idea that places have to be understood as individual items, which are configured and then plugged into the 'system' of the own life world. They can be 'played' without great effort once an individual needs to make use of them. This new type of place attachment is a form of subjective standardization of place, which complements the well-known models of objective standardization of places. Plug&Play Places is relevant for scientists who deal with mobility and its impact on individual life worlds, with transnational multilocality and with flexibilised labour markets. Furthermore, the book provides a detailed qualitative perspective which can enrich the explanations of quantitative research in the same field. It is an interesting reading also for practitioners engaged in urban planning, housing and real estate development. Robert Nadler holds a doctoral degree in Urban and Local European Studies from the University of Milan-Bicocca. He is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and published on creative industries, multilocality and labour mobility.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299916003321

Titolo

Advances in Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries : Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries, July 17–21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA / / edited by Paul Fechtelkotter, Michael Legatt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-60204-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 83 p. 35 illus.)

Collana

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, , 2194-5365 ; ; 599

Disciplina

620.82

Soggetti

Cogeneration of electric power and heat

Fossil fuels

Security systems

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Human-computer interaction

Computational intelligence

Fossil Fuel

Security Science and Technology

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Computational Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses human factors research in energy, an emphasis on human factors applications in design, construction, and operation of nuclear, electrical power generation, and oil and gas assets. It discusses advanced strategies in the optimization of human and environmental performance, as well as personal and process safety. The book covers a wealth of topics in design and operation management of both offshore and onshore facilities, including design of control rooms, front-end engineering design (FEED), criticality



analysis, offshore transport, human contributions to accidents, cognitive bias in decision making, safety-critical human tasks, and many others. Based on the AHFE2017 Conference on Human Factors in Energy: Oil, Gas, Nuclear and Electric Power Industries, July 17-21, Los Angeles, California, USA, the book fills an important gap in the current literature, providing readers with state-of-the-art knowledge in human factors best-practice approaches across different types of industries and energy applications.