Sufism in an age of transition [[electronic resource] ] : ʻUmar al-Suhrawardī and the rise of the Islamic mystical brotherhoods / / by Erik S. Ohlander

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458664903321
• Autore: Ohlander Erik S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008
• ISBN: 1-283-06054-X; 9786613060549; 90-474-3214-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Collana: Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, , 0929-2403 ; ; v. 71
• Disciplina: 297.4/8
• Soggetti: Suhrawardīyah; Sufism - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-337) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Materials / Erik S. Ohlander -- Introduction / Erik S. Ohlander -- Chapter One. Situating Al-Suhrawardī In Time, Space, And Text / Erik S. Ohlander -- Chapter Two. The Makings Of A Sufi Master / Erik S. Ohlander -- Chapter Three. Writing Authority / Erik S. Ohlander -- Chapter Four. Mari῾Fa Disciplined And Institutionalized / Erik S. Ohlander -- Chapter Five. Imperial And Other Projects / Erik S. Ohlander -- Conclusion / Erik S. Ohlander -- Bibliography / Erik S. Ohlander -- Index Of Persons And Places / Erik S. Ohlander -- Index Of Book Titles / Erik S. Ohlander -- Index Of Terms And Concepts / Erik S. Ohlander.
• Sommario/riassunto: Although the early thirteenth century was a critical period in the development of Sufism, it has received little scholarly attention. Based on heretofore unexplored sources, this book examines a pivotal figure from this period: the scholar, mystic, statesman, and eponym of one of the earliest ṭarīqa lineages, ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī. In situating Suhrawardī’s life work in its social, political, and religious contexts, this book suggests that his universalizing Sufi system was not only enmeshed within a broader economy of Muslim religious learning, but ; also furnished social spaces which allowed for novel modes of participation in Sufi religiosity. In doing so, this book provides a framework for understanding the increasingly ubiquitous presence of intentional Sufi communities and institutions throughout the late-medieval Islamic world.

Making work visible : ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice / / edited by Margaret H. Szymanski, Jack Whalen [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790073803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-139-06321-9; 1-107-21376-2; 1-283-11241-8; 9786613112415; 1-139-07548-9; 0-511-92136-5; 1-139-06972-1; 1-139-07774-0; 1-139-08003-2; 1-139-08230-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvii, 374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Learning in doing : social, cognitive and computational perspectives
• Classificazione: SOC026000
• Disciplina: 331.25/6
• Soggetti: Organizational learning; Knowledge management; Human engineering; Work - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: Work practice and technology: a retrospective / Lucy Suchman -- Engineering investigations: what is made visible in making work visible? ; / Wes Sharrock and Graham Button -- Uncovering the unremarkable / Peter Tolmie -- Work practices to understand the implications of nascent technology / Francoise Brun-Cottan and Patricia Wall -- Tokyo to go: using field studies to inform the design of a mobile leisure guide for Japanese youth / Diane J. Schiano and Victoria Bellotti -- Exploring documents and the future of work / Jennifer Watts-Perotti, Mary Ann Sprague, Patricia Wall, Catherine McCorkindale, Lisa Purvis, and Gabriele McLaughlin -- New ways of working: the implications of work practice transitions / Mary Ann Sprague, Nathaniel Martin, and Johannes A. Koomen -- Behind the scenes: the business side of medical records / Nathaniel Martin and Patricia Wall -- Seeing the right colour: technical and practical solutions to the problem of accurate colour reproduction in the digital print industry / Tommaso Colombino, David Martin, Jacki O'Neill, Mary Ann Sprague, Jennifer Watts-Perotti, Jutta Willamowski, Frederic Roulland, and Antonietta Grasso -- Integrated customer service: re-inventing a workscape / Jack Whalen and Marilyn Whalen -- Interactions at a reprographics store / Erik Vinkhuyzen -- Ethnography-inspired technology for remote help-giving / Jacki O'Neill, Peter Tolmie, Stefania Castellani, Antonietta Grasso, and Frederic Roulland -- Sign of the times at the department store: replacing paper with electronic signs / Johannes A. Koomen -- Communal knowledge sharing: the EUREKA story / Jack Whalen and Daniel G. Bobrow -- Designing document solutions for airline maintenance advisories / Patricia Wall and Johannes A. Koomen -- Transforming information system design: enabling users to design / Yutaka Yamauchi -- Rethinking how projects are managed: meeting communication across the organizational hierarchy / Erik Vinkhuyzen and Nozomi Ikeya -- Fujitsu learned ethnography from PARC: establishing the social science center / Koji Kishimoto with a preface by Jack Whalen -- The work practice center of excellence / Luke Plurkowski, Margaret H. Szymanski, Patricia Wall, and Johannes A. Koomen -- Transferring ethnographic competence: personal reflections on the past and future of work practice analysis / Brigitte Jordan.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological concern to make the study of interactional work an empirical, investigatory matter. This edited volume is an overview of Xerox's social science tradition. It uses detailed case studies showing how the client engagement was conducted over time and how the findings were consequential for business impact. Case studies in retail, production, office and home settings cover four topics: practices around documents, the customer front, learning and knowledge-sharing, and competency transfer. The impetus for this book was a 2003 Xerox initiative to transfer knowledge about conducting ethnographically grounded work practice studies to its consultants so that they may generate the kinds of knowledge generated by the researchers themselves.

Ensuring the U.S. intelligence community supports homeland defense and departmental needs : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, September 13, 2004

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910689877303321
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (iii, 67 p.)
• Soggetti: Intelligence service - United States - Evaluation; National security - United States; Terrorism - United States - Prevention; Terrorism - Government policy - United States; Executive departments - United States - Reorganization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

दक्षिण भारत में सामाजिक मीडिया - Social Media in South India

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910563149703321
• Autore: Venkatraman Shriram
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : UCL Press, 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Collana: Why We Post
• Soggetti: Communication studies; Media studies; Sociology & anthropology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Hindi
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what was once a space dominated by agriculture has resulted in a complex juxtaposition between an evolving knowledge economy and the traditions of rural life. While certain class tensions have emerged in response to this juxtaposition, a study of social media in the region suggests that similarities have also transpired, observed most clearly in the blurring of boundaries between work and life for both the old residents and the new. Venkatraman explores the impact of social media at home, work and school, and analyses the influence of class, caste, age and gender on how, and which, social media platforms are used in different contexts. These factors, he argues, have a significant effect on social media use, suggesting that social media in South India, while seeming to induce societal change, actually remains bound by local traditions and practices.; दक्षिण भारत पर सामाजिक मीडिया, जो तमिलनाडु में लोगों के दैनिक जीवन में सामाजिक मीडिया के उपयोग पर अन्वेषण करनेवाले पहले के नृवंशवैज्ञानिक अध्ययनों पर एक है, तेज़ी परिवर्तन का अनुभव करनेवाले एक क्षेत्र में इस विषय का ज्ञान प्रदान करता है. जो एक समय कृषि से हावी किया गया था, उस क्षेत्र पर पिछले दशक में आईटी कंपनियों का प्रवेश, एक उद्विकासी ज्ञान अर्थव्यवस्था और ग्रामीण जीवन की परिपाटी के बीच एक जटिल मुकाबला का कारण बन गया है. जबकि इस मुकाबले के उत्तरक्रिया के रूप में कुछ वर्गीय तनाव प्रकट हुए हैं, इस क्षेत्र के सामाजिक मीडिया पर अध्ययन इसका प्रस्ताव करता है कि समरूपता का भी पता चलता है, जो पुराने और नए निवासियों के काम और जीवन की सीमाओं के धुंधुला होने से अधिक स्पष्ट रूप से अवलोकन किया जाता है. वेंकटरामन घर, काम और स्कूल पर सामाजिक मीडिया के प्रभाव पर अन्वेषण करते हैं और वर्ग, जाति, उम्र और लिंग के प्रभाव पर इसका विश्लेशण करते हैं कि जैसे और जो सामाजिक मीडिया के मंच विभिन्न सन्दर्भों पर उपयोग किये जाते हैं. वे ऐसा तर्क करते हैं कि ये कारक के सामाजिक मीडिया के उपयोग पर महत्वपूर्ण प्रभाव होता है और इसका प्रस्ताव करते हैं दक्षिण भारत में सामाजिक मीडिया, यद्यपि सामाजिक परिवर्तन को प्रेरित करने लगता है, वास्तव में सामाजिक परिपाटी और प्रयोग से सीमित हैं.