Virtual Afterlives [[electronic resource] ] : Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century / / Candi K. Cann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787836603321
• Autore: Cann Candi K
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, Kentucky, : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
• ISBN: 0-8131-4543-0; 0-8131-4549-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Collana: Material Worlds
• Disciplina: 393
• Soggetti: Internet - Social aspects; Bereavement - Social aspects; Death - Social aspects; Memorialization - Social aspects; 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Bodiless Memorial; 2. Wearing the Dead; 3. Moving the Dead; 4. Speaking to the Dead; 5. Grieving the Dead in Alternative Spaces; Acknowledgments; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning.Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions. Author Candi K. Cann examines new forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral indus

In pursuit of foresight : disaster incubation theory re-imagined / / Mike Lauder

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810070203321
• Autore: Lauder Mike
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2016; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-315-58811-0; 1-317-11800-6; 1-317-11799-9; 1-4724-6891-0; 1-4724-6890-2
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4/77
• Soggetti: Risk management; Emergency management
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 In Appreciation of Barry Turner; Introduction; Aim; Disaster Incubation Theory Described; Disaster Incubation Theory Sta ges; Case Studies; Reshaping Turner's Model; Conclusion; 2 Selecting a Framework for Foresight; Introduction; Selection of a Framework; Approach; Chaos as the Norm; Conclusion; 3 Issues for Foresight; Introduction; Issues of Interest; Universals; Causes; Catalytic Questions; Conclusion; 4 Debate Framework; Introduction; Developing a Catalytic Framework; Generalisation; Intelligent Countermoves; Foresight or HindsightFramework; Conclusion; 5 Lesson to be Learnt; Introduction; Turner's Phenomena; Revised Questions; The "What"; The "How"; Conclusions; 6 Pursuing Foresight; Introduction; Looking Back; Looking Forward; Using the Cube; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight. These reports are based on the premise that, with a little more thought, these oversights, and so the crisis, would have been avoided. Is it really ; that simple? The important question is whether, without hindsight, it would have even been possible to identify the actual factors that lead to the failure. This book explores this issue as a practical problem. The book takes Barry Turner's Disaster Incubation Theory as its central theme. The first chapter explores the way Turner structured his theory and the way it has been used, before re-imagining it as a way to fostering foresight. The next three chapters examine key issues in detail. They explain why Turner's model was chosen, outline the issues that need to be considered when seeking to prevent such failures and how to use the proposed frameworks. Chapter 5 examines the lessons learnt from this study and, in particular, looks at the mental approach required when seeking such foresight. Finally, Chapter 6 provides a fully worked example. It uses work by Frank Stech who has applied Turner's theory to a past case.Crises occur everywhere and we continue to struggle to avoid them. In this book Mike Lauder provides executives with thinking tools to help them avoid missing the warning signs of their next crisis.