1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911106533503321

Autore

Noorani Yaseen <1966->

Titolo

Culture and Hegemony in the Colonial Middle East / / by Y. Noorani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9786612909382

9781282909380

128290938X

9780230106437

0230106439

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 245 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History, , 2945-6649

Disciplina

962.04

962/.04

Soggetti

Civilization - History

Middle East - History

World history

Social history

History, Modern

Cultural History

History of the Middle East

World History, Global and Transnational History

Social History

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sovereign Virtue and the Emergence of Nationality; 2 The Death of the Hero and the Birth of Bourgeois Class Status; 3 Order, Agency, and the Economy of Desire: Islamic Reformism and Arab Nationalism; 4 The Moral Transformation of Femininity and the Rise of the Public-Private Distinction in Colonial Egypt; 5 Fiction, Hegemony, and Aesthetic Citizenship; 6 Excess, Rebellion, and Revolution: Egyptian Modernity in the Trilogy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This work is a study of the nature and origin of nationality and modern social ideals in the Middle East, particularly Egypt, in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Bringing together writings on political and social reform with literary works, Noorani challenges dominant assumptions about the emergence of modernity. It shows that while nationalist, liberal, and democratic ideals emerged in the Middle East under European influence, these ideals were nevertheless created out of existing cultural values by reformers and intellectuals. The central element of this process, the book argues, was the transformation of virtue into nationality.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911145750303321

Autore

Hollnagel Erik <1941->

Titolo

The ETTO principle : efficiency-thoroughness trade-off : why things that go right sometimes go wrong / / Erik Hollnagel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

9786612243349

9781315616247

1315616246

9781317033615

1317033612

9781317033608

1317033604

9781282243347

1282243349

9780754693499

075469349X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Disciplina

658.3

658.3/14

658.314

Soggetti

Performance technology

Performance - Psychological aspects

Industrial accidents

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Prologue; 1: The Need to Understand Why Things Go Wrong; 2: From Rationality to ETTOing; 3: Explaining Human Irrationality; 4: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off in Practice; 5: The Usefulness of Performance Variability; 6: ETTOs of the Past; 7: ETTOs of the Future; Epilogue; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and papers have been written about how to identify, classify, eliminate, prevent and compensate for it. This bias towards the study of performance failures, leads to a neglect of normal or 'error-free' performance and the assumption that as failures and successes have different origins there is little to be gained from studying them together. Erik Hollnagel believes this assumption is false and that safety cannot be attained only by eliminating risks and failures. The ETTO Principle looks at the common trait of people at work to adjust what they do to match the conditions - to what has happened, to what happens, and to what may happen. It proposes that this efficiency-thoroughness trade-off (ETTO) - usually sacrificing thoroughness for efficiency - is normal. While in some cases the adjustments may lead to adverse outcomes, these are due to the very same processes that produce successes, rather than to errors and malfunctions. The ETTO Principle removes the need for specialised theories and models of failure and 'human error' and offers a viable basis for effective and just approaches to both reactive and proactive safety management."--Provided by publisher.