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BP’S CONSTRUCTION OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY ON ITS WEBSITE: A CASE STUDY OF DISCURSIVE LEGITIMIZATION

Author(s): Dita Trčková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

The paper presents a critical discourse analysis of the website of one of the world’s major oil companies, Beyond Petroleum (BP), formerly British Petroleum, with the focus on investigating the construction of BP’s corporate identity. The analysis reveals that BP enacts multiple positive discursive roles, including the identities of an indispensable organization, a philanthropist, an environmentally conscious company, an explorer, a researcher, an educator and an American dream achiever. These roles serve as a potent legitimizing strategy since they enable BP to be associated with higher social and moral values. The analysis shows that BP’s environmentally protective ethos adopts the ideology of the domination of human beings over nature through technology, an ideology which is suited to the company’s profit-making purpose.

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Umiar, wspólnota i perspektywa nie-ludzka jako ekologiczne strategie (post)sztuki wobec kryzysu klimatycznego

Author(s): Barbara Swadzyniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

The foundations of the culture as well as of the current climate and ecological crisis rely on two paradigms that require deconstruction in context of the anthropocene, namely the capitalistic and anthropocentric paradigms. The author not only criticizes them, but also looks for alternatives among the post-humanistic philosophies and post-artistic practises that exceed modernistic traditions as well as autonomous and representative art. New tools for describing and changing reality can be provided by post-artistic practices which focus on action, social use, communities and immaterial benefits. This situates post-art in contraposition to institutionalized overproduction, anthropocentric individualism and market-based rules.

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The use of selected tax tools for the implementation of pro-ecological goals in Poland on the example of cities with poviat rights

Author(s): Jacek Witkowski / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

Motivation: Environmental protection requires action at various levels. Local governments managing the smallest territorially administrative units have been equipped with a number of competences enabling a positive impact on the condition of local natural resources. Their powers include, inter alia, determining the rates of certain taxes along with the possibility of applying preferences that may be aimed at stimulating environment- friendly behavior and the implementation of various pro-ecological goals. Therefore, a research problem can be raised regarding the use of this type of instruments by municipalities to improve the condition of the natural environment. Aim: The purpose of the article is to investigate whether and to what extent local governments managing communes in Poland use their powers in the scope of applying reliefs and exemptions in local taxes to initiate activities involving the protection and proper use of environmental resources. The study covered 63 cities operating with poviat rights, and the analysis covered the resolutions adopted by the city councils of these units in the years 2019–2021. Results: As a result of the research, it was found that the local governments of the largest Polish cities rarely applied exemptions from property tax and transport means tax exemptions due to pro-ecological activities undertaken by taxpayers. Local government officials were much more willing to use the statutory right to apply different tax rates on means of transport depending on the type of drive. In the group of the 10 largest urban centers, only in one case there is no lower tax rate for 2021, and thus no relief for owners of vehicles with a drive that meets certain emission limits or electric power. Importantly, the reliefs were most often accompanied by the reduction or maintenance of the real tax rates at a stable level.

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Do Employees’ Emotions Contaminate Organisations? The Relationship between Emotional Contagion and Organisational Identification

Author(s): Kerem Toker,Ali Görener / Language(s): English Issue: 78/2022

This article presents empirical research that aimed to determine the direction and strength of the relationships between emotional contagion and organisational identification. Our study examined the effect of aviation sector employees’ emotional contagion levels on organisational identification and the moderating role of career characteristics, such as age differences and seniority, in this effect. Data collected from 296 aviation employees were analyzed using SPSS 25 and SPSS Process Macro programs for determining moderating effects. The findings revealed that emotional contagion has a positive and significant effect on organisational identification. It has been determined that individuals’ age and seniority differences have a moderating role in the effect of emotional contagion on organisational identification. The fact that the scope of the research is a single sector and organisation hinders the findings’ generalizability. Additionally, the cross-sectional design limits the ability to explain the cause-and-effect relationships between psychological factors. The results proved that positive emotions affect individuals faster than negative emotions and are more effective on OI. Hence, the establishment of an organisational climate dominated by feelings of love and happiness and devoid of feelings of fear and anger is recommended for managers seeking to foster OI. By revealing the implicit relationships among the concepts with empirical evidence, we aim to fill a significant gap, particularly with respect to organisational psychology, and to represent new insights to scholars and practitioners.

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EKOPEDAGOŠKE KOMPETENCIJE - UVJET USPJEŠNOG FUNKCIONIRANJA U 21. STOLJEĆU

Author(s): Marija Karačić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2022

The century we live in brings with it many changes that affect all the inhabitants of the world communities. As such, it seeks timely and adequate responses to them in order to be successful coped with unforeseen challenges and overcame them more easily and successfully. Such humanity burdened by environmental problems, health problems, migrant crises, poverty, unemployment, which leaves far-reaching consequences. The cause of all this should be sought in impaired communication between people. Overwhelmed by virtual technology denies direct, interpersonal communication, which often results in unintended consequences. Communication is the key to success and happiness of every individual, therefore, it is necessary to reaffirm interpersonal communication in all educational institutions, give it the right place at all levels of education, and train young people starting education for it, striving to develop eco-pedagogical competencies. Ecopedagogical competence implies understanding, acceptance and acting in accordance with ecopedagogical interaction, which is based on ecocommunication. Due to the ecological crisis in the world, it is necessary to strive for the development of new sensibilities, new active citizens through ecological education of young people. The main goal of this paper is to analyze and present the views of scientists and educators who have dealt with the importance, needs and ways of developing eco-pedagogical competencies in students. This paper will elaborate the need and importance, and the constituent elements of ecopedagogical competence, as well as pointing out the need to develop ecopedagogical competencies in education, all age groups, which seeks to interpret and present their importance in the successful functioning of society in the future.

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Marchesini, R. (2021). The Virus Paradigm. A Planetary Ecology of the Mind

Author(s): Pablo a Marca / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Review of: Marchesini, R. (2021). The Virus Paradigm. A Planetary Ecology of the Mind (S. De Sanctis, Trans.), Cambridge University Press, 2021, 75 pages.

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“Do you think it is a Pandemic?” Apocalypse, Anxiety and the Environmental Grotesque in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl

Author(s): Sanchar Sarkar,Swarnalatha Rangarajan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009), set in the post fossil-fuel, post turbo-capitalist country of Thailand, portrays the shocking after effects of bioengineering and gene-hack modifications in food crops. The narrative depicts a country tottering on the brink of an agricultural apocalypse on account of food production being severely affected by crop driven anomalies and rogue diseases such as “cibiscosis” and “blister rust” transmitted by variants of mutating pests. Natural seed stock becomes completely supplanted by the new genetically engineered seeds which become sterile after a single seasonal cycle of sowing and harvesting. The native population of Thailand is adversely affected by the pandemic scenario, which becomes aggravated by an expedient “scientocracy” that is at the heart of the neocolonial enterprises of American megacorporations and calorie companies like Agrigen, PurCal and Redstar who hail gene hacking as the new future of food resources and market profiteering. The consumption of the gene-hacked produce spreads through crops and affects the human body in unimaginable ways thereby resulting in a considerable rise of health issues including digestive and respiratory failures. This paper intends to articulate the idea of a pandemic, its historical understanding and affective influences in the context of a post techno-fossil fuel economy set in Thailand. It will analyse the idea of epidemiological colonialism; diseases introduced by colonising forces that reshape the natives’ existing environment thereby bringing forth a deep pandemic anxiety that percolates the collective memory of the Thai people. It also highlights how the novel portrays the conflict between traditional ecological knowledge systems and modern extractive enterprises that acts as a catalyst to hasten the destruction of sustainable systems of agriculture and food production that have endured the impact of climate change and ecological fallout. The paper will study the relevance of the pandemic as an agency of ecocatastrophe and its function in an eco-speculative science fictional narrative. Finally, the paper looks into the concept of the posthuman android, genetically modified humans in a “technologiade”, a society reconfigured by technoscience to resist the impact of environmental collapse, and explores how this trope is incorporated in Bacigalupi’s narrative to celebrate human striving for hope and survival in an imagined environmental future marked by a self-created agro-scientific grotesqueness.

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Problematika zaštite okoliša u Bakru prilikom osnivanja Koksare u prvoj polovici 70-ih godina 20. stoljeća

Author(s): Bruno Raguž / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2022

The paper deals with the problems of Koksara (coke plant) in Bakar, as well as the entire area of Bakar, immediately before the commissioning of the new plant in the first half of the 1970s. The paper presents new data that aims to show the pollution of the Bay of Bakar in the period in question, looking back on all the main forms of pollution. This paper also presents the most important environmental protection measures that the Koksara coke plant should have taken, and together with them, the most important research in the subject area is also presented. Finally, the paper also offers arguments for questioning the frequent position that the Koksara plant is the main cause of pollution in Bakar and its surroundings.

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Akçakoca Destinasyonu’nun Tarihî İnsan Ekolojisi: Karadenizin Kıyıcığında Romanı

Author(s): Beyza Hatırnaz / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 112/2022

Rıfat Ilgaz is a significant novelist, poet and storyteller. Ilgaz, who is also from Western Balck Sea Region, novelized human and human relations which he observed in cities he was raised and lived, and created panoramas of regions which remained away from attention. Karadenizin Kıyıcığında is a novel about the struggles of how the people of Akçakoca survive, whom are trapped in the triangle of geography, climate, and monarchy. Their struggle not only shapes their lives, lifestyles and priorities but also affects their approach to each other and nature. With its deep characters and plot, the novel presents the relationship networks and lifestyles of country folk in Akçakoca, Anatolia and worldwide wrapped around a love story. In the conclusion part, the subject is evaluated within the framework of the ecological ethics ideas and Darwin’s definitions of human, in terms of the similarities which are seen in the approach to nature and women, and the clear characteristics seen in the interaction with nature. Rıfat Ilgaz, consciously or not, presents proof for the claim that hierarchical structures, which have been the subject of the ecological ethics approaches for many years, shape the approach to nature and to those who are considered as “the other” with his real human profiles and human ecology which are presented in his novel and fictionalized with his observations over the years.

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Бруно Латур – социология и наука, философия и експеримент, политика и театър

Author(s): Antoaneta Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

Bruno Latour: Sociology and Science, Philosophy and Experiment, Politics and the Theatre

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Пандемията, предизвикана от Kовид-19: Homo hygienicus vs. Homo hapticus

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Пандемията, предизвикана от Kовид-19: Homo hygienicus vs. Homo hapticus

Author(s): Nina Nikolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2022

This paper analyses so-called points of intersection and short-circuits between homo hygienicus and homo hapticus. The global virus Covid 19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented hygienist obsession and a panic fear of physical proximity and contact. It has made clearly visible some longue-durée trends in European cultural history which I would summarize namely as a constant advancing of homo hygienicus at the expense of a steady declining of homo hapticus. Against this backdrop, I venture the hope of forming an ecological homo hapticus whose quintessence could be defined as follows: a touch that actively refrains from itself.

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The Mediating Role of Family and Job Satisfaction in the Relationships between Work-Family Conflict and Enrichment and Life Satisfaction of Women with Paid Work

Author(s): Leonor Riquelme-Segura,Berta Schnettler,Ligia Orellana,Marianela Denegri / Language(s): English Issue: 79/2022

For women, working outside the home can both consume and generate personal resources, which in turn can have an impact in their work and family domains. In this study, direct and indirect relationships were explored between work-to-family conflict and work-to-family enrichment, job satisfaction, satisfaction with family life and satisfaction with life, in a sample of 473 women with paid work and adolescent children in Temuco, Chile. Using structural equation modelling, results showed that participants’ satisfaction with life was associated with their satisfaction in both work and family domains. Evidence was also found for underlying mechanisms explaining the relationship between work-to-family conflict and life satisfaction, and between work-to-family enrichment and life satisfaction. These findings contribute to organizational-level knowledge for designing practices and strategies to promote favourable conditions to increase women’s work-to-family enrichment.

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Türkiye’deki sivil toplum kuruluşlarının ekoloji ve biyoçeşitliliğin korunmasındaki rolleri

Author(s): Murat Sezik / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 4/2022

After the industrial revolution, human beings started to consume their environment rapidly and ultimately destroyed the planet to an irreversible extent. The "ecological crisis" emerging on earth, which is becoming more and more difficult to live with each passing day, due to environmental pollution, deforestation and gases released into the atmosphere, should at least be mitigated. More responsibilities fall on the international community, states, political parties, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and even individuals in this regard. The aim of this study is to examine what NGOs do and can do for the protection of ecology and biodiversity in Turkey. Qualitative research method based on literature, observation and interviews was used in the study. The activities, fields of activity and audiences of the NGOs, which are limited in number in Turkey and try to raise awareness by organizing environmentally sensitive individuals, in order to protect Ecology and Biodiversity are discussed. As a result of the study, although it was seen that NGOs were effective from time to time in preventing the ecological crisis in Turkey, it can be said that the environmental movement in Turkey has an elitist aspect and the environmental movement does not spread to the grassroots.

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Zelena agenda za Zapadni Balkan - izazovi pred Bosnom i Hercegovinom

Author(s): Tamara Ćuruvija / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 9/2022

The paper presents basic elements of the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans established by the Sofia Declaration on the Green Agenda at the Western Balkans Summit on 10 November 2020. In addition to introductory remarks, the Paper is an overview of current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina for each of interconnected areas within the five pillars of the Green Agenda – decarbonization, circular economy, environmental pollution, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity, as well as the main activities foreseen by the European Commission's Guidelines for the Implementation of the Green Agenda. Aspiring to become a Member State of the European Union, achievement of Agenda goals is crucial for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans countries because green transition will ensure economy development, strengthen regional cooperation and contribute to the global fight against climate change.

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Toksyczne przedmieścia. Radioaktywne dziedzictwo St. Louis w soczewce projektów Allany Ross

Author(s): Magdalena Krzosek-Hołody / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2022

The article follows the radioactive history of St. Louis featured in the works of the artist and activist Allana Ross. Her artistic practice presents an interesting, interdisciplinary approach to the social and environmental problems connected to the radioactive contamination of the city. The aforementioned contamination (apart from the workers directly involved in the processing of the uranium ore) affected mainly the lower middle-class families living in the outskirts.From the early 1940s until the late 1960s St. Louis based chemical company Mallinckrodt was the major manufacturer of uranium utilized in the Manhattan Project and later on in the development of the American national atomic energy programme. As the result of the negligence of many social and political actors, the radioactive waste produced by Mallinckrodt spread over the city’s suburbs contaminating air, soil and water. These facts, however, were not publicly known for many years. Just recently they received the publicity that they demanded. Even though the radioactive contamination of St. Louis dates back to the 1940s, the affected areas had not been taken care of till the late 1980s, when the city was included into FUSRAP and Superfund programmes, which were established by the U.S. government to “clean the radioactive mess”left recklessly in the American landscape some decades ago.The author of the article adopts the notion of negative heritage introduced by Lynn Meskell (2002) to interpret the significance of the radioactive contamination of the region and contextualize the works of Ross. The artist herself understands her projects, which may as well fall into the recently established category of artivism, as adaptive strategies for the slowly approaching environmental catastrophe. In a more general sense Ross calls out not only for the redefinition of St. Louis negative radioactive heritage, but also for the new culture of nature and new modes of human –environment relations.

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Ülkemizdeki Katık Atık Yönetim Sisteminin İncelenmesi

Author(s): Serdar Karataş / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 26/2022

This study includes the functioning of the solid waste management system in our country and recommendations on what needs to be done for this. In the current period, city administrators tend to carry out the application of modern and traditional orientations together in solving problems. In this sense, city administrators stand out in terms of having much more humane, participatory, democratic options. This brings together a situation that strengthens the hand of city administrators. The issues of collecting, transporting and disposing of hazardous and toxic waste, that is, waste that is both liquid and solid, that are of close concern to local authorities about waste problems and that have come to the agenda in recent times are the issues of collection, transportation and disposal. Some of the hazardous and toxic waste is from flammable substances such as solvents used for chemical purposes in the chemical industry. These create fire hazards where they are located. Some of them have explosive properties. Naturally, when they come into contact with different chemicals, they create gases full of danger and poison. In some of them, that is, in those that differ in different ways, they carry agents that cause diseases in living beings, that is, bacteria, viruses, parasites, cysts, etc.

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The Ecological Dimension of Sustainable Development: Bringing Forth Pedagogics to Safeguard the Global Future

Author(s): Denys Svyrydenko,Frol Revin / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2022

Training of citizens with a high level of environmental awareness, eco-consciousness and sustainable culture on the basis of new informed criteria for assessing the relationship between human society and nature should become one of the main instruments in solving extremely acute environmental and related socio-economic problems. Environmental education, as a holistic cultural phenomenon that includes the processes of inculcated education and (most importantly) personality development, should be aimed at the formation of ecological culture as a crucial component of the system of national and public education of all strata of the global population. In particular, within our educational system emphasis should be put on imparting through environmental education with the help of public environmental organizations by updating and making our academic disciplines, training programs, and approaches greener, more sustainable as well as making sure they provide professional environmental training through basic environmental education. Solving these pressing issues should ensure the formation of integral ecological knowledge and thinking platform within our educational institutions, necessary for the adoption of environmentally sound national and global decisions at all levels of the socio-political entities, groups, spheres of influence and activity fostering and facilitating thereby an in-depth mastery and understanding of ecological knowledge and agenda, furthering the formation and development of ecological thinking, consciousness and culture among students as well as the general population. With the presently looming threat of an environmental catastrophe, the authors are convinced that only a balanced, ecologically safe harmonious and sustainable program of action is our way out and should be the basic idea, forming and informing the methodological crux of environmental education in accordance with international policies, standards and practices.

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Kritičko-kreativna pedagogija za globalne izazove i alternativne budućnosti

Author(s): Amina Smajović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 19/2022

Review of: Anke Schwittay, Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures, Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2021.

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An Assessment of the Training Program on Mental Health for Community Health Workers in Kashmir, India

Author(s): Aadil Bashir,Bilal Ahmed Khan,Triptish Bhatia,Sheikh Shoib,Isahaque Ali,Unjum Bashir,Shabana Khursheed,Margaret Mcdonald,Mary E. Hawk,Smita Deshpande / Language(s): English Issue: 80/2023

In recent years mental health has emerged as a major health threat in low income countries like India. In response, mental health care has been integrated into primary health care, in turn creating a rising demand for trained and skillful mental health professionals. This study was conducted in district Budgam (J&K), India with the aim of providing training to community health workers (CHWs) and measuring the change using pre- and post-training evaluations. The pre and post tests were undertaken, assessing changes in mental health literacy at three different points of time: pre-training, post-training, and three month follow-up. Mental health literacy was assessed using the interviewer-administered Mental Health Literacy Survey. The training intervention was a five-day course based on a facilitator's manual developed specifically for community health workers in India. A total of 25 community health workers from rural areas of Budgam District (mostly Integrated Child Development Service supervisors), Health Educators and Anganwadi Workers, were engaged for the study. Findings demonstrate that the training course improved participants' ability to recognize any mental health disorders. There was a clear distinction between the level of awareness pre- and post- training. The results were statistically significant on various domains Ability to recognize disorders (Pre-post P= 0.001), Knowledge of the professional help available (Pre-post p= 0.000), Attitudes that promote the recognition or appropriate help-seeking behavior (Pre-post p= 0.000) (p<0.05). Further follow up after three months was done. The mixed findings from this study, suggesting the training course has potential to improve some aspects of mental health literacy among the CHWs, including their understanding of various mental health problems.

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Ethical and Legal Aspects of the Dispute Over the Legalization of Assisted Suicide in Italy in 2017-2022

Author(s): Andrzej Kobyliński / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The main purpose of the study undertaken in this paper is a synthetic presentation of the major stages of the dispute over the legalization of assisted suicide in Italy as well as an analysis of selected ethical and legal aspects related to this issue. Assisted suicide is medical and administrative aid provided to a person who has decided to take their own life. It differs from direct euthanasia in the fact that the final act of taking one’s own life, involving deliberate administration of the necessary substances is performed entirely by the patient themself without interference of any third parties. In 2017, the institution of the living will was introduced in Italy, which allows to make a declaration of intent for potential future loss of consciousness and ability to make decisions regarding one’s treatment and saving one’s life. In 2019, the Constitutional Court obliged the parliament to draft a law regulating the termination of life on request. In March 2022, the relevant provisions were voted in the Chamber of Deputies. They were then forwarded to the Senate. Ultimately, this bill was not passed, due to the collapse of the government in July 2022 and the dissolution of the parliament. The conducted analyses showed that the Italian ethical and legal dispute regarding the legalization of assisted suicide is an important element of the contemporary global debate, concerning, among others, medical ethics, value and quality of human life, conscience clause, ethical aspects of suffering and death.

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