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An assessment of contemporary global preparedness monitoring. This book presents an encompassing understanding of the practice of monitoring, measuring, and assessing how well countries have prepared for a pandemic. It explains the much-discussed failure of preparedness monitoring in the COVID-19 pandemic and the paradoxical introduction of even more preparedness monitoring in the moment of its obvious failure. Combining unique ethnographic observations and document analysis, this research allows us to understand the power relations that inform preparedness governance, the contradictive politics of accountability, and the developmental project and specific soft-law character of preparedness monitoring. The study questions the modernism inherent in infrastructural thinking, be it in the practice of preparedness monitoring or the study's infrastructural analytics derived from science and technology studies and actor-network theory.

A new edition of sociologist Gabriele Rosenthal's classic 1995 work on phenomenology and Gestalt theory. How do people narrate events in their life stories and the history of their family or families? How are narratives and experiences in the present related to experiences and narratives in the past? In this foundational work by sociologist Gabriele Rosenthal, he answers these questions with a theoretical and empirical study of the interconnections between remembering, experiencing, and presenting what was experienced at different points of the life course and of the associated collective histories. He also discusses rules for conducting interviews that support processes of remembering and for carrying out an analysis that does justice to this dialectic. This edition contains a new introduction and a new chapter that explores the later expansion of Rosenthal's approach to sociological biographical research, reflecting the inspiration she took from the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias. With its analysis of the complex relationships between experiencing, remembering, and presenting, Experienced Life and Narrated Life Story makes an important contribution to the theoretical foundations of biographical research.

How best to adapt established companies to a rapidly changing economy has long been a topic of debate in both the corporate and academic worlds. This challenge is especially pressing for large organizations that may have grown top-heavy and rigid with time but now need to be light on their feet to stay relevant and profitable.Until now, the best attempts have consisted of plucking tools and methods from the world of start-ups and applying them wholesale in large corporate environments. Most of these efforts have either fizzled or failed outright because they lacked a framework for a comprehensive corporation-sized rollout.»The Loop Approach« introduces a new series of methods that could help change the course of operations for even the most colossal organizations. Sebastian Klein and Ben Hughes provide a wide-ranging set of guidelines for achieving corporate agility, complete with checklists and worksheets that should prove instantly applicable. Want proof? The methods outlined in »The Loop Approach« have already been successfully implemented at such European corporate giants as Audi, Deutsche Bahn, and Telekom.