What is a pop-up store and how can it be used for organisational counterspacing? The pop-up can be interpreted as a fashionable and hypermodern platform focusing on the needs of a younger generation of consumers that searches for new experiences and is prone to ad hoc decision-making. From this perspective, the pop-up is a typical expression of the experience economy. But it is more. The ephemeral pop-up store, usually lasting from one day to six months, is also a spatial practice on the boundary between place as something stable/univocal and space as something transitory/polyphonic. Organizational theory has criticized the idea of a stable place and proposed the concept of spacing with a focus on the becoming of space. In this article, the pop-up store is introduced as a fashionable intervention into organizational spacing. It suggests a complementary perspective to non-representational theory and frames the pop-up as co-actor engaging everyday users in appropriating space. Drawing on Lefebvre’s notions of differential space, festival and evental moment, theory is revisited and then operationalized in two pop-up store experiments. Apart from contributing to the ongoing theoretical exploration of the spacing concept, this article aims to inspire differential pop-up practices in organisations. https://www.linkedin.com/in/overdiek12345/
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Elke van Buggenhout (muzikant; piano-improvisatie & muziektherapeut) en Bert van den Bergh (filosoof & psycholoog) vatten in het voetspoor van fenomenologische benaderingen depressie op als een verstoring van de elementaire afstemming tussen (in)dividu, wereld en ander. Het fenomeen depressie voert in die opvatting naar de bodem van de menselijke existentie en zodoende naar het hart van onze hedendaagse cultuur. In dit licht verbinden zij een oneigentijds muziektheoretisch perspectief met kritische muziekfilosofische duidingen van onze westerse muziekcultuur. Voorts slaan zij een brug naar cultuurtheoretische interpretaties van onze laatmoderne cultuur als geheel, die op verschillende wijzen en in diverse sferen grondig ‘ont-stemd’ kan heten. Zij doen dit alles uitgebreid in een binnenkort te verschijnen essay, waarvan in dit artikel de hoofdgedachten zijn gevat.
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Through the commodification of nature, the framing of the environment as a ‘natural resource’ or ‘ecosystem service’ has become increasingly prominent in international environmental governance. The economic capture approach is promoted by international organizations such as the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). This paper will inquire as to how forest protection is related to issues of social and ecological justice, exploring whether forest exploitation based on the top-down managerial model fosters an unequitable distribution of resources. Both top-down and community-based approaches to forest protection will be critically examined and a more inclusive ethical framework to forest protection will be offered. The findings of this examination indicate the need for a renewed focus on existing examples of good practice in addressing both social and ecological need, as well as the necessity to address the less comfortable problem of where compromise appears less possible. The conclusion argues for the need to consider ecological justice as an important aspect of more socially orientated environmental justice for forest protection. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892916000436 https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenkopnina/
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