Well Being is a Social Challenge These days I have quite a number of friends who live alone and for a number of reasons like it that way. However, the challenges of old age, retirement and loneliness … [Read more...] about Well Being is a Social Challenge
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Compensation as Dehumanising Persons
Whilst Safety counts injuries the workers compensation system multiplies them. This is the stark reality of what the worker’s compensation system in Australia does to people. The special investigation … [Read more...] about Compensation as Dehumanising Persons
Ecological Resiliencing
Resilience is not something one has or achieves as if it can be ‘engineered’. The idea that resilience can be ‘engineered’ is a nonsense. Resiliencing is an ongoing ecological state of social meaning, … [Read more...] about Ecological Resiliencing
Transdisciplinarity and Worldviews in Risk
‘We do not think of the ordinary person as preoccupied with such difficult and profound questions as: ‘What is truth?’, ‘What is authority?’, ‘To whom do I listen?’, ‘What counts for me as evidence?’, … [Read more...] about Transdisciplinarity and Worldviews in Risk
Why Resilience Cannot be Engineered
‘A social and community psychology of resilience is needed if we are to understand why many of us are not always able to preserve well-being and sustain our progress toward the goals we have … [Read more...] about Why Resilience Cannot be Engineered
An Social Ecology of Resilience
An Social Ecology of Resilience There are some word combinations we ought to be suspicious of, here are some: · Fast Food · Reckless Safety · Machine Learning · Human Factors · Resilience … [Read more...] about An Social Ecology of Resilience
