scholarly journals Collective Healing to Address Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery: Opportunities and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Scherto R. Gill ◽  
Garrett Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Harmful Effects ◽  
Acts 2 ◽  
Healing Processes

In this article, we show how pathways to justice and reconciliation pertaining to the transatlantic slavery should begin with collective healing processes. To illustrate this conclusion, we first employ a four-fold conceptual framework for understanding collective healing that consists in: (1) acknowledging historical dehumanizing acts; (2) addressing the harmful effects of dehumanisation; (3) embracing relational rapprochement; and (4) co-imagining and co-creating conditions for systemic justice. Based on this framework, we then examine existing collective healing practices in different contexts that are aimed at addressing legacies of transatlantic slavery. In doing so, we further identify challenges and pose critical questions concerning such practices. While globally there are, and have been, many different kinds of racism and slavery, and even though transatlantic slavery has many features specific to it, nevertheless, we hope that this exploration of collective healing will be illuminating for other situations where acts of brutality have served to demean and dehumanize.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 211-221
Author(s):  
Hussein Ali Abdulsater
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Recent Scholarship

Murtaḍā’s theology is assessed to gauge its debt to Muʿtazilism, with reference to the findings above. Its contribution to the consolidation of Imami Shiʿi identity is likewise examined, with the aim of tracing the scope and duration of his influence. The interaction of cosmology, ethics and theology is investigated, particularly where they converge to answer critical questions of human experience. The dynamics of this interaction thus serve as a basis for classifying Murtaḍā’s doctrinal system in light of his cultural milieu and with reference to recent scholarship. As such, the monograph serves to deepen readers’ understanding of Islamic intellectual history writ large and to depict a particularly influential conceptual framework from within the parameters of religious faith as shaped by sectarian identities.

scholarly journals Collective Healing: Towards a Conceptual Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Garrett Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Mass Atrocity ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Healing Processes

To understand what kind of collective healing practices might be most effective following mass atrocity, we need to comprehend better what counts as collective healing, and in what ways group healing processes differ from individual ones. We need clear and well-argued answers to these conceptual questions as a basis for deriving the criteria by which we might evaluate various practices in different contexts. Because means are valuable only in relation to ends, judging their effectiveness requires a definition of the ends in question and what is good about them. So, what counts as a good collective healing process? This conceptual paper proposes that the concept of healing requires that of being wounded, which in turn requires the idea that some agent performed dehumanizing actions. It identifies dehumanization as a serious form of harm, and characterizes the nature of healing processes based on this analysis. It then describes the group nature of mass atrocities. These four points enable us to separate different kinds of healing processes that are normally conflated and begin to provide a framework for evaluating diverse collective healing processes.

scholarly journals Social media literacy: A conceptual framework

2022 ◽  
pp. 146144482110685
Author(s):  
Hyunyi Cho ◽  
Julie Cannon ◽  
Rachel Lopez ◽  
Wenbo Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Common Content ◽  
Harmful Effects

Concerns over the harmful effects of social media have directed public attention to media literacy as a potential remedy. Current conceptions of media literacy are frequently based on mass media, focusing on the analysis of common content and evaluation of the content using common values. This article initiates a new conceptual framework of social media literacy (SoMeLit). Moving away from the mass media-based assumptions of extant approaches, SoMeLit centers on the user’s self in social media that is in dynamic causation with their choices of messages and networks. The foci of analysis in SoMeLit, therefore, are one’s selections and values that influence and are influenced by the construction of one’s reality on social media; and the evolving characteristics of social media platforms that set the boundaries of one’s social media reality construction. Implications of the new components and dimensions of SoMeLit for future research, education, and action are discussed.

scholarly journals Supply chain design: Some critical questions

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Nel ◽  
J. A. Badenhorst-Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
South African ◽  
Supply Chain Design ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Key Questions

Effective supply chain management (SCM) requires organisations to work together in order to satisfy the needs of their end customers. Since organisations have to determine which processes and relationships will best achieve this aim, the design of their supply chains is important. Supply chain design thus forms an integral part of SCM and embodies the supply chain's structure. Unfortunately, too many organisations allow the design of their supply chain to evolve into its current form instead of planning their supply chain design (SCD) efforts. The literature is vague on what SCD efforts constitute. This article consists of a comprehensive literature study in which an effort was made to bring more clarity on exactly what purposeful SCD efforts consist of, and some key questions were formulated that organisations could use as a guide in their SCD practices. From these critical questions a conceptual framework has been developed that can be used to determine whether organisations' SCD practices are aligned with organisational objectives. The conceptual framework was tested at two South African organisations to determine if it indeed can be be used to analyse the SCD practices of organisations.

scholarly journals Kosmoteologi Islam Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
Moh. Helmi Umam
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Religious People ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
Epistemological Dimension ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Harmful Effects

<p>Environmental issues are critical questions about what will happen to the Earth in the future. Critical, because everyone agrees that humans’ behavior is bad implications for the future of the earth. Evils caused by obsession and ambition of development, deterioration due to residues of rationality and technology development, to the harmful effects of the practice of politics and the state. Although not considered to contribute directly, religious people are called and aware as people who share the responsibility of the crucial questions about the environment. Is the religion concerned with the environment, whether religion actually indifferent and become part of the destroyers of the environment? This is the urgency of reviewing the issue of Islamic Cosmo-theology as a new epistemological dimension of divinity juxtaposing religion with the study of the universe.</p>

Evaluating research in developmental disabilities: a conceptual framework for reviewing treatment outcomes

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene Butler ◽  
Henry Chambers ◽  
Murray Goldstein ◽  
Susan Harris ◽  
Judy Leach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Treatment Outcomes

Understanding Why Older People Develop a Wish to Die

Crisis ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Rurup ◽  
H. R. W. Pasman ◽  
J. Goedhart ◽  
D. J. H. Deeg ◽  
A. J. F. M. Kerkhof ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Cohort Studies ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Traumatic Life Events ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Wish To Die ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
Death Wishes ◽  
Depth Interviews

Background: Quantitative studies in several European countries showed that 10–20% of older people have or have had a wish to die. Aims: To improve our understanding of why some older people develop a wish to die. Methods: In-depth interviews with people with a wish to die (n = 31) were carried out. Through open coding and inductive analysis, we developed a conceptual framework to describe the development of death wishes. Respondents were selected from two cohort studies. Results: The wish to die had either been triggered suddenly after traumatic life events or had developed gradually after a life full of adversity, as a consequence of aging or illness, or after recurring depression. The respondents were in a situation they considered unacceptable, yet they felt they had no control to change their situation and thus progressively “gave up” trying. Recurring themes included being widowed, feeling lonely, being a victim, being dependent, and wanting to be useful. Developing thoughts about death as a positive thing or a release from problems seemed to them like a way to reclaim control. Conclusions: People who wish to die originally develop thoughts about death as a positive solution to life events or to an adverse situation, and eventually reach a balance of the wish to live and to die.

Low-level lead exposure: Are there harmful effects?

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-79
Author(s):  
Claire B. Ernhart
Keyword(s):  
Lead Exposure ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Harmful Effects
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