The Engineer in the Face of Social Changes: The Cases of Health and Sustainability at Work

Diagnosis and treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma introduce a new routine, and the habitual life of the young adult is interrupted because the treatment imposes on patients withdrawing from their environment, their productive activities, their relatives and their daily life. The aim of the present is study is to understand the reality of the young adult carrier of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the face of treatment. This is a qualitative study; subjects were patients diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at a reference hospital in northeastern Brazil. Inclusion criteria were being undergoing treatment or follow-up of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and aged 18 to 35 years. The information was collected through an interview at the home of each subject in the period from August and September 2015. The interviews were recorded, transcribed in full and analyzed through thematic analysis. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee. The subjects went through a rather individual pathway to discover the disease. After reading the interviews, the following category emerged: Impact and changes in life with cancer. They feel the impact of cancer and of the process of illness and treatment that promote physical and social changes. They reveal the coping of the disease with liveliness, and present strategies for this process, such as the support of family and friends. They recognize the existence of difficult moments and face situations of death, but they show intention to return to their daily activities and have perspectives for cure.

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GLOBAL SETTLEMENT: THE FATE OF LOCALITY IN RELATION TO MODERN SOCIAL LIFE IN DAGESTAN

History Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus ◽

10.32653/ch154769-782 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 769-782

Author(s):

Ekaterina L. Kapustina

Keyword(s):

Labor Migration ◽

Social Life ◽

Alternative View ◽

Social Changes ◽

Global Village ◽

The World ◽

The Face ◽

The Republic ◽

The Village ◽

Physical Locality

The article performs the current discussion of such categories as local and global in modern anthropology and suggests the option of using categories for the modern sociocultural reality of Dagestan society. The positions of leading researchers, deconstructing the concepts of “locality” and “community”, offering an alternative view of a traditional society rooted in a particular place, are demonstrated. Deterritorized societies in the face of significant social changes in the world (migration, including transnational and translocal, as well as the process of globalization) are becoming a new form of social interaction, where physical locality gives way to other categories linking people into relevant communities. In relation to the Dagestan realities, it is proposed to consider local deterritized societies through the prism of the conceptual metaphor “global village”. The factors contributing to the formation of such deterritorialized communities are shown. It is also shown the example of such a community - the village of Bezhta situated on the bordeland with the Republic of Georgia. A look at the complex of physical localities united by belonging to this mountain village (the village itself, resettlement villages on the plain of Dagestan, families located outside the republic in labor migration and living a translocal life, and also to a lesser extent the village of Chantliskuri in Georgia) as version of the "global village".

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Anthropogenic impacts on Late Holocene land-cover change and floristic biodiversity loss in tropical southeastern Asia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.2022210118 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 118 (40) ◽

pp. e2022210118 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zhuo Zheng ◽

Ting Ma ◽

Patrick Roberts ◽

Zhen Li ◽

Yuanfu Yue ◽

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Keyword(s):

Late Holocene ◽

Southern China ◽

Anthropogenic Impacts ◽

Biodiversity Loss ◽

Freshwater Wetland ◽

Social Changes ◽

Rice Agriculture ◽

Human Land Use ◽

Key Species ◽

The Face

Southern China and Southeast Asia witnessed some of their most significant economic and social changes relevant to human land use during the Late Holocene, including the intensification and spread of rice agriculture. Despite rice growth being associated with a number of earth systems impacts, how these changes transformed tropical vegetation in this region of immense endemic biodiversity remains poorly understood. Here, we compile a pollen dataset incorporating ∼150,000 identifications and 233 pollen taxa to examine past changes in floral biodiversity, together with a compilation of records of forest decline across the region using 14 pollen records spanning lowland to mountain sites. Our results demonstrate that the rise of intensive rice agriculture from approximately 2,000 y ago led not only to extensive deforestation but also to remarkable changes of vegetation composition and a reduction in arboreal diversity. Focusing specifically on the Tertiary relic tree species, the freshwater wetland conifer Glyptostrobus (Glyptostrobus pensilis), we demonstrate how key species that had survived changing environmental conditions across millions of years shrank in the face of paddy rice farming and human disturbance.

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Christian women’s movements in secularizing and diversifying contexts: a case study from Belgium

Women and Religion ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447336358.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 117-133

Author(s):

Nella van den Brandt

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Western Europe ◽

Women's History ◽

Women's Movements ◽

The Political ◽

Social Changes ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Catholic Women ◽

The Face

This chapter considers the case of Flanders. In Flanders, Christian women's movements belonging to Catholic civil society used to draw a large following and were able to contribute to the political, religious, and social emancipation of Catholic women throughout Belgium. Today, however, these Christian women's movements face declining membership and the need to ‘reinvent’ themselves according to contemporary times and women's needs. Looking at how a movement that is constitutive of Christian women's history in Flanders rethinks its self-presentation, the chapter aims to generate important insights, both descriptive and normative, into the role and place of Christian feminism and Christian women's movements in the face of social changes that take place across Western Europe.

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Literacy, Advocacy and Agency: The Campaign for Political Recognition of Dyslexia in Britain (1962–1997)

Social History of Medicine ◽

10.1093/shm/hkz030 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Philip Kirby

Keyword(s):

Learning Difficulties ◽

Civil Servants ◽

Social Changes ◽

Complex Interplay ◽

The Face ◽

History Of ◽

Power And Agency ◽

Political Economic ◽

Productive Worker

Summary This article charts the campaign for political recognition of dyslexia in Britain, focusing on the period from 1962 when concerted interest in the topic began. Through the Word Blind Centre for Dyslexic Children (1963–72), and the organisations that followed, it shows how dyslexia gradually came to be institutionalised, often in the face of government intransigence. The article shows how this process is best conceived as a complex interplay of groups, including advocates, researchers, civil servants and politicians of varying political stripes. Necessarily, the campaign was mediated through broader political, economic and social changes, including the increasing requirement for literacy in the productive worker, but it is not reducible to these factors. In this way, the article reflects on the conceptualisation of power and agency in accounts of the history of dyslexia to date and its broader relevance to the history of learning difficulties and disabilities.

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Contemporary Sri Lankan Buddhist Traditions

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.013.28 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Mahinda Deegalle

Keyword(s):

Primary Sources ◽

Sri Lankan ◽

Social Changes ◽

Human Flourishing ◽

Cultural Elements ◽

Buddhist Tradition ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Face ◽

Historical Developments ◽

The Impact

This chapter introduces the longest surviving living Buddhist tradition in the world. It outlines specific features of historical developments of the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist heritage. Dramatic historical and contemporary adaptations, made in response to the realities of political and social changes, are discussed by taking into account vernacular sources and archaeological research. A wide range of doctrinal and sociopolitical perspectives, along with Buddhist beliefs and practices, is examined by considering the incorporation of Hindu deities and Mahayana cultural elements. It notes European/Western encounters that produced radical developments in lifestyle and Buddhist ideology. The impact of civil war is briefly discussed, along with Marxist political groups such as the Janatha Vimukti Peramuna (JVP). Contemporary political and renewal movements within the tradition, such as the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) and the Bodu Bala Sena, are investigated on the basis of primary sources. Challenges that living traditions face in the face of modernity, globalization, and secularism are examined by highlighting that Buddhism still inspires and guides for human flourishing.

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A Conservative Party? Pots and People in the Hebridean Neolithic

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society ◽

10.1017/ppr.2018.12 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 84 ◽

pp. 257-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mike Copper ◽

Ian Armit

Keyword(s):

Conservative Party ◽

Recent Analysis ◽

Social Changes ◽

Small Communities ◽

Farming Communities ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Adaptive Capabilities ◽

Initial Appearance ◽

The Face

Recent analysis of the ceramic assemblage from the Neolithic loch islet settlement of Eilean Dòmhnuill, North Uist, in the Western Isles of Scotland has highlighted the intense conservatism of the potting traditions over a period of more than 800 years. Hebridean Neolithic pottery exhibits clear relationships with pottery from Argyll, Arran, and Bute, as well as Orkney and the north-east mainland of Scotland. It appears to have developed a distinctive, often decoratively elaborate regional form very soon after its initial appearance, which subsequently appears to have undergone little or no significant change until the introduction of Grooved Ware in the early 3rd millenniumbc. An association exists between large assemblages of elaborately decorated Hebridean pottery and a number of artificial islets in freshwater lochs, some very small and producing little or no evidence for domestic activities. This might be explained by the importance of commensality in mediating relations between small communities in the Western Isle at such sites following the introduction of agriculture in the 2nd quarter of the 4th millenniumbc. The conservatism and stasis evident at Eilean Dòmhnuill, in the face of environmental decline, raises wider issues around the adaptive capabilities of the first farming communities prior to significant social changes in the earlier 3rd millenniumbc.

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Creative Destruction and the Social (Re) Construction of Heritage

International Journal of Cultural Property ◽

10.1017/s0940739120000120 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 215-237

Author(s):

Erica Avrami

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Economic Value ◽

Creative Destruction ◽

Social Consequences ◽

Historical Narrative ◽

Social Changes ◽

History And Memory ◽

Economic Concept ◽

Coastal Sea ◽

The Face

AbstractIn an era when war, acts of terror, and the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change loom large in the public conscience, the conservation community is grappling with the associated loss of the historic built environment and potential responses. But the built environment—at least some aspects of it—is becoming progressively obsolete due to environmental and social changes. Coastal sea-level rise, inefficient resource and land use, and the role of the built environment in perpetuating social exclusion raise questions about the potential value of destruction and the opportunities it affords for reframing spatial memory and historical narrative in more just and sustainable ways. The heritage field’s preoccupation with the physical, place-based fabric will be challenged in the face of this obsolescence, compelling a reexamination of attitudes toward destruction and reconstruction. This article borrows loosely from Joseph Schumpeter’s economic concept of creative destruction to explore the ways in which both innovation and new lenses on history and memory may be borne of change, loss, and obsolescence. Using the discourse surrounding past and contemporary North American cases, it examines some fundamental ideas regarding capital in the built environment and the economic value of destruction. It also explores the negative social consequences of destruction and the historical influence cum perspective of the heritage enterprise and posits potentially positive values and opportunities engendered through destruction. Finally, it reimagines how approaches to reconstruction by the heritage field may contribute to more socially just and sustainable futures.

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Repression and endurance: anathematized Hindu and Sikh women of Afghanistan

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1080/00905992.2016.1153613 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 628-645

Author(s):

Hafizullah Emadi

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Political Process ◽

Religious Life ◽

Religious Communities ◽

The Political ◽

Religious Leaders ◽

Social Changes ◽

Daily Lives ◽

The Social ◽

The Face

Hindus and Sikhs, longtime minority religious communities in Afghanistan, have played a major role in the social, cultural, and economic development of the country. Their history in Afghanistan has not been faithfully documented nor relayed beyond the country's borders by their resident educated strata or religious leaders, rendering them virtually invisible and voiceless within and outside of their country borders. The situation of Hindu and Sikh women in Afghanistan is significantly more marginalized socially and politically. Gender equality and women's rights were central to the teachings of Guru Nanak, but gradually became irrelevant to the daily lives of his followers in Afghanistan. Hindu and Sikh women have sustained their hope for change and seized any opportunity presented to play a role in the process. Active participants in the social, cultural, and religious life of their respective communities as well as in Afghanistan's government, their contributions to social changes and the political process have gone mostly unnoticed and undocumented as their rights, equality, and standing in the domestic and public arena in Afghanistan continue to erode in the face of continuous discrimination and harassment.

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Systematic racist violence in Russia between ‘hate crime’ and ‘ethnic conflict’

Theoretical Criminology ◽

10.1177/1362480615581102 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 239-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Richard Arnold

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Ethnic Conflict ◽

Hate Crime ◽

Hate Speech ◽

Social Changes ◽

The West ◽

Hate Groups ◽

The Face ◽

Russian Politics ◽

High Level

Racist violence in Russia has recently become a subject of interest to scholars and analysts of Russian politics. What are the similarities and differences between racist violence in Russia and the West? How does the level of Russian racist violence compare to other societies? Do racist hate groups in Russia have similar origins to groups in the West? This article considers these questions. I first demonstrate that Russia is indeed the most dangerous country in Europe for ethnic minorities, and argue that such violence is more ‘systematic’ (structured, ideologically coherent, patterned) than in other developed societies. The high level of violence against ethnic minorities in Russia is ‘over-determined’ by a combination of post-Soviet social and economic social changes, the brutalizing consequences of a long counter-insurgency campaign, and government passivity (and sometimes complicity) in the face of racist violence and hate speech. Thus, Russia’s systematic racist violence is analytically closer to outright ethnic conflict than to a form of criminal deviance that could aptly be termed ‘hate crime’.

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