Therapeutic Pluralism and the Process of Change

This article examines Nancy Huston's writing of female ageing in light of her intellectual and personal trajectory as a feminist thinker. It identifies women's ageing as an integrative and ubiquitous phenomenon in Huston's œuvre, tracing the presence of this thematic and theoretical concern to her very first published works, and outlining its development until her most recent works, before examining a key instance of her fictional treatment of female ageing in Lignes de faille. Drawing on a literary, philosophical and sociological theoretical framework, it argues that Huston furthers feminist approaches to female senescence by inscribing women's experiences of later life not in terms of existential crisis but rather as part of the continuous process of change and transformation inherent to subjective development. The analysis aims to address pressing questions surrounding the intersections of gender and age that are at the forefront of Huston criticism and feminist studies.

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A Narrative Inquiry on the Process of Change in Active Duty Soldier’s Ego-Identity through His Experience of Counseling Specializing in Military Life

Korean Association for Qualitative Inquiry ◽

10.30940/jqi.2020.6.3.419 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 419-456

Author(s):

Hana Lee ◽

Jagyoung Koo

Keyword(s):

Narrative Inquiry ◽

Active Duty ◽

Ego Identity ◽

Process Of Change ◽

Military Life

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Managing Decentralization: The Strategy of Institutional Differentiation in German Industrial Relations

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/104503099782486770 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 52-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wolfgang Schroeder ◽

Rainer Weinert

Keyword(s):

Collective Bargaining ◽

Welfare State ◽

Social Organization ◽

Industrial Relations ◽

Collective Bargaining Agreement ◽

The Political ◽

Process Of Change ◽

Social Democratic ◽

Institutional Differentiation ◽

The Welfare State

The approach of the new millennium appears to signal the demiseof traditional models of social organization. The political core ofthis process of change—the restructuring of the welfare state—andthe related crisis of the industrywide collective bargaining agreementhave been subjects of much debate. For some years now inspecialist literature, this debate has been conducted between theproponents of a neo-liberal (minimally regulated) welfare state andthe supporters of a social democratic model (highly regulated). Thealternatives are variously expressed as “exit vs. voice,” “comparativeausterity vs. progressive competitiveness,” or “deregulation vs.cooperative re-regulation.”

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Islamic Law and Political Ideology

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences ◽

10.35632/ajiss.v33i1.246 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 52-66

Author(s):

Nesya Shemer

Keyword(s):

Political Ideology ◽

Islamic Law ◽

The West ◽

Process Of Change ◽

Muslim Scholar ◽

Methodological Principles

This article suggests a new way of looking at the preeminent methodological principles informing the oeuvre of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the greatest Muslim scholar of our generation, specificallywith regard to his rulings for and about Muslims living in Europe.The case study presented here is taken from the field of Muslimprayer law, a field that has to date been subjected to very little research.By comparing the discussions of classical Muslim scholarson the topic with the new interpretations proffered by al-Qaradawi,one can notice the process of change undergone by the Shari‘ahconcerning prayer under extraordinary circumstances from Islam’searly days down to the present. We can also see how his politicaloutlooks have influenced his ruling on this issue and the discussionthereof among Muslims who do not reside in the West.

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