Professional Self‐knowledge versus Social Justice: a critical analysis of the teacher‐researcher movement

1989 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaby Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Teacher Researcher ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Self Knowledge

“You’ve got to do something radical”

2021 ◽  
pp. 112-132
Author(s):  
Michael A. Messner
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intergenerational Dialogue ◽  
New Generation

The final chapter touches back on the stories of veteran activists Wendy Barranco, Phoenix Johnson, Monique Salhab, Monisha Ríos, Stephen Funk, and Brittany Ramos DeBarros to consider the future of Veterans For Peace and About Face within the larger field of national and international movements for peace and social justice. The chapter touches on the state of the current intergenerational dialogue taking place in these organizations, and ends with a critical analysis of how the intersectional praxis of a new generation of progressive activists holds the promise of bridging the struggle against militarism and war with other large issues of the day, including climate change, global pandemics, and the continuing violence of economic, racial, gender, and sexual injustice.

What is to be done about capability-promoting policies?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Uwe Otto ◽  
Melanie Walker ◽  
Holger Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Critical Social Science

This book has examined how the capability approach provides a politically normative metric for the critical analysis of policies and public policy structures, as well as policy interventions driven by human development or human security concerns. It has demonstrated that existing social structures and institutions play a key role in the realisation of capabilities or the feasibility of human flourishing. This chapter summarises the book's main arguments and considers new principles and aspirations towards capability-promoting policy. It argues that an alliance with the tradition of critical social science may ‘secure’ the capabilities approach, with its analytic focus on real-world conditions and requirements for renegotiating social justice and creating more capabilities-promoting policies, and vice versa. Capability-promoting policies include emancipatory and democratic strategies that transform unjust structures in order to enhance the agency of individual subjects in terms of human flourishing.

‘Like an ox yoke’: Challenging the intrinsic virtuousness of a grassroots social movement

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna L. Chollett
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Hierarchical Control ◽  
Sugar Mill ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Models Of Democracy

Since the 1980s, neoliberal globalization fostered an upsurge of grassroots social movements in Latin America that sought alternatives to increasing poverty and social exclusion. Social movement scholars often interpret these movements as morally noble models of democracy given their claims to social justice and equity. My research examines the forced seizure of a closed Mexican sugar mill and establishment of a cooperative, worker-run factory by a grassroots movement whose cultural politics aimed at creating more democratic processes. Yet in 2009, after 11 years of success, movement leaders declared the mill bankrupt and shut it down. The façade of unity presented by activists obscured internal divisions and hierarchical control that beleaguered the movement. I argue that a more nuanced and critical analysis that takes into consideration the contradictions and paradoxes that may be present in grassroots struggles reframes essentialist conceptions regarding the intrinsic virtuousness of grassroots social movements.

Performance of Possibilities: A Critical Analysis of Audience Responses to Pipaashaa by Ananya Dance Theatre

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (S1) ◽  
pp. 225-236
Author(s):  
Hui Niu Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Girls Of Color ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Critical Discourses

This paper critically analyzes audience responses to Ananya Dance Theatre's work Pipaashaa: Extreme Thirst. Ananya Dance Theater intervenes in colorblind racial politics through casting only women and girls of color. Different responses by audiences of different social locations constitute critical discourses about race and social justice—catalysts for personal and social transformation. An examination of the discourse around Pipaashaa demonstrates that materiality of both performing and viewing bodies are important factors in creating meaningful art that envisions and inspires change.

The Role of Culture in Music and Medicine: Considerations to Enhance Health

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Sue Baines
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Treatment Modalities

The expression and understanding of culture is relative to time and social context as individuals and groups within cultures struggle to negotiate the substance and implication of specific cultures [1]. Music and medicine are culturally derived as is the intersection between music and medicine, which at times can be integrated disciplines while at other times they may fester as disconnected treatment modalities. Analyzing the role of culture in music and medicine can reveal unique possibilities that may serve to enhance health.Keywords: cultural competence, anti-oppresive practice, social justice, feminist, critical analysis, research, ethical, music therapy,health initiativesSpanishEl Rol de la Cultura en Musica y Medicina : Consideraciones para Mejorar la SaludLa expresión y la comprensión de la cultura es relativa al tiempo y al contexto social que, como individuos y grupos dentro de las mismas, luchan para negociar la esencia e implicaciones de culturas específicas (1). La música y la medicina derivan de la cultura y la intersección entre ambas puede a veces integrar estas disciplinas, mientras que en otras ocasiones pueden ser modalidades de tratamiento totalmente desconectadas. Analizar el rol de la cultural en la música y en la medicina puede revelar posibilidades únicas que pueden servir para mejorar la salud.GermanDie Rolle der Kultur in Musik und Medizin: Betrachtungen zur Verbesserung von GesundheitAusdruck und Verständnis von Kultur ist bedingt durch die Zeit und den sozialen Kontext,  in dem Individuen und Gruppen innerhalb einer Kultur damit kämpfen,  Inhalt und Begleiterscheinungen bestimmter Kulturen zu überwinden. (1) Musik und Medizin sind, wie die Schnittstelle zwischen Musik und Medizin, kulturell abgeleitet; sie können manchmal integrierte Disziplinen sein, während sie zu anderen Zeiten als unvereinbare Behandlungsmodalitäten verwesen. Die Analyse der Rolle von Kultur in Musik und Medizin kann einzigartige Möglichkeiten zutage bringen, die dazu dienen, die Gesundheit zu verbessern.ItalianIl ruolo della Cultura nella Musica e nella MedicinaL’espressione e la comprensione della cultura è relativa al tempo e al contesto  sociale per quanto individui e gruppi all’interno delle culture lottano per negoziare la sostanza e l’implicazione di culture specifiche.(1).C’è un intersezione tra musica e medicina. Musica e medicina sono culturalmente derivate. A volte musica e medicina possono essere discipline  integrate e a volte diventano due modalità di trattamento disconnessi. Analizzare il ruolo della cultura nella musica e nella medicina può rivelare possibilità uniche che potrebbero servire a migliorare la salute. Japanese音楽医療における文化の役割：健康促進に関する考察Sue Bainesスー・ベインズ文化的表現およびその理解は、時間や社会的コンテクストに関連している。すなわち、文化における個や集団が、特定の文化の本質や影響について折衷することは大変難しい (1)。音楽医療とは、文化と共に発生した分野であり、音楽と医療の横断領域といえる。これは、統合領域とみなされることもあれば、二つの全く異なる治療方法と捉えられることもある。音楽医療の文化的役割を分析することを通して、健康増進に寄与する独自の可能性を検証する。  

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