Eminently Social Spirituality

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Brian Steensland ◽  
Jaime Kucinskas ◽  
Anna Sun
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Institutional Relations ◽  
Second Wave

This introductory chapter sets up the volume’s themes and contributions. The first section outlines contemporary interest in spirituality and argues that current approaches to understanding contemporary spirituality are insufficient. The next section outlines what we call “first wave” scholarship on spirituality that, beginning in the 1990s, documented the society-wide shift toward spirituality. We then outline the elements of “second wave” spirituality that our volume represents. Thematically, our analytic framework views spirituality as eminently social and its meaning as fundamentally relational. The next three sections highlight how spirituality, both as lived experience and as analytic category, is always influenced by social (national, political, religious, etc.) context; how spirituality is undergirded by collective practices and serves as a resource for pragmatic problem-solving; and how it is influenced by power dynamics and institutional relations. We close with an overview of each chapter collected in the volume.

Studying Political Consumerism

2018 ◽  
pp. xvi-24
Author(s):  
Magnus Boström ◽  
Michele Micheletti ◽  
Peter Oosterveer
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Political Consumerism ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Geographic Spread ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Industry Sectors ◽  
Major Industry

The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism addresses the study of political consumerism. It discusses how production and consumption affect broader societal affairs at home and abroad, and how the phenomenon of political consumerism has developed in different directions—geographically, conceptually, and methodologically—and in multiple sectors, at multiple levels, and involving multiple disciplines. Its varieties create challenges for scholars to make sense of the phenomenon. Critical questions arise about its appropriate conceptual framing and methodologies. This introductory chapter defines and elaborates upon political consumerism and its four forms (boycotts, buycotts, discursive actions, and lifestyle endeavors). It offers an overview of the Handbook’s six thematic parts: political consumerism’s history, its theory and research design, its presence in major industry sectors, its global geographic spread and practice, its democratic paradoxes and challenges, and its problem-solving potential. This chapter also provides summaries and reviews of the Handbook’s thirty-nine chapters.

Intersectionality and Psychotherapy with an Eye to Clinical and Professional Ethics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suryia Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
The Individual

Clinical and professional ethics is primarily an issue of power. Born out of the historical anti-racist, anti-sexist, and class struggles of women of color, intersectionality is a theory and method for actively attending to issues of power, which function through social constructions of difference and diversity. Whilst intersectionality is not a form of psychotherapy, it provides a framework of thinking and practice that explicitly addresses the mutually constitutive relationship between social contexts of inequality due to divisions based on difference and the psychological impact of inhabiting divisive contexts. It is incumbent upon psychotherapy to provide forms of therapeutic interventions that offer insight and recovery from destructive fragmentary ways of being. The value of intersectionality is that it explicitly names and foregrounds the issue of social inequality and unequal power relations. Furthermore, intersectionality encompasses specific reference to the play of power dynamics arising from context. Intersectionality locates the (re)production of identity in the conditions of context; thereby resisting reductionist formulations of mental distress, which stigmatize individuals and groups. The importance of emphasizing location or context enables a repositioning of shame and blame from the individual to the situations they inhabit. If the experience of oppression is intersectional, it could be argued that an ethical position for psychotherapy is an intersectional position. Significantly, the Black feminist historical roots of intersectionality enable a psychosocial therapeutic approach that foregrounds the political dimension of the lived experience of inequality and insists that there is nothing neutral about the psychosocial experience of oppression.

Having a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder in a forensic setting: a qualitative exploration

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Jade Lovell ◽  
Gillian Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Forensic Setting

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the lived experience of having a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in a forensic setting. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight women with a diagnosis of BPD in private secure units. The interview data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Findings – Four main themes emerged: identity, power, protection and containment, and confusion. The themes of identity, power and protection and containment represented polarised positions which in turn contributed to the theme of confusion. Research limitations/implications – There are limitations to this study mainly the heterogeneous nature of the sample. However, good quality control and the similarities with previous findings indicate that this study makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of BPD in a forensic setting. In addition it has implications for further research; exploring sense of self and the differences between a sample from a community and a sample from a forensic setting with a diagnosis of BPD. Practical implications – For practitioners to acknowledge power dynamics and to be able to formulate and address these with patients with a diagnosis of BPD. Originality/value – This is the first IPA study to ask women with a diagnosis of BPD in a forensic setting what their experience is. It is a qualitative study due to the need to genuinely explore the topic and to provide a basis for others to conduct further research.

scholarly journals “I didn’t feel normal”: Young Canadian women’s experiences with polycystic ovary syndrome

2021 ◽  
pp. 095935352110307
Author(s):  
Tanja Samardzic ◽  
Kendall Soucie ◽  
Kristin Schramer ◽  
Rachel Katzman
Keyword(s):  
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Polycystic Ovary ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Ovary Syndrome ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Reproductive Aged Women

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which affects 8 to 13% of reproductive-aged women, is a highly gendered disorder whose symptoms disrupt Western conceptions of femininity. This may be especially debilitating for young women, who are targeted by societal discourses governing how they “should” be. We interviewed 10 young Canadian women, aged 18 to 22, about how PCOS has influenced and/or conflated their conceptions of identity and (ab)normality within the current socio-cultural context. Using reflexive thematic analysis through a critical feminist lens, we present three themes: justifying abnormality, pathologizing the abnormal, and fear of failure in pregnancy. Young women described feeling “weird” and “not normal” as a result of their symptoms and expressed worries about their ability to adhere to gendered expectations. We argue that the blanketing of these desirable states as “normal” has pervasive implications for women’s lives and leaves them feeling defective and/or inadequate, which was further reinforced by implicit, gender-based power dynamics in medical institutions when women sought care. We suggest the need for engagement with discomfort and leveraging PCOS as a unique entryway into an analysis of intersectional issues to capture complexities in lived experience.

The Invention of American Art, 1825–1945

Entitled ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Lena
Keyword(s):  
Modern Dance ◽  
American Art ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts Programs ◽  
Second Wave

This introductory chapter analyzes the institutional and organizational factors that led to the invention of “the arts” in America. Wealthy reputational entrepreneurs seeking to establish domestic arts organizations contributed to the birth of highbrow arts as both idea and organizational practice. This first wave established the pathway by which creative forms came to be seen as art. As new orchestras, art museums, and symphonies were formed, advocates for ballet, modern dance, theater, and opera employed the same process to generate legitimacy. This second wave of legitimation was initiated by new groups of reputational entrepreneurs, including wealthy women, Jews, immigrants, and intellectuals. They advocated for the creation of novel American artworks to reflect the diverse character of the nation. The chapter then joins together existing sociological research on these two waves of change with research on the teaching professions that trained protoartists, the nonprofit professionals who administered arts programs, and the funders who supported their development.

‘Two men, so dissimilar’: Class, Marriage and Masculinity in George Moore’s Albert Nobbs (1918) and Simone Benmussa’s The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (1977)

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-63
Author(s):  
Rachel Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Feminist Theatre ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Fantasy ◽  
Second Wave

This chapter examines a critically overlooked literary fiction by an Irish writer whose legacy has tended to be overshadowed by the modernist generation which succeeded him. George Moore’s Albert Nobbs depicts the lives of not one but two female-bodied men working in a Dublin hotel in the 1860s. It provides an alternative origin for a literary history of transgender representation, with an emphasis on lived experience and social reality rather than the historical fantasy of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, published ten years later. This chapter aims to articulate the ‘transgender capacity’ (David Getsy, 2014) of Moore’s novella, exploring the insights it offers into the social and economic functions of gender. Simone Benmussa’s 1977 stage adaptation, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, has been canonised as a classic of feminist theatre; reflection on its critical reception reveals the ways in which transgender motifs have been interpreted in Second Wave feminist contexts.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie J. Dow
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Television News ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
National Media ◽  
Second Wave

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book focuses on the national television news narratives about the second wave of feminism that proliferated in 1970, a year in which the networks' eagerness to make sense of the movement for their viewers was accompanied by feminists' efforts to use national media for their own purposes. The interaction of these efforts produced coverage that was distinguished by its contradictions—it ranged from sympathetic to patronizing, from thoughtful to sensationalistic, and from evenhanded to overtly dismissive. The effects of the movement's heightened public profile proved to be equally unpredictable. Even negative coverage had positive outcomes for movement growth; at the same time, some feminist media activism that proved surprisingly successful had an adverse effect on movement cohesion.

Introduction

Mapping Power ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Sunila S. Kale ◽  
Navroz K. Dubash ◽  
Ranjit Bharvirkar
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Political Economy Analysis ◽  
Economy Analysis

The introductory chapter lays out the rationale for the volume and provides a framework for analysing the political economy of Indian electricity. We first present a historically-rooted political economy analysis to understand the past and identify reforms for the future of electricity in India. We next outline an analytic framework to guide the empirical chapters of the book, which locates electricity outcomes in the larger political economy of electricity, the field of politics that are specific to each state, and each state’s broader political economy. The chapter ends by providing concise synopses of the state-level narratives of electricity in the fifteen states included in the volume.

scholarly journals The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 562-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Wooff ◽  
Layla Skinns
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Complex Environment ◽  
Police Custody ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Dynamic Relationships ◽  
Emotion Space

Police custody is a complex environment, where police officers, detainees and other staff interact in a number of different emotional, spatial and transformative ways. Utilising ethnographic and interview data collected as part of a five-year study which aims to rigorously examine ‘good’ police custody, this paper analyses the ways that liminality and temporality impact on emotion in police custody. Architecture has previously been noted as an important consideration in relation to social control, with literature linking the built environment with people’s emotional ‘readings’ of space. No work, however, has examined the links between temporality, liminality and emotional performativity in a police custody context. In this environment, power dynamics are linked to past experiences of the police, with emotions being intrinsically embodied, relational, liminal and temporal. Emotion management is therefore an important way of conceptualising the dynamic relationships in custody. The paper concludes by arguing that emotional aftershocks symbolise the liminal experience of detainees’ understanding of the police custody process once released, noting that it is important to understand the microscale, lived experience of police custody in order to develop broader understanding of broader social and policing policy in a police custody context.

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