‘The Everyday Work of Repair’: Exploring the Resilience of Victims-/Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 030582982110548
Author(s):  
Janine Natalya Clark
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work

This interdisciplinary article uses what Das has termed ‘the everyday work of repair’ as a framework for thinking about resilience. It is not the first to discuss resilience and the everyday. What is novel is the context in which it does so. Extant scholarship on conflict-related sexual violence has largely overlooked the concept of resilience. Addressing this gap, the article draws on semi-structured interviews with victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Colombia and Uganda to examine what everyday resilience ‘looks’ like and how it is expressed within and across highly diverse social ecologies. In so doing, it reflects on what everyday resilience means for transitional justice, through a particular focus on hybridity. It introduces the term ‘facilitative hybridity’, to underscore the need for transitional justice processes to give greater attention to the social ecologies that can crucially support and enable the everyday work of repair and everyday resilience.

Tomorrow I’ll Be at the Table: Black Geographies and Urban Planning: A Review of the Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-474
Author(s):  
Anna Livia Brand ◽  
Charles Miller
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Black Geographies ◽  
The Relationship

This article reviews the literature on black geographies as it relates to the everyday work of urban planners. We outline the major claims and contributions of this scholarship to deepen our understanding of the relationship between the social and physical worlds. This article argues that this literature is a critical, yet missing, contribution to the field of urban planning because it provides different ways of knowing and understanding the experience of racial difference and therefore challenges us to invite more diverse views to the table and build more informed professional practices, pedagogical foundations, and empirical scholarship.

Distinct Aspects of Systematic Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War and Their Implications for the Victims' Needs in Transitional Justice

2019 ◽  
pp. 114-152
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Unique Nature

This chapter explores the distinct aspects of these crimes to understand the nature and extent of the needs of the victims in post-conflict settings. The analysis draws upon the growing body of empirical studies around the complexity of the victims' experiences during and after conflicts and the direct social consequences of these crimes on affected communities. This analysis helps the author to understand and explain the implications of the unique nature of sexual violence as a weapon of war for the needs of victims. The discussion in this chapter suggests that what makes the phenomenon of widespread and systematic sexual violence distinctive from ordinary crimes is the way in which these crimes destroy the social fabric of families and communities, thereby setting the scene for a general social collapse within affected communities. It indicates how the complex realities of victims of such crimes and their legacy in affected communities result in more acute and extensive needs for the victims and affected societies compared with victims of other crimes committed in conflict situations.

Corporatization and the Social Transformation of Doctoring

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. McKinlay ◽  
John D. Stoeckle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Medical Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Advanced Capitalism ◽  
Professional Dominance ◽  
Prevailing View

Corporatization of health care is dramatically transforming the medical workplace and profoundly altering the everyday work of the doctor. In this article, the authors discuss recent changes in U.S. health care and their impact on doctoring, and outline the major theoretical explanations of the social transformation of medical work under advanced capitalism. The adequacy of the prevailing view of professionalism (Freidson's notion of professional dominance) is considered, and an alternative view, informed by recent changes, is offered. While the social transformation of doctoring is discussed with reference to recent U.S. experience, no country or health system can be considered immune. Indeed, U.S. experience may be instructive for doctors and health care researchers in other national settings as to what they may expect.

scholarly journals Multiform invasion of life by work among basic education teachers and repercussions on health

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Peixoto da Silva ◽  
Frida Marina Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Clinical Pictures ◽  
Full Day ◽  
Significant Attention

INTRODUCTION: Several studies have pointed to a scenario of precariousness and illness among teachers. However, the way the profession resonates with the personal life of teachers has not received significant attention, even if it is common for them to take work home. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the repercussion of work on the everyday life of teachers and its implication on the health-disease process. METHODS: This is a qualitative study based on individual semi-structured interviews, complemented by a form of sociodemographic characterization. Data were analyzed by thematic coding with the aid of the MAXQDA 12 software. This study included 29 teachers from four public schools of the municipal and state networks of regular and full day education of São Paulo, in addition to the principal of each school. RESULTS: The results indicated that the illnesses arising from work have been projected on the personal life of teachers. We identified four main forms of manifestation of this type of invasion: continuous link with work by successive frustrations; moral harassment; uninterrupted pending matters; and interference over the private course of life. CONCLUSION: The social and pathogenic suffering caused by the invasion of life by work pointed to this phenomenon as one of the elements that can help explain the recurrent clinical pictures of illness among teachers.

scholarly journals Learning conditions for continuous improvement in a public service organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 578-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agneta Halvarsson Lundkvist ◽  
Maria Gustavsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Public Service ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Welfare Department ◽  
Employee Learning

Purpose This study focuses on a transformation effort in a social welfare department of a Swedish municipality where continuous improvement, which is a Lean principle, was introduced in employees’ everyday work via a workplace development programme (WPDP). The aim of this paper is to explore the conditions (internal and external) that enabled or constrained employee learning during the introduction of continuous improvement into employees’ everyday work in a WPDP-supported social welfare department. Design/methodology/approach This case study is based mainly on 22 semi-structured interviews with individuals holding different positions in the department and overarching municipality. Findings The findings show that multiple and emerging conditions, both internal and external, shaped a predominantly restrictive learning environment during the introduction of continuous improvement into the social welfare department. The major conditions identified were related to the initial implementation and top management’s steering and monitoring of the “Lean investment”, activities and support provided by the WPDP, activities and support provided by the internal Lean support team and first-line managers’ abilities to facilitate employee learning. Originality/value Apart from unique empirical material depicting an effort towards change under conditions far from favourable for employee learning, the value of this study lies in the attention given to the external dynamics that drive change in line with the concept of new public management in public service organizations, including a WPDP that supported the social welfare department.

scholarly journals ‘Leaky’ Bodies, Connectivity and Embodied Transitional Justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Natalya Clark
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Conflict

Abstract∞ Within the ever-growing field of transitional justice, it is striking that little attention has been given to bodies, except in the sense of what has been done to them. Seeking to address this gap by focusing on what bodies can do, this interdisciplinary article argues that bodies represent important sites of connectivity that can bring together communities fractured by war and armed conflict. In developing this thesis, it emphasizes how the leakiness of bodies – which has traditionally been viewed in negative terms – can help to foster a positive awareness of corporeal connectivity. Distinguishing between what it terms grounded and meta-functional connectivity, it calls for embodied ways of doing transitional justice that operationalize both types of connectivity. While the article is primarily a theoretical and conceptual piece, its empirical threads draw from the author’s recent fieldwork with victims–survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia and Uganda.

Making Sharing Work: Migrant Community Groups and Informal/Formal Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 495-509
Author(s):  
Claire Farrugia
Keyword(s):  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competitive Funding ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Labour Contracts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Community Sector

Migrant and refugee communities are at the forefront of highly feminised and precarious community sector work. Facing insecure labour contracts and contingent, competitive funding for activities, these communities routinely move between paid and unpaid work. Drawing on multi-sited and participatory ethnographic research and 30 semi-structured interviews with women of different African backgrounds living and working in western Sydney, this article explores the relationship between collective sharing practices and life as precarious workers. The sharing of material resources, information and support takes place beyond designated ‘workplaces’ and on a continuum of activity that moves between the formal and informal, public and private, productive and socially reproductive. This article uses a practice-based approach to foreground the social world of working migrant women. In doing so, it sheds light on the hidden, precarious work of an increasingly marketised community sector and the everyday and emergent ways that marginalised communities respond to precarious work under neoliberalism.

“Thinking of You” in Kosovo: Art Activism Against the Stigma of Sexual Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (13) ◽  
pp. 1543-1557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Di Lellio ◽  
Feride Rushiti ◽  
Kadire Tahiraj
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Art Activism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reparative Reading ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Women's Networks

In this article, we present, as participants and observers, an analysis of the social and political impact of the 2015 art installation “Mendoj Për Ty” [Thinking of You], dedicated to survivors of wartime sexual violence in Kosovo. We argue that art possesses an extraordinary power to unveil the “public secret” of wartime rape, as well as produce a “reparative” reading of the past, creating solidarity for, and recognition of, survivors, which simultaneously empowers them and their advocates. We also confirm the crucial role of women’s networks and subjectivity to the inclusion of women’s perspectives for effective transitional justice.

Beyond “Bouncing”: Resilience as an Expansion–Contraction Dynamic within a Holonic Frame

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Natalya Clark
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
Multiple Domains

Abstract The concept of resilience is often discussed in relation to “bouncing,” whether bouncing back or bouncing forward. This interdisciplinary article looks beyond “bouncing” in either direction. In so doing, it offers a novel conceptualization of resilience as a dialectical process of expansion and contraction across multiple domains and levels. Drawing on fieldwork with victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, and Uganda, it uses the qualitative data both to empirically critique the notions of “bouncing back” and “bouncing forward” and to explore what expansion and contraction look like in practice. It situates the arguments within a broader holonic perspective, in order to accentuate the systemic dimensions of resilience, and ultimately it discusses what they mean for the field of transitional justice.

scholarly journals (Re)Constructing and Resisting Irregularity: (Non)citizenship, Canada’s Interim Federal Health Program, and Access to Healthcare

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220
Author(s):  
Laura Connoy
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Interim Federal Health Program

This article analyzes the experiences of refugee claimants in Toronto’s everyday healthcare places, like walk-in clinics, doctor’s offices, and hospitals, in the aftermath of the 2012 Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) revisions. By drawing upon critical migration scholarship that prioritizes (non)citizenship, as well as semi-structured interviews, I highlight how the social positioning of refugee claimants is modulated in ways that justify and extend the IFHP revisions to effectively deny access to healthcare, demonstrating the indeterminacy of access. I understand this process through the concept of irregularity, a non-juridical status that is contingently configured and enforced by state and non-state actors when one is (re)constructed as “out of place,” hence limiting access to resources and rights. In accordance with citizenship, it indicates how we can think of the (re)fashioning of people and groups particularly within the everyday. I follow this with a critical analysis of the contestations that emerged to challenge the IFHP revisions

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