Staging joyful spectacles: Exploring the temporalities of positive affect in child-focused NGO programs

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308275X2110047
Author(s):  
Annie McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
The Way

The child has long been a powerfully affective figure in development work – whether as an abject victim or a joyful symbol of brighter futures. While the power of children to produce emotions in donors has been well studied, far less attention has been given to children’s own affective relationships with development organisations. This article explores the role of affect in children’s participation in non-governmental organisation (NGO) programs in Delhi, India. In particular, by focusing on spectacles of performance, this article highlights the importance of positive affects: happiness, fun, and joy in child-focused NGO programs. Yet, rather than a cynical critique of the way children’s joy is captured (typically in images) and translated into narratives of successful development, this article seeks to explore the possibilities for sincere ethnographic engagement with happiness itself. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, and exploring the temporal dimensions of positive affects, I seek to engage seriously with children’s joyful experiences in development programs, while simultaneously questioning any simplistic equation of child happiness with developmental success.

scholarly journals Party Competition and Emotive Rhetoric

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 811-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Kosmidis ◽  
Sara B. Hobolt ◽  
Eamonn Molloy ◽  
Stephen Whitefield
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Public Preferences ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Party Manifestos ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
The Way

When do parties use emotive rhetoric to appeal to voters? In this article, we argue that politicians are more likely to employ positive affect (valence) in their rhetoric to appeal to voters when parties are not ideologically distinct and when there is uncertainty about public preferences. To test these propositions, our article uses well-established psycholinguistic affect dictionaries to generate scores from three time series of political text: British party manifestos (1900-2015) and annual party leaders’ speeches (1977-2014) as well as U.S. Presidents’ State of the Union addresses (1880-2016). Our findings corroborate our expectations and have important implications for the study of party competition by illuminating the role of valence in the way politicians communicate their policies.

scholarly journals Den private religion: Fortolkninger af muslimske børns religiøse tilhørsforhold i en dansk folkeskole

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Marianne Holm Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
School Leadership ◽  
School Life ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Private Matter ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
Role Of Religion

While the teaching of religion in the Danish folkeskole is a widely debated issue, there is little knowledge about how parents of Muslim background relate to the role of religion in the children’s daily school life. This article explores the meanings that teachers and parents at a school in the Danish province attribute to Muslim children’s religious backgrounds. Based on interviews with school leadership, teachers, parents and children, it particularly examines how they interpret the course ‘knowledge of Christianity’ and how they view the division of responsibility for teaching children about religion. It argues that while both parents and teachers understand religious belonging as a private matter that does not concern the school, they have different understandings of what this means and what it should imply for the children’s participation in school activities. The article further argues that the so-called encounter between ‘Muslim practices’ and ‘Danish values’ rather constitutes yet another example of negotiations that have always taken place in modern Danish society between the institutions of family and school.

scholarly journals Serving Astronomy: the Aim of the IAU

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
David Baneke ◽  
Johannes Andersen ◽  
Claus Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
International Scientific Cooperation ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe IAU was founded in 1919 “to facilitate the relations between astronomers of different countries where international co-operation is necessary or useful” and “to promote the study of astronomy in all its departments”. These aims have led the IAU throughout the century of its existence, but the way it has tried to fulfil them has changed. We have tried to trace the changing role of the IAU in the international astronomical community through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The IAU has striven – occasionally struggled – to protect international scientific cooperation across the deep political divides that characterized the 20th century, while maintaining an important function in the context of the rapidly evolving science itself and the changing fabric of institutions involved in astronomy. We especially argue how the emphasis of the IAU’s activities has shifted from the first aim – facilitating collaboration by organizing meetings and defining common standards – to the second aim: promoting astronomy by outreach and development programs.

scholarly journals When Police Behave-A Transformation Program That Reshapes Police-Community Relationships Based on Problem Solving and Values

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Mohamed Buheji
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Way

The escalation of the global events that followed the death of George Floyd in USA Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th of 2020, and what followed from demonstrations in all over the world; despite the presence of a global pandemic, shows the importance and the complications of an event that started with police miss-behaviour. ‘I can’t breathe’ a slogan carried by Floyd and many others earlier, carries within it, lots of meaning, however, one of the most important of meanings is the police brutality and the way they behave in certain times. This paper reviews the modern policing and specifically the values expected to be embedded in the police culture and the way they behave even in challenging times.The literature review goes into exploiting the importance of police and community engagement through problem-solving programs and the accumulative collective impact on ‘empathetic policing’ that lead to ‘social dialogue’. The case study in this paper focuses on the ‘police inspiration labs’ and how it gave a chance for more police with community engagement towards solving essential society problems. Besides, the paper shows the difference between (systems-driven vs behaviours-driven) police development programs. The paper carries important implication for developing further the role of the police in the ‘quality of life’ and support the government to transform the budget of policing into grey areas, i.e. area where the police are encouraged to execute more efforts towards preventing and developing instead of correcting and reacting towards community incidences and challenges.

scholarly journals Play: Fostering relationships that inspire positive change in young people’s meaningful participation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura H.V. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Participation Rights ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
Children's Participation ◽  
The Right

Despite play’s recognition in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and evidence that play is beneficial to children’s development, and a vehicle to support realization of other children’s rights, it is one of the most neglected rights of the child. An overarching devalue of play has implications on its relationship with children’s participation rights and correspondingly the realization of young people’s meaningful participation. This article explores the interplay between the right to play and children’s participation rights. Drawing upon a participatory play-based research qualitative study with young people at a youth-driven child rights workshop entitled XXXX and interviews with adults, the article considers the role of play in relational development for meaningful participation, as well as the devalue of play across young people and adults.  The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of findings and provides recommendations for the role of play to co-create transformative participatory environments in research, policy, and programs.

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