scholarly journals The micropolitics of posthuman early years leadership assemblages: Exploring more-than-human relationality

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Fairchild
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Situational Ethics ◽  
New Form

Engaging with posthuman theorising, this article puts to work a number of concepts to produce generative reimaginings of early years leadership. In 1992, Deleuze argued that we are witnessing a transition from societies of confinement to ‘societies of control’. In societies of control, power operates through neo-liberal corporate worlds via a process of ‘continuous modulation’, which encourages a regime of perpetual flows of change, revealing new productions of a more posthuman agency. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, the author notes how the concept of assemblage can be employed to explore leadership. She argues that early years leadership in England is part of a wider set of connections and relations which include human and non-human ‘bodies’. The assemblage connects and collects bodies, and is not defined by its individual components but by what is produced as these bodies interact. These interactions can be striated, which explores certain forms of leadership. However, smoother spaces can also be produced, which empirically reveals the situational ethics and micropolitics of four early years leaders who are entangled with children, policy, neo-liberal framing, quality, curriculum, and social and material worlds in their settings and schools. This article broadens current views on early years leadership by taking a more-than-human view of relations between human and non-human bodies as a distributed subjectivity which reworks notions of solely human agency. This production allows the author to question how posthuman leadership and the ethics and micropolitics of connectivity might function in this new form of more-than-human relationality.

scholarly journals Creating Social Capital in the Early American Republic: The View from Connecticut

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann N. Neem
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Voluntary Association ◽  
Early American Republic ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Early American ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
New Form

During the early years of the American republic, Connecticut's elite helped to develop a new form of social order, based on voluntary association, replacing the authoritarian, theological hierarchy of the old regime. Social relations, which were once thought fixed in nature by divine sanction, became amenable to the initiatives of the populace. By the antebellum era, Americans had also discovered that social capital could be created through the ordinary activities of people engaged in civil society.

Visually Mapping the “Nation”: Swadeshi Politics in Nationalist India, 1920–1930

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa N. Trivedi
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Goods Movement ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Cloth Production ◽  
New Form

In the early years of mass nationalism in colonial South Asia, Mohandas Gandhi inaugurated a swadeshi (indigenous goods) movement, which aimed to achieve swaraj, or “home rule,” by establishing India's economic self-sufficiency from Britain. Invoking an earlier movement of the same name, Gandhi created a new form of swadeshi politics that encouraged the production and exclusive consumption of hand-spun, hand-woven cloth called khadi. The campaign to popularize this movement took many forms, including the organization of exhibitions that demonstrated cloth production and sold khadi goods. On the occasion of one such exhibition in 1927, Gandhi explained the significance of exhibitions for the movement:[The exhibition] is designed to be really a study for those who want to understand what this khadi movement stands for, and what it has been able to do. It is not a mere ocular demonstration to be dismissed out of our minds immediately. … It is not a cinema. It is actually a nursery where a student, a lover of humanity, a lover of his own country may come and see things for himself.(“The Exhibition,” Young India, 14 July 1927)

Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter W. Powell ◽  
Kurt Sandholtz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Pharmaceutical Research ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Stable Pattern ◽  
Biotechnology Companies ◽  
New Form ◽  
University Science

This chapter analyzes the early years of the first generation of biotechnology companies. The setting is the 1970s, a time when landmark scientific discoveries in molecular biology triggered all manner of perturbations in university science, pharmaceutical research, and venture finance. The result was the creation of a new form—a science-based commercial entity, which emerged from overlapping networks of science, finance, and commerce. This novel collection of organizational practices that coalesced into a dedicated biotech firm (DBF) proved highly disruptive. Using historical analysis of archival materials, supplemented by interviews with DBF founders, this chapter pieces together the “lash-up” process that melded elements from three separate realms—academic science, venture finance, and commercial health care—into an interactively stable pattern.

Bridging Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari Through Metamodelisation: What Brian Massumi Can Teach Us About Animal Politics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Gregory Bateson ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
New Form ◽  
Third Dimension ◽  
Included Middle

This chapter turns to the seminal work of the English anthropologist/ cyberneticist, Gregory Bateson (1904-80) as a crucial ecological and ludic foundation not only for the work of Deleuze and Guattari – the pair coined the term ‘plateau’ as a continuous, self-vibrating region of intensities from Bateson’s study of Balinese culture – but also Brian Massumi’s more recent exploration of the supernormal tendency in animal play as a metacommunicative model for a new form of political metamodelisation based on Guattari’s advocacy of an ethico-aesthetic paradigm. Drawing heavily on Bateson’s 1955 essay, ‘A Theory of Play and Fantasy’, Massumi stresses how, for example, a play fight between wolf cubs entails the staging of a paradox, whereby a cub bites and at the same time says ‘This is not a bite, this is not a fight, this is a game,’ whereby the ludic stands in for the suspended analogue: real combat. Massumi calls this level of abstraction game’s ‘-esqueness,’ its metacommunicative level which self-reflexively mobilizes a vitality affect that generates a trans-situational process that moves across and between intersecting existential territories. The latter entails the construction of a third dimension, the ‘included middle’ of play and combat’s mutual influence, which Massumi calls ‘sympathy’.

Autism: Schizo of Postmodern Capital

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Hans A. Skott-Myhre ◽  
Christina Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Symptom Cluster ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Form

This article follows Deleuze in investigating the ways in which the symptom as a form of representation can be collapsed into immanence. Exploring the symptoms of schizophrenia and autism, it examines what implications such a collapse may have for the production of the symptom in its double articulation as representation and immanent production. The argument follows Deleuze and Guattari in asserting that symptoms hold an implicit limit for the social forms that deploy them. Arguing that schizophrenia, as one such limit, has been successfully appropriated and deferred by postmodern capitalism, it is proposed that the proliferating symptom cluster of autism may indicate a new form of limit and that ‘becoming autistic’ thus may have potential as revolutionary practice.

scholarly journals The Messiness of Ethics in Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Cliffe ◽  
Carla Solvason
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Political Literature ◽  
Ethical Identity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Training

AbstractThis article considers the multifaceted concept of ethics and how, despite being a familiar notion within education, it is still much contested within literature and professional practice. Drawing on postmodern, feminist and political literature, the authors explore (re)conceptualisations of ethics and ethicality in relation to ethical identity, professionalism and practice. Applying philosophical and metaphorical tools, such as the rhizome and nomad (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987), the authors suggest there is the potential to accommodate the multiple and often divergent facets of ethics, thereby engaging with different ethical possibilities. It is argued that the propensity for reducing ethics to merely procedural protocols and guidelines marginalises the richness of ethics and, all too frequently, leaves practitioners ill-equipped to navigate the reality of day-to-day ethics.The article is positioned within the field of early years (EY) practice and training EY practitioners. This reflects the authors’ own specialism but also celebrates the propensity of the EY practitioner to reflect upon, question and challenge their own practice and ethical identities. This does not reduce the applicability of the subject matter which is relevant to educators of children of any age. The term ‘practitioner’ is used throughout to refer to any adult working with children in an educative role, this includes, but is not limited to nursery nurses, teachers or teaching assistants.

scholarly journals Brain-based discourses and early intervention: A critical debate for health visiting

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 342-350
Author(s):  
Sue Peckover
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Early Intervention ◽  
Brain Development ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Parenting Quality ◽  
Early Brain Development ◽  
Policy Shift ◽  
New Form

Neuroscientific discourses about early brain development and its plasticity have placed considerable importance on parenting, emotional nurturing and attachment during the first 1001 ‘Critical Days’. This has informed a policy shift towards early intervention in the early years, and is shaping public health practice in this field particularly health visiting. This article reviews these developments and outlines a critical debate that has been taking place among commentators concerned with how these brain-based discourses are being applied in policy. Concerns include the policy readiness of the science, the focus on parenting quality rather than contextual issues such as poverty, and that these developments are creating a new form of governance of families. In contrast, these concerns have not been debated within health visiting, raising questions about the profession's engagement with evidence and policy.

BABY STEPS FOR OCTAVIAN: 44 B.C.?

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-191
Author(s):  
D. Wardle
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Positive Traits ◽  
Very High

Historians of antiquity are trained to be suspicious of accounts that may retroject onto the early years of figures, who were later dominant, positive traits that plausibly were exhibited only later, in essence the creation of a mythology. In the case of the Emperor Augustus, who exercised a firm control on the Roman world for over forty years after the defeat of his rival M. Antonius and introduced a new form of government, the probability that the years of his ascent to supreme power were subjected to careful recasting is very high. Here I examine an argument that was presented in 2004 on the very beginning of Octavian's public life, which, if correct, reveals a stuttering start by a young man inexperienced in the realities of Roman politics at a tumultuous moment in Roman history.

Context Versus Principles: A Misplaced Debate in Christian Ethics

1965 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Situational Ethics ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

The field of Christian ethics has been the location of a debate over the past decades between roughly delineated parties representing an allegiance to the use of formal prescriptive principles on the one hand, and those representing the cause of the more existential response to a particular situation on the other hand. The debate has taken place in Europe and the United States, it has taken place in Catholicism and in Protestantism. In European Protestant literature Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics, particularly Volume II/2, Bonhoeffer's Ethics, and Niels Søe's Kristelig Etik, have represented what has been called a “contextual” approach. More traditional Lutheran theologians who stress the importance of ethics under the law have a larger place for traditional ethical principles. Werner Elert and Walter Künneth would be representative of this group. In Catholic literature there was a movement in the early years after World War II that came to be called “situational morality.” A critic has typified it in the following terms, “The ultimate differences between this new morality and traditional morality come down then to this: In an objective system of ethics the moral judgment is submitted to an extrinsic norm, an ontological norm founded on the principles of being. In situational ethics the moral judgment is measured only by the subjective, immanent light of the individual in question.” In contrast to the situational emphasis is the whole tradition of natural law ethics and moral theology as this developed in Roman Catholicism. It should be noted that some of the recent Catholic ethics continues to be influenced by a situational approach, though not in the extreme way of earlier materials.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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