Montage and the illumination of developmental thinking in welfare work

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502199087
Author(s):  
Stine Thygesen ◽  
Trine Øland
Keyword(s):  
Foster Children ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analytical Performance ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Welfare Workers

This article illuminates and interrupts the existence of progress as an imperative haunting welfare work. The article argues that there are forces and structures of welfare work that the dominating ways of approaching history leave unexamined and that this insight calls for a more complex relationship with history. Based on Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, the article explores how the montage as an analytical performance can illuminate the hauntings of modern welfare work, which makes us see the depth and persistence of progress. The article concludes by making it possible for welfare workers to think differently; to listen to and let the ghosts of development and progress pass, and to get along with the unreason and irrationality of the other. The actual montage of the article is composed with reference to a study of welfare work with foster children in Denmark.

Tunes That Bind: Paul J. Seelig, Eva Gauthier, Charles T. Griffes, and the Javanese Other

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-154
Author(s):  
HENRY SPILLER
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
North American ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies

AbstractThe powerful concept of orientalism has undergone considerable refinement since Edward Said popularized the term with his eponymous book in 1978. Orientalism typically is presented as a totalizing process that creates polar oppositions between a dominating West and a subordinate East. U.S. orientalisms, however, reflect uniquely North American approaches to identity formation that include assimilating characteristics usually associated with the Other. This article explores the complex relationship among three individuals—U.S. composer Charles T. Griffes, Canadian singer Eva Gauthier, and German-trained Dutch East Indies composer Paul J. Seelig—and how they exploited the same Javanese songs to lend legitimacy to their individual artistic projects. A comparison of Griffes's and Seelig's settings of a West Javanese tune (“Kinanti”) provides an especially clear example of how contrasting approaches manifest different orientalisms. Whereas Griffes accompanied the melody with stock orientalist gestures to express his own fascination with the exotic, Seelig used chromatic harmonies and a chorale-like texture to ground the melody in the familiar, translating rather than representing its Otherness. The tunes that bind Griffes, Gauthier, and Seelig are only the raw materials from which they created their own unique orientalisms, each with its own sense of self and its own Javanese others.

Voluntary dehydration and alliesthesia for water

1984 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 868-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Hubbard ◽  
B. L. Sandick ◽  
W. T. Matthew ◽  
R. P. Francesconi ◽  
J. B. Sampson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tap Water ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heat Illness ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Fluid Consumption ◽  
Severe Dehydration ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Weight Losses ◽  
Voluntary Dehydration ◽  
Thirst Mechanism

The purpose of this experiment was to explore the complex relationship between fluid consumption and consumption factors (thirst, voluntary dehydration, water alliesthesia, palatability, work-rest cycle) during a simulated 14.5-km desert walk (treadmill, 1.34 m X s-1, 5% grade, 40 degrees C dry bulb/26 degrees C wet bulb, and wind speed of approximately 1.2 m X s-1). Twenty-nine subjects were tested (30 min X h-1, 6 h) on each of two nonconsecutive days. The subjects were randomly assigned to one of three groups: tap water (n = 8), iodine-treated tap water (n = 11), or iodine-treated flavored tap water (n = 10). The temperature of the water was 40 degrees C during one trial and 15 degrees C on the other. Mean sweat losses (6 h) varied between 1.4 kg (warm iodine-treated; 232 +/- 44 g X h-1) and 3.0 kg (cool iodine-treated flavored; 509 +/- 50 g X h-1). Warm drinks were consumed at a lower rate than cool drinks (negative and positive alliesthesia). This decreased consumption resulted in the highest percent body weight losses (2.8 and 3.2%). Cooling and flavoring effects on consumption were additive and increased the rate of intake by 120%. The apparent paradox between reduced consumption concomitant with severe dehydration and hyperthermia is attributed to negative alliesthesia for warm water rather than an apparent inadequacy of the thirst mechanism. The reluctance to drink warm iodine-treated water resulted in significant hyperthermia, dehydration, hypovolemia, and, in two cases, heat illness.

scholarly journals PENYULUHAN MANAJEMEN PEMASARAN YANG STRATEGIS DALAM PENGEMBANGAN YAYASAN NURUL IKHSAN

DEDIKASI PKM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Risza Putri Elburdah ◽  
Ugeng Budi Haryoko ◽  
Fauziah Septiani ◽  
Lucia Maduningtias ◽  
Edy Krisyanto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Marketing Management ◽  
Strategic Marketing ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Village

Community service (PKM) is an integral part of the Tri Dharma of Higher Education which in its implementation is inseparable from the other two dharmas, and involves all members of the academic community: lecturers, students, education staff and alumni. Through PKM the academic community can be present in the midst of the community.The location of Nurul Ihsan Foundation is sufficient to enter the village, so that not many people know of its existence. Even though the Foundation has been established since 1994. Besides educational activities (pesantren), Nurul Ihsan Orphanage also organizes skills training for foster children and the surrounding community to cultivate talents and provide them with certain skills for the future. The number of activities above, the need to continue to develop skills is a matter that has always been championed by the management of the Nurul Ihsan Orphanage Foundation and other institutions. To meet these needs, strategic marketing management counseling is carried out so that the name Nurul Ihsan Foundation is increasingly known to the wider community. It is hoped that more donors will continue to help fulfill the education of the students and orphans at the Nurul Iksan Foundation. One solution that resulted from this outreach was about marketing media and marketing personnel that must be owned by the Nurul Iksan Foundation. PKM with the title: "Counseling Strategic Marketing Management in the Development of the Nurul Iksan Foundation" in general went smoothly and impressively. The students and the foundation's management were very enthusiastic in listening to the explanation of the material provided. This is illustrated by the many questions raised and two-way discussions that occur. The enthusiasm continued when the session reviewed cases related to marketing media.Keywords: Marketting Management, Promotion Media ,Development.

scholarly journals and nature, a complex relationship

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Maria Antonietta Maria Antonietta Sbordone ◽  
Barbara Barbara Pizzicato
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Evolutionary Line ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The One

Over the course of its history, design has never lost sight of nature as a term of comparison, sometimes taking from it, sometimes moving away from it. To investigate the complex relationship between the two terms, design and nature, we cannot ignore the evolution of man and how it has been profoundly influenced by technological innovation, which is the most evident result of science. Tracing an evolutionary line of design thinking, a double trajectory can be registered: on the one hand the tension towards progress and the myth of the machine, on the other hand the idea of a harmonious co-evolution with nature and the need to be reconnected with it. Besides, it is progress that allows mankind to thoroughly investigate natural mechanisms and make them their own. Contemporary design, autonomous but at the same time increasingly interdisciplinary, has got blurred boundaries which intersect with the most advanced fields of biological sciences. This evolution has opened up a whole new field of investigation that multiplies the opportunities of innovation, especially from a sustainability-oriented point of view. Today the dramatic breaking of the balance between man and nature has turned into the concept of permanent emergency, which is now matter of greatest interest for design, a design that attempts to react, mend, adapt to change in an authentically resilient way.

Virtuosities of Deafness and Blindness

2018 ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Stefan Sunandan Honisch
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Musical Representations

This chapter explores the convergence of disability and virtuosity in competitive music performance. Two case studies of the pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performing Beethoven’s Apassionata and Hammerklavier sonatas in the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition illustrate how the virtuosic body renders both normal and disabled bodies as other within the competitive arena. The critical and popular reception of these performances by Tsujii made much of their staging of a musical encounter between a blind pianist and a deaf composer; Tsujii himself, on the other hand, has publicly declared a more complex relationship to Beethoven as a fellow disabled musician. Exploring blindness and deafness as forms of virtuosity, this chapter shows how musical representations of virtuosity in performance exist in unfixed, dynamic, and even unsettling relationships to normal and disabled senses, bodies, and minds.

The market context: service–consumer

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanna Mik-Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Service Consumer ◽  
Welfare Workers

This chapter introduces the market context and examines the recent efforts of integrating norms and values from the market—such as ideals of service, freedom of choice and co-production— into present day welfare work. The chapter begins by introducing the market context and its inherent principles. This is done by drawing especially on the work of Clarke and colleagues on the expert citizen of how the marketisation of public administration lays ground for a number of challenges and dilemmas for both welfare workers (in the roles of service providers) and citizens (in the roles of costumers and consumers). The role of soft power in these idealised service encounters within welfare work is also discussed and the chapter concludes with a discussion on the role and expressions of agency within this marketised context.

Powerful encounters as seen from an interactionist perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanna Mik-Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Welfare Workers ◽  
Interactionist Approach

This chapter present the tradition of symbolic interactionism, that is, the interactionist approach to studying the in-between in human encounters and the study of how interacting individuals interpret the particular situation in which they are part and how this structures their interactions (as put forth by Goffman especially). The chapter furthermore discuss selected empirical studies of the encounter between welfare workers and citizens with particular attention to their respective roles and their relationship with one another. In addition, the chapter emphasises the soft power at play between citizens and welfare workers and exemplify how the structural elements and agency of the two parties frame the encounter. Thus, both welfare workers and citizens co-produce dominant norms in welfare work and this (re)production is an expression of soft power.

“Every Act of Preservation is an Act of Creation”: Paul Schrader’s Eco-theology in First Reformed

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Tatiana Prorokova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Current State ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
The One

This chapter scrutinizes the complex relationship between climate change and theology, as represented in First Reformed, as well as Paul Schrader’s understanding of humanity’s major problems today. Analyzing the issue of ecological decline through the prism of religion, Schrader outlines the ideology that presumably might help humanity survive at the age of global warming. Through the complex discussions of such issues as despair, anxiety, and hope, Schrader deduces the formula of survival in which preservation is the key component. Equating humans to God, Schrader, on the one hand, censures those actions that led to progress but destroyed the environment, yet, on the other hand, he foregrounds the fact that humans can also save the planet now. Schrader portrays both humans and Earth as living organisms created by God. He draws explicit parallels between the current state of our planet and the problems that we experience – from political ones, including war, to more personal ones like health issues.

The Kindness of Strangers: Single Mothers and the Politics of Friendship in Interwar Cape Town

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Jackson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The State ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Normative Standards ◽  
Welfare Workers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Just as a friend is often defined as somebody we like, friendship is thought of as a social, moral, and emotional good. The aura of friendship is in its virtue. But the meaning of friendship depends on who claims it and who the person appears to be whom they describe as their friend. This essay investigates the meaning of friendship in the lives of single mothers in South Africa between the two world wars. The context is Cape Town, where single mothers classified as “white” or “European” attracted the attention of the state. In case records pertaining to the 1913 Children’s Welfare Act, the meaning of friendship was contested between magistrates, police detectives, welfare workers, and single mothers themselves. The struggle over how a case should be resolved was to a great extent a struggle over the meaning of friendship. To the authorities, “friends” were a disturbing presence in the lives of single mothers. While the image of healthy, secure, and stable colonial family units was articulated around the relationship between a mother and a child, it was underwritten by the taken-for-granted presence of a male provider. Analyzing cases where men were in various ways absent forces our emphasis away from the normative standards that guided child welfare work and into the messier social realities against which those standards were applied.

China and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Between Ambiguities and Interests

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lounnas Djallil
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Oil Supply ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nuclear Issue ◽  
The One ◽  
Nuclear Crisis

AbstractThis article analyses, the complex relationship between Tehran, Beijing and Washington on the Iranian nuclear issue. Indeed, China's policy towards Iran has often been described as ambiguous, in supporting Washington, on the one hand, while protecting Tehran, on the other hand. In this article, we argue that, in fact, Beijing policy vis-a-vis Tehran depends on the state of its relationships with Washington. Indeed, a closer analysis shows that China is using Iran as a bargaining chip with the United States on, among others, two key security issues, i.e., Taiwan and the oil supply. The guarantee of a secured oil supply from the Middle-East in addition to a comprehensive policy of the US with regard to Chinese security interests in Taiwan as well as the use of smart sanctions against Tehran, which would thus take into account, to a certain extent, Beijing economic interests in Iran, are, indeed, the guarantee of Beijing's support to the US policy towards Iran.

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