scholarly journals Adult-child relations in neoliberal times: insights from a dialogue across childhood and parenting culture studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Rosen ◽  
Charlotte Faircloth
Keyword(s):  
Adult Child ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Childhood Parenting ◽  
Do So

In this introductory article for the special issue ‘Childhood, Parenting Culture and Adult-Child Relations in Global Perspectives’, we provide an overview of our fields of study (childhood studies and parenting culture studies) by placing them in dialogue. We do so as a basis for drawing out themes emerging from the special issue, in order to explore potential synergies and open broader debates. We begin by tracing moves towards more relational approaches in the social sciences indicating their epistemological and methodological implications. Relational thinking provides a basis for countering antagonistic positionings of children and adults, allowing for circulations of childhood and parenting cultures to be interrogated in relation to new and enduring forms of inequity and changing state-family-capital relations. We suggest that this complicates existing conceptualisations of neoliberalisation while drawing attention to the need for further interrogation of the transnational nature of adult-child relations.

scholarly journals Global perspectives on high-stakes teacher accountability policies: An introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Holloway ◽  
Tore Bernt Sørensen ◽  
Antoni Verger
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Teacher Accountability ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Accountability Systems ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Context Specific

The aim of this special issue, “Global Perspectives on High-Stakes Teacher Accountability Policies”, is to provide insights into a diverse set of policies focusing on teachers’ accountability, including the underpinning ideas and cultural and socio-economic contexts of these policies, as well as their effects on teachers’ work, the teaching profession and the broader educational environment. While these articles highlight the influence of the “global testing culture” on education systems world-wide, they also demonstrate the need for understanding accountability systems as context-specific. As such, we urge scholars to consider the social, historical, political and geographical contexts within which their research is situated and to promote a research agenda that looks at the specific responses and effects that accountability policies produce in different regulatory settings. This introductory article, first, clarifies the main focus and conceptual framework of the special issue and, second, presents an overview of the papers included in the issue and their main contents.

Narrating Society: Enacting ‘Immigrant’ Characters through Negotiating, Naturalization, and Forgetting

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Boersma
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Media And Communication

This article scrutinizes how ‘immigrant’ characters of perpetual arrival are enacted in the social scientific work of immigrant integration monitoring. Immigrant integration research produces narratives in which characters—classified in highly specific, contingent ways as ‘immigrants’—are portrayed as arriving and never as having arrived. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork at social scientific institutions and networks in four Western European countries, this article analyzes three practices that enact the characters of arrival narratives: negotiating, naturalizing, and forgetting. First, it shows how negotiating constitutes objects of research while at the same time a process of hybridization is observed among negotiating scientific and governmental actors. Second, a naturalization process is analyzed in which slippery categories become fixed and self-evident. Third, the practice of forgetting involves the fading away of contingent and historical circumstances of the research and specifically a dispensation of ‘native’ or ‘autochthonous’ populations. Consequently, the article states how some people are considered rightful occupants of ‘society’ and others are enacted to travel an infinite road toward an occupied societal space. Moreover, it shows how enactments of arriving ‘immigrant’ characters have performative effects in racially differentiating national populations and hence in narrating society. This article is part of the Global Perspectives, Media and Communication special issue on “Media, Migration, and Nationalism,” guest-edited by Koen Leurs and Tomohisa Hirata.

International perspectives on social justice: Introduction to the special issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12
Author(s):  
Sally L. Grapin ◽  
David Shriberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
School Psychology ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Training ◽  
International Social

The concept of social justice has become increasingly prominent in school psychology practice, research, and training. While the literature in this area has burgeoned over the last decade, relatively less scholarship has synthesized global perspectives on social justice. This article provides a brief introduction to the special issue, International Perspectives on Social Justice. In particular, we describe contributions of each of the issue’s four articles to the social justice literature in school and educational psychology as well as identify prominent themes. Finally, we describe potential directions for advancing an international social justice agenda in school psychology.

scholarly journals Global norms and heterogeneous development organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde ◽  
Lars Engberg-Pedersen ◽  
Adam Moe Fejerskov
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Organizational History ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Global Norms ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
Do So

Contemporary development cooperation is characterized by an increasing tension between a growing diversity of actors and significant attempts at homogenizing development practices through global norms prescribing ‘good development’. This special issue shows empirically how diverse development organizations engage with global norms on gender equality. To understand this diversity of norm-engagement conceptually, this introductory article proposes four explanatory dimensions: (i) organizational history, culture and structures; (ii) actor strategies, emotions and relationships; (iii) organizational pressures and priorities; and (iv) the normativeenvironment and stakeholders. We argue that, while development organizations cannot avoid addressing global norms regarding gender equality, they do so in considerably divergent ways. However, the differences are explained less by whether these organizations constitute ‘new’ or ‘old’ donors than by the four identified dimensions.

German Ordnung

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahel Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Interpersonal Style ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Do So

This study aims to illustrate the intricate connections that exist between features of a certain language and underlying culture-specific conceptualizations. The analysis sheds new light on a German cultural core value, namely, Ordnung “order,” its relationship to other cultural themes, and the influence it exerts on German interpersonal style. To reach a better understanding of the German core value Ordnung “order” as it relates to other German cultural themes, we first provide an analysis of the common expressions alles (ist) in Ordnung “everything [is] in order” and Ordnung muss sein “there has to be order.” This will be followed by an analysis of the social descriptor term locker “loose.” We seek to illustrate the merits of a perspective in language and culture studies that is truly culture-internal and can thus facilitate cross-cultural understanding, and we do so by applying the principles of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to semantic and ethnopragmatic description.

Introduction: Salafism, the Social, and the Global Resurgence of Religion

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Sedgwick
Keyword(s):  
Social Aspects ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Social

This introductory article frames the special issue’s examination of social aspects of Salafism in terms of Roel Meijer’s observations on Salafism’s capacity to empower and change identities, and in terms of the wider contexts of the resurgence of Islam and of the global resurgence of religion. It argues that while the study of doctrinal aspects of Salafism is important, the study of the social aspects is more neglected, and that this is where the special issue makes an important contribution.

scholarly journals Moving to opportunity: Student trajectories in the post-Bologna university system in Denmark

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens-Peter Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Transition Point ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
University System ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Moving To Opportunity ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Do So

This paper examines whether the implementation of the Bologna bachelor’s + master’s structure has been followed by an increase of university students from under-represented groups, and whether the Bologna structure has been accompanied by new forms of student mobility between Danish university institutions. Looking at student movements from bachelor’s to master’s degrees from 1993 to 2011, I do not find that the implementation of the Bologna structure has been followed by changes in the inclusion of under-represented groups. The social gap in progression to master’s degrees remained small and constant across the period. However, the formal instalment of a new transition point in the Danish university system (from bachelor’s to master’s) has provided bachelor’s degree holders with the opportunity to flee less lucrative fields of study and less prestigious institutions, and they increasingly do so. I discuss the implications of these movements in the light of the aim to make higher education more inclusive.

Editorial: The shadows of enlargement: Theorising mobility and inequality in a changing Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Amelina ◽  
Andreas Vasilache
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Societal Context

This introductory article of the special issue is based on the criticism of the sedentarist lens used in migration studies on social inequalities. It is organised around two questions: In what ways have forms of inequality and patterns of migration in the enlarged Europe been changed, and how should the nexus between migration and social inequality be rethought after the ‘mobility turn’ in the social sciences? First, the article proposes that the mobility turn and transnational sociology be combined to approach varieties of geographic mobility in the current Europe and that inequality analysis be conceptualised from a ‘mobile perspective’, meaning that forms of mobility and patterns of inequality be considered as mutually reinforcing. Second, Europe is considered as a fragmented and multi-sited societal context, which is co-produced by current patterns of mobility. The article discusses recent societal shifts such as supranationalisation and the end of socialism in the Eastern part of Europe (among many others) and identifies the concept of assemblage as a useful heuristic tool both for migration studies and European studies. Third, the final part illustrates how the contributions collected in this special issue address the challenges of the sedentarist lens and provide conceptual solutions to the analytical problems in question.

scholarly journals Southern Criminology: Guest Editors’ Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Hogg ◽  
John Scott ◽  
Máximo Sozzo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Continuous Space ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Discourses

Knowledge is a commodity and knowledge production does not occur in a geo-political vacuum. With respect to this, it has to be argued that neo-imperialism involves economic and knowledge flows across continuous space, which is transnational and distinct from the old forms of colonialism which were based on country-to-country occupation. In the context of contemporary geo-politics, these conditions render territorial terrain as less important than discursive terrain (Lo 2011).  So, how is global knowledge in the social sciences (and more specifically in criminology) produced and shared? Where does this production take place? Who are the producers? Whose experiences and whose voices are reflected in dominant academic discourses? How is knowledge disseminated and who gets access to it? These are some of the questions that the project of southern criminology seeks to tackle. To access the full text of the introductory article to this special issue on southern criminology, download the accompanying PDF file.

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