Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Bronwen Horton
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Cardiovascular Mortality ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Migrant Farmworkers ◽  
Heat Death ◽  
Shed Light

Why do farmworkers experience heat death more frequently than other outdoor workers, and why are migrant men at particular risk? While heat death may appear a “natural” phenomenon, this book instead implicates U.S. public policies in its production. Drawing upon nearly a decade of ethnography with the same 15 migrant farmworkers, this book examines the way that U.S. labor and immigration policies place them at particular risk in the fields, even as health and social assistance policies offer them little succor when their bodies begin to decline. Yet this book is not about heat death alone; instead, it uses the phenomenon to shed light on migrant farmworkers’ higher burden of chronic illness and cardiovascular mortality at home as well. The introduction addresses the ethical and logistical challenges posed by conducting longitudinal research with vulnerable populations such as migrant farmworkers and makes the case for an advocacy anthropology.

Childhood: a device of governmentality of the child body

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurea Maria Pires Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Mode Of Action ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Reference Center ◽  
Society Of Control ◽  
Legal Procedures ◽  
Do So

This work aimed to problematize the production of the object childhood as a governmentality device, gradually reconfigured in disciplinary society, biopolitics, as Foucault (1979) says, and in the society of control, as explained by Deleuze (1990) and Lazzari (2008). To do so, we used the cartographic method, which points out that, following legal procedures, we research and intervene, intending to produce other realities, seeking to break with the logic of capture established, we will follow the practices of a psychologist in a Specialized Reference Center of Social Assistance (CREAS), which works with children and adolescents victims of rights violations. Pointing out how the production of a literature of Education, at the same time as its production as a field of knowledge, it produced a certain mode of action and a certain subjective profile of childhood, affecting another relationship between families and the Modern State through public policies.

The Bolsa Família Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémi Fernand Lavergne ◽  
Bernadete Beserra
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bolsa Familia ◽  
And Control

The Bolsa Família Program is the flagship of Brazil’s targeted public policies. It exemplifies a particular approach to the public management of alterity, an approach that reveals a state more preoccupied with rationalizing public expenditures and building social peace than with policies oriented toward income distribution, democratization, and the expansion of social rights. The program is a form of biopolitics, inscribed in a framework aimed at the normalization, regimentation, and control of the population that receives the benefit. Lifelong social assistance and education are important instruments of subjectivation and the production of subjectivities with an eye to influencing the conduct of indigent and marginalized populations. The goal is to influence the conduct of indigent and marginalized populations and, in a movement quite the reverse of the touted “inclusion,” to separate them more and more from the citizenship that the program advertises and promises. Líder das políticas públicas focalizadas no Brasil, o Programa Bolsa Família exemplifica uma forma de gestão pública da alteridade que revela um Estado mais preocupado com as questões de racionalização dos gastos públicos e construção da paz social do que com uma política de distribuição de renda, democratização e expansão dos direitos sociais. Esse programa remete a uma forma de biopolítica e inscreve-se numa perspectiva de normalização, regulamentação e controle das populações beneficiárias. A assistência social e a educação por toda a vida constituem importantes instrumentos na produção de subjetividades com vistas a influenciar a conduta das populações indigentes e marginalizadase, ao contrário da propagada “inclusão”, distanciá-las cada vez mais da cidadania que o próprio programa anuncia.

Research Assistants Caught in Limbo: Considering Their Role in Quantitative, Longitudinal Research with Vulnerable Populations

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 1391-1400
Author(s):  
Suzanne Zerger ◽  
Katherine Francombe Pridham ◽  
Erin Plenert ◽  
Caitlin Newberry ◽  
Adam Whisler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Research Assistants

Developmental Trajectories of Sensorimotor and Cognitive Control in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-237
Author(s):  
Shu-Chen Li ◽  
Roxane Dilcher ◽  
Alexander Münchau
Keyword(s):  
Tourette Syndrome ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Clinical Course ◽  
Response Selection ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perception Action ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract. The relationship between tics and preceding urges in Tourette syndrome suggests that abnormal internal monitoring is reflected in abnormal perceptual, attentional, and response selection. This article uses the theory of event coding to conceptualize Tourette syndrome as a disorder of the integration of perception and action. Given that Tourette syndrome is a prototypical neurodevelopmental disorder with a characteristic clinical course in childhood and early adolescence, we focus on reviewing developmental trajectories of perception-action binding and their neural correlates in Tourette and healthy controls with a view toward the dopaminergic system. Future cross-sectional and longitudinal research systematically comparing typical development and Tourette-related alterations of neurophysiological correlates underlying perception-action binding may shed light on individual differences in the clinical course in adolescence and adulthood.

Toepassing van richtlijnen voor depressiezorg in verpleeghuizen en door professionals ervaren competentie, autonomie en verbondenheid

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Psychosocial Needs ◽  
Depression Care ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Depression is highly prevalent in nursing homes residents and affects their quality of life. Both prevalence and impact of depression may decrease when effective guidelines or depression care programs are used, but this appears to be a challenging task. The Self Determination Theory postulates that the realization of complex tasks is being facilitated by meeting three basic human psychosocial needs: autonomy, competence and relatedness to others. This cross-sectional study investigates the relationship between the experienced autonomy, competence and relatedness and the extent to which depression care is given according to guidelines in 46 doctors, 49 psychologists and 53 nurses from 71 Dutch nursing homes. Although autonomy and competence were significantly related to depression care according to guidelines, hierarchical multiple regression analyses with all three basic needs showed a statistically significant result for competence only. The associations don’t allow conclusions about causal relationships, longitudinal research will shed light on the direction of the association for competence.

An Unpayable Debt: For a Paracolonial Aesthetics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana Panaïté
Keyword(s):  
Public Policies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Future ◽  
Shed Light

In their writings, artists such as Lyonel Trouillot, Régis Jauffret and Léonora Miano ponder, probe and reimagine the contradictory connotations of colonial debt. Literature and theory can shed light on the burdensome, incommensurable and indivisible colonial heritage that continues to shape our era’s violent struggles, ideological incomprehensions and myopic or even catastrophic public policies. They can show that reckoning with irreconcilable visions of the past may lead to imagining a common future and they can call to a particular kind of action in which powerful emotions foster careful reflection.

scholarly journals Sobre políticas locales de seguridad para jóvenes

2017 ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Augusto Caccia-Bava
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
Shed Light

ResumenLos jóvenes, reconocidos como categoría social en movimiento, tienen que ser referencias de las políticas públicas locales sobre seguridad. Para ello, se debe concebir la seguridad como expresión de la movilización de grupos y de comunidades activas, en el seno de la sociedad civil, como también el reconocimiento de los jóvenes a partir de sus capacidades. Investigaciones y discusiones teóricas realizadas en el ámbito de institutos brasileños y del Observatorio Catalán de la Juventud iluminan este nuevo paradigma.Palabras clave: políticas públicas, seguridad urbana, juventud, formación cultural.AbstractThe young, recognized as a social group in motion, have to be references of the local public policies on security. For that purpose, security should be conceived as the expression of active groups’ and communities’ movements, in the heart of civil society, as well as the recognition of the young’s capabilities. Research and theoretical discussions carried out in Brazilian institutes and in the Catalonian Observatory of the Youth shed light on this new paradigm.Key words: public policies, city security, youth, cultural education.

scholarly journals Public committees and corporatism: How does Iceland compare to Scandinavia?

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanía Óskarsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Organized Interests ◽  
The Core ◽  
Shed Light

This paper compares the number of corporatist public committees, appointed by central government, in Iceland and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden). Its main aim is to shed light on where Iceland stands compared to these countries in term of corporatist practices. Scholars view corporatist public committees as the core expression of Scandinavian corporatism and thus well suited for the measurement of corporatism. This study shows that the functional representational channel is an important feature of Icelandic democracy. In Iceland various interest groups are integrated into the democratic process of decision-making and implementation in an institutionalized and privileged manner. This is the essence of corporatism, defined as the institutionalized and privileged integration of organized interests in the preparation and/or implementation of public policies. Moreover, the results show that Iceland is today much more corporatist than the Scandinavian countries; especially, in terms of preparatory corporatism. Already in 1970, it appears that Iceland was more corporatist than Sweden in terms of the number of corporatist committees. The paper also sheds light on sectoral corporatism in Iceland.

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