scholarly journals Spenningsforhold mellom beskyttelse og medvirkning i forskning på familieråd

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
Lene Nygaard Solli
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Family Group ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Outcome Goals ◽  
Shed Light

In this chapter I discuss research on Family Group Conferences (FGC). The aim is to discuss whether the research recognises the tension between two core values in child protection work: protection and participation. The research is divided into three categories: research on effect, research on experiences, and research on power. Research on effect is based on ambitious outcome goals concerning protection. Research on people’s experiences with FGC contributes with a more nuanced and optimistic evaluation of the model. However, this research does not address power relations involved in the process. Research on power in FGC has a critical perspective and demonstrates how the process can conceal power relations. Even though these contributions shed light on important issues, I argue for the need to include a perspective on power as relational and productive. I consider Foucault’s contribution to the study of power in modern Western societies as a valuable approach.

The Power of Nature in the High North

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trude Fonneland
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
Shed Light

In this chapter, I explore shamans’ relationships with the nature of the high north. How is nature included in their practices and how does the use of nature relate to the legitimizing of modern Sámi shamanism? I base the discussion on the view that landscapes are constituted as meaningful entities through events. However, different experiences, interests, and agendas make the same landscape evolve with different meanings. To shed light on these issues, I start by putting in context some of the background for the interest in nature and landscape that is expressed by the shamans I have interviewed and that can be related to the interest in nature among modern Pagans as well as within the New Age spiritualties.

scholarly journals Kulturelle verdier og barnevernet: Ulike forståelser av «barnets beste»

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-111
Author(s):  
Mari Rysst
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Psychological Anthropology ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Parenting Values

In this chapter I discuss cultural values related to child protection services (CPS). More precisely, I focus on professionals working in CPS and their relationship and meetings with families of immigrant origins. These meetings often reflect different cultural values and understandings of “the best interest of the child” and may cause tensions and misunderstandings. In the Norwegian CPS system, professionals have to draw on professional and personal experiences in decisions concerning the “best interest of the child”. This chapter uses concepts and perspectives from psychological anthropology to throw light on these processes. This is because these perspectives show how ideas and experiences are internalized and embodied as dispositions in habitus that may motivate certain actions when professionals and immigrant families meet. I also discuss whether some reactions and advice from professionals may be understood as ethnocentric because Norwegian parenting values are presented as “better” than parenting values from other countries.

scholarly journals How does the governance of the executive branch operate in democratic Brazil? An analysis of the Center of Government

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (75) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Luiz Costa Cavalcante ◽  
Alexandre de Ávila Gomide
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Governance Arrangement ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Joint Research Project ◽  
Priority Policy ◽  
Shed Light

ABSTRACT Introduction: This paper aims to analyze how the Center of Government (CoG) operates as units responsible for conducting the presidential agenda in contemporary Brazil. Materials and Methods: The study applied the theoretical approach of CoG as a governance arrangement and used qualitative and quantitative data to reach its objective. Besides the bibliographic review on the literature and official documents, the study synthesizes and deepens empirical data and information from a joint research project covering the period of political stability in Brazil, from 1995 to 2014, when elected presidents ended their terms. Results: The empirical findings confirm that CoG is a flexible and dynamic phenomenon. It puts a critical perspective on the normative “good governance” approach that overvalues its technical dimension and neglects its political aspect. Discussion: The inquiry results shed light on the importance of the relation between politics and policy, by demonstrating that CoG’s configuration and functions vary due to multiple causes, each president’s priority policy agenda is implemented with different strategies and; the prioritized policies follow a unique coordination logic inside the Brazilian federal government.

Postcolonial Freud: Psychoanalysis in the French Antilles

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Simek
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
French Antilles ◽  
Cultural Alienation

While Martinique and Guadeloupe were assimilated into the French state in 1946, traces of colonial power relations and economic structures persist despite the islands' current status as French départements equal to any other. This article examines the contributions of Freud's thought to the shift in critical perspective that has allowed the continued ‘colonial’ status of these islands, and the cultural alienation of its people, to be identified as a problem or phenomenon requiring analysis and rectification. Speaking of ‘postcolonial Freud’ in this context is tantamount to asking: which postcolony for the French Antillean future, and which Freud for the thought emerging from this space?

Ideology, positionality and war

Interpreting ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Martin ◽  
María Gómez-Amich
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
International Security ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Common Enemy ◽  
Security Assistance ◽  
International Security Assistance Force ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract The objective of this article is to explore issues of ideology in situations of interpreting in conflict zones. Research into interpreting in conflict zones is quite recent and has shed light on interesting aspects. Ideology is clearly present in war situations and may condition the interpreter’s role. This article seeks to identify examples of power relations and ideology by drawing on the narratives of five local interpreters who worked with Spanish troops stationed in Afghanistan as part of the International Security Assistance Force between 2003 and 2015. The narratives were collected using a semi-structured interview technique. The findings indicate that ideology is reflected in the interpreters’ perception of their own role as agents working for the good of their country against a common enemy, even though they were potentially perceived by both sides in the conflict as possible traitors. The traditional narrative of the interpreter as an invisible and impartial facilitator of communication would not appear to be applicable in this context.

Impact of Moroccan Female MPs on the Decision Making Process: Challenges and Limitations

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Ghita Bousmaha
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Shed Light

The notion of gender has always been a debatable issue especially when it comes to power relations. This article is an attempt to shed light on the major forms and patterns that face these female MPs to impact the decision making process in relation to males. It focuses mainly on the nature and forms these MPs can have as decision makers. To achieve this aim, we look at the effectiveness of these women in decision zones. Female MPs were interviewed especially to evaluate the outcome of a long struggle that attempts to change the pre-constructed images associated with these female effectiveness. Moroccan female members of the parliament’s impact on decision making process is mostly governed by a set of cultural and political formations; it is not a question of time or space, but mostly in how these notions have been constructed to meet special aims.

scholarly journals Structural Foundations of Social Resilience

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-552
Author(s):  
Hulya Dagdeviren ◽  
Luis Capucha ◽  
Alexandre Calado ◽  
Matthew Donoghue ◽  
Pedro Estêvão
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Distinct Role

This article aims to contribute to the theoretical development of the social resilience approach. Recognising the interface between resilience and poverty studies, it proposes a distinct role for resilience research from a critical perspective to understand the dynamics of hardship in exceptional times, such as times of socio-economic crises, rather than explaining the long-term trajectories of poverty. It then provides a conceptual framework on the structural foundations of social resilience, highlighting three components: rules, resources and power relations. The article uses the 2008 crisis and the ensuing period of austerity as a microcosm to place the discussion within a contemporary context.

scholarly journals The Empire Tweets Back? #HumanitarianStarWars and Memetic Self-Critique in the Aid Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511988865
Author(s):  
Peter Chonka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Still Images ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
Shed Light

In 2015, a series of memes appeared on Twitter under the hashtag #HumanitarianStarWars. Combining still images from the original Star Wars movies with ironic references to humanitarian/development jargon and institutions, the memes presented a humorous reflection on the modern aid industry. While memetic content has become an increasingly scrutinized area in digital culture studies—particularly with regard to unbounded and anonymous online communities, and popular discursive contestation—this article examines #HumanitarianStarWars to shed light on the possibilities and problematics of social media auto-critique undertaken by “insiders” in a particular professional realm. Keeping in mind critiques of the racial and imperial connotations of the (Western) pop-culture mythology itself, the article explores the use of the Star Wars franchise as a vehicle for commentary on an industry at work in the “Global South.” It highlights an ambiguous process of meaning-making that can be traced through the memes’ generation, circulation, and re-mediation. Although the memes provide a satirical self-reflection on practitioners’ experiences and perspectives of power relations in the global development industry, certain tendencies emerge in their remixing of this Hollywood universe that may reinforce some of the dynamics that they ostensibly critique. The article argues that examination of the ideological ambivalence of an institutional micro-meme can yield valuable insights into tensions playing out in professional social media spaces where public/private boundaries are increasingly and irrevocably blurred.

scholarly journals ‘Volunteering is like any other business’: Civic participation and social media

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 2186-2207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kaun ◽  
Julie Uldam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Shed Light

The increased influx of refugees in 2015 has led to challenges in transition and destination countries such as Germany, Sweden and Denmark. Volunteer-led initiatives providing urgent relief played a crucial role in meeting the needs of arriving refugees. The work of the volunteers in central stations and transition shelters was mainly organised with the help of Facebook, in terms of both inward and outward communications. This article examines the role of social media for civic participation drawing on Swedish volunteer initiatives that emerged in the context of the migration crisis in 2015 as a case study. Theoretically, this article provides an analytical framework, including power relations, technological affordances, practices and discourses, which helps shed light on the interrelation between social media and civic participation.

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