scholarly journals Love, Betrayal and Violence: A Female Subjugation in Shakespeare’s Play Othello

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Dr. ABHA SINGH
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Criminal Violence ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Honour Killing ◽  
Indian Setting ◽  
Insight Into

 Women across historical, social and religious boundaries have been pitted against the asphyxiating patriarchal norms and rigid cultural constructs which bestow power, dominance and freedom on man, and push her into the margins of both, society and domestic space. The current paper attempts to explore the mechanics of domestic violence, and its treatment in William Shakespeare’s Othello. The aim is to ascertain how the playwright addresses the issue of crime against women within the familial and social world of his times. Based on the theme of power politics within domestic hierarchy, the play not only lays bare a grim picture of domestic abuse and violence against women in matrimony, but also offers an insight into the psyche of abusers. The dialectics of power struggle in the play written in the 16thcentury is a reflection of the playwright’s sensitivity towards the existential reality of women of his times and his negation of male hegemony and criminal violence in conjugal relations. . Vishal Bhardwaj adopted Othello to make the film Omkara in 2006. Bringing the 17th century Elizabethan society in the 21st century Indian setting, Bhardwaj deftly pointed out the present scenario. There are numerous cases of a father’s restriction on daughter’s freedom of choice, brother’s threat to the sister for not to disgrace their family apart from ‘honour killing’. This continues even in the household of her ‘soul mate’ for whom she dares to defy every challenge. The predicament of modern Desdemona’s in the hand of Othello bears the testimony of Shakespeare’s immortal creation and its never ending relevance. The universality of Shakespeare is still rejoiced due to his experiment on the core region of the human psyche which fails to alter even with high-tech service or ‘progressive’ education.  

Brogdon, Blackness and the BSI: Archiving race in Sherlock Holmes fandom

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann McClellan
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black History ◽  
Black American ◽  
American Film ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Film ◽  
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Philip R. Brogdon is an avid Sherlock Holmes aficionado and the first Black American ever inducted into the exclusive – and predominantly White – Sherlock Holmes society, the Baker Street Irregulars. His small monograph, Sherlock in Black (1995), brings a wealth of archival information and insight into the Black history of Sherlock Holmes fandom, ranging from famous fans of colour to Black fan creators and a history of both professional and amateur fan art, film and music. This article argues that Brogdon’s Sherlock in Black archive provides an important counter-history to White establishment fan narratives popularized by the Baker Street Irregulars and raises important questions about the roles race and identity play in collecting, fandom and identity. How does Brogdon define Black Sherlockian fandom? What did it mean to him, and to other fans, to see this long history of Black Sherlockians in American film and media? What kinds of activities and creations are included? Brogdon’s Black Sherlock Holmes archive illuminates how fans of colour construct their own fan identities and how they see themselves in relation to large, often primarily White, cultural constructs.

Understanding control in communities of practice: Constructive disobedience in a high-tech firm

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 864-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Rennstam ◽  
Dan Kärreman
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Use ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Communities of practice (CoPs) represent a broad range of work situations characterized by shared knowledge and situated knowledge use. Although CoPs have been studied rather extensively, discussions of control in CoPs are rarer. This is peculiar because CoPs are characterized by a common tension in contemporary work: on the one hand, CoPs are expected to autonomously “think together,” but on the other they are expected to be responsive to various managerial control attempts. We interrogate this tension in an ethnographic study of engineering work, where we found that in response to management control the engineering communities engaged in constructive disobedience – that is, subversion and displacement of rules and orders to construct a dynamic of control where work can be executed autonomously. By associating constructive disobedience with control in CoPs, our study contributes with insight into and theorization of how management control is dealt with and how control operates in work characterized by CoPs. The study also provides deepened insight into the limits of management control and how professionalism may be maintained despite increased management. These insights may support development of a more knowledgeable and nuanced approach to attempts at managing communities of practice.

Scalp IV or Graduation Tassel? Differing Perspectives of the NICU Experience

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
Anne Lord
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
High Stress ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Parental Perspectives ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Significant Obstacle ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
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FAMILY-FRIENDLY/FAMILY-CENTERED care in the NICU contributes to positive patient outcomes, strong families, and excellence in care. Successfully integrating the patient’s family into the care team in the high-tech, high-stress NICU environment can pose many challenges to the nursing staff. A significant obstacle to successful family-professional partnerships is lack of understanding by NICU professionals of parental perspectives of the NICU experience. This column provides unique insight into the differing perspectives of one infant’s family and the NICU staff who cared for him.

scholarly journals Partner violence against women with malignancies

Temida ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Tamara Klikovac
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Malignant Diseases ◽  
Gynecological Cancers ◽  
Oncological Treatment ◽  
Psychotherapy Practice ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Partner Violence Against Women ◽  
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The content of this paper is an overview of the results of some available foreign studies related to the experience of violence against women suffering from various malignancies, especially breast and gynecological cancers. The topic is both specific and complex because it considers double victimization - malignancy and violence. The idea for this review paper emerged from author?s observations during the years of her clinical and psychotherapy practice, who after 16 years of work with the population of children, adolescents and adults with malignant diseases at the Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, continued to deal with counseling and psychotherapy of adult oncology patients and their family members in private practice. This paper is intended to stimulate research on violence against women suffering from malignant diseases in Serbia. The author?s experience and observations from her daily psychotherapy practice indicate that violence, especially partner violence against women suffering from malignant diseases, both in the years before the onset of the disease and during and after the end of combined oncological treatment, is, unfortunately, rather present in Serbia. For a more comprehensive and systematic insight into this issue, it is necessary to conduct an ?anonymous? national victimization survey to cover women aged 19-75 who are treated for the most common malignancies typical for women (breast and gynecological cancers) in all reference national oncology centers across Serbia.

scholarly journals Eklektisisme Tasawuf: Metamorfosis Sufisme dan Relevansinya dengan Tarekat Modern

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-459
Author(s):  
Amir Maliki Abitolkha
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Religious Conflicts

Among the background of the emergence of Sufism is the Muslim struggle against the contestation and power struggle of the Umayyads in the second century Hijri. The problems of power, politics and religious conflicts that gave birth to a pragmatic and materialist attitude by some Muslims were then addressed by some ascetics by voicing an ascetic attitude towards such matters. After developing and splitting into several tarekat, the ideological values of Sufism also changed and shifted and even led to the path of the ideology of Sufism. This shift is what this research wants to uncover, considering how important it is to explain the pure ideology of Sufism by presenting historical and contextual studies as a shield for worldly conflicts and power. By using literature research, this article concludes that the style of Sufi teaching that adheres to the eclecticism model has historical roots as a balance between the profane and the secular. The eclectic Sufi style contains three basic principles of Sufi teachings, namely realizing worldly life as an undeniable reality, spiritual practice rituals such as remembrance and relying on sharia. In addition, Sufi teachings with an eclectic style have a strong level of relevance to religious patterns in Indonesia, the pattern of Sunnī madhhab.

Violence against women in the Irish Civil War, 1922–3: gender-based harm in global perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (165) ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
Gemma Clark
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Gender Based

AbstractSince the 1990s, in the wake of the wars and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, violence against women in wartime has become a matter of international concern. This article, on gender-based violence (G.B.V.) during the Irish Civil War, draws on research from scholars and activists around the globe, and newly accessible archival sources, to highlight the relatively humane treatment of women in Ireland – even during the bitter final stages of the Irish Revolution, c.1912–23. Records of the Irish Free State's Compensation (Personal Injuries) Committee show that women suffered some serious and traumatising interpersonal violence during 1922–3 – often on account of their gender (as guardians of the domestic space). Women's interactions with the Civil War were thus distinctive from men's because of the prevalence in Ireland of forms of aggression and intimidation, including crimes against property, which transgressed public/private boundaries. However, I argue that it did not serve the strategy nor ideology of either warring side to denigrate women en masse. The genocidal aims underlying conflict-related G.B.V. elsewhere in the world were absent in Ireland, where gendered power structures, shored up by Catholic authority, remained largely unshaken by the revolution – despite the great efforts of many radical females. Revolutionary Ireland was not a safe place for many Irishwomen (nor indeed for some men); however, for pro- and anti-Treaty forces, maintaining propriety militated against the need for sexual violence as warfare.

Unvaxxed: A Cultural Study of the Online Anti-Vaccination Movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110560
Author(s):  
Carlina DiRusso ◽  
Kathleen Stansberry
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
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In this study, the constructive communication process of anti-vaccination advocates is explored to provide insight into the challenges of communicating with an engaged, educated public that is distrustful of mainstream medical and governmental organizations. Using the circuit of culture as a theoretical and methodological model, this article examines how anti-vaccination advocates use social media to construct and reinforce a belief system that counters dominate understandings of health. Findings show that, through online communication, anti-vaccination advocates create shared cultural constructs embracing the identity of health information crusader, critic, and expert. This community consumes, produces, and distributes information that reframes mainstream health information and reinforces shared values. The purposes of this study are to better understand the culture of anti-vaccination advocates, identify communication barriers, and offer practical implications for health care professionals.

scholarly journals Heath Beliefs of UK South Asians Related to Lifestyle Diseases: A Review of Qualitative Literature

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Lucas ◽  
Esther Murray ◽  
Sanjay Kinra
Keyword(s):  
Health Beliefs ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Eating Practices ◽  
Lifestyle Diseases ◽  
Minority Research ◽  
Insight Into

Objective. To review available qualitative evidence in the literature for health beliefs and perceptions specific to UK South Asian adults. Exploring available insight into the social and cultural constructs underlying perceptions related to health behaviours and lifestyle-related disease.Methods. A search of central databases and ethnic minority research groups was augmented by hand-searching of reference lists. For included studies, quality was assessed using a predetermined checklist followed by metaethnography to synthesise the findings, using both reciprocal translation and line-of-argument synthesis to look at factors impacting uptake of health behaviours.Results. A total of 10 papers varying in design and of good quality were included in the review. Cultural and social norms strongly influenced physical activity incidence and motivation as well as the ability to engage in healthy eating practices.Conclusions. These qualitative studies provide insight into approaches to health among UK South Asians in view of their social and cultural norms. Acknowledgement of their approach to lifestyle behaviours may assist acceptability of interventions and delivery of lifestyle advice by health professionals.

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