scholarly journals Existential vulnerability and transition: Struggling with involuntary childlessness on Instagram

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (s4) ◽  
pp. 168-184
Author(s):  
Kristina Stenström ◽  
Teresa Cerratto Pargman
Keyword(s):  
Safe Space ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
A Site

Abstract In their efforts to find others who share their experiential reality and existential struggle, many involuntarily childless women turn to Instagram to engage and participate in the practice of trying-to-conceive (TTC) communication. Through the conceptual lens of digital existence, where the digital and online are regarded as constitutive of existential transition, we draw on ten interviews and an online ethnography to explore some of the struggles that involuntarily childless women experience with and through technology. We find that TTC communication can be constitutive of coming to terms with the status of involuntary childlessness. In particular, this study illustrates that TTC communication, for involuntarily childless women, is both a site of struggle and a safe space as they transition to nonmotherhood in an existential terrain where they share an intimate journey.

Jeanne Duval

2020 ◽  
pp. 307-313
Author(s):  
Mireille Rosello
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Edouard Manet ◽  
Gustave Courbet ◽  
Century Poetry ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
A Site

This particular attempt at imagining a site of memory made of words may appear irreverent at first, but it has been crafted as an homage to a formidable woman: Jeanne Duval. I have taken the liberty of fictionalizing a first-person narrator who will talk about ‘herself’, at the risk of usurping her voice and her identity. Jeanne (whose name was or was not Duval) was a woman of colour and she had a long-term turbulent relationship with the enfant terrible of French nineteenth-century poetry, Charles Baudelaire. As a result, historical accounts both magnify and marginalize her. Trying to do justice to a historical character who was so much more than a muse but may not have been happy to embrace the role of exemplary black foremother, this text puts together the numerous and often incompatible portraits of Jeanne Duval. She appears and disappears in biographies (Emmanuel Richon), novels (Fabienne Pasquet), short stories (Angela Carter), academic studies (Claude Pichois). She is both present and absent, celebrated and erased in the so-called ‘Black Venus cycle’ of Baudelaire’s Flower of Evil as well as in paintings by Edouard Manet (Baudelaire’s Mistress, Reclining) and Gustave Courbet (The Painter’s Studio). The objective was to question the process of memorialization that might silence or appropriate her instead of providing her with a safe space of memory. It remains to be seen to what extent Jeanne is here celebrated or betrayed.

Suffering and Sacrifice

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Sarah Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Late Antique ◽  
Babylonian Talmud ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Physical Suffering ◽  
The Status ◽  
Spiritual Self ◽  
And Function ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

This article offers the argument that suffering (yisurin) in the Babylonian Talmud functions as a locus for the relationship between God and rabbinic Jews. Scholars of rabbinic martyrdom and asceticism have tended to claim that the Talmud's positive portrayal of suffering is a theodical apology for unexplained evil in the world. However, the article argues that the Talmud—in contrast to earlier rabbinic texts—presents suffering as spiritually relevant not primarily to justify preexisting suffering, but rather to develop a site at which to interpret information about an individual's spiritual status. The article draws on theories of sacrifice's structure and function, in conjunction with close analysis of rabbinic texts that relate suffering to sacrifice. The pericope at the core of the article's argument demonstrates a strikingly technical approach to the human experience of suffering, describing four examples of yisurin in which no real physical suffering occurs; in each instance the “victim” experiences extremely mild discomfort at most, and at the least barely registers an experience of inconvenience. Nonetheless, these experiences all qualify as “suffering,” and are thus still understood to bear indisputable soteriological import. Physical suffering in the Talmud is thus open for interpretation, yielding information about the status of the sufferer's spiritual self. Human suffering is viewed as religiously desirable in both late rabbinic and early Christian literatures. By developing an understanding of its hermeneutical function for the rabbis, this article helps to elucidate the value of suffering for rabbinic literature as a subset of late antique religious discourse.

The value of and values in the work of teachers in Estonia

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eeva Kesküla ◽  
Krista Loogma
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Value System ◽  
Material Recognition ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Societal Value ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
A Site

This article considers how the status of teachers relates to a changing value system, and how the perceived worth of a profession depends on the values its practitioners carry. The article analyses the work of teachers as both productive and reproductive, needing both material and non-material recognition. It argues that in times of radical social change, social groups struggle to determine what value is. The rapid introduction of a neoliberal market economy in Estonia has created a situation where teachers’ labour becomes a site of contestation determining what values prevail in society. Based on 24 semi-structured life history interviews, this article combines theories of the value of labour, of professionalism and the anthropological theory of value to argue for the key role that teachers play during rapid change to a societal value regime.

scholarly journals Talking about the Trayvon Martin Case in Psychology and Conseling Training and Psychotheraphy

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Sannisha K. Dale ◽  
Jessica Henderson Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Multicultural Issues ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
A Site ◽  
Taking Action ◽  
Trayvon Martin

The Trayvon Martin tragedy (the shooting of a Black male adolescent in a Florida gated community) was covered frequently by media outlets for a few months before the level of coverage gradually became only periodic updates on the status of the case and court proceedings. In response to the coverage, the listserv of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) became a site for sharing information about the case, resources, comments and recommendations. Inspired by one of the comments regarding the importance of taking action in the form of conversations and dialogues in counseling and psychology training settings and psychotherapy, this article (1) reviews guidelines such as the APA Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists, (2) notes applicable literature on the importance of promoting discussions about multicultural issues in training settings and psychotherapy, (3) describes examples of discussions held in training settings following the tragedy, and (4) lists several recommendations for facilitating conversations about the tragedy.

scholarly journals Architecture, space and ideology: Between Adorno and Lefebvre

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Mateja Kurir
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Total System ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Status ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
A Site

Can architecture become a site of resistance to the machinery of estrangement and alienation? The German philosopher Theodor Adorno found art, where he included specific forms of architecture, to be the only exit from the dominance of machinery of the total system. If architecture in Adorno's philosophy could, with its negative position, step behind the screens into an autonomous art, the French philosopher and sociologist, Henri Lefebvre, developed a more radical notion: the distinctive scenery of architecture, everyday life, is intensely subjected to alienation. As much as Lefebvre puts focus on abstract and social space as a specific production of social relations, he also argued that every architecture is a priori ideological. Introducing the status architecture was given by Adorno and Lefebvre in the age of the birth of neoliberalism, thus paralleling the concepts of cultural industries with arts, social with abstract space, the paper outlines the basic entry point of two distinctive representatives of NEO-Marxism into architecture, in order to suggest an epistemology of architecture, which starts at a foremost critical point.

The status and significance of the hybrid Eucalyptus marginata Sm. × E. megacarpa F.Muell

1962 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
LD Pryor ◽  
LAS Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Progeny Test ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Eucalyptus Marginata ◽  
South West ◽  
Single Character ◽  
Original Specimen ◽  
The Status ◽  
Hybrid Eucalyptus ◽  
A Site

Blakely's manuscript name Eucalyptus "rivalis" was applied to a specimen taken from a site about 30 miles south-west of Perth, W.A., where at least two trees apparently identical with the original specimen are growing at the boundary of areas occupied by E. marginata and E. megacarpa. On the basis of conditions of occurrence, morphology, and a progeny test it is considered that E. "rivalis" is a hybrid between E. marginata and E. megacarpa. There is morphological evidence that E. megacarpa and the related E. preissiana have more characters in common with the Renantherae than with any other section in the genus and that these species were incorrectly placed by Blakely in the Macrantherae, an error resulting from the use of a single character, anther shape, in determining affinity. From evidence of morphology and occurrence it is considered that E. kalganensis and E. chrysantha probably represent hybrids of E. preissiana with the renantherous species E. marginata and E. sepulcralis respectively, providing cases parallel with E. "rivalis".

scholarly journals Long-term monitoring of the endemic Rana latastei: suggestions for after-LIFE management

Oryx ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Canova ◽  
Alessandro Balestrieri
Keyword(s):  
Breeding Season ◽  
Habitat Restoration ◽  
Egg Mass ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
The Status ◽  
Yearly Change ◽  
A Site ◽  
Term Monitoring ◽  
Rana Latastei

AbstractWe monitored egg clutch numbers of a population of the endemic Italian agile frog Rana latastei in a Site of Community Interest in northern Italy (SCI IT 209000) during 1997–2017 with the aim of assessing the long-term variation in its abundance. We walked along the banks of canals and small ponds (n = 22) 1–3 times per week between early February and mid-April each year to detect egg clutches. The relationships between the start of the breeding season, yearly egg mass counts, rate of yearly change in the number of recorded egg masses and 15 climatic and environmental variables were assessed by multiple regression. The first deposition of eggs occurred progressively later in the year throughout the study period and mean air temperature during the breeding season decreased over this period. Agile frogs showed high deposition site-fidelity. Despite large variations in the number of egg clutches detected from year to year, the population size remained stable in the long term. Peaks in the number of egg clutches occurred 2 years after the dredging of canals, carried out every 4–6 years to improve water availability, starting in 2004 as part of a LIFE Nature Project. This was the only predictor of the number of egg clutches deposited, suggesting that periodical management is needed to support the agile frog population. Our results reinforce the need for multi-year monitoring to determine both the long-term success of habitat restoration projects and the status of residual populations.

Play and leisure in Australian School Age Care: Reconceptualizing children’s waiting as a site of play and labour

Childhood ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 462-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
School Age ◽  
Australian School ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
The Status ◽  
A Site ◽  
Programming Practices

Australian School Age Care programmes are little researched childhood settings that are commonly understood as sites of leisure and play in between school and home. This article draws on recent research to consider the status of a seemingly non-playful activity, that of children’s waiting in School Age Care. The poststructural framing in this article conceptualizes waiting as an activity that incorporates acts of emotional labour, play and identity construction. It prompts consideration of whether waiting is a site of play and should therefore be incorporated in programming practices in School Age Care and other play-based settings.

A Constraint-Satisfaction Approach to Studying the Management of Multiple Objectives in Design Problem-Solving

2006 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 488-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Chevalier ◽  
Julien Cegarra
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Constraint Satisfaction ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Multiple Objectives ◽  
Objective Condition ◽  
External Constraints ◽  
External Constraint ◽  
The Status ◽  
A Site

How professional and novice designers manage multiple objectives through constraint satisfaction was studied. An objective is defined as a network of constraints; a constraint is characterized as related to a source (internal or external) and an addressee (e.g., client or user). It has been shown that designers favour objectives related to external constraint (e.g., data from the task) and to the client. Generally, client and external constraints are identical. To study the management of multiple objectives, fifteen web site designers were instructed to design a site according to user's objectives or client's objectives. Our results indicate that the validity status allocated to constraints is more determined by the status of the addressee than by the status of the source, whatever the objective condition that must be satisfied. Possible methodological generalizations are discussed.

scholarly journals Beliefs, Health-Seeking Practices, and Effects of Childlessness: The Experiences of Married Women

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Luzviminda P. Relon
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Childless Women ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Almost All

In a society which recognizes the significance of children, giving birth to a child completes womanhood and the family. Thus, being a mother is synonymous with being a woman. The failure, then to become a mother, constitutes not fully achieving the status of a woman. Relatively, the desire for motherhood is inevitable and almost universal. This qualitative study analyzed the beliefs, and experiences of married women focused on their childlessness, health-seeking practices, and effects. Data were gathered through in-depth interview. Results showed that childlessness typified an unanticipated condition among the childless women. Regardless of the current age, age at marriage, marital duration, educational attainment and income, the respondents disclosed that childlessness is a condition which can be treated, provided the woman is still young. Childless women with higher income would likely seek medical help. Length of marriage disclosed to have affected the childless women’s recognition of their incapability to sire. Open communication coupled with trust, love, and understanding between couples would keep the marriage intact. Findings revealed that their self-esteem, marital relationship, relationship with relatives and friends were affected by the absence of children. Almost all of the respondents expressed that the communities they are into neither, in any way, bothered with their condition nor rejected them due to their childlessness.

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