scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ovamir Anjum
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Supreme Leader ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Methodological Reflection

Shirin Saeidi’s “A Passionate Pursuit of Justice: Towards an Ethics of IslamicFeminist Research Practice” is a well-researched and thought-provokingpiece on the question of how a scholar investigating lived practices (of Islam,in this case) may fruitfully deploy feminist theoretical perspectives;in particular, “how a feminist committed to breaking down hierarchiesbetween research participants and herself can carefully study ambiguousactivism.” By “ambiguous activism” the author seems to mean the practicesof groups or forms of life toward which the author feels morally ambivalent.Her essay is a judicious combination of literature review of feministtheorization, methodological reflection, and self-reflection in the contextof her object of study. Her object of study is Iran’s Hezbollah, a conservativecultural movement backed by the mullahs and in this respect, quite unlikeother Islamist movements in the Middle East; a movement, Saeidi notes,which may be regarded as both “oppressive, but also suppressed.” Whileenjoying powerful backing by the Supreme Leader (still the king-maker inIran) it struggles within civil society against secularization and individualisticreligiosity introduced by neoliberalism ...

scholarly journals Optimizing The Resilience of Healthcare Workers Against The COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-4
Author(s):  
Muchtar ◽  
Ray Wagiu Basrowi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Identification Process ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Psychosocial Hazards ◽  
Mental Health Support ◽  
Health Support

Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers have physical and psychosocial pressure in carrying out their work. The requirement for healthcare workers in dealing with the pandemic is so high, the identification process for the resilience of healthcare workers is not going well. The purpose of this article is to review about how to optimize the resilience of healthcare workers exposed to COVID-19 outbreak working conditions. Methods: This literature review is conducted in October 2021. Research related to the resilience of healthcare workers during COVID-19 Pandemic by using valid keywords, including resilience, healthcare workers, COVID-19 through ProQuest, ScienceDirect and SpingerLink. Results: A total of 10 articles were selected for the literature review. The process of self-reflection is one of the important things for healthcare workers. Optimizing relisience of healthcare workers by carrying out an efficient division of tasks to reduce workloads, give more attention to their needs, provide training and knowledge about digital applications to increase capacity in carrying out their work, provide mental health support for healthcare workers and creating a safe and comfortable work environment for them. Conclusions: Maintaining health during the COVID-19 pandemic is an important thing that needs to be done by healthcare workers. Stress management is an important factor in dealing with a pandemic. Create an assessment of the resilience of healthcare workers by detecting gaps, determining priorities, developing plans to prevent psychosocial hazards at all levels both individual and organizational levels.

scholarly journals MASYARAKAT MADANI ANTARA SEMU DAN REALITA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-170
Author(s):  
Armyn Hasibuan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
National Partnership

This paper discusses the civil society be the goal of missionary activity in the present and future. This paper uses a literature review of books about the themes in the study . After a study found that the civil society to achieve the necessary awareness, willingness , readiness , unity and national partnership patriotic , religious , selfless solidarity or socialism . It is something that is difficult to reach, so, it’s between  realty and impossible but the first step has been started by the Prophet as a personal leader and manager.This is had ever exsist to example.Tulisan ini membahas tentang masyarakat madani yang menjadi tujuan dalam kegiatan dakwah pada masa sekarang dan akan datang. Tulisan ini menggunakan kajian literatur dari buku-buku yang berkenaan dengan tema kajian. Setelah dilakukan kajian mendapatkan bahwa untuk mencapai masyarakat madani diperlukan kesadaran, kemauan, kesediaan, kebersamaan dan kemitraan kebangsaan yang patriotis, religious, solidaritas atau sosialisme tanpa pamrih. Memang sesuatu yang sukar dicapai sampai orang mengatakan masyarakat madani antara semu dan realita, namun langkah awal telah dimulai oleh Rasulullah Saw sebagai pribadi yang leader dan manager.Tentu sesuatu yang telah pernah ada menjadi percontohan yang dapat ditiru dan diambil.

scholarly journals Vulnerability and Primary Health Care: An Integrative Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 215013272110497
Author(s):  
Janise Braga Barros Ferreira ◽  
Luciane Loures dos Santos ◽  
Luciana Cisoto Ribeiro ◽  
Belkiss Rolim Rodrigues Fracon ◽  
Sabrina Wong
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The objective was to analyze the evidence available in the scientific literature on the concept of vulnerability, in theoretical perspectives and its use, in Primary Health Care. An integrative literature review was carried out with the inclusion criteria: articles in English, full text, peerreviewed, related to vulnerability and primary health care, with the explicit concept of vulnerability, and published until July 31, 2020. The electronic databases accessed were by crossing the descriptors “vulnerability,” “vulnerabilities,” “primary health care,” “primary healthcare,” and “primary care.” The final sample consisted of 19 articles. The thematic analysis produced 2 themes: “Theoretical foundations of the concept of vulnerability” and “The use of the concept of vulnerability in PHC.” In the second theme, 2 sub-themes emerged: Evaluation of health policies, programs, and services and Classification of individuals, groups, and families. There was a plurality of theoretical foundations for the concept of vulnerability and a smaller scope of its use in Primary Health Care. It is expected that the study will subsidize public policymakers and health teams in the design of services and actions aimed at vulnerable populations and in situations of vulnerability.

scholarly journals Symbols and narratives of Europe: Three tropes

2021 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Johan Fornas
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Introductory Remark ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Interpretive Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Cultural Entity ◽  
Methodological Reflection

Throughout history, attempts have been made to identify Europe as a geographical, political, social, and cultural entity. Recent efforts to establish key symbols and narratives of Europe have focused on a set of central signifying elements, even if there is a wide and contradictory range of ways to define, structure, and interpret them. An introductory remark on the current debate on the need for renewed European self-reflection paves the way for some conceptual clarifications of my approach to concepts like culture, meaning, identity and mediation. A methodological reflection accompanies this on how to use semiotic tools in cultural studies based on critical hermeneutics. The concept of culture used here is based on the signifying practice of mediating meaning-making, linking imagination to communication in a triangular dynamic between texts, subjects, and contexts. Examples are given from two research projects on a broad and diverse range of European symbols and narratives, illustrating such interpretive research results. European identifications are crystallized and spun around three dominant tropes: supreme universality, resurrection from division, and communicative mobility. Their intricate tensions and interrelations attest to how deeply Europe remains a highly contested and dynamic meaning cluster.

FUNDAMENTALISM, BUREAUCRATIZATION, AND THE STATE'S CO-OPTATION OF RELIGION: A JORDANIAN CASE STUDY

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Antoun
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Middle East ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Equal Duration ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half

In the Middle East over the past half-century, three religious processes have grown together. One, the growth of fundamentalism, has received worldwide attention both by academics and journalists. The others, the bureaucratization of religion and the state co-optation of religion, of equal duration but no less importance, have received much less attention. The bureaucratization of religion focuses on the hierarchicalization of religious specialists and state co-optation of religion focuses on their neutralization as political opponents. Few commentators link the three processes. In Jordan, fundamentalism, the bureaucratization of religion (BOR), and state co-optation of religion (SCR) have become entwined sometimes in mutually supportive and sometimes in antagonistic relations. The following case study will describe and analyze the implications of this mutual entanglement for the relations of state and civil society and for the human beings simultaneously bureaucratized and “fundamentalized.”

Sultanism

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-76
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Sub Saharan

To facilitate a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the concept of sultanism, this chapter provides a detailed theoretical and empirical literature review. Firstly, it considers the oriental origins of the concept, as applied by Max Weber and others to the Ottoman Empire and a number of South Asian examples. Secondly, it traces the emergence of ‘contemporary sultanism’, as applied by scholars to Latin American regimes from the mid-twentieth century and onwards. Thirdly, it explores the more recent concept of neo-sultanism and the development of a distinct international empirical category of autocratic-authoritarianism which includes: various Latin America regimes; some of the former communist republics of central Asia and Eastern Europe; and a number of regimes in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Southeast Asia. Finally, it assesses the need to address the scholarly deficit in applying contemporary sultanism or neo-sultanism to the Middle East, and suggests that the present-day Saudi And UAE regimes may be strong examples.

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