scholarly journals Guest Editorial: Mass Atrocity and Collective Healing: New Possibilities for Regenerating Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Scherto R. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Mass Atrocity

This Special Issue brings together five articles from different disciplines. It aims to contribute to the emergent critical voices in research about collective trauma and collective healing by introducing novel perspectives and inviting further debates on the relevant issues evoked. For this reason, the Special Issue focuses on collective healing through a number of prisms. First, it delves into the notions of wounding and trauma, with a view to advance a well-argued theoretical framework for understanding collective healing. Second, it identifies underlying ethical pillars for collective healing, especially the principles of equality and well-being that affirm human dignity founded on our intrinsic non-instrumental value as persons. Third, it interrogates one of the deeply seated root causes of transatlantic slavery, and establishes a connection between capitalist expansion and systematic subjugation of human beings to brutal forces for the sake of materialistic production and wealth accumulation. Thus, this Special Issue attempts to survey historical dehumanisation in some of the mass atrocities, probe their continued legacies in contemporary societies in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and highlight some of the political, psycho-social and grassroots approaches to collect healing in various contexts. In doing so, it further reflects on the conceptual, methodological and structural challenges involved when moving towards collective healing.

Persons Together

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Mittleman
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
The Image Of God

This chapter moves into the political and economic aspects of human nature. Given scarcity and interdependence, what sense has Judaism made of the material well-being necessary for human flourishing? What are Jewish attitudes toward prosperity, market relations, labor, and leisure? What has Judaism had to say about the political dimensions of human nature? If all humans are made in the image of God, what does that original equality imply for political order, authority, and justice? In what kinds of systems can human beings best flourish? It argues that Jewish tradition shows that we act in conformity with our nature when we elevate, improve, and sanctify it. As co-creators of the world with God, we are not just the sport of our biochemistry. We are persons who can select and choose among the traits that comprise our very own natures, cultivating some and weeding out others.

The Purpose of Business

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
James R. Otteson
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Purpose Of Business

Chapter 1 addresses the central importance of asking the why of everything we propose to do, not only the how. This is as important in business as in any other walk of life. This issues from the fact that human beings are essentially purposive creatures, that is, creatures who create and pursue ends, goals, and purposes. The final or ultimate goal of human life is, as Aristotle argued, eudaimonia—“happiness,” “well-being,” or “flourishing.” If that is our ultimate end, then all our activities should be deliberately ordered to help us achieve it. That includes business, and the political and economic institutions in which business operates. This chapter argues that business should contribute to and reflect our pursuit of eudaimonia. It closes with questions that this conception of human purposiveness suggests should be investigated, pointing the path forward for the rest of the book.

Meditation as a Health Patterning Modality in Nursing Practice

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Violet M. Malinski
Keyword(s):  
Change Process ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Clinical Vignettes ◽  
Health Patterning ◽  
Experience Of Flow ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract: Meditation has been practiced throughout the centuries. This article explores meditation as a health patterning modality for nurses to employ for themselves and to facilitate clients' knowing participation in their change process. The theoretical framework for this interpretation is Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings. Meditation has the potential to promote awareness of the experience of flow in the human/environment patterning process. Out of this evolves an expanded awareness of creative potentials for change. Two clinical vignettes are offered to illustrate this process. Summary: Meditation is a health patterning modality that can facilitate knowing participation in change. It broadens awareness of potentials that can be actualized as nurses and clients seek to promote their own health and well-being. Meditation can assist both in experiencing the rhythm of their human/environment mutual process and open them to an expanded field image. According to Rogers, this experiencing is pandimensional, transcending traditionally perceived limitations of space and time. Meditation opens the door onto new and creative potentialities in the process of becoming.

scholarly journals Aristotelianism and African Political Predicament: New Implications and Imperatives

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Elijah Okon John ◽  
Joseph Ajuluchukwu Uka
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Political Theories

<p><em>Aristotle’s socio-political theory emphasizes the belief that human beings are naturally political. Aristotelian ideals that the political life of a free citizen is a sovereign state which provides for the well-being of the citizenry is the highest form of life. Thus, his idea of free citizenship immediately introduces the concept of limitations between citizens—the free and the not free, the masters and the slave. The consequence of his political theory is the introduction of inequality among the members of the society but the question is: was Aristotle right in justifying social inequality? The answer to it embodies the major issues of this work. How we can evaluate Aristotle’s positive and negative socio-political theories is one of the concerns of this paper. Effort will be made to critically explicate the good aspects of his theory as well as drawing a synthesis from the critique of the condemnable aspects of Aristotle’s political philosophy in fashioning out a formidable route for African political leaders.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Global tourism in crisis: conceptual frameworks for research and practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-294
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Cheer ◽  
Dominic Lapointe ◽  
Mary Mostafanezhad ◽  
Tazim Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Tourism

Purpose The aims of this Editorial are twofold: (i) synthesise emergent themes from the special issue (ii) tender four theoretical frameworks toward examination of crises in tourism. Design/methodology/approach The thematic analysis of papers highlights a diversity of COVID-19 related crises contexts and research approaches. The need for robust theoretical interventions is highlighted through the four proposed conceptual frameworks. Findings Crises provides a valuable seam from which to draw new empirical and theoretical insights. Papers in this special issue address the unfolding of crises in tourism and demonstrate how its theorization demands multi and cross-disciplinary entreaties. This special issue is an invitation to examine how global crises in tourism can be more clearly appraised and theorised. The nature of crisis, and the extent to which the global tourism community can continue to adapt remains in question, as dialogues juxtapose the contradictions between tourism growth and tourism sustainability, and between building back better and returning to normal. Originality/value The appraisal of four conceptual frameworks, little used in tourism research provides markers of the theoretical rigour and novelty so often sought. Beck’s risk society reconceptualises risk and the extent to which risk is manmade. Biopolitics refers to the power over the production and reproduction of life itself, where the political stake corresponds to power over society. The political ecology of crisis denaturalises “natural” disasters and their subsequent crises. Justice complements an ethic of care and values like conative empathy to advance social justice and well-being.

scholarly journals Embodied Belonging: In/exclusion, Health Care, and Well-Being in a World in Motion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Mattes ◽  
Claudia Lang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Psychological Anthropology ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Affective Dimensions

AbstractIn this introduction, we propose the notion of ‘embodied belonging’ as a fruitful analytical heuristic for scholars in medical and psychological anthropology. We envision this notion to help us gain a more nuanced understanding of the entanglements of the political, social, and affective dimensions of belonging and their effects on health, illness, and healing. A focus on embodied belonging, we argue, reveals how displacement, exclusion, and marginalization cause existential and health-related ruptures in people’s lives and bodies, and how affected people, in the struggle for re/emplacement and re/integration, may regain health and sustain their well-being. Covering a variety of regional contexts (Germany/Vietnam, Norway, the UK, Japan), the contributions to this special issue examine how embodied non/belonging is experienced, re/imagined, negotiated, practiced, disrupted, contested, and achieved (or not) by their protagonists, who are excluded and marginalized in diverse ways. Each article highlights the intricate trajectories of how dynamics of non/belonging inscribe themselves in human bodies. They also reveal how belonging can be utilized and drawn on as a forceful means and resource of social resilience, if not (self-)therapy and healing.

scholarly journals Guest Editorial Territorial Identities and Sustainable Development. Challenges and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol SI (8) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Marinela ISTRATE ◽  
Oana-Ramona ILOVAN
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Territorial Identity ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Well Being

Territorial belonging and territorial attractiveness are elements of strategic relevance for development at various levels. Therefore, territorial identity is relevant for building the social capital so useful during the processes of development and territorial planning. The concern about territorial identity and development is part of the same trend that occurred in the academic and political environment after the 1990s, when it became obvious that there was a strong connection between these and environmental, social and economic well-being. This special issue hosts the results of original empirical and theoretical scientific research on territorial identity and its relation to sustainable development.

scholarly journals Struggles for Human Rights in Health in an Age of Neoliberalism: From Civil Disobedience to Epistemic Disobedience

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-372
Author(s):  
Alicia Ely Yamin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Inflection Point ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Health And Human Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract Like other contributors to this special issue and beyond, I believe we are at a critical inflection point in human rights and need to re-energize our work broadly to address growing economic inequality as well as inequalities based on different axes of identity. In relation to the constellation of fields involved in ‘health and human rights’ specifically—which link distinct communities with dissonant values, methods and orthodoxies—I argue that we also need to challenge ideas that are taken for granted in the fields that we are trying to transform. After setting out a personal and subjective account of why human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) are unlikely to be meaningful tools for social change as they are now generally being deployed, I suggest we collectively—scholars, practitioners and advocates—need to grapple with how to think about: (1) biomedicine in relation to the social as well as biological nature of health and well-being; and (2) conventional public health in relation to the social construction of health within and across borders and health systems. In each case, I suggest that challenging accepted truths in different disciplines, and in turn in the political economy of global health, have dramatic implications for not just theory but informing different strategies for advancing health (and social) justice through rights in practice.

scholarly journals A Focus on the Play of Elements of Caste in Cyrus Mistry‘s Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S4) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The Status ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
The Mean

Every individual is born with equal rights. No individual is superior to the other. Curtailing freedom of people owes to factors like religion, caste, colour, gender, language etc. Every human being should live with full freedom. However, since time dating back to the ancient days, man has followed the system of caste. Caste determined the status and well-being of a man. The division of castes depended on many external factors like the colour of the skin, the occupation of people, the religious policies, the political backgrounds, the evolutionary factors etc. The occupational theory throws light that there were people who were branded outcastes or untouchables, owing to the jobs they did. On account of the mean jobs done by some people, they were branded untouchables or outcastes. The present paper focuses on the plight of such a group of people, namely the Parsi corpse bearers. The paper is an attempt to trace the elements of social stigmata and sufferings of theses corpse bearers and their plight, struggling to have their rights as normal human beings, in Cyrus Mistry’s Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer.

Will Human Dignity Remain Inviolable? [2004]

2020 ◽  
pp. 354-366
Author(s):  
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde ◽  
Mirjam Künkler ◽  
Tine Stein
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Genetic Screening ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Bioethical Debate ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Intense Debate

For decades, Article 1 of the German Basic Law was interpreted in accordance with the view that human dignity belongs to human beings as such. In other words, Article 1 guarantees respect for the dignity of human beings and thus of every individual. In this article—originally published to intense debate in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung— Böckenförde argues that the traditional view was gradually undermined on two different fronts: by jurists who argue that human dignity belongs to human beings only after birth, and by those who argue that human dignity gradually develops from conception until birth. Legal scholar Matthias Herdegen, who wrote the new interpretation of Article 1 in the influential Basic Law commentary ‘Maunz-Dürig’, holds the latter position. Böckenförde regards the adoption of this new interpretation in the authoritative commentary both as a shock to the foundation of the constitution and as a disregard for the intent of the constitutional framers. The political and societal background of this shift is the bioethical debate: the possible benefit to be gained from embryonic stem cell research, the question of whether parents should be allowed to select between in-vitro embryos after genetic screening, and so forth. Böckenförde is very critical of this development. If the interpretation of the constitutional guarantee of human dignity is changed to fit changing social attitudes, Böckenförde argues, we should be concerned about the binding nature of the constitution as such.

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