Sow in Tears, Reap in Joy

Jah Kingdom ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique A. Bedasse
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Local Movement ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
At Home

Chapter five turns to the point at which the Rastafarians received land from the Tanzanian state. This was a major accomplishment with deep symbolic and material meaning. Now secure at home, they were prepared to reap what they had sown. The process was, like life itself, filled with both trials and triumphs. They wrestled with epidemiological threats, economic woes, and family dynamics. In the midst of hardship, however, they contributed to Tanzania’s development in the areas of education, journalism, accounting, while supporting African liberation movements and forging alliances with pan-Africanists worldwide. Of utmost importance is also the interaction between these Rastafarians and the local Tanzanians who embraced Rastafari as a serious philosophy. This set in motion social processes far beyond the initial goals of those who repatriated, as the local movement broke off into sects with one even declaring its independence from the Jamaican Rastafarians, insisting that Rastafari had its roots in East Africa.

The English Landed Estate in the Age of Coal and Iron: 1830–1880

1951 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spring
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Country House ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
English Society ◽  
Landed Gentry ◽  
The City ◽  
At Home

Few present-day historians of English society use the phrase “the landed gentry” with the same easy confidence that Lecky could muster. They hesitate to draw too hard and fast a line between the landed and commercial classes, for they see in the society of the gentry something more than fox-hunting squires and Church of England parsons. The works of Miss Scott Thomson and of A. S. Turberville, for example, have revealed a class more elusive in its activities and outlook, a class that was becoming increasingly amphibious: at home in two elements, the city and the countryside and engaged in economic enterprise that was by no means exclusively agrarian. In other words, the life of the country house may be as broad as English life itself; and it may come as no surprise, therefore, to discover that the growth of industrialism between 1830 and 1880 impinged on the society of the gentry, diversifying the nature of both its economic activities and its income.

Dreaming of Prosperity at Home

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-148
Author(s):  
Tony Tian-Ren Lin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Prosperity Gospel ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Ideal ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church ◽  
At Home

The demands of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism on the family and gender roles are many. The home is a space where the paradox of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism is lived out daily. In traditional Christianity, the family is supposed to be a small-scale replica of the church, where there is a father who serves as the priest, a mother who is his assistant, and a congregation, represented by children who need instruction and guidance. This chapter shows how Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism shapes family dynamics and the logic they use to bridge their family reality to the religious ideal.

The East African Campaign in the Rhodesian Herald

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 283-293
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Ofcansky
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Military History ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
East African ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
News Agency ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
At Home

Although the East African campaign (1914-1918) was, in comparative terms, one of the Great War's minor episodes, it is a vital aspect of Africa's military history. Despite this importance, however, much remains unknown about this conflict, which claimed the lives of untold thousands of European and African soldiers. Understanding the operational and historical evolution of the campaign requires more than just a survey of books, articles, and official documentation. Newspapers such as the Leader of British East Africa and the East African Standard are invaluable sources for information about day-to-day fighting and living conditions. Unfortunately, very little work has been done with newspapers published outside the operational theater, which oftentimes contain materials unavailable elsewhere.One of the most important newspapers in this category was the Rhodesia Herald. Apart from the Reuter's News Agency field dispatches, the newspaper included scores of articles and letters to the editor written by Rhodesians from the front or by family members who remained at home. These items covered a wide range of topics, including recruitment difficulties, experiences of individual soldiers, and, perhaps most importantly, the exploits of the 2nd Rhodesia Regiment, which fought in the East African bush for twenty-three months.

“I Can't Do This Alone”: a study on foreign domestic workers providing long-term care for frail seniors at home

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 1269-1277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai Jia Tam ◽  
Gerald Choon-Huat Koh ◽  
Helena Legido-Quigley ◽  
Ngoc Huong Lien Ha ◽  
Philip Lin Kiat Yap
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Tertiary Hospital ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Foreign Domestic Workers ◽  
At Home

ABSTRACTBackground:Foreign domestic workers (FDWs) play an important role in long-term caregiving of seniors at home. However, how FDWs cope with the caregiving demands, the dynamic interaction between familial and FDW caregivers and its impact on care recipients remain largely un-explored. Existing caregiver interventions mainly target familial caregivers; little assistance is available for FDW caregivers. This study explores FDWs’ challenges, coping strategies, and the support they need in caring for seniors.Methods:FDWs were recruited from a geriatric ward and outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital in Singapore. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 25 FDWs caring for frail seniors and five healthcare staff. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis.Results:FDWs were from Indonesia, Philippines, and Myanmar. Nineteen cared for seniors with dementia (SWDs). We derived six subthemes, clustered into three salient themes: two described social support to FDWs by the senior's family members, two described their coping strategies, and two described their job satisfaction. Those who cared for SWDs faced more difficulties. We derived two family models of care: FDW-centered family dynamics, where family members rely on FDWs to perform most duties, causing poor impact on seniors’ well-being and team-based family dynamics, where family members and FDWs share the caregiving burden, resulting in better impact on seniors’ well-being.Conclusion:FDWs face significant challenges in eldercare. Improving FDWs’ access to training courses in eldercare, providing them with more emotional support, engaging employers to create healthy caregiving spaces at home, and improving access to senior care services can be helpful.

What Makes Modernity Late?

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven L. Winter
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
At Home

There is a deep, if invisible conflict between our consumer culture and our democratic ideals. It is the result of social processes that, in the last half century, have profoundly transformed how we live and who we are. This paper explores the underpinnings of the condition that many identify as ‘late’ or ‘post’ modernity. Rather than focusing on the intellectual transformations wrought by the Enlightenment, it takes up Charles Taylor’s dialectical account of the relation between the social developments of modernity and changes in social understandings. It then considers the nature and import of our contemporary practices and conditions, their relation to the ‘postmodern’, and their implications both at home and abroad for the ability to sustain meaningful democracies under conditions of globalisation.

Internal debates and international influences: the rise of Islamic radicalism in the 1990s

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicitas Becker
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
Potential Basis ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
At Home

Although the synchronicity of the rise of Muslim radicalism in East Africa with similar phenomena in many parts of the world gives that radicalism the appearance of an unstoppable ideological tide, it is intricately connected to recent political and economic changes in Tanzania. It is shown that while the Ansar of Southeast Tanzania formed part of a transregional reformist current, their confrontational style and inflammatory rhetoric were directed against the specific conjunction of the political and religious authority they faced at home. The reformist debates and Muslim discontent in East Africa after independence are explained. In addition to the above, this chapter elaborates on the crisis of the urban economy and of the tarika. The parallelism of political and trade liberalization has made commercial strength a potential basis for the pursuance of political aims. It is difficult to present a conclusive account of the Ansar in Southeast Tanzania, since their role is still unfolding. The attack on Muslim notables and their relations with government are illustrated. The proactive and calculated response of the authorities to the actions of the Ansar indicates that Tanzanian politicians take the provinces more seriously than is immediately apparent to the outside observer.

Family Dynamics of the Stay-at-Home Father and Working Mother Relationship

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 410-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassie Rushing ◽  
Lisa Powell
Keyword(s):  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Family Dynamic ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Heterosexual Women ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Biological Children ◽  
At Home

A phenomenological qualitative study was utilized to explore family dynamics in stay-at-home father and working mother households. A total of 20 working mothers were asked to describe family interactions and daily routines with regard to their stay-at-home father and working mother dynamic. All participants were married, heterosexual women with biological children ages 1 to 4 and who worked outside the home and the father stayed home as primary caretaker and did not contribute financially. The study indicated that the family dynamic of a working mother and stay-at-home father provided a positive parent–child relationship, enhanced parenting cohesion, and enhanced quality time.

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