Diversität und Interessenvertretung – zwischen Beharrung und Bewegung

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Demir ◽  
Maria Funder ◽  
Ralph Greifenstein ◽  
Leo Kißler
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Change ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Works Councils ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Window Dressing ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Global Companies ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Modern Work ◽  
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Diversity has become a desirable ideal in the late modern work-oriented society. In particular, diversity is a goal of large global companies, which have already implemented concepts for managing it. Is diversity, however, also an issue of co-determination? While focusing on diversity in terms of gender and age, we aim to shed light on the question of whether works councils’ policies are informed by diversity endeavours: How have gender relations developed in the context of works councils? How relevant is gender policy in the context of co-determination? How are works councils dealing with demographic change? Do they have concepts for it and how do they put them into practice? Is diversity merely used as window dressing or is there more to it?

scholarly journals “It usually works out, but you never know”. Emotion Work as a Strategy for Coping in the Insecure Artistic Career.

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-364
Author(s):  
Sofia Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Art World ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
Emotional Work ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Artistic Career ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
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This article explores how contemporary Swedish visual artists manage and make sense of career insecurity through emotion work. The specific emotions discussed in the material are trust, hope and luck. Emotion work is related to coping in an increasingly insecure world of work in late modern capitalism, which has been theorized as relying on the creativity, passion and subjectivity of workers. Through analysing what the artists anticipate of their future careers, the study found the main desire of the artists to be the continuation of their creative endeavour—an endeavour not necessarily related to professional success but rather to identity formation. This understanding of success forms part of two overarching discourses found in the material: art as non-work discourse and the art world as arbitrary discourse, which both relate to certain emotional work when failing/succeeding to uphold the artistic creation. The prestigious arts education of the respondents is analysed as part of sustaining hope of continuation when future career prospects seem grim. Trust and luck are analysed as emotion work in relation to having experiences of success, even though the art world is discursively framed as arbitrary. The concluding argument of the article is that understanding emotion work in relation to the insecure or even failed career can shed light on resources related to social position rather than properties of the individual psyche.

scholarly journals Gender in modern Greek historiography

HISTOREIN ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Papadogiannis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
International Level ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Greek Historiography ◽  
Gender Factor ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Minor Extent

This article analyses the emergence and development of the study of gender in modern Greek historiography in the broader sense, exploring works that incorporate, even to a minor extent, the gender factor. It shows that despite the manifold barriers that gender historians have faced, there has been a slow but steady process of diffusion of gender in modern Greek historiography in general. The article also shows that historical research on gender relations in Greece initially focused on the study of women, historicising, however, their relations with men. Thus, in line with what Kantsa and Papataxiarchis argue about the relevant scholarship at the international level, no linear transition from the study of women to the examination of gender relations occurred. What has transpired in the last two decades, however, is that the relevant historiography has gradually broadened to encompass a more systematic analysis of the (re)making of masculinities. It has also been enriched by the study of the intersection of gender and age as well as of transnational flows and their impact on gender, tendencies that have been slightly neglected in other reviews of the study of gender in Greek historiography. 

Conflict in the Expansion of Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-174
Author(s):  
Tongdong Bai
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
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This chapter argues that early Confucians were aware of the conflict between the private and the public, but their solution was to identify and develop the constructive aspect of the private and use what was cultivated from the private to suppress the conflict. Most late modern and contemporary Western liberal thinkers have switched their focus and are primarily concerned with how to protect the private against intrusions from the public. In contrast, early Confucians and Plato (in the Republic) were primarily concerned with intrusions to the public good from the private. But both Plato and modern liberals insist on the sheer divide between the private and the public. To look further into how early Confucians addressed the issue of the conflict between the private and the public may shed light on the universal philosophical issue of the private versus the public. With a fuller understanding of the Confucian rationale on this issue, the chapter then applies the Confucian idea of expanding care to other political and moral issues.

The Sib Matrix

Us, Relatives ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurit Bird-David
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Developmental Cycle ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
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Although in many tiny-scale forager-cultivator societies, residential cores comprise intermarried siblings, this pattern tends to remain invisible in ethnography. This chapter explores general causes of this ethnographic neglect (e.g., a large-scale-biased register that sees a hamlet’s members as residents and breaks a population down in terms of gender and age). It provides scale-sensitive ethnography of locals’ notions of a “good marriage,” the local scarcity of spouses, and the sib developmental cycle, with emphasis on visiting one’s married siblings; all aspects shed light on the sibling residential cores. Claude Lévi-Strauss famously suggested that the development of human society is predicated on men trading sisters for wives, instantiating exchange logic and alliance between groups. This ethnography illustrates a far different pattern: that of sequential sibling marriages that shape and reshape the contours of the forager group.

Gender relations in the classical Greek household: the archaeological evidence

1995 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 363-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. C. Nevett
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Detailed Model ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Domestic Relations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Household Members ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
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Despite the amount of textual material surviving from classical Greece, our knowledge of the household has remained limited because of the selectivity and orientation of those texts. In this paper, archaeological remains of late 5th- to late 4th-cent. houses are explored in order to shed light on aspects of domestic relations that recur most frequently in the sources: the relationship between male and female household members, and the way in which this was reinforced through the organization of the domestic environment. The traditional picture of a house divided into male and female areas is an over-simplification of a complex pattern of social relationships. A broader approach focuses on interaction between men and women, rather than on women's activity in isolation. The resultant, more detailed model for gender relations offers a glimpse of variability through space and time in how relationships were expressed spatially, and suggests the possibility of differences in the relationships themselves at different levels of the social hierarchy.

scholarly journals TALIBAN OR TERRORIST? SOME REFLECTIONS ON TALIBAN’S IDEOLOGY

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Aneela Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Cultural Foundations ◽  
General Practices ◽  
International Power

This article reflects religious, political and cultural foundations of Taliban’s creed which makes them different in the Islamic world as well as gives them special place in today’s international power politics. The main objective of this article is to review Taliban’s policies which are manifested frequently in their public statements and general practices. It further explains the influence of tribal customs and traditional Pushtun code of conduct over the establishment of Taliban’s movement. An attempt is made to appraise gender policy of Taliban’s which dictates strict moral code for both men and women and its repercussions for gender relations. This paper also discusses all those factors which contributed in the rise of talibanization in Afghanistan as well as in other parts of the Muslim world. Madrassa education is strongly believed to be responsible for designing terrorist minds. This article reveals views of talibs (madrassa students) regarding the nature of their studies and the way this knowledge is actually applied in the course of their life.

ՀԱՅ ԿԱՆԱՆՑ ԶԱՐԴԵՐԻ ԳՈՐԾԱՌՈՒՅԹՆԵՐԸ (XVIII-XX ԴԴ.)

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-290
Author(s):  
Astghik Astghik
Keyword(s):  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Good Luck ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Positive Message ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Church ◽  
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THE FUNCTIONS OF ARMENIAN FEMALE ADORNMENTS (XVIII-XX CC.) Adornments as cherished keepsakes vary with their roles and significant meanings behind them. They have existed throughout history from ancient times to the present in particular ways to represent their positive and beneficial aspects as well as aesthetic value and beauty, belief and affiliation, custom and tradition to define social status within a community. Due to the provision of great amount of information about the adornments by early male and female wearers we come to know the wide spectrum of their performance indicating function and quantity, type and purpose, gender and age, time and circumstances. Articles of adornment progressed through ages in forms and in ways of wearing. One of the prized and popular purposes for jewelry is to signify valued relationships and bonding experiences to bring good luck to the person who possesses them. The symbolism often makes jewelry more meaningful and important carrying a positive connotation integrated into the design. They often serve as gifts. The form of donation (e.g. during the wedding rituals), oblation (e.g. to the church or a holy spring), getting and receiving adornments are very striking. On a larger scale studies on decorations of XVIII-XX cc. shed light on several benefits and several ideas of a strong positive message. The forms and the patterns of the decorations include symbols, often combination of symbols, associated with the sun, the moon, water (wavy lines), plants (bud, almond, flower, branches etc.), animals (snake, fish, frog, bee etc.), dragons and so on. From this point of view supernatural might of the metals, the precious stones and shells bring happiness and healing. The colours of artificial beads, wooden beads, made of the sacred trees wood and coins having apotropaic properties were considered to have a specific function as well. The rare inscriptions used as patterns are fairly notable too. There are fascinating materials in the Armenian folklore that add depth and a range of concepts to the context of the adornments which facilitate to recognize the character of the decorations profoundly and think about their prominent role within the Armenian culture.

Representasjon i nye storkommunar: Forgubbing og sentrumsdominans eller status quo?

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-228
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Bakke ◽  
Bjarte Folkestad
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Time Geography ◽  
Age Bias ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
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The 2019 local elections in Norway were the first elections to be held in 47 amalgamated municipalities. Earlier research has shown that geography is an important list-balancing criterion in national elections, yet it is an under-researched aspect of descriptive representation in local elections. In this chapter we set out to fill this gap. Using the representation literature as a point of departure, we study the effect of merger on geographic representation and investigate whether stronger emphasis on geography increased the gender or age bias of the municipal councils in newly merged municipalities. To this end, we use candidate data from all local candidates in the 2019 local elections (N = 54254) as well as historic candidate data for previous elections. We combine this with qualitative party interviews to shed light on the parties’ nomination processes. We find that candidates from the smaller municipalities are overrepresented on the party lists as well as in the municipal councils of the 47 municipalities. This is the combined effect of party nomination practices and voters’ preferences. However, somewhat surprisingly, increased emphasis on geography did not affect age or gender balance to any great extent. The results for the newly merged municipalities fit well into the national trend, featuring slightly older and more gender-equal candidate lists across time. Geography thus seems to have been an additional list-balancing criterion, on top of, and not instead of, gender and age.

scholarly journals The Core Tenets of The Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks: attitudes, perceptions and practices

Illuminatio ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-259
Author(s):  
Ahmed Kulanić
Keyword(s):  
Age Differences ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
The Core ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Good People ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Gender And Age Differences ◽  
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This article aims to give an overview study of the main specific tenets of the Islamic tradition of Bosniak Muslims as defined and institutionalized by the traditional Islamic Community in Bosnia. Also, it attempts to shed light on current perceptions, attitudes and practices in the context of an overall pre-Ottoman and post-Ottoman religious tradition of the Bosniak people known historically as Bono Homini (“the Good People”). The article provides a survey on the Bosniak Muslims in regard to their Islamic tradition in Bosnia with the purpose to reveal whether there are regional, gender and age differences among them in terms of their religious beliefs and practices. In doing so, the author was assisted by the authors in this area such as Ćimić, Karčić and Alibašić.

scholarly journals Stríð gegn konum

Ritið ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-149
Author(s):  
Björn Þór Vilhjálmsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sex Crimes ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
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The article initially addresses the novel Kata by Steinar Bragi in the context of genre and asks to what extent it aligns itself with the crime novel, in particular the more recent brand of the crime novel wherein social issues are placed at the forefront. The point is made that Kata diverges in some important respects from even the most radical of critiques found within the parameters of the crime genre, in that it suspends the very concepts that usually ground such narratives (justice, right, and crime) and comes to the conclusion that the widespread social acceptance of violence against women delegitimizes the entire edifice of Western thinking on social justice. It is here that the article looks towards Louis Althusser’s theorization 149of ideological and oppressive state apparatuses, while shifting their object from the class struggle to gender relations. Althusser’s concepts are employed to shed light on the ideology that supports and enables violence against women in contemporary societies, and how the reverse of the oppressive function of the state, that is, state leniency and disinterest in prosecuting sex crimes, or creating the environment in which they are unlikely to be reported, are taken up in the novel, thematized, and in turn, fuel the rage of the protagonist. Finally, a question is raised as to the signific-ance of the fact that a novel about female rage and disempowerment is written by a male author.

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