Inclusive Discourse Research Articles

Freedom to think – the value of multiple clinical narratives in women’s prisons

The merits of being multi-lingual are widely recognised. This paper considers the application of this metaphor to the conceptualisation of clinical work in a women’s prison. We suggest that sharing ‘languages’ from different theoretical orientations in open fora enables teams to build deep and nuanced understandings of clinical and systemic complexity, of particular value in secure settings. This discussion reflects the service model developed and used within HMP/YOI Holloway, a large women’s prison in London, which has recently been closed. We utilise a case example, with formulations and recommendations from several perspectives, to illustrate the value of maintaining a rich, inclusive discourse. We describe the benefits of such an approach to staff teams, to institutions and to those we serve, and consider the implications for organisation of services to maximise potential for change and recovery.

Low-resolution gamma-ray spectrometry for an information barrier based on a multi-criteria template-matching approach

Gamma-ray spectrometry has been successfully employed to identify unique items containing special nuclear materials. Template information barriers have been developed in the past to confirm items as warheads by comparing their gamma signature to the signature of true warheads. Their development has, however, not been fully transparent, and they may not be sensitive to some relevant evasion scenarios. We develop a fully open template information barrier concept, based on low-resolution measurements, which, by design, reduces the extent of revealed sensitive information. The concept is based on three signatures of an item to be compared to a recorded template. The similarity of the spectrum is assessed by a modification of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test to confirm the isotopic composition. The total gamma count rate must agree with the template as a measure of the projected surface of the object. In order to detect the diversion of fissile material from the interior of an item, a polyethylene mask is placed in front of the detector. Neutrons from spontaneous and induced fission events in the item produce 2.223MeVgamma rays from neutron capture by hydrogen-1 in the mask. This peak is detected and its intensity scales with the item's fissile mass. The analysis based on MCNP Monte Carlo simulations of various plutonium configurations suggests that this concept can distinguish a valid item from a variety of invalid ones. The concept intentionally avoids any assumptions about specific spectral features, such as looking for specific gamma peaks of specific isotopes, thereby facilitating a fully unclassified discussion. By making all aspects public and allowing interested participants to contribute to the development and benchmarking, we enable a more open and inclusive discourse on this matter.

The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights by Christopher N.J. Roberts

The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights, by Christopher N.J. Roberts. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv, 237 pp. $32.99 US (paper). Historical scholarship on has been critiqued for using history to affirm the inevitable rise of rights. Human have been presented as the ultimate utopia, rather than an ideology shaped by conscious choices and historical accidents. Several recent studies have therefore highlighted the limitations of the linear and triumphalist narratives that dominate scholarship. These new histories go beyond the triumphs of to draw attention to the underlying tensions and contestations that have shaped the development of the idea. In this book, Christopher Roberts contributes to the emergent genre of contested histories by exploring the conflicts and opposition that underscored the development of the International Bill of Human Rights (IBHR) at its mid-century moment of inception. The story of contemporary rights, Roberts points out, is incomplete without these oppositional narratives because they shaped what has become in our world. Although are held to be a universal good, this book shows that there has not been universal agreement about the nature of the concept. After WWII, individuals, organized groups, nations, conservative leaders, and progressive scholars objected to the emerging idea of universal for numerous reasons. The concept of as a response to the carnage and atrocities of the war was anything but self-evident. The process of drafting a nonbinding Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and binding Covenants was defined by deep-seated disagreements. Imperial powers such as Great Britain and influential political factions in the United States resisted the inclusive discourse promised by universal because it threatened the colonial order and domestic racial hierarchies. In the US, professional organizations such as the American Bar Association, the American Anthropological Association and the American Medical Association rejected parts of the new concept. Even progressive thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and Mohandas Gandhi were skeptical of the value of a universal regime. Beyond the confines of intellectual and diplomatic debates at the United Nations, Roberts shows how opposition to universal also manifested in public discourse. Proponents and opponents of American internationalism sparred loudly in newspapers and magazines, newsreels and radio shows, and on the floor of Congress about the implications of universal for the mixing of the races, the future of colonialism, national sovereignty, and the spread of communism. Roberts cautions, however, that highlighting the opposition to universal should not be read as representing a normatively critical approach to the history of rights. Opposition directed at the UDHR or other instruments were more or less contentions of particular representations of social and political relationships rather than a rejection of human rights per se. …

‘We haven’t even buried the dead yet’: Ethics of discursive contestation in a crisis situation

Disasters are often described as exceptional moments that demand global solidarity. A ‘state of humanitarian exception’ emerges as citizens foreground norms of compassion and cooperation while contestatory discourse – the argumentative, blame-seeking and fault-finding forms of speech – are stigmatized as inappropriate interventions in a society seeking to recover from a distressful crisis situation. This article critically unpacks these representations of post-disaster situations empirically and normatively. By analysing the discussions in the public sphere over the first 100 days after Typhoon Haiyan battered Central Philippines, the article examines the moral force behind the ‘discourse of compassion’ and its ‘ethical boundary work’ that places the ‘discourse of contestation’ outside the scope of acceptable conduct. It proposes that the discourse of compassion’s ethical boundary work is only democratically acceptable when one takes a short view of a crisis situation. Drawing on deliberative democracy theory, the article argues for the importance of contestatory discourse in fostering inclusive discourse formation and ensuring that the state of humanitarian exception does not become the rule.

Why Is It Necessary to Include the Gender Perspective in Archaeological Museums?

ABSTRACTThrough the items in archaeological museums’ collections, it is possible to create inclusive narratives and discourses in which different social groups, ethnicities, age groups, and genders can and must be present. With this in mind, we shall focus our attention on some Spanish archaeological museums inaugurated in recent years, with the aim of analyzing how they have represented and represent women, which roles are assigned to women within the collective community, and how gender relations in past societies are illustrated.

To Catch a Tiger by Its Toe

This article discusses a global theatrical spectacle that Moral Re-Armament (mra), a spiritual movement originating in the United States, produced in 1961. mra used contemporary protests in Japan, and actors ostensibly involved in them, as a strategy to bolster its authority in the context of U.S. Cold War policy in East Asia. How it claimed to represent Japan to the world and attempted to transform itself into the spokesman for the “Free World” offers insight into the symbolic position of East Asia in the United States and the areas it sought to influence during the early 1960s, a key moment in the intensifying U.S. involvement in East Asia, and offers a case through which to explore Christina Klein's model of “Cold War Orientalism.” mra tapped into this more inclusive discourse and also exploited ignorance in the United States about Japan to bolster widespread misconceptions about demonstrations in Tokyo. While introducing mra’s history, this essay teases out a gap between the reality and representation of Japanese politics and protest in the case of The Tiger, which reflects the historical context in which popular culture excluded real knowledge about how U.S. foreign policy affected, and often threatened, local political autonomy.

A DESFIGURAÇÃO DO ROSTO-DEFICIENTE: OU DA POTÊNCIA DO CORPO EM FLUXO CRIATIVO ARTÍSTICO

Este artigo problematiza representações do corpo-deficiente, desde o diálogo com pensadores como Deleuze e Guattari. Constitui-se num ensaio produzido a partir dos trabalhos do grupo Perspectivas em Movimento, que oferece oficinas de arte para pessoas com deficiências diversas, com o propósito de fazer variar as políticas hegemônicas de sentido que resultam no discurso da inclusão. Objetiva questionar a invenção do corpo-deficiente, ou Rosto-deficiente, enquanto objeto das ciências da saúde, e a consequente produção de subjetividades fixadas pelo modelo médico. Para tanto, parte do corpo da pessoa com deficiência, quando em fluxo criativo artístico, para pôr à mostra políticas de forças que investem na disjunção exclusiva (binária) - doença/saúde, feiúra/beleza, eficiência/deficiência-, fundamento moral do preconceito e da discriminação. As primeiras observações indicam que quando em variação, o corpo-deficiente atualiza-se como corpo-potência.

España y Cataluña: la reconstrucción de un pacto

En este editorial queremos pronunciarnos y proponer la construcción de un discurso integrador. Para ello intentamos explicar los procesos históricos y jurídicos en su complejidad y sus razones internas, presentando con honestidad las posiciones diferentes para así comprenderlas. Creemos que éste puede ser un servicio a nuestros lectores. En primer lugar abordamos dos perspectivas sobre la cuestión catalana: la histórica y la jurídica. A partir de ambas llegamos a una primera conclusión: ni la historia ni el derecho pueden resolver una cuestión que, con el paso del tiempo, no ha hecho otra cosa sino complicarse, especialmente en los últimos años, aunque ambas perspectivas ofrezcan alguna luz, pues aportan claves de comprensión. Realmente estamos convencidos de que ni una ni otra sirven por sí solas para resolver la cuestión. Sólo un pacto político puede orientar y posibilitar una solución estable. A fin de cuentas, articular un pacto político es también resultado de una historia y se ordena jurídicamente, pero supera ambas perspectivas pues requiere capacidad y voluntad de crear las condiciones para fundar una nueva relación entre España y Cataluña. A continuación hacemos nuestra propuesta explícita: para avanzar en una nueva resolución sobre la cuestión catalana nos hace falta, como sociedad compleja y plural, reconstruir una nueva relación y fundar un nuevo pacto político a partir de un consenso social y cultural de carácter prepolítico (es decir emocional, moral axiológico e ideológico) que sirva de base al pacto político, tanto entre los ciudadanos de Cataluña como entre éstos y los ciudadanos del conjunto de España. En la perspectiva de una Europa fuerte, unida, coherente y estable en la que las asimetrías federales no deben impedir avanzar en una unidad cada vez mayor, también podemos pensar una España capaz de integrar en lo común lo que es diferente. La solidaridad y la igualdad entre todos los ciudadanos españoles deben incluir el reconocimiento de lo diferencial, de la España plural y diversa a partir de la unión que se expresa por medio del pacto federal. El reconocimiento de la singularidad no se logra sólo y necesariamente por la bilateralidad en las relaciones, que es tan sólo una fórmula participen todos los españoles. Este pacto será posible si entre todos alcanzamos un discurso integrador. Es nuestra propuesta. posible entre otras. Proponemos pues un nuevo pacto político entre los ciudadanos, que, llegado el día, pueda ser sometido a un referéndum de revisión constitucional en el que

Gendered Disparities in the German Workforce: Development of Female Labor Union Participation and Current Challenges

With an increasing global female presence in political and economic representation, the continuation of a gendered division of labor and the rise of market flexibility draws into question how historical policies and decision making influence sociocultural-value systems, mobility, and market access in Germany. This paper explores the German labor market through the critical lens of labor union formulation, the dynamics within a German-European Union relationship, and social policy reforms to uncover the reasoning and rationale behind the reinforcement of female labor as precarious. An inclusive discourse on correcting imbalances within the formal/public and informal/private spheres must include the devaluing and exploitation of domestic and feminized labor. For Germany, the consistent segregation of female labor into part-time work and social policies that emphasize motherhood and childrearing stress the historical socioeconomic disincentives to enter and retain work within the productive economy.

Social work in the teeth of a gale: a resilient counter-discourse in neoliberal times

This article discusses the findings of a qualitative research project in Auckland, New Zealand, which examined the proposition that a particular form of knowledge is produced in the practice of social work. Evidence consistent with Philp’s conceptualisation of a specific knowledge form for social work emerges from analysis of the data. It is apparent that the everyday practice of social work continues to engage with the lived experience of marginalised citizens in New Zealand and similar societies. It is argued that this process of relational engagement continues to produce a discourse of equality that is consistent with the politics of social democracy. The implications of the findings of this study are discussed in relation to the future development of social work practice and education given the current dominance of a neoliberal governance paradigm that is largely hostile to the inclusive discourse that social work practice inevitably produces.

Body identity development: definitions and discussions

As the fields of body psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy mature, they tend to create their own theoretical models. This article articulates a theory of body identity that may provide conceptual resources for these fields, both theoretically and clinically. The historical and developmental roots of body identity are discussed and contextualised, both socioculturally and psychologically. Body identity development is mapped onto a current developmental theory called narrative identity, resulting in a more inclusive discourse of multiple selves and non-conforming identities. The concept of body narrative is introduced, and is seen as the mechanism for the development of body identity. Clinical implications are discussed, though further work is needed to ‘flesh out’ how body identity is navigated in body-centred psychotherapies.

Making the Invisible Visible: Disability Inclusive Development in Solomon Islands

International and national level disability inclusive discourse, policy and strategy typically render invisible the institutional structures, political economies and socio-cultural power relations that constitute the lived experience of disability. The lack of robust information on disability extends these theoretical blind spots to the absence of disability in official statistics, political dialogue and social policy. Empirically grounded, inclusive research that recognises disability as embedded in globalised political economies and culturally specific power relations is required to address the theoretical, statistical and programmatic invisibility of disability. Such research will provide a solid knowledge base on which to build effective inclusive interventions.

Science initial teacher education and superdiversity: educating science teachers for a multi-religious and globalised science classroom

Steven Vertovec (2006, 2007) has recently offered a re-interpretation of population diversity in large urban centres due to a considerable increase in immigration patterns in the UK. This complex scenario called superdiversity has been conceptualised to help illuminate significant interactions of variables such as religion, language, gender, age, nationality, labour market and population distribution on a larger scale. The interrelationships of these themes have fundamental implications in a variety of community environments, but especially within our schools. Today, London schools have over 300 languages being spoken by students, all of whom have diverse backgrounds, bringing with them a wealth of experience and, most critically, their own set of religious beliefs. At the same time, Science is a compulsory subject in England’s national curriculum, where it requires teachers to deal with important scientific frameworks about the world; teaching about the origins of the universe, life on Earth, human evolution and other topics, which are often in conflict with students’ religious views. In order to cope with this dynamic and thought-provoking environment, science initial teacher education (SITE)—especially those catering large urban centres—must evolve to equip science teachers with a meaningful understanding of how to handle a superdiverse science classroom, taking the discourse of inclusion beyond its formal boundaries. Thus, this original position paper addresses how the role of SITE may be re-conceptualised and re-framed in light of the immense challenges of superdiversity as well as how science teachers, as enactors of the science curriculum, must adapt to cater to these changes. This is also the first in a series of papers emerging from an empirical research project trying to capture science teacher educators’ own views on religio-scientific issues and their positions on the place of these issues within science teacher education and the science classroom.

Inclusive recognition politics and the struggle over hydrosocial territories in two Bolivian highland communities

ABSTRACTThis article applies a multi-scalar approach to examine the dominant human–nature interactions that underlie recent formalization policies and the (re)configuration of hydrosocial territories in the Tiraque Valley, Bolivia. From a political ecology perspective, it seeks to examine how hydrosocial territories are (re)configured by Bolivia’s representative and inclusive discourses and forms of water ‘governmentalities’. It analyses how water territories are locally materialized by technological designs, legal structures and power relations that may promote unequal distribution of resources, water rights and decision-making power in conflict resolution processes. This article challenges ‘pro-indigenous’ and inclusive discourses that promote formal recognition of customary ‘water territories’.

Populism and Progressive Social Movements in Macedonia: From Rhetorical Trap to Discursive Asset

Since 2009, Macedonia has experienced the two largest waves of progressive civic activism in post-socialist times. In the 2009–2012 period, smaller groups of citizens rallied around issues as different as protection of public spaces, police brutality, rising prices of electricity, etc. Yet, it was not before the larger student mobilizations took place in 2014 that the social space significantly opened up with a number of social groups protesting the increasingly authoritarian rule of the illiberal incumbents. In this paper, we investigate and compare the discursive strategies of the social movements (SM) in the two periods, especially the shift from ‘anti-populist rhetorical trap’ from the first period to the broader appeals for solidarity and a construction of equivalences which characterized the second period. In so doing, we hypothesize and demonstrate that the relative success in the second period can be accounted for in terms of the more inclusive discourse which helped SM avoid the ‘anti-populist trap’, thus challenging illiberal populism with progressive and (formally) populist discourse. Theoretically, the analysis goes back and forth between two approaches to studying populism: the dominant theory which sees populism as democratic illiberalism and Laclau’s theory of hegemony that sees populism as a formal political logic with no predetermined ideological content.

Queen don't compute: reading and casting shade on Facebook's real names policy

ABSTRACT Throughout the fall of 2014 and the summer of 2015, activists mobilized against Facebook's real names policy. Finding themselves locked out of their accounts, they were outraged when Facebook deemed their identities not “real.” Organizing protests and branding their activism through hashtags and viral campaigns, the #MyNameIs activists represented a diverse set of users such as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community, sex workers, and Indigenous peoples. Although media coverage constructed this as a problem of exclusion, we see this as a case of how non-normative identities are punished when they disrupt the collection of personal information. Using approaches from queer theory, internet studies, surveillance scholarship, and social theory, we argue that real names policies are not about promoting safety but about rendering users transparent to markets and the state. Turning to artistic and tactical interventions, we propose a queer engagement that troubles surveillance, rejects technocratic solutions, and challenges liberal discourses of inclusion.

Discoursing Disasters: Vulnerability and Gaps in Rationalities

Although Filipinos live with the realities of recurring extreme weather occurrences, some are more vulnerable to disasters than others. Using discourse theory, this article seeks to understand how a community’s vulnerability is connected to the marginalization of its rationality. It traces the conditions brought about by Westernization that created and sustained the vulnerability of the marginalized. It explores the gaps that exist in the rationalities of policy makers and disaster-vulnerable persons and the consequences of these gaps for the vulnerable in order to argue for the need to found genuine disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs on the principles of inclusive discourse.

ISLAM INKLUSIF DALAM KURIKULUM PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM SLTA

Abstract: The results of this study indicate that the curriculum of Islamic education that is applied in the high school has actually accommodate and integrate an inclusive paradigm of Islam, though in some aspects there are still parts that show the truth of Islam dogmatism which tend to be proprietary. Moreover, the existence of inclusive Islamic discourse contained in PAl in high school curriculum can be seen through some of the themes material on subjects PAI discussion. By following the path-based studies it is seen that an academic subject matter aqidah as a basis for the development has space for integrating Islam inclusive leaming by relating PAI material of al-Qur'an. More concrete fom is the material in which the discussion about the morality of commendable and despicable behavior has the possibility to introduce inclusive Islamic discourse. Meanwhile, for the matter of jurisprudence and history is generaly limited by the discussion tend to be proprietary.
 
 Keywords: Inclusive Islam, PAI high school curriculum.

Review: Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture, by Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Timothy Brittain-Catlin Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014, 192 pp., 33 b/w illus. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780262026697; $17.95 (e-book), ISBN 9780262321235 The argument of Bleak Houses is deceptively simple. Architecture past and present is divided into two categories: success and failure (or “winners” and “losers”). Architectural historians and critics have focused their violent attention on success at the expense of narrating failure in a sensitive and subtle way. They should now do the latter, because this will lead to a more nuanced architectural discourse accessible to a broad public and may therefore also lead to more humane, beautiful architecture in the future. On the surface of it, this seems an appealing, graciously liberal argument, and it would seem that Timothy Brittain-Catlin is in good company. Successive generations of architectural historians and critics, laboring under the burden of the narrow modernisms of their forefathers (and a few foremothers), have struggled in myriad ways to break open the somehow sharply defined boundaries of the canon of architectural history in search of a broader and more inclusive discourse.1 But Bleak Houses is a more complicated, and more frustrating, piece of writing than this. Brittain-Catlin pursues the argument sketched out above through a chaotic mash-up of genres of critical, biographical, and historical writing. One finds here not only moving pocket histories and biographies of “sad” buildings and their long-suffering architects but also passionately worded attacks on architectural historians and critics, first-person travelogues, and memoir. Amid this clutter, it is nonetheless clear that the subgenre of the “failure memoir” serves as the Trojan horse to deliver Brittain-Catlin’s liberal manifesto. Without an understanding of this move, there is no way to explain the deep flaws in his argument. As Giles Harvey, a journalist and editor at the New Yorker , has already diagnosed, the failure memoir is a publishing house–driven phenomenon in which misery and company are profitably connected on a mass …

If Anyone Hears This: Confronting Discourses of Immigration in South Mississippi

AbstractLatino immigrants are subject to circulating discourses that produce processes of inclusion and exclusion, and inform expectations of future encounters with local native populations. However, they rarely have an opportunity to answer back. This paper draws on two projects in which immigrants were invited to use photography and writing to document the messages they would like to send to native‐born Mississippians to examine how they mobilize discourses of inclusion and exclusion as they deal with “stranger fetishism” (Ahmed 2000), the notion that immigrants are recognized, but are cast as individuals who do not belong. Immigrant messages show that they at once contest and draw on hegemonic discourses of race and US national identity in their efforts to lay claim to legitimate spaces of belonging. [immigration, discourse, stranger fetishism, representation, Mississippi]