Experience Of Coexistence Research Articles

Health of the romany people and COVID19 primer: reflections upon cultural competence

The Romani people are identified by their language, anthem and flag. Its origins are attributed to India, having passed through successive diasporas to other countries and continents, but it remains very little known, a fact that supports behaviors of strangeness, prejudice and discrimination. In Brazil, there is a predominance of the Calon ethnic group from the Iberian Peninsula, who arrived among those exiled to the country. Social macro determinants such invisibility and inequities can be mitigated through public policies. This article communicates, through the methodology called case study (report of the process over the years), the historical trajectory of work in primary health care aimed at the Romani people in an urban presence in the city of Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, from 2008 to 2023, bringing some academic contributions from its own leaders, showing their intersectoral citizen participation in primary and secondary prevention in addition to health promotion, to the communities to which they belong and dedicate themselves. From a professional perspective, with the experience of coexistence, the cultural competence and leadership skills of the Romani leaders were highlighted. Therefore, intercultural education must be promoted in possible healthcare spaces, also aiming to develop professional cultural competence in a multi-ethnic country.

The Bahá'í Faith in the Kurdistan Region Roots and the experience of coexistence

The Bahá'í Faith in the Kurdistan Region Roots and the experience of coexistence

Environmentalities of Coexistence with Wolves in the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain

Coexistence between humans and large carnivores is mediated by diverse values and interactions. We focus on four sites in the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain with a history of continuous wolf presence to examine how perceptions of coexistence vary across contexts. We conducted semi-structured and informal interviews with livestock farmers (n = 271), hunters (n = 157), and local community members (n = 60) to collect quantitative and qualitative data on people's experiences of coexistence with wolves. We use an environmentality framework to analyse approaches to wolf governance across sites and explore how local resource users perceive, negotiate, and respond to different governance approaches. Our analysis is firstly structured around coexistence subjectivities associated with pastoralist and hunter cultures. These encompass ambivalent and multi-layered relations founded on notions of reciprocity with nature and on resource users' roles as producers and land stewards. Secondly, we explore encounters between local cultures, interests, and environmental regulations in the context of different site-based environmentalities. The framework we adopt enables coexistence to be conceived as a space of competing knowledges and practices, arising from everyday embodied interactions with wolves and the cultural politics through which local communities negotiate different ways of governing, knowing, and relating to nature.

BELIEF RITUALS AND MUSIC PRACTICES IN BEKTASHISM IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURAL IDENTITY: THE EXAMPLE OF CRETAN BEKTASHIS

The faith and culture of the Bektashi have contributed to Muslim-Turks gaining experience of coexistence with Christian communities in Anatolia, the Balkans, and the Islands significantly. The variety in the music and rituals of worship of The Bektashies, one of the Cretan Muslim-Turks communities conduces to the formation of the cultural identity, similarly, it presents the non-existing phenomenon in the Bektashi. Even though Turkish is used in the official and rituals of all these regions, the main language Turkish in the Cretan Bektashies, one of the most major elements of the cultural transmissions has been replaced by Romaic. In our study, we determined that the vibrancy of the elements of faith and culture in the rituals of the Cretan Bektasi’s communities currently living in the Western Anatolia and the Mediterranean regions has already been maintained, the hymns have been sung, the manias have been recited, the semah has been worshipped, and we have presented the current data and our findings concerning the Bektashi’s belief and practicing music.

Wolf–Human coexistence in the Alps: the LIFE WolfAlps EU project

During the last 30 years, a natural return of wolves has been recorded at local, national and international levels over several mountain ranges in the Alps and, more recently, in both hilly areas and plains in Europe. Accepting the natural return of wolves in human-dominated landscapes is a major challenge, especially in places where memories and experience of coexistence have been lost. After the success of the LIFE WolfAlps project, which ended in May 2018, the European Commission has approved and co-financed LIFE WolfAlps EU (2019–2024), a new project to support wolf– human coexistence at European and pan-Alpine scales. As the expansion of the wolf population knows no administrative boundaries, the presence of the species requires actions effective at local level to improve its coexistence with humans on an international scale. The new, international project works to support local communities in the prevention of wolf attacks, and decision makers in the adoption of the best possible solutions to improve management of wolves, thus improving public acceptance of their expanding distribution and populations, notwithstanding the potential risks. Concrete actions are being implemented to involve all stakeholders interested in and affected by the wolf’s presence, in order to make human–wolf coexistence possible across borders, traditions and beliefs.

Welcoming Wolves? Governing the Return of Large Carnivores in Traditional Pastoral Landscapes

Wolf populations are recovering across Europe and readily recolonize most areas where humans allow their presence. Reintegrating wolves in human-dominated landscapes is a major challenge, particularly in places where memories and experience of coexistence have been lost. Despite the observed expansion trends, little has been done to prepare communities for the return of these apex predators, or to understand what fosters and perpetuates coexistence. In this study, we present a theoretical framework for resilient coexistence based on four conditions: Effective institutions, large carnivore persistence, social legitimacy, and low levels of risk and vulnerability, nested within the social-ecological systems (SES) concept. To empirically show how the conditions can be manifested and interconnected, and how this knowledge could be used to improve local coexistence capacities, the framework is applied in a case study of human–wolf relations in Spain. We examined three traditionally pastoral landscapes at different states of cohabitation with wolves: uninterrupted presence, recent recolonization, and imminent return. We found that both the perceptions of wolves and the capacity to coexist with them diverged across these states, and that this was largely determined by a diversity of vulnerabilities that have not been recognized or addressed within current management regimes, such as economic precarity and weak legitimacy for governing institutions. Our results illustrate the importance of working in close contact with communities to understand local needs and enhance adaptive capacities in the face of rural transitions, beyond those directly related to wolves. The framework complements emerging tools for coexistence developed by researchers and practitioners, which offer guidance on the process of situational analysis, planning, and resource allocation needed to balance large carnivore conservation with local livelihoods.

Community perspectives on the reintroduction of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) to the UK

The potential for the reintroduction of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) to the UK gained considerable attention in 2017 when the Lynx UK Trust announced their intention to apply for a license to hold a controlled trial reintroduction of lynx in Kielder Forest, Northumberland, an application which was denied in 2019 by the then Secretary of State Michael Gove MP. The historical extirpation of large carnivores in the UK has resulted in communities, populations, and landscapes with little or no experience of coexistence with large predators. While charismatic carnivores have significant cultural symbolism and are often promoted as flagship species for conservation and rewilding, their reintroduction presents challenges for conservation and rewilding in practice, not least in terms of managing often vehement opposition. This article presents findings from the initial consultation process and considers the lessons learned from the methodological approach. In particular, while the incomplete consultation centered on a community‐based approach, there were several factors that constrained public participation, information sharing, and transparent communications integral to this. These are identified and explored here using qualitative data collected during the local consultation, with the intention of informing any similar reintroduction projects.

The Experience of Coexistence and Love: A Critical Study of Al-Muqri’s The Handsome Jew

This study aims at exploring issue of coexistence and love in Yemeni society in the seventeenth century represented in Al- Muqri’s The Handsome Jew by the prominent characters Fatima, a Muslim, and Salem, a Jew. The experience of coexistence is still controversial that has not received enough study in the light of the complexities that are involved in understanding the reasons of violence, social and religious conflicts in order to accept the culture and ideas of the other. The objective of the study is to show how this issue affects Muslim- Jewish women and men in a city that opens its doors for all people. Coexistence theory has often shed light on the language and practice of living together and love stories between Muslim women and Jewish boys and vice versa that stemmed from the social, cultural and religious coexistent in Yemeni society. Al-Muqri’s novel depicts Muslim-Jewish love relation in a way that counters religious and conventional ideas. It is concluded that Ali Al-Muqri addresses the issues of tolerant and peaceful love of human beings that transcends religion, sects and classes. In this sense, he tries hardly to consolidate not only his views, but also all views about the values of cultural, religious and social tolerance and coexistence away from stereotypes, intolerance, racial discrimination and ideological hatred that leave nothing, but destruction to all of humanity.

ISLAM AND THE UNITY OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIETY: MODERNITY AND HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE

The problem of the value consolidation of Russian society in the context of historical and social cohesion, and the role of Islam in formation of theRussian statehood and society is considered in the article. The main attention is focused on the modern parameters in strengthening of the role of Islam in the Russian value-semantic and civic space, as well as on historical experience ofcoexistence of diff erent confessions.

La presencia de la lengua aragonesa en la revista "El Ebro" (1917-1936)

La revista El Ebro (1917-1936), editada en Barcelona por emigrantes aragoneses, supuso la primera experiencia de convivencia de diferentes variedades dialectales de la lengua aragonesa en un mismo medio de comunicación. Se trata de una experiencia que ha pasado prácticamente inadvertida en la historia reciente de una de las lenguas más minoritarias y con menor presencia mediática de Europa Occidental. En sus páginas se mezclaron artículos y colaboraciones escritos en dialectos hablados en los diferentes territorios de dominio lingüístico de la lengua junto con transcripciones de documentos medievales. Al mismo tiempo, se suscitaron debates sobre la cuestión lingüística que se vieron truncados tanto por la propia desaparición de la publicación como por la falta de concreción teórica

Living Side by Side: Approaching Coexistence through Narrative

As postmodernism has created a cultural marker out of individual difference, it has allowed archaeologists to place themselves in settings that are only tenuously connected to collective pasts. These settings are often arbitrary or expedient rather than durable. The author argues that it is erosion of confidence in the ability to acknowledge and characterize the fact of a common ground that impedes archaeologists from engaging with the shared archive of relational resources from which identity is drawn today, in particular through the mechanism of narrative. In examining narrative as a way of bridging between difference and commonality, its archaeological applicability is highlighted through a case study on 18th-century New England; with reference to the transcultural spaces inhabited by English and Native Americans, narrative reconstruction is employed to theorize the character of coexistence and the interpenetration of cultural spaces, and to lead to insights on material culture associated with the experiences of coexistence.

Sob a espada de Dâmocles: a prática de Psicólogas em Oncologia Pediátrica em Recife-Pe

A prática de psicólogos em oncologia pediátrica envolve demandas ligadas ao processo de adoecimento e suas implicações psicossociais, e, não raro, iminência de morte e/ou até chances de cura. Assim, tal pesquisa objetivou compreender a prática desses profissionais no Município de Recife- PE. A metodologia foi qualitativa de inspiração fenomenológica, ancorada na ontologia heideggeriana. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: entrevistas, grupo focal e diálogos com nove participantes, além das anotações de campo. As narrativas foram transcritas na íntegra, literalizadas (Schmidt, 1990) e interpretadas mediante a analítica do sentido (Critelli, 2007). A prática caracterizou-se pela coexistência dos seguintes aspectos: longo período de convivência de pacientes e familiares, envolvimento afetivo e proximidade entre profissionais de saúde, familiares e crianças, além da intensidade no que diz respeito aos vínculos estabelecidos. Tais dimensões repercutem nos modos-de-ser e de estar-no-mundo das participantes, fazendo a prática transitar por entre as dimensões ôntica e ontológica do cuidado. Com o tempo, a prática tende a ancorar-se nas experiências de coexistência. Exercício ético de acolhimento à alteridade, impossibilidade de controle dos acontecimentos, além da iminência de morte, perpassam tal prática, levando os profissionais a romper ações isoladas, a redimensionar o saber-fazer e a reinventar modos interventivos por meio da experimentação cotidiana.

AS26-01 - Time and time experience. definitions: a psychopathological approach

The concepts of t ime, space and the self are intimately involved and though this is not often recognised, directly influence our understanding of diverse abnormal experiences not regarded as related. In this paper I shall argue that Kant's description of time as a theoretical rather than an empirical concept relying on experience is a fruitful one for psychopathology to adopt. In other words, that our experience of coexistence and succession, and indeed of duration, pre-eminent time constructs, depends on a prior concept of time. The same is true of our concept of space. And, finally, the self, our unity of consciousness and bodily integrity require an intuitive notion of time and space. The aim is to draw attention to the fact that this intimate interaction between time, space and the self has implications for the definition and classification of abnormalities of time experience. The method will be by conceptual analysis. I will conclude by arguing that identity, memory, actions, will, music, language, narrative structure, attitude to the future and mood, all implicitly have a time signature that determines how they are experienced and how they ought to be described and defined. I will use examples of memory impairment, impairment of language use in thought disorder, and abnormalities of attitude to the future in mood disorders to underline my case.

La révision de la Constitution de Roumanie concernant les langues des minorités nationales : un modèle à suivre

The problem of the languages of national minorities in Romania •including the one regarding the revision of constitutional regulations in the field •is approached by the author in a vast perspective which concerns both the defence of the national language as well as the defence of the languages of the minorities. Also, these two categories of policies are considered within the scope of the democratisation of the Romanian society on the one hand and of the integration of the state in supernational structures, such as the European Council, the European Union etc. on the other hand. By analysing the two texts added to the Constitution at the time of its revision in 2003 in the light of similar texts of other European constitutions the author argues that the Romanian legislator has found appropriate means to associate two constitutional principles which appear to be in conflict: that of the consecration of the Romanian language as the official language of the country and the one regarding the linguistic rights of national minorities. In conclusion, the author argues that the regulation of the linguistic rights of the national minorities in Romania constitutes a model to be followed by other states. Viewed as ethnic groups with a long experience of co-existence, with common aspirations and values, the Romanians and the national minorities in Romania have succeeded to develop linguistic policies which make living together both possible and peaceful while orienting at the same time the social activity as a whole towards the accomplishment of the fundamental objectives of the unitary Romanian state.