Experience Of Solidarity Research Articles

In it together?: Exploring solidarity with frontline workers in the United Kingdom and Ireland during COVID-19.

The phrase ‘in it together’ has been used liberally since the outbreak of COVID‐19, but the extent that frontline workers felt ‘in it together’ is not well understood. Here, we consider the factors that built (or eroded) solidarity while working through the pandemic, and how frontline workers navigated their lives through periods of disconnection. Semi‐structured interviews with 21 frontline workers, across all sectors, were conducted in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The qualitative data were analysed systematically using reflexive thematic analysis. The three themes identified in the data were: (1) Solidarity as central to frontline experiences; (2) Leadership as absent, shallow and divisive: highlighting ‘us‐them’ distinctions and (3) The rise of ‘us’ and ‘we’ among colleagues. Our research offers insights into how frontline workers make sense of their experiences of solidarity and discordance during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic, with relevance for government and organizational policy‐makers shaping future conditions for frontline workers.

‘WE'RE ALL WATCHING EACH OTHER’: Dunedin Supermarket Workers and the 2020 Pandemic Lockdown

Restrictions implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand changed the space and sociality of supermarkets significantly. Personal management strategies such as handwashing, social distancing, and the use of facemasks transformed the lived experience of supermarket workers, making them a part of the emergency infrastructure of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public health response. This small qualitative study uses interviews and observation to explore the changing experience of work and self for five Dunedin supermarket workers as they performed their jobs, engaged in public health measures, and experienced the vulnerability of being understood as infection vectors within their homes and objects of heightened risk within their workspace. We use this data to discuss the social meanings of personal management strategies as efface work, the experience of solidarity within a community of fate, and as an alternative window on the ‘conquest’ of COVID-19, including the development of ‘techne’ of professional caregiving under duress and without public health training.

The ‘integrative potential’ and socio-political constraints of football in Southeast Europe: a critical exploration of lived experiences of people seeking asylum

This paper critically interrogates the ‘integrative potential’ of football by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork that includes 84 semi-structured interviews with refugees, asylum seekers and local community organizations, and five interviews with representatives of national football associations across Southeast Europe, a region that has hitherto been under-examined in this field of research. The results show the uneasy and strained relationship between football and integration, characterized by incongruity between micro-level practices and experiences of solidarity and inclusion, and State-sponsored marginality and deterrence taking place in Southeast Europe. We provide empirical evidence for social connections, facilitators (i.e. language and communication, safety and stability), and rights as relevant, meaningful and challenging domains of integration in the context of football. We conclude that foundational rights, and hence dehumanizing policies and discourses, need to be addressed if the proclaimed ‘integrative potential’ of football is to be realized beyond social connections and sporadic examples of access to decent work through football.

Experience of Solidarity in Poland under Communist Rule and Thereafter

Although Solidarność was the largest mass movement in the history of after-war Europe, the experience of solidarity during that time in communist Poland has barely been analysed. Drawing on historical accounts of the events in the 1980s and press interviews with Solidarność members, this paper attempts to bridge this gap and identifies key aspects of the experienced solidarity. It argues that the solidarity under communism in Poland derived not only from the common enemy – the communist party state – but was deeply rooted in Catholic social thought and the national identity. It was driven mainly by ideas of protection of human dignity, mutual aid, participation and a demand for “life in truth”. Since 2015, the new social policy has had initially positive impact on income inequality, birth rates and poverty but must be accompanied by further measures to obtain a long-term character.

Introduction

This edition of European Comic Art begins by adopting a retrospective viewpoint and ends with a look to the future, not entirely rosy but not wholly bleak. Our first article offers a reassessment of the relationship between Hergé’s Tintin and conservative Catholic discourses of the 1930s. We then move on to a personal recollection of a landmark moment in the legitimisation of comics in France: the Cerisy conference of 1987. In our third article, two virtuoso comics autobiographers reflect (in an email discussion that took place in 2006, here translated into English for the first time) on the loss of the searching, edgy tonality of early comics life writing in favour of something more crowd-pleasing. Finally, a young Brighton-based comics artist shares her love of the medium and her experience of solidarity among her fellow artists but has a cooler appraisal of the current political scene and the health of the comics culture in the United Kingdom.

Introduction

This edition of European Comic Art begins by adopting a retrospective viewpoint and ends with a look to the future, not entirely rosy but not wholly bleak. Our first article offers a reassessment of the relationship between Hergé’s Tintin and conservative Catholic discourses of the 1930s. We then move on to a personal recollection of a landmark moment in the legitimisation of comics in France: the Cerisy conference of 1987. In our third article, two virtuoso comics autobiographers reflect (in an email discussion that took place in 2006, here translated into English for the first time) on the loss of the searching, edgy tonality of early comics life writing in favour of something more crowd-pleasing. Finally, a young Brighton-based comics artist shares her love of the medium and her experience of solidarity among her fellow artists but has a cooler appraisal of the current political scene and the health of the comics culture in the United Kingdom.

Kryzys wartości a polityka migracyjna

The Crisis of Values and Migration Policy. A Philosophical Perspective
 The world of values and the world of politics seem distant from each other. However, as the evidence of recent decades indicates, European policy is based on an ethical experience. A special example is the experience of solidarity during the political transformation in Central Europe, which plays an important role in relation to the problem of the wave of migration on the old continent most recently. The fall of axiology announced by Nietzsche in the nineteenth century is at the same time a harbinger of a new order, because there is a new perspective on the problem of values. The principle of solidarity, which is offered in his book Formalism in Ethics and Non‑Formal Ethics of Values by Max Scheler, or the experience of solidarity described by Józef Tischner in The Spirit of Solidarity, show that the world of values is grounded within interpersonal relationships and that they constitute the foundation of society and the state. That is why migration policy cannot be limited to respect of human rights for citizens of one country. It should, rather, apply to all people. Politics, guided by social justice, thanks to the experience of solidarity is transformed into a policy of responsibility for others.

Solidaridad y conflicto entre combatientes del Grupo de Artillería 3 del Ejército Argentino en la guerra y posguerra de Malvinas

El presente trabajo tiene por objeto el estudio de las formas de solidaridad y de conflicto en las relaciones formales e interpersonales entre el jefe, oficiales, suboficiales y soldados del Grupo de Artillería 3 del Ejército Argentino durante la Guerra y Posguerra de Malvinas. Las experiencias de combate en la guerra ponen a prueba la consistencia de esas relaciones en su dimensión formal o institucional e interpersonal. En la extrema realidad de la guerra, cuando los combatientes se exponían cotidianamente a la muerte, se suscitaban conflictos en las relaciones jerárquicas entre oficiales, suboficiales y soldados, al interior de cada uno de esos estamentos castrenses, y en los vínculos interpersonales entre todos los individuos. Pero en esos contextos también revelaban comportamientos altruistas, solidaridades y lealtades excepcionales. Esas solidaridades y conflictos producidos en la guerra, a su vez, se proyectaban-no sin modificaciones- durante la posguerra. Esas experiencias bélicas de solidaridad y conflicto serán analizadas en sus inscripciones y/o en sus relaciones con diferentes marcos temporales y escenarios espaciales tal como fueron vividos, reconocidos y conforme a los sentidos atribuidos por los propios veteranos.

Collective memory and intergenerational transmission in social movements: The “grandparents’ movement” iaioflautas, the indignados protests, and the Spanish transition

The iaioflautas movement, which emerged in the course of the indignados protests in Spain in 2011, is one of the few social movements that explicitly organize around a “grandparents’ identity.” This article analyzes the movement against the historical backdrop of the Spanish transición, in particular the characteristic absence of transitional justice and the pacto del olvido—the ‘pact of oblivion’ regarding the political violence of the civil war and the dictatorship. I argue, first, that the emergence of the movement indicates a general shift in the memory debate in Spain, problematizing the memory of transición itself against the backdrop of the crisis. The iaioflautas organize as active historical witnesses to support the younger protesters’ mobilizations, not least by testifying to their historical legacy, that is the struggle for democracy. They thus draw on the hegemonic transition narrative and reframe it at the same time, echoing the indignados’ slogan “Real Democracy Now.” Second, I show that the iaioflautas’ explicit organization around a generational identity on the one hand re-organizes this generational unit of activists that for long had been cast aside from public memory in Spain, while on the other hand it facilitates intergenerational transmission of collective memory and repertoires of contention within the indignados movement. In addition, the concomitant “family narrative” of generativity, that is, of caring for the younger generations, allows addressing a much broader audience, thus adapting to the constraints of the arena, in avoiding the acerbic political divisions that usually characterize an engagement with historical memory in this particular post-civil-war and post-dictatorship context. Third, the iaioflautas offer an example of “remembering hope,” that is, they pass on their own experiences of solidarity, agency, and democratic opportunities in order to encourage the younger generations’ protest and political imaginary.

La solidaridad obrera de Pierre Leroux: una exploración de la fraternidad y la amistad entre la filosofía socialista de Pierre Leroux y los textos de La parole ouvrière

Este artículo explora la conceptualización de la experiencia de la solidaridad que se da en dos escenas de escritura, si bien contiguas, diferenciadas. Una de ellas es la que nos ofrece Alain Faure y Jacques Rancière en la antología de textos obreros que lleva por nombre La parole ouvrière. Contexto donde rastrearemos los elementos que articulan determinada noción de solidaridad y que se muestra en la base de una de las propuestas más significativas del movimiento obrero francés de la primera mitad del siglo XIX: la configuración de la Asociación como una “práctica de resistencia”. Analizaremos los obstáculos que enfrenta esta empresa colectiva, concentrándonos en la crítica a la caridad burguesa y la denuncia del egoísmo como elementos destructivos del movimiento obrero. A partir de ese estadio, nos aproximaremos a nuestra segunda escena, representada por la Doctrina de la Humanidad que nos propone el “filósofo obrero” Pierre Leroux, donde examinaremos determinados antecedentes y proyecciones de la solidaridad en tanto fundamento de un sistema filosófico socialista.

Multiple family therapy for anorexia nervosa at the Eating Disorder Service, the Children's Hospital at Westmead

The Eating Disorder Service at The Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) is a tertiary service that offers a range of family focused treatment options for young people with an eating disorder. Multiple Family Therapy (MFT) is the newest treatment option provided by the service. MFT is now a key intervention offered by a number of services overseas, most notably at the Maudsley Hospital, London, where the model was developed. Despite it's use for more than a decade overseas, we are the first service in Australia to systemically integrate MFT as an additional treatment option within the standard suite of interventions offered. MFT theoretically builds upon the core constructs of family based treatment for anorexia nervosa, whilst adding the unique experience of solidarity for young people and their families. The content of MFT is experiential, involving activities and specific debriefing techniques to help families develop ways to work together against anorexia, increase attunement to their child's needs and feel more agency around the process of recovery. The MFT program at CHW provides the opportunity for up to eight families to work together for a 4-day workshop. Follow-up care is provided by outpatient family therapy or integration into the Intensive Family and Adolescent Eating Disorders Day Program. MFT targets families not progressing in outpatient care or who present with some other complexity with the view that engagement in treatment may be enhanced through the group experience of MFT and the opportunity to receive treatment input from multiple sources. The presentation will describe MFT constructs, the programs implementation at CHW, show material from the therapeutic activities completed and present preliminary data and family experiences from the first five groups.

Digitalization and the Production of Feeling and Emotion: The Case of Words Cut into the Skin

Abstract This article investigates one example of how affect is articulated in the self-cutting of words into the skin and how the meaning of this multimodal [statement is modified through remediation. According to Tomkins, affects are understood as intensities that are impossible to frame as feelings or emotions. A theoretical framework based on Laclau’s and Mouffe’s discourse theory and the multimodal categories developed by Kress and van Leeuwen is used. Photographs of self-cutting and statements from people who cut themselves are examined through content analyses. The results show that words that had been cut into the skin often referred to painful experiences, disgust directed against themselves, or social isolation. Further, the study shows that when the cut-in words are remediated through a photograph, digitalized and published online, other meanings appear. Inside internet communities for people who self-injure, the photographs were associated with a communal experience, identification and prescribed activity. The original self-oriented feelings about one’s shortcomings and isolation attached to self-cutting could be altered so that those connoted, instead, experiences of solidarity, identity and intimacy.

Criminal Law and the Autonomy Assumption

This article considers and criticizes criminal law‘s assumption of the moral autonomy of individuals, showing how that view rests on questionable and obscure Kantian commitments about the self, and proposes a naturalistic alternative developed through a synthetic reading of Adorno‘s and Bhaskar‘s account of the subject in relation to nature and society. As an embodied, emergent, changing subject whose practically rational powers are emergent, polymorphous, and contingent, the subject‘s moral autonomy is dependent on the conditions for experiences of solidarity in four-planar nature. This view makes criminal theory‘s Autonomy Assumption look deeply questionable; autonomy must be a complex, nuanced open question, not an abstract, a priori default assumption.

Global Feminist Politics and the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan - Weighed through Japanese Women's Solidarity Experiences in ‘Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan’ -

Global Feminist Politics and the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan - Weighed through Japanese Women's Solidarity Experiences in ‘Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan’ -

Publicidad Social eficaz desde la Universidad: Los aspectos experimentales

We present the results of a 5-year longitudinal study done on the type of advertising typically effected by DNGO's, and the experiential aspects of this advertising. Universities has facilitated opportunities for students to develop their skills in terms of the Social-Learning theoretical model, and has resulted in a melding of a formal learning programme with the experience of solidarity. Universities have resolved many of the issues desired by DNGO's, particularly in terms of campaign efficacy, the briefing procedure and increasing levels of creativity. Organizations should demand the new web 2.0.

Experience of Solidarity

The more nonprofits become challenged by resource shortages, the higher the demand for highly skilled executive directors. Nevertheless, we do not yet fully understand what motivates executive directors to work in nonprofits challenged by market forces. This article explores the career context and individual biographies of executive directors. Introducing a career field and career capital approach to the study of careers in nonprofits, we analyze what influences the career of executive directors of German faith-based social service organizations. The results of 23 interviews and four focus groups with 60 participants are twofold. First, four types of career capital influenced the executive directors’ career: Experience of solidarity, orientation to social service, skills for executive function, and leadership by appointment. Second, all careers were highly influenced by the experience of solidarity. The article ends by explaining why experience of solidarity is important for training and selecting nonprofit executive directors.

Our President, Our Selves

I went to Barack Obama’s inauguration. I did not have a ticket, so I would have seen and heard more if I had stayed at home in North Carolina. But I had experienced the Bush II years as a coup d’etat, as the seizure of the government by a dangerous cabal. I wanted to stand as a witness to the restoration of the proper relation between me, as citizen, and the national state. The occasion did not disappoint. It was not the ceremony itself or Obama’s speech that made me glad I went. It was the experience of solidarity with the crowd, of the almost giddy well-being that we all felt while exchanging silly smiles and high fives with strangers in the shadow of the Washington Monument. That Obama is half-black and that the fellow-feeling in the crowd conspicuously crossed racial lines only heightened the sense that I was experiencing what America could be if my (our?) deepest fantasies came true. After reading the four books reviewed here, I felt chastened. My feelings and hopes on that day not only repeat time-worn cliches in American history, but, if Dana Nelson, Peter Shane, and Sean McCann are to be believed, undermine the possibility of true democracy in these US. In their view, “Presidentialism,” the increasing power of the executive branch plus the tendency of citizens to look to the president to transcend the petty squabbles and difficult negotiations of politics, alienates sovereignty from the people to a potent figure from whom we expect/demand redemption. We passively cede power to this charismatic leader, abrogating deliberative democratic processes. Jeff Smith takes a more benign view of the (to him) inevitable creation of narratives that feature the president as protagonist. Those stories reflect our hopes and fears, but he does not sit judgment on some of those imaginings as less legitimate or more harmful than others. He is more interested in how presidents

Tragedy, Surrogation and the Significance of African-American Culture in Postunification Germany: An Interpretation of 'Schultze Gets the Blues'

In the aftermath of unification, the loss of job security and other forms of social support under East Germany's comprehensive (if increasingly inefficient and corrupt) system of welfare state paternalism, coupled with a newfound dependence on West German financial largesse, not only disoriented former East Germans, but also led to pressures on them to repress their past experiences of solidarity and distinctiveness. Schultze Gets the Blues, the critically acclaimed box office hit from director Michael Schorr, relates the story of a retired mineworker and accordionist for a town band in the economic backwaters of eastern Germany who undergoes a lifechanging conversion to the Cajun folk music of Zydeco. Drawing from Joseph Roach's notion of surrogation and Cornel West's articulation of an African-American tragic sensibility, this article casts Schultze in the role of a postunification mediating figure reconciling East German solidarity and localism with West German individualism and multiculturalism.

Community Development And Social Movements: An Experience of Solidarity and Citizenship in Brazil

Community Development And Social Movements: An Experience of Solidarity and Citizenship in Brazil