Postmodern Practice Research Articles

Global (Im)mobility in the Mirror of Postmodern Transformations: The Political Aspect

The increasing spatial fluidity of the population in general and the inclusion of a wider range of people in international migration in particular is recognized as one of the most visible manifestations of globalization. However, processes contributing to the movement and global relations at the same time generate physical and socio-political immobility, alienation, and dissociation. The phenomenon of (im)mobility is considered from a political point of view. Making use of the institutional approach, the author defines (im)mobility as a process caused by international and national political institutions’ activities, on one hand, and stimulating the emergence of formal and informal political practices, on the other hand. Government regulation of cross-border migration is reflected in the demands of the valid grounds for the legal entering the territory of a state, the development of distance forms of mobility management, the establishment of financial mechanisms, and the imposition of restrictive migration measures. The isolating practices of modernity meet up with postmodern digital practices. Herewith, political barriers prevent the movement of potentially dangerous individuals and groups, and those not representing a danger to the community, violating human rights and fundamental freedoms, which are so-called mobility rights. Initiatives performed bypolitical parties and public associations prevent mobile citizens from accessing not only political leadership, but also their participation in political agenda setting.

From Neo-Historicism to Capitalist Realism “po·mo·stroika – Postmodern Theories, Practices and Histories in Central and Eastern Europe”

From Neo-Historicism to Capitalist Realism “po·mo·stroika – Postmodern Theories, Practices and Histories in Central and Eastern Europe”

Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England. Katherine Eggert. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xi+351.

<i>Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England</i>. Katherine Eggert. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. xi+351.

Margaret Carr

Nursery WorldVol. 2017, No. 3 Learning & DevelopmentMargaret CarrLinda PoundLinda PoundSearch for more papers by this authorLinda PoundPublished Online:15 Feb 2017https://doi.org/10.12968/nuwa.2017.3.28AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View articleAbstractThe woman behind New Zealand's early years curriculum is still going strong. By Linda PoundMORE INFORMATION• Smith AB (2011) ‘Relationships with people, places and things – Te Whāriki’ in Miller LPound L (eds) Theories and Approaches to Learning in the Early Years. Sage Google Scholar• Carr M and Lee W (2012) Learning Stories: Constructing Learner Identities in Early Education. Sage Google Scholar• Professor Margaret Carr on the anniversary of Te Whāriki (2015), www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn0wq-LtOnw Google Scholar• Carr M (2001) Assessment in Early Childhood Settings: Learning Stories. Paul Chapman Publishing Google Scholar• Carr M et al. (2010) Learning in the Making: Disposition and Design in Early Education. Sense Publishers Google Scholar• Ritchie J (2005) ‘Implementing Whāriki as postmodern practice’ in Ryan SGrieshaber S (eds) Practical Transformations and Transformational Practices. Elsevier Google Scholar FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 6 February 2017Volume 2017Issue 3ISSN (print): 0029-6422ISSN (online): 2059-9358 Metrics History Published online 15 February 2017 Published in print 6 February 2017 Information© MA Education LimitedPDF download

Navigating Critical Theory and Postmodernism: Social Justice and Therapist Power in Family Therapy.

The family therapy field encourages commitment to diversity and social justice, but offers varying ideas about how to attentively consider these issues. Critical informed models advocate activism, whereas postmodern informed models encourage multiple perspectives. It is often not clear how activism and an emphasis on multiple perspectives connect, engendering the sense that critical and postmodern practices may be disparate. To understand how therapists negotiate these perspectives in practice, this qualitative grounded theory analysis drew on interviews with 11 therapists, each known for their work from both critical and postmodern perspectives. We found that these therapists generally engage in a set of shared constructionist practices while also demonstrating two distinct forms of activism: activism through countering and activism through collaborating. Ultimately, decisions made about how to navigate critical and postmodern influences were connected to how therapists viewed ethics and the ways they were comfortable using their therapeutic power. The findings illustrate practice strategies through which therapists apply each approach.

Isso tudo é um grande baile Narrativa de jogos de cenas performados por/com crianças do Ensino Fundamental

O presente artigo comunica um percurso de problematização indisciplinar de práticas socioculturais por/com crianças de uma turma de 4º ano do Ensino Fundamental I, no ano de 2010, na Rede Municipal de Vinhedo (SP). As orientações dos caminhos trilhados e da forma de ver, compreender e empreender a educação em contexto escolar tiveram forte inspiração na filosofia de Ludwig Wittgenstein, bem como em outros autores filiados a correntes de práticas pós-modernas. O citado percurso é visto como possibilidade de problematização das relações estabelecidas entre matemática e arte em contexto escolar e como modo de transgressão da condição disciplinar desses campos de conhecimento.

Decolonizing Motherhood: Images of Mothering in First Nations Theatre

Decolonizing MotherhoodImages of Mothering in First Nations Theatre Ann Haugo (bio) Performance can describe, through the fulsome, hopeful, radically humanist gesture of the utopian performative, how social relationships might change. I go to see performances anticipating transformative experiences, ones that will let me see a sliver of a vision, let me feel for a moment in my body and my soul what the world might be like were some form of social justice or progressive social change or consistent act of real, human love even partially accomplished. The performatives I’m engaging here aren’t iterations of what is but transformative doings of what if. This kind of hope represents an opening up, rather than a closing down, of consciousness of the past and the future in the present. JILL DOLAN, UTOPIA IN PERFORMANCE: FINDING HOPE AT THE THEATER, 2005 I first saw a production written by Marie Clements nearly fifteen years ago, a staged reading of Now Look What You Made Me Do, a text that even as a staged reading I could only describe as kaleidoscopic, a collage of images and relationships, tied together with a central narrative enacted by a mixed-blood female character seeking agency, power, a center. Then as now, I feel that to write a narrative that interprets, theorizes, or explicates a theme or direction in Clements’s work serves mostly to reduce her work, to force that collage of themes and images into a false stability, molded into my own narrative frame. Reid Gilbert, who has written several articles on Clements’s plays, offers a reading of Clements’s work that stems from his concept of “sheer theatricality,” a method that “denaturalizes reception” through avoiding a reading that begins with the stabilizing impulse of marking genre, avoiding the static codes of reception. Gilbert’s [End Page 269] process allows for refraction and reflection, grounded in the idea of the miseen-abyme, the between-mirrors effect, the idea of an image reflected endlessly through or onto mirrors placed opposite each other, an infinite cache of images. Gilbert attempts a Lacanian-Derridean turn with sheer theatricality, “suggesting a kind of ‘writing’ whose text is constructed through a coining of physical and sensory ‘graphemes,’” graphemes that he specifies as composing a “physical and sensory language carried in bodies, sound and apparatus.” “Such writing,” Gilbert continues, “remains dynamic, resisting unitary meaning: as it undulates in and out of various genres and in and out of the various responses of spectators, it exposes its own hybridity, its dialogism. More important, it also harkens far back for citation. By moving to a place before calligraphy and even before orality, it moves to a space without imperial signification.”1 Like Gilbert, I am fascinated by the multiple trajectories of meaning and the complex readings that Clements’s dramaturgy produces, built by a web of image citations, reflecting and accumulating from scene to scene. My interest, however, resides not only in that astounding complexity but also in the political contexts for her work, in all its layers of meaning and images: feminist and indigenous, a liberating and transformative poetics that makes theatre into ceremony—not a New Age, let’s-all-feel-good-and-dance-in-a-circle ceremony but a ceremony of communal power, often women’s communal power, that transcends the material limitations placed on her characters in daily life. It is this merging of a precise political vision and a postmodern practice that fuels my interest in her plays. Although her subject matter is often dark or troubling—domestic violence in Now Look What You Made Me Do, the death and destruction wreaked by uranium mining and atomic bombs in Burning Vision, or the serial murders of Native women in Vancouver’s skid row in The Unnatural and Accidental Women, for example—her plays enact the militant optimism that Dolan describes in the opening epigraph.2 In Clements’s work, this manifests as an authorial standpoint from which women (and sometimes men) regain their agency, restored to a vital mobility from which they can move into a new future and, sometimes, amend the past. Since many of her characters are indigenous, that restoration of agency often means...

La literatura posmoderna española: entre el fin de la dictadura y el auge de los mass media

La literatura posmoderna española: entre el fin de la dictadura y el auge de los mass media

Methodological foundations for contemporary Religious Studies of Adventism

The article deals with the topic of contemporary criticism of methodological foundations for contemporary Religious Studies of Adventism. The analysis of theoretical and methodological works of Ukrainian and foreign scientists of Religious Studies and theologians allowed to select features of postmodern and late modern types of Protestantism in general and Adventism in particular. For the world Adventism is characterized internal struggle between late modern and postmodern types of Christianity. In particular, there is postmodern on their type and form of expression is the argument in favor of female priesthood, greater openness to the world. In Ukraine, even in the missionary and social work which is objectively the most open to the world, not seeing a transition to a postmodern type of Christianity, although some elements of postmodern practices find their application. But these elements are used only in so far as they are useful and do not violate the general style of Adventism, not threaten the integrity of faith and lifestyles of Adventists do not contradict moral values and practical principles of the social doctrine of Adventism. This allows us to hypothesize that a series of practices common to late modern Christianity and postmodern types of activity of Christians in the postmodern environment. Such practices can be called an open feature of Christianity, which, in active cooperation with the world refuses to lose its own identity. But as organic practices develop appropriate methods of church life and activity of believers formed in late modern period, we attribute it to their typological characteristics of contemporary Adventism as a form of late modern Christianity. With all the openness to the contemporary world and the transformation Adventism is developed as late modern Christianity, which is reflected in practical life of Ukrainian Adventism.

Postmodern Paraphrase of the Genre Tradition: Worldview Contest and Poetics

The article describes the causes, the essence, and significance than the previous artistic experience postmodern attitude to tradition, in particular, the genre one. The reference of the postmodern games with archaic mythological ritual reveals their ideological “dissimilar similarity”, its participation in the historical “memory of the genre”, defines the value of allusions as the main figure of postmodern mnemonic practice provides an analytical overview of the genre tradition Horatian “Exegimonumentum” in Russian poetry “Monument” XVIII-XXI centuries. Their typological description reveals three trends in the history of the mnemonic paraphrase of the case text. The first is to follow the tradition of the prestigious Horatian“Monument” in the genre forms of imitation and transposition, the second—in a polemical rejection of him and follow classical models “Monument”, is carried out mainly with the help of an antithesis, the third—in the game re-creation this tradition with such stylistic figures as abbreviation (“Monument”—distich by M. Gendelev), travesty (dramatic poem by L. Sukhotin“Literary Monuments”), and burlesque irony (“Monument. You see, I erected for myself in a moment...” by V. Demykin). The article presents a detailed analysis of the “Monument” by M. Gendelev and “Literary monuments” by M. Sukhotin. The study of literary texts presented the following conclusions. Classical “Monuments” are characteristic of the author’s adaptation of the modality of tradition in post-classical, on the contrary, the tradition is refracted in the personal mode of the author’s consciousness. The third trend—postmodern—ironic characterized by eversion canonical “monument” inside that has the effect of stylistic alienation and estrangement from mnemonic tradition of the genre, “monument” for the formation of her memory, without which it is impossible other existence in the modern history of the poetic consciousness. This is the responsibility of the designated paraphrase of postmodern genre tradition. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s4p402

TOPOGRAPHY OF A DREAM, OR SOME FEATURES OF NONLINEAR NARRATIVE

The article deals with the turn of the poetry of linear narrative into three-dimensional shapes, while topography and other spatial disciplines becomes an important tool to understand the meaning of new hypertextual narrative. Relying on the metaphors of Ted Nelson, the creator of the concept of hypertext about the magical and oneiric nature of a nonlinear story, the article represents the relationships between the topography of the spiritual world of the British Romanticism, written media transformation to a three-dimensional spatial structure in Nelson’s hypertext project and postmodern practices of cultural dismantling. The article concludes that the traditional writing about hypertext is often not able to cover part of its features; the attention is drawn to the nature of hybrid art/scientific analysis of the new, intermedial “writing”.

Complexity and spectacle: three American landscapes of the 1980s

During the 1980s, American landscape architectural practice renewed its interest in design, opposing—at least in part—the rational analysis that had prevailed during the previous decade. Accompanying this return was an interest in complexity using new materials, forms inspired by contemporary art practices, and involved patterns of planting and paving that at times bordered on the spectacle. Three landscapes stand out as notable, and yet representative, of the state of American landscape architecture thirty years back. George Hargreaves / SWA Group's energetic Harlequin Plaza in Englewood, Colorado, from 1982, demonstrated the impact of postmodern art practices on landscape design and signaled a new direction for designing the office landscape. Peter Walker's 1989 IBM landscapes in Solana, Texas, displayed an understanding and adoption of ideas drawn from minimalist sculpture. Dan Kiley's 1988 NCNB Plaza in Tampa, Florida, relied on an almost mannerist complexity of structure, planting, and form. Sadly, none of these landscapes endures in its original state, raising questions on complexity, ownership, and maintenance.

From Person-in-Environment to Strengths: The Promise of Postmodern Practice

Social work relies heavily on its value base to guide practice; however, there are no conceptual models—on par with person-in-environment (PIE)—to describe how these values are implemented within an evidence-based approach. However, the philosophical foundation of empiricism and positivism that lends PIE its strength also brings with it inherent weaknesses: Namely, empirical observation cannot produce value judgments, and positivism’s verification of causality cannot capture the workings of free will. Postmodern thought is uniquely suited to address these shortcomings. Its philosophical foundation of phenomenology and social constructionism speak to a value-based approach to practice and hold out the promise of engendering conceptual models that can illustrate these values in action.

The Application of Auxiliaries in Verb Structures: A Cross Linguistic Approach

This article comments on Waseem Anwar‟s book “Black” Women’s Dramatic Discourse: A Psychosemiotic Study of Silence in Selected Plays by African American Women Dramatists to illustrate how the essential plurality of postmodern critical practices, in spite of their overt emphasis on anti-traditionalism, are rhetorically governed by academic jargon that is a multifaceted tradition in its own right. In doing so, it will introduce the reader to Waseem Anwar’s critique, in the wake of postcolonial studies, of the dialogic nature of language in evaluations of race and gender.

EXECUTIVE AND LEADER COACHING: AN I/O PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE

ABSTRACT Organizations continue to re-organize, re-structure, and adapt to the paradigm shift from traditional business practices to postmodern practices in boundaryless markets and global economies. On the human side of the paradigm shift to new unchartered waters, a growing number of executives and leaders are seeking assistance for professional and career development. Organizations are also using executive and leader coaches in efforts to increase organizational performance. Yet, the field of executive and leader coaching has limited empirical studies, theories, and models. Currently, there are no legal requirements to provide coaching services or create a coaching practice outside of obtaining a business license. Therefore, the average person could create a coaching practice with a minimum investment and limited coaching skills. The absence of empirical research, mandatory requirements, and limited guiding principles could result in potentially ineffective coaching practices leading to limited outcomes or in some cases, harm to the client. The field of executive and leader coaching has a surplus of practitioners with backgrounds and experiences including retired executives and business leaders, management consultants, motivational speakers, and sports coaches. Presently, there are a few professional coaching organizations offering training and coaching certification for reasonable prices and minimum membership requirements. However, the field of executive and leader coaching also has a growing number of industrial/organizational psychologists and licensed psychologists providing coaching services influenced by the American Psychological Association code of ethics, standards, and principles. This paper provides an overview of executive and leader coaching with an industrial/organizational psychology perspective of executive and leader coaching. Keywords APA Ethics Code, Best Practices, Business Coaching, Coaching Competencies, Coaching Principles, Evidence-based Coaching, Executive and Leader Development

Encoding the Daily Life Through Social Networks “Binboa – A Social Night” Analysis of Advertising in Accordance with the New Media Symbols

The new media has a value of use as a new course of advertisement for the brand and advertising statements structured on the changing perceptions in our daily lives. While preferences and tastes shaped by post-modern life practices are processed in people’s cognitive processes, thinking, behaving and communicating via symbols experienced in the virtual universe, hence the social networks have proved to be indispensable. Transformation of real affection manners into symbols, especially the fact that these symbols are derived from social networks, has been increasingly pushing individuals to live and think in the face of the virtuality – reality dilemma. Thus, all communication styles, by being restructured in virtual universe, are reflected in social practices, and this symbolic transfer brings with it the domination of the inner dynamics and structure of social networks in our daily lives. The advertising sector, cognizant of this transformation, builds its enterprises and statements on individuals’ new habits and communicates its promises to the target audience in this way. The social media, having formed new behavior and language patterns, is used fairly functionally by the alcoholic beverage brands that are subject to media limit. It appears that the social media, due to its ease of sharing, speed and interactivity, has an effective role in many realms ranging from brand recognition to image renewal, and from entertainment and creativity use to ultimate decision and buying behavior. This study deals with the question of how the codes used in social networks are reflected in daily life. The advertisement of Binboa “A Social Night” will be analyzed through a semiotic method, and the decoding process of the advertisement discourse will be assessed with reference to postmodern culture and digitalization concepts. The

Secrecy and knowledge production: Doing research in corporate organisational settings

This paper examines the challenges of conducting research in secretivecorporate organisational settings where corporate professionals areinformants and gate keepers of the research. It draws on experiences ofnegotiating access to informants and conducting research within regulatoryand Contract Research Organizations (CROs) for a PhD project aimed atexploring the ethical and regulatory issues associated with the conduct offirst-in-human clinical trials in the UK. The explicit ways in which secrecysurrounds the practice of clinical trials, relates to a theory of, and ways of,knowledge production that directly opposes the principles of modernacademia. This brings up important questions for researchers: is it possibleto carry out research while abiding by the values of good research practice,such as transparency, if one's informants or gatekeepers are not open andtransparent? This is because the secrecy in the practice of pharmaceuticalresearch is in sharp contrast to postmodern social research practices in whichsocial scientists believe that the production and distribution of knowledge iskey to resolving social problems. Precisely, this paper explores thechallenges faced by early career researchers (ECRs) in negotiating access andconducting research, and how such settings influence not only the questionsfor the research but the methods to be used as well. Drawing on experiencesin tackling these issues, the paper argues that to carry out research ECRshave to use a swathe of tactics and sometimes depend on luck to gain accessand eventually do their research.

Hyperlinking History and Illegitimate Imagination: The Historiographic Metafictional E-novel

‘Historiographic Metafiction’ (HM) is a literary term first coined by creative writing academic Linda Hutcheon in 1988, and which refers to the postmodern practice of a fiction author inserting imagined--or illegitimate--characters into narratives that are intended to be received as authentic and historically accurate, that is, ostensibly legitimate. Such adventurous and bold authorial strategies frequently result in “novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim to historical events and personages” (Hutcheon, A Poetics 5). They can be so entertaining and engaging that the overtly intertextual, explicitly inventive work of biographical HM can even change the “hegemonic discourse of history” (Nunning 353) for, as Philippa Gregory, the author of HM novel The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), has said regarding this genre of creative writing: “Fiction is about imagined feelings and thoughts. History depends on the outer life. The novel is always about the inner life. Fiction can sometimes do more than history. It can fill the gaps” (University of Sussex). In a way, this article will be filling one of the gaps regarding HM...

NAUJŲJŲ MEDIJŲ VARTOTOJAS-KŪ­RĖJAS IR KINEMATOGRAFINIS MĄSTYMAS

In our contemporary world, when new technologies are becoming more and more in­tensive, the habits of media users are inevitably changing. The practical behaviour of media users is altering in such a way that passive receivers of information are now becoming active mediate users. Due to this dramatic transformation, the situation of new media has become interminable. It means that evident changes have not yet acquired their final determination or any stable theoretical background or explanation. However, we must not forget the elementary scientific and practical truth that every new expression of the media in all ages (from spoken word, books, newspapers, magazines to the internet) is formed on the basis of practical expressions as well as on valuable theoretical discourse. The pros­pect of the evolution of practical media and of communicational sciences shows that media of the past influences the recent media. This universal axiom of science and culture can be considered an evident factor which is a starting point for any discourse on our social or cultural experience as well as on the socio-cultural future prospects. The article discusses the problem of the possibility for the user-creator of new media – the internet, to make an effective use of postmodern cinema practice and theory (by Gilles Deleuze) in order to understand the trajectory of both practical and transcendent thinking. Deleuze states that the postmodern European cinema has become a conceptual instrument, which stimulates the spectator to create his own meanings, because they are not provided directly. At the cinema, long plan-sequences, which have not yet undergone any montage cuttings, provide every help for constructing one’s own narration based on the cinematographical material. The spec­tator has to search for a hidden meaning and in a way he has to make a psychological analysis of himself. This kind of research stimulates the prolific imagination and creativity of the spectator. This new situation enables the user of the media to become an active and responsible creator of proper life, when innumerable choices are opening before his eyes. Therefore, if we have in mind these consistent patterns and analogically consider new media user’s situation, it is possible to agree with Manovich, that the everyday users of the internet are able and have to create a meaningful narrative for themselves, if only they care for the problem of mean­ing. A new media user does it in a similar way as a creator of classical cinema; which means that as a user of new media he gets his single plans from a data base and then he constructs his structure of sintagma-story-narrative. Deleuze’s theory was dealing with the problem of space montage inside the cinema camera object-glass long before the internet appeared. On the whole, the theories of the modern cinema can be helpful for a better understanding of newest internet media and for its influence on the conscious and subconscious mind of modern man. In other words, the ideological weight of classical cinema is getting smaller, while the weight of creative power stimulated by the internet in creative personalities is becoming greater.

The Catastrophe of Childhood Rape: Traversing the Landscape between Private Memory and Public Performance

The Catastrophe of Childhood Rape: Traversing the Landscape between Private Memory and Public Performance