Strategies Of Emancipation Research Articles

Социальное государство и стратегии эмансипации жизненного мира (рефлексивный подход)

Социальное государство и стратегии эмансипации жизненного мира (рефлексивный подход)

Социальное государство и стратегии эмансипации жизненного мира (рефлексивный подход)

Социальное государство и стратегии эмансипации жизненного мира (рефлексивный подход)

Using Qualitative Tools as Interventionist Research Strategies for Emancipation

As much as South African struggles for freedom and transformation can be termed emancipatory, not all attempts to research and record them can be similarly described. This article documents the research methods employed in a qualitative study that followed 80, mostly Black students, over 5 years in order to document the struggles to succeed faced by students in South Africa. The study ultimately interrogated the centrality of race in the quest for education and emancipation with a view toward understanding what drives self-determination and success in universities. A central intention of the study was for it to be research as intervention through the use of conscious research methods that would contribute to developing agency and action among students. Each of the participatory methods chosen, it was hoped, would contribute toward helping students develop wider networks and self-reflectivity in a quest for success in university. The five interactive methods used included an annual in-depth participant interview, social network interviews with an array of peers and stakeholder, a Facebook weblog to which participations made written and photographic submissions, a written reflection at the end of the fifth year, and an autoethnographic documentary in which participation was optional. Each of these activities was designed to have outcomes which can be described to varying extents as participatory and/or emancipatory.

Capitalism in 'all Corners of the earth': luxemburg and globalisation

Luxemburg has not been a prominent figure within postcolonial studies, but her legacy is of relevance for many areas within the field. Her work, in conversation with the broader Marxist tradition, is of great value to ongoing attempts to understand and challenge global capitalism. Luxemburg's emphasis on the centrality of colonial plunder and global dispossession to capitalist accumulation, and unflinching opposition to all forms of imperialism and oppression, offer counterpoints to the charge that Marxism is Eurocentric. Luxemburg understood capitalism to be an integrated global system, located dispossession as a central property of capitalist expansion, and articulated a strategy for emancipation based on international working-class solidarity. In the twenty-first century her work continues to provide insight not only in the realm of political economy, but also for the analysis of global cultures.

The Fix We Are In

I have been thinking about the history and future of the labor movement for fifty years. As an academic in philosophy I have focused my research on the intersections of the global labor movement with philosophy of history, philosophy of science, ethics, economics, and political theory. ‘The Fix We Are In’ is a summary of my current thinking. At present the grand strategies for emancipation, ascendant in the mid-twentieth century, have faltered. Headless capitalism runs amuck. The conditions of the working class deteriorate. There is no vision of a better world—no clear pathway toward a better future. The ‘popular revolt’ bubbling up around the globe is a product of this moment. My paper concludes with a difficulty regarding my own favored way forward. Responses from readers would be welcome at: rhudelso@uwsuper.edu.

Exploring the Use of Critical Reflective Inquiry With Nursing Students Participating in an International Service-Learning Experience.

Increasing interest in providing international educational experiences for nursing students has led to a variety of short-term international service-learning experiences. However, the impact of these experiences has not been clearly articulated. In this qualitative descriptive research study, Kim's critical reflective inquiry model was used to help guide students in reflecting on and identifying the impact of an international service-learning program in the Dominican Republic. The model was helpful in promoting in-depth description and reflection on the students' underlying assumptions and values, as well as identifying beginning strategies for emancipation in specific patient care situations. Providing a group process for critical reflection may optimize the perspective transformations in meeting the goals and objectives of the experience.

Migration and Emancipation in West Africa's Labour History: The Missing Links

Strategies of emancipation included projects of migration conceived and unfolded by migrants of slave descent. This article suggests that looking at how these migrants chose to move when they could control their mobility, and at the obstacles they faced, reveals aspects of the experience of enslavement and emancipation that have not yet been fully explored in the relevant historiography. While historians of African slavery have described the large-scale movements of ex-slaves that followed legal status abolition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, only few studies provide detailed analyses of these trajectories from the perspective of the enslaved. Outside the field of slavery studies, both West African labour history and migration studies have been emphasising ethnicity over status, thereby underestimating how slave descent shaped the practices and aspirations of a large proportion of labour migrants. The autobiographic testimonies of migrants of slave descent provide insights into their strategies and expose differences across gender, age and location. Through an analysis of these sources, this article highlights the missing links in our reconstructions of the history of West African workers.

Feminism as Revolutionary Practice: From Justice and the Politics of Recognition to Freedom

In the 1980s extra‐parliamentary social movements and critical theories of race, class, and gender added a new sociocultural understanding of justice—recognition— to the much older socioeconomic one. The best‐known form of the struggle for recognition is the identity politics of disadvantaged groups. I argue that there is still another option to conceptualize their predicament, neglected in recent political philosophy, which understands exclusion not in terms of injustice, more particularly a lack of sociocultural recognition, but in terms of a lack of freedom. I draw my inspiration from Hannah Arendt's model of political action. Arendt diagnoses exclusion not solely as a mode of injustice, but as a lack of participation and public freedom. Consequently, she advocates a struggle for participation, political equality, and freedom as a strategy for emancipation or empowerment. Arendt could help feminists see that collective empowerment is made possible not by a shared identity (the target of poststructuralist critics) but by common action in the service of a particular worldly issue or common end. In other words, feminists would do well to appreciate the revolutionary quality and heritage of the feminist movement better, that is, its character as a set of practices of freedom.

MOVING TO STAY : IKLAN SPATIAL STRATEGIES TOWARDS SOCIOECONOMIC EMANCIPATION IN NORTHERN MALI, 1898–1960

ABSTRACTThis article explores the strategies of emancipation of former Tuareg slaves (iklan) in the Gao region of northern French Sudan (present-day Mali) during the late 1940s and 1950s. In the wake of the war effort and shifting colonial policy, and in spite of colonial tolerance toward vestiges of slavery, iklan engaged in local and long-distance migrations aimed at achieving emancipation. The article argues that the most successful spatial strategies were new migratory patterns in the Gao region through which iklan appropriated productive resources (herds and pastures) that were previously controlled by their ex-masters. More than labor migrations to cities, these local trajectories destabilized Tuareg hierarchies, forcing colonial administrators to address demands of the iklan emancipation movement.

From NATO to ESDP: A Social Constructivist Analysis of German Strategic Adjustment after the End of the Cold War

This article addresses the question why Germany invested in what became the European Union's Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), a potential competitor to NATO. In addition to highlighting Germany's role in the development of ESDP, the paper offers a social constructivist explanation for this investment based on the concepts of friendship, estrangement, and emancipation. It develops the argument that (1) states gain ontological security by investing in international institutions to negotiate and pursue ideas of order with friends; (2) deep and enduring dissonance between friends signifies a process of estrangement and poses a threat to ontological security; and (3) if states cannot restore resonance with the old friend-institution configuration, they choose a strategy of emancipation by investing in an alternative. Applied to an analysis of German strategic adjustments between 1990 and 2009 in the context of U.S.-led interventions in Iraq, the Balkans, and Afghanistan, the article suggests that Germany invested in ESDP to offset enduring dissonance with the United States and NATO about appropriate mandate, missions, and means, with France and ESDP emerging as a suitable alternative. With this, the article offers valuable insights into the parameters guiding German security policy and the structure of transatlantic relations and also provides a theoretical alternative to the realist balancing proposition.

Out of control: changes in working-time patterns and strategies for work-life balance in Europe

Global restructuring processes mean that temporal models of working time are becoming increasingly differentiated across Europe, as elsewhere. In order to balance work and life, employees have to accommodate these changes, not necessarily by prolonging their working time, but through an accelerated pace of work and increased workloads. Intensified working time patterns increase the challenges of combining work and family. This paper argues that changing demands on working time have enormous impacts on establishing work-life balance and that – to a great extent – the consequences are shouldered by women. In assessing these changing demands on working time, it is crucial to consider the occupational context: a high level of autonomy in determining their working time as well as great dedication to their work provides women in highly-skilled occupations with the option of developing strategies for emancipation. Women working in semi-skilled and low-skilled occupations are more likely to adhere to traditional gender roles and suffer much more from externally-imposed temporal frameworks and organisational changes. These results underline the need to reflect on contextual categories such as occupational affiliation, skill-level, gender, and institutional settings in evaluating the individual impacts of the changing demands of working time and work-life balance across Europe.

Marguerite de Valois 'la reine Margot' by Éliane Viennot

I I I2 Reviews Book vi as vengeance, and Book vii as judgement. This part is by far themost fastidi ous. It iscertainly useful for its collection of references to the Bible and toCalvinism as well as for itsmeticulous display of apocalyptic themes and its establishment of a radi cal way of thinking which practically excludes the notion of pardon and which defends divine justice following the example of the theodicy. Though the biblical index which closes the book isprecious for the sake of research, the detailed reading of Les Tragiques proves to be deceiving. In pointing out Aubigne's biblical and Calvinist orthodoxy, to the detriment of somany other models, the author traces the intertextual references and all too often produces a sterile and repetitive enumeration which neglects other aspects of the text (poetic dynamics, polemics, ethics, historical aspects). Largely de pendent on the notes of the editions of Garnier-Plattard (Paris: Societe des Textes Francais Modernes, I990), Lestringant (Paris: Gallimard, 2003), and most of all Fanlo (Paris: Champion, I995), this work, though it does well to touch on crucial problems dealing with the notions of justice, pardon, and individual and collective responsibi lity, produces little in the way of new elements in the interpretation of Les Tragiques. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SAMUEL JUNOD Marguerite de Valois 'la reineMargot'. By ELIANEVIENNOT. (Collection Tempus) Paris: Perrin. 2005. 660 pp. Ei i. ISBN 2-262-02377-8. Marguerite de Valois (I553-I615) was a diplomat, a patron of the arts and amuse, an author and a poet, and a prominent salonniere. Alas, she is known less for her achievements and more for her traditional womanly/familial roles as daughter of King Henri II, sister of three kings, and wife of a fourth (Henri IV). Above all, she is known for her marriage-turned-bloodbath on Saint Bartholomew's Night, I572, her humiliating expulsion from her husband's court, and her alleged sexual promiscuity, rivalled by none. As both the title and the content of Eliane Viennot's scholarly and yet highly readable book demonstrate, Marguerite de Valois encompasses two women in one: the flesh-and-blood woman, one of the more accomplished women of the French Renaissance, and the bloodthirsty and carnal 'reineMargot', whose life lasted from the early seventeenth century to the I994 release of Patrice Chereau's cinematic version of the queen's life. While the two women have always been separate entities, Viennot points out the difficulties in distinguishing the 'true'Marguerite from the legend. Already during the Queen's lifetime, her husband's entourage blackened her image, thus justifying the King's annulment of their marriage. Court historians falsified documents and in vented anecdotes that later historians relied upon. And yet Viennot succeeds in separ ating thewheat from the chaff, and reconstructs the complex personality and historical context of the last heir to the Valois family and fortune. She is especially good on the Queen's diplomatic mission to Flanders and onMarguerite's patronage of the arts. It is a pity, though, that Viennot does not pay more attention toMarguerite's own writings, especially her Discours docte et subtil envoye a l'autheur de Secrets moraux (i 6 i 8). This long letter, Marguerite's contribution to the Querelle de femmes, as well as her self-presentation in her Memoires, testifies to the Queen's attempts to create a feminine literary persona while following gender and class preconceptions of her time. Her engagement with these issues highlights the difficulties that elite women of Marguerite's time experienced in their attempts to articulate a new 'feminist' literary strategy. A huge body of literature over the last thirty years has uncovered the inge nuities and strategies of emancipation of women authors of the French Renaissance, but inViennot's book Marguerite is portrayed more as amuse than as an author in her own right. MLR, I01.4, 2006 I I I3 Viennot's 'second biography' documents the vagaries of theQueen's image through the ages. During the early years of the seventeenth century, Marguerite was remem bered most often as a patron of the arts and an accomplished author. But in the I630s, when Louis XIII and his courtiers initiated a...

The Unyielding Boundaries of Citizenship: The Emancipation of 'Non-Citizens' in Romania, 1866–1918

This article attempts to contribute historical data to studies of the emergence and development of the institution of citizenship in Romania. Designed as an overview of Romanian citizenship legislation between 1866 and 1918, the article focuses on the contradiction between claims for the universality of bourgeois-democratic liberal ideology and the hierarchic and illiberal citizenship practice, which disenfranchised a considerable number of men, denied women substantive civic and political rights and excluded from state citizenship significant ethnic and religious minorities. Special attention is devoted to the legal status of these categories of 'non-citizens,' to their strategies of emancipation and their relationship with the Romanian national ideology.

The Politics of Emancipation: From Self to Society

Emancipation is a legitimate human interest. It may be said that Foucault in his last works is concerned with putting forward a strategy for emancipation. The strategy consists in an aesthetic construction of the self. It is argued that this strategy ultimately fails and that, instead of retreating to the self, we need to return to the community level and to examine the rules of discourse that operate there. Contrary to Foucault's strategy, Habermas argues that what we need is a communicative rationality capable of correcting discursive distortions. Coming from a different angle, Lyotard argues that what we need at the community level is a set of rules that prevent any one discourse totalizing all others. Such rules would ensure just gaming. Together, Lyotard and Habermas offer us an ethics that has the potential to serve the human interest in emancipation.

Women writers in pre-revolutionary France: strategies of emancipation

Contributors Introduction Part I: Women in History: The Emergence of Feminist Consciousness Women's Views on Marriage Fire and Water Paula Sommers Sex, Lies, and Autobiography Francis Cholakin The Teaching of the Fable Ruth P. Thomas Charriere's Family Albums Carol L. Sherman The Female Body and Eros the Body and Its Figures Tilde Samkovitch Marguerite de Navarre and Losuise Labe, Two Perspectives on Liberty for Renaissance Women G. Mallery Masters Women's Religious Choices The Absent Ellipsis Mary McKinley Charlotee de Bourbon's Correspondence Jane Couchamn Mme du Noyer Henriette Goldwyn Mothering Mysticism Elizabeth C. Goldsmith Education and Careers Madame de Maintenon's Resigned Strategy Marcelle Maistre Welch A Courtly Salon on the Eve of the French Revolution Gita May Sexual/Textual Politics in the Enlightenment Mary Trouille Part II: Women and Literature: Literary Emancipation Tradition and Subversion Helisenne de Crenne's Le Songe, Robert D. Cottrell The Fury of the Pen Jerry C. Nash Catherine des Roches, the Pastoral, and Salon poetics Anne R. Larsen Anne de Marquete's Smattering of Latin and Greek, Gary Ferguson Staging Mystic Rapture Olga Anna Dull Towards a Geneology of Women's Rhetoric in Seventeenth-century France Phillipe-Joseph Salazar Matriarchal Desires and Labyrinths of the Marvelous Kathryn A. Hoffmann taking the Podium Janie Vanpee Narrative and Rhetorical Innovation The Letter Roger Duchene Letters to a Libertine Janet Whatley The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois and the Birth of Women's Autobiography Madeline Lazard Mme Roland Beatrice Didier The Authorial Mask as Metaliterary Device in Madame de Villedieu's Les Desordres de l'Amour Roxanne Decker Lalande Seizing the Pen Donna Kuizenga Memoirs, Publishing, Scandal Gabrielle Verdier Bibliography Index

Re-Sourcement as Emancipation: A Case Study of Ritualized Sewing

Re-sourcement as a rhetorical strategy for emancipation is explored as it occurs through ritualized sewing. Re-sourcement involves creating and living in a world through energy drawn from sources other than patriarchy. It is accomplished in ritualized sewing through rhetorical processes of declaring a commitment, entering into marginal space, cleansing, demarcating boundaries, working magic, returning to the external world, and emblematic display.

Sudanese Women's Union: Strategies for Emancipation and the Counter Movement

Sudanese Women's Union: Strategies for Emancipation and the Counter Movement

Freedom's Basis in the Indeterminate

testimony of minorities within the geopolitical division of East/West, North/ South. These perspectives intervene in the ideological discourses of modernity that have attempted to give a hegemonic normality to the uneven development and the differential, often disadvantaged, histories of nations, races, communities, and peoples. Their critical revisions are formulated around issues of cultural difference, social authority, and political discrimination in order to reveal the antagonistic and ambivalent moments within the rationalizations of modernity. To assimilate Habermas to our purposes, we could also argue that the postcolonial project, at its most general theoretical level, seeks to explore those social pathologies-loss of meaning, conditions of anomie-that no longer simply cluster around class antagonism, [but] break up into widely scattered historical contingencies.' These contingencies often provide the grounds of historical necessity for the elaboration of strategies of emancipation, for the staging of other social antagonisms. Reconstituting the discourse of cultural difference demands more than a simple change of cultural contents and symbols, for a replacement within the same representational time frame is never adequate. This reconstitution requires a radical revision of the social temporality in which emergent histories may be written: the rearticulation of the sign in which cultural identities may be inscribed. And contingency as the signifying time of counterhegemonic strategies is not a celebration of lack or excess or a self-perpetuating series of negative ontologies. Such indeterminism is the mark of the conflictual yet