Much of social science seems to be based on two images of the self, which, like all such images, focus attention on certain aspects of life and away from others. The first image is of the conscious, cognitive self. According to this image, we consciously want something (e. g., money or status) and consciously calculate […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Aging in Place
Imagine you are an older adult who has difficulty cooking meals and getting around. If you had a choice of where you wanted to live, where would it be? Maybe some of your family members are urging you to move to a place where your meals are provided and you can be driven where you […]
The UNHCR’s response
As a Somali woman it was clear to me that the recovery of women who had survived rape attacks depended on the reconstruction of their social and economic networks, that is, reconnecting them to their social environment and rebuilding their status in society. I believed that anything which the UNHCR could deliver to improve their […]
Interstitial Spaces and Irreducible Difference
In her article Marks emphasizes the potential volatility of both the fetish and fossil (a quality of all forms of representation). Their initial appearances are deceiving as they “carry within them histories that, once unravelled, make the fixity of the present untenable” (Marks 1999,229). On the surface, these objects may give some clue to the […]
The “kill-a-boy” fund
In the recent I ran-Iraq War, Iran — and later Iraq — put "human waves’’ of boys as young as 6 in the front lines. The boys were throwing grenades and shotting, which ultimately forced the Iraqis to fire back and kill the young boys. However, many Iraqi soldiers reported that the moment they killed […]
Social Nesting: Making Connections While Waiting for Motherhood
During the months they wait for their child to arrive, women take stock of a web of connections, strengthening bonds that they hope will cushion their new family.1^ They ask people to participate in their birthing classes and labor, seeing this experience as a gift they want to share with those closest to them. Women […]
THE ULTIMATE GLASS CELLAR
The elite class or the dead class: Is the military an outgrowth of male competition and power? My policy? Sir, I am a soldier. I do not have a policy. French general Henri Giraud45 We think of top military brass as the bastion of male power. In the United States, as in France, the policy […]
Women’s own responses
Because of the lack of trees inside the camp firewood collection had to take place outside the relative safety of the camp boundaries. Many daytime attacks on women took place as they were collecting wood. To reduce the risk of rape and attack women in the refugee camps organised themselves into groups, some members armed […]
Fredrick and Tim (209a and 209b)
Fredrick is a 36-year-old white man who works in communications and earns a higher than average salary. His partner Tim is a white 33 year-old who works in finance and earns a higher salary. They met seven years ago over the internet, and were ‘married’ two years ago. After ‘going out’ together for a couple […]
Practical Transformations of the Body
Even to speak of contradiction between social process and the body is not to have moved far enough from doctrines of natural difference and biological determination. For this is still to treat the body as unmoved mover, as what is fixed in relation to what is fluid, as what gives meaning and does not receive […]