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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Social Suffering"”.
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Indigenous Self-Government Negotiations in the Northwest Territorries (NWT), Canada: Time, Reality and Social Suffering
… meaningless Indigenous peoples' experiences of social suffering arising from injustice. Emptying suffering of meaning is accomplished practically through 'Aboriginal policies' in which symptoms of suffering are defined as "dysfunction". The thrust of broad based 'Aboriginal policy' locates …
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Fruit of the Vine, work of human hands : farm workers and alcohol on a farm in Stellenbosch, South Africa
… structural violence that create circumstances of social suffering amongst farm workers in the Western Cape. argue that the labour relations on the research farm are shot through with violence and I trace the use of paternalism as a means to control the work force. I argue that the principles of …
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Categories Have Consequences: Street Children as Humanitarian Objects
… potential to open a new avenue for the study of social suffering in childhood, as demonstrated in the final part of this project.
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The Residue of a Deep Past: Struggle over cultural transmission in southwest China
… the late twentieth century have caused massive social suffering and cultural dislocation. These struggles thus take place against a decades-long background of huge shifts and ruptures in almost every aspect of everyday life. Whilst reshaping local ways of living, these radical transformations …
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Situações de risco e vulnerabilidade social: desafios, perspectivas e implicações para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), em periferias urbanas
Social vulnerability is termed as a condition of individuals or groups in situations of extreme social exclusion, making them at risk. She joins the result of any process of exclusion and discrimination, caused by factors such as poverty, poor educational level and geographic location. The …
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"Colonization is such a personal process" : colonialism, internalized abuse, and healing in Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever
… is familiar with stereotypes about ‘Native social dysfunction’. Canada’s present-day “Imaginary Indian” (Francis) is indeed associated with substance and welfare dependence as well as family violence and neglect. However, the mainstream tends not to wonder about the actual social suffering …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
… to living life on their own. Human pain and social suffering, past and present, can be rendered through art in such a way that its representation nurtures and illuminates life. Art can contribute to blocking the repetition compulsion of gendered violence; in particular, as I have found, it …
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The southeast Michigan stewardship coalition: A deep design of eco-democratic reform that is situational, local, and in support of living systems
… role of education in alleviating and eliminating social suffering and environmental degradation in many of the worlds’ diverse communities, the purpose of this critical ethnographic case study is to qualitatively examine the design of an intermediary organization within the context of …
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War and Grief, Faith and Healing in a Tamil Catholic Fishing Village in Northern Sri Lanka
… thirty-year civil war brought about tremendous suffering upon the lives of the Tamil civilian population in northern Sri Lanka. In May 2009, when the war ended, not a single civilian remained within the Vanni, the former rebel territory, as they had all been killed or displaced. More than one …
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FROM CELL TO SYMBOL: A BIOCULTURAL STUDY OF ANEMIA AND SUBJECTIVITY AMONG THE POQOMCHI' MAYA IN GUATEMALA
… subjectivity and death, and a narrative of social suffering shared by the community. Anemia is an age-old problem. It is deeply rooted in our mammalian constitution and reliance on blood and oxygen to produce energy and sustain life in a variety of environments. For the Poqomchi’, the …
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Social Dimensions of Alzheimer’s Disease Among Caregivers in Oaxaca, Mexico
<p>This dissertation provides an analysis of the social construction of Alzheimer’s disease within Teotitlán del Valle, a rural Zapotec-speaking community in Oaxaca, Mexico. It explores how Alzheimer’s disease is locally understood, how this understanding reconfigures traditional meanings of old …
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Citizen-Subjectivity, Experiential Evaluation, and Activist Strategies: Explaining Algerian Violence and Polish Peace under Authoritarian Rule
… state formation, institutional performance, and social movement evolution in postwar Poland and postcolonial Algeria a conditional model derives violent and non-violent opposition strategies from divergent practical citizenship regimes in formally similar autocratic systems. It argues that …
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Cultural Anxieties and Institutional Regulation: "Specialized" Mental Healthcare and "Immigrant Suffering" in Paris, France
… issue": la question immigr├⌐e) and the "social issue": la question sociale), "immigrant suffering": Sayad, 2004) has become a medium that problematically couches immigrants' "difficulties"-- whether they relate to mental health pathology or structural problems--in terms of cultural …
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Las fotografías y sus relatos. Una radiografía del sufrimiento femenino
… es construido y producido por contextos sociales? Y ¿Cómo el sufrimiento contribuye a los procesos sociales de moldeamiento de las personas? En la investigación se reflexiona sobre la intersección de varios sistemas de dominación. A través de experiencias singulares entendidas también …
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A Disability Theology of Limits for Responding to Moral Injury
… of Moral Injury describes a wound created by social suffering and moral distrust wherein a soldier’s sense of what is morally right is compromised. The loss of a meaningful and moral worldview creates a shattering of moral identity both within the soldier and from the perspective of the …