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Recentering Anglo/American Folksong: Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths
by Roger deVeer RenwickA wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past three decades this material has languished, as literary theory has held sway over textual study. In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to explain folksong: folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally compelling or appealing. To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparative analysis. In the first, on British traditional ballads in the West Indies, he shows how even the best of folklorists can produce an unconvincing study when theory is overvalued and texts are slighted. In the second he navigates the many manifestations of a single Anglo/American ballad, “The Rambling Boy,” to reveal striking differences between a British diasporic strain on the one hand and a southern American, post–Civil War strain on the other. The third essay treats the poetics of a very old, extremely widespread, but never before formalized trans-Atlantic genre, the catalogue. Next is Renwick's claim that recentering folksong studies in our rich textual databanks requires that canonical items be identified accurately. He argues that “Oh, Willie,” a song thought to be a simple variety of “Butcher's Boy,” is in fact a distinct composition. In the final essay Renwick looks at the widespread popularity of “The Crabfish,” sung today throughout the English-speaking world but with roots in a naughty tale found in both continental Europe and Asia. With such specific case studies as these, Renwick justifies his argument that the basic tenets of folklore textual scholarship continue to yield new insights.
Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism
by Koichi IwabuchiGlobalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western--particularly American--popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacation--the export of Japanese media and culture is big business. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi Iwabuchi explores how Japanese popular culture circulates in Asia. He situates the rise of Japan's cultural power in light of decentering globalization processes and demonstrates how Japan's extensive cultural interactions with the other parts of Asia complicate its sense of being "in but above" or "similar but superior to" the region. Iwabuchi has conducted extensive interviews with producers, promoters, and consumers of popular culture in Japan and East Asia. Drawing upon this research, he analyzes Japan's "localizing" strategy of repackaging Western pop culture for Asian consumption and the ways Japanese popular culture arouses regional cultural resonances. He considers how transnational cultural flows are experienced differently in various geographic areas by looking at bilateral cultural flows in East Asia. He shows how Japanese popular music and television dramas are promoted and understood in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and how "Asian" popular culture (especially Hong Kong's) is received in Japan. Rich in empirical detail and theoretical insight, Recentering Globalization is a significant contribution to thinking about cultural globalization and transnationalism, particularly in the context of East Asian cultural studies.
Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book-cult in South Asia
by Jinah KimIn considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book "manuscript" should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism's disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.
The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
by Tao Jiang Philip J. IvanhoeAlthough Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various Freudian theories. However, whilst some features of Freud’s views have been warmly embraced from the start and appreciated for their various explanatory and therapeutic values, other aspects have been vigorously criticized as implausible or inapplicable to the Chinese context. This book explores the history, reception, and use of Freud and his theories in China, and makes an original and substantial contribution to our understanding of the Chinese people and their culture as well as to our appreciation of western attempts to understand the people and culture of China. The essays are organised around three key areas of research. First, it examines the historical background concerning the China-Freud connection in the 20th century, before going on to use reconstructed Freudian theories in order to provide a modernist critique of Chinese culture. Finally, the book deploys traditional Chinese thought in order to challenge various aspects of the Freudian project. Both Freudianism’s universal appeal and its cultural particularity are in full display throughout the book. At the same time, the allure of Chinese cultural and literary expressions, both in terms of their commonality with other cultures and their distinctive characteristics, are also scrutinized. This collection of essays will be welcomed by those interested in early modern and contemporary China, as well as the work and influence of Freud. It will also be of great interest to students and scholars of psychology, psychoanalysis, literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural studies more generally.
Reception and Response: Hearer Creativity and the Analysis of Spoken and Written Texts (Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies #9)
by R. S. White Graham McGregorOriginally published in 1990. Each of the 12 chapters in this book build upon an approach to the analysis of spoken and written texts that is centred upon the recipient rather than the producer, for the abilities of listeners and readers deserve much attention. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of linguistics, literary studies, English, education, communication studies and psychology.
The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800: Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors
by Sabine HerrmannThis book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice was an important hub for the accumulation and dissemination of direct information on the Near East and the Levant. Therefore, ancient Egypt played a significant role in the cultural memory of Venice due to the lagoon city’s religious and mercantile orientation towards the East. The book explores how the acquisition, selection, and interpretation of Egyptian objects took shape in Venice, and which actors were involved in the circulation of knowledge about ancient Egypt. Venice can be used as a lens through which to understand the reception of ancient Egypt in the early modern period. Meaningful and partly unpublished sources from primarily Italian archives highlight the visual imagination of ancient Egypt and its lexicographical codification. The author draws upon these sources to examine the Venetian image of ancient Egypt in the early modern period and the epistemic change that accompanied it.
The Reception Of Unconventional Science
by Seymore H MauskopfThe issue of perhaps greatest concern to historians of science today is the internalist-externalist dichotomy. This volume directly addresses that issue, at the same time providing a context for the serious study of heterodox science and scientific theories. The book consists of four studies, each of which considers the response of a scientific community to an unconventional theory or claim: the acausal physics of Heisenberg; Wegener's geological theory of continental drift; acupuncture; and the statistical argument for extrasensory perception. As they reveal a wide range of reactions to orthodoxy, the studies themselves exemplify the range of approaches the historian may use in examining scientific unconventionality.
The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker
by Janet GrothIn 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn't expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine's eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself.
Receptive Bodies
by Leo BersaniLeo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas—absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical and emotional nourishment and the exhalation of breath—form the backbone of Receptive Bodies, a thoughtful new essay collection. These titular bodies range from fetuses in utero to fully eroticized adults, all the way to celestial giants floating in space. Bersani illustrates his exploration of the body’s capacities to receive and resist what is ostensibly alien using a typically eclectic set of sources, from literary icons like Marquis de Sade to cinematic provocateurs such as Bruno Dumont and Lars von Trier. This sharp and wide-ranging book will excite scholars of Freud, Foucault, and film studies, or anyone who has ever stopped to ponder the give and take of human corporeality.
Recess At 20 Below
by Cindy AillaudHow cold does it have to be before Alaskan kids stay inside for recess? For many schools, if it is colder than 20 below zero, they stay indoors; otherwise, it's outside for frosty fun! This is is a photo book with text written from a child's perspective on what kids to during recess at 20 below. We see kids getting ready for recess putting on layers of outdoor clothing, and then somebody has to go to the bathroom! Going sledding, swinging, running around outside with frosted-up eyelashes and face masks. Then the aftermath: static hair after a hat's been pulled off, red cheeks and noses, etc. Young readers will delight in images of peers frolicking in the cold and during their favorite time of the school day!
Recess Battles: Playing, Fighting, and Storytelling
by Anna R. BeresinWinner of the Opie Prize from the Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore SocietyAs children wrestle with culture through their games, recess itself has become a battleground for the control of children's time. Based on dozens of interviews and the observation of over a thousand children in a racially integrated, working-class public school, Recess Battles is a moving reflection of urban childhood at the turn of the millennium. The book debunks myths about recess violence and challenges the notion that schoolyard play is a waste of time. The author videotaped and recorded children of the Mill School in Philadelphia from 1991 to 2004 and asked them to offer comments as they watched themselves at play. These sessions in Recess Battles raise questions about adult power and the changing frames of class, race, ethnicity, and gender. The grown-ups' clear misunderstanding of the complexity of children's play is contrasted with the richness of the children's folk traditions.Recess Battles is an ethnographic study of lighthearted games, a celebratory presentation of children's folklore and its conflicts, and a philosophical text concerning the ironies of everyday childhood. Rooted in video micro-ethnography and the traditions of theorists such as Bourdieu, Willis, and Bateson, Recess Battles is written for a lay audience with extensive academic footnotes. International scholar Dr. Brian Sutton-Smith contributes a foreword, and the children themselves illustrate the text with black and white paintings.
Recht auf Liebe: Eine Diskursanalyse über die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in Deutschland (Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung)
by Sabine Exner-KrikorianSabine Exner-Krikorian untersucht in dieser Studie den Diskurs über die gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe in Deutschland von 1998 bis 2017. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie zeitgenössische religiöse, politische und gesellschaftliche Akteur*innen um die Deutungshoheit von Ehe wetteifern. Im Detail wird gezeigt, dass die Diskursakteur*innen in diesem Aushandlungsprozess die Prämisse einer angenommenen Moderne, die Dichotomie religiös/säkular sowie Narrative von und über Religion(en) als diskursive Strategien einsetzen. Eingebettet ist die Analyse in eine historische Rekonstruktion der Ehe seit der Reformation als Deutungs- und Machtkampf politischer und religiöser Akteur*innen. Mit einem zeit-, akteurs- und arenaspezifischen Ansatz verknüpft die Autorin methodologisch die Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse (WDA) nach Reiner Keller mit einem religionswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisinteresse.
recht extrem? Dynamiken in zivilgesellschaftlichen Räumen
by Julian Sehmer Stephanie Simon Jennifer Ten Elsen Felix ThieleDer Band stellt sich der Herausforderung, Erkenntnisse zu Rechtsextremismus und -populismus über einen Zugang zu zivilgesellschaftlichen Räumen, Dynamiken und Akteur*innen zu erweitern und zu systematisieren. Dabei bietet der Band eine Einführung grundlegender Verständigungen zu den Themenkomplexen Zivilgesellschaft, Rechtsextremismus und Rechtspopulismus, um sich daran anschließend den Analysen von Dynamiken in einzelnen (zivil-)gesellschaftlichen Räumen, über diese hinweg und in Bezug auf Erziehung, Bildung und Soziale Arbeit zuzuwenden. Aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären Perspektiven (Politikwissenschaft, Erziehungswissenschaft, Soziale Arbeit, Soziologie, Sprachwissenschaften und Theologie) werden rechte Dynamiken, Narrative und Diskursverschiebungen analysiert und Gegenstrategien diskutiert.
Recht und Rassismus: Das menschenrechtliche Verbot der Diskriminierung aufgrund der Rasse
by Cengiz BarskanmazDas Buch untersucht das menschenrechtliche Verbot der Diskriminierung aufgrund der Rasse einschließlich der Schutzvorschriften gegen Hassrede und beleuchtet umfassend die relevanten Entscheidungen unterschiedlicher nationaler und internationaler Gerichte. Es folgt dabei einem interdisziplinären und rechtsvergleichenden Ansatz, der sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Theorien und Befunde einbezieht, um rechtsdogmatische Fragen im Bereich des Antidiskriminierungsrechts zu erörtern. Die Entscheidungen ausländischer Gerichte werden schlaglichtartig dargestellt, soweit sie für die Analyse relevant sind.Zugrunde liegt die Frage, was heute unter Rassismus zu verstehen ist und ob Phänomene wie Ausländer- und Fremdenfeindlichkeit sowie Rechtsextremismus darunter fallen. Insbesondere Rasse als Rechtsbegriff wird ausführlich besprochen. Zentrale Bezugspunkte für die folgende Auseinandersetzung mit dem „Recht gegen rassische Diskriminierung“ sind die Europäische Rasserichtlinie (Richtlinie 2000/43/EG), die Antirassismuskonventionen der Vereinten Nationen und die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK). Das deutsche Grundgesetz wendet sich in Art. 3 Abs. 3 S. 1 GG gegen Rassismus, aber eine umfangreiche Dogmatik, die dem heutigen Phänomen des Rassismus gerecht werden kann, fehlt. Das vorliegende Werk leistet mithilfe eines menschenrechtsinformierten und differenzierten Verständnisses von Rassismus hierzu einen wichtigen Beitrag. Damit soll die These begründet werden, dass nur ein strukturelles Verständnis von Rassismus das Recht gegen Rassismus wirksam werden lässt.
Rechte Gewalt erzählen: Doing Memory in Literatur, Theater und Film (LiLi: Studien zu Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik #1)
by Matthias N. Lorenz Fabian Virchow Tanja ThomasRechte Gewalt, die in der Bundesrepublik Anfang der 1990er Jahre Konjunktur hatte und in den letzten Jahren abermals stark angestiegen ist, ist bis heute nur äußerst lückenhaft aufgearbeitet und wird künstlerisch kaum erinnert. Wenn überhaupt, herrschen Täterperspektiven im Rahmen eines rein ‚weißen‘ Erinnerungsrahmens vor, die Stimmen der Opfer bleiben ungehört. Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass mit der gesellschaftlichen Missachtung dieser Gewalt eine zweite Traumatisierung stattfindet, fragt der Band nach Formen, Leistungen und Defiziten der dokumentarischen wie fiktionalen Aufarbeitung rechter Gewalt in Literatur, Theater und Film. Die erzählenden Künste werden in den untersuchten Beispielen sowohl auf ihren Beitrag zu dem beobachteten Missstand als auch hinsichtlich ihres Potentials zu dessen Überwindung untersucht.Mit Beiträgen von Svea Bräunert, Anna Brod, Gabriele Fischer, Hans-Joachim Hahn, Matthias N. Lorenz, Jonas Meurer, Dan Thy Nguyen, Corinna Schlicht, Sebastian Schweer, Tanja Thomas, Fabian Virchow, Johanna Vollmeyer und Stefan Winterstein.
Rechtsextreme Gewalt: Erklärungsansätze – Befunde – Kritik (essentials)
by Michail LogvinovVor dem Hintergrund steigender rechtsextremer Gewalt widmet sich dieses essential der Frage, welche Erkl#65533;rungsans#65533;tze die Rechtsextremismusforschung f#65533;r die rechte Gewaltkriminalit#65533;t erarbeitet hat. Michail Logvinov diskutiert die in den soziologischen Forschungen verbreiteten Interpretationen der Radikalisierungsprozesse im rechten Milieu und arbeitet ihre St#65533;rken und Schw#65533;chen heraus. Er bietet Definitionen der relevanten Gewaltbegriffe und Informationen zur Rolle des Kampfes als Denkfigur und Deutungsmuster im Rechtsextremismus.
Rechtsmedizin: Befunderhebung, Rekonstruktion, Begutachtung
by Burkhard MadeaDIE Rechtsmedizin - einzigartig im deutschsprachigen Raum Umfassend Alle aktuellen Erkenntnisse und Standards der RechtsmedizinFundort für spezielle DetailfragenGültig im gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum (Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz)Die Basis für jedes GutachtenSicherheit für die Facharztprüfung Rechtsmedizin Praxisrelevant Leitlinienbasierte praktische Anleitungen zu Vorgehensweisen und Methoden für die tägliche ArbeitFundierte Übersichten und ChecklistenKommentierte Gesetzestexte und FalldarstellungenKooperation und Schnittstellenmanagement zwischen Sachverständigen, Behörden und Institutionen NEU u.a. Neueste molekularbiologische Analytik, z. B. prädiktive Phänotypisierung und molekulare AltersschätzungNeueste toxikologische Analytik, z. B. neue psychoaktive SubstanzenInfektionsdiagnostikCOVID-19 assoziierte TodesfälleKlinische Rechtsmedizin und forensische SexualmedizinAlkoholismusmarkerNeueste gesetzliche Regelung, z. B. § 81e StPO, neue Psychoaktive-Stoffe-GesetzAktuelle Entwicklungen zur Akkreditierung und Qualitätssicherung Nach den Leitlinien und Vorgaben DGRM Deutsche Gesellschaft für RechtsmedizinGTFCh Gesellschaft für Toxikologische und Forensische ChemieEU RecommendationIALM International Academy of Legal MedicineISFG International Society for Forensic Genetics „Rechtsmedizin“ bietet für jede Fragestellung der Rechtsmedizin eine Antwort – als verlässliche Informationsquelle und Nachschlagewerk. Für Rechtsmediziner, Pathologen, Toxikologen, Biologen, Kriminologen, Kriminalisten und Juristen in Klinik, Labor, Sektionssaal und Gericht.
Rechtspopulismus in Deutschland: Wahlverhalten in Zeiten politischer Polarisierung
by Heinz Ulrich Brinkmann Karl-Heinz ReubandWelchen Stellenwert haben soziökonomische, politische und kulturelle Faktoren für rechtspopulistischen Protest und die Wahl der AfD? Welchen Einfluss nehmen regionale Lebensbedingungen und Sozialisationsprozesse? Und wie sehr wirkt die „Flüchtlingskrise“ ein, selbst nachdem sie aus dem Blickpunkt der Öffentlichkeit gerückt ist? Auf der Basis neuer empirischer Befunde und Analysen werden in dem vorliegenden Band Prozesse und Potentiale gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung untersucht und neue Perspektiven eröffnet.
Rechtssicher in der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit: Aufsichtspflicht, Haftung, Datenschutz und alles rechtlich Relevante
by Christian JasperDieses Sachbuch erklärt anschaulich und ausführlich rechtliche Probleme, die sich bei der Vorbereitung und Durchführung von Klassenfahrten, Ferienlagern, Gruppenstunden oder sportlichen Trainingseinheiten für Kinder und Jugendliche ergeben. Der Autor greift Situationen aus der Praxis auf und zitiert gesetzliche Paragraphen nur ergänzend. Zahlreiche Beispiele sorgen dafür, dass das Buch für Nicht-Juristen gut verständlich ist. Formulierungsvorschläge für Einverständniserklärungen oder Anmeldeformulare im Anhang helfen bei der praktischen Arbeit. Ein umfangreiches Stichwortverzeichnis macht das Buch auch für eilige Leser zum unverzichtbaren Begleiter.
Recidivism in the Caribbean: Improving the Reintegration of Jamaican Ex-prisoners (Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice)
by Dacia L. LeslieThis book provides a detailed and practical exploration of criminal recidivism and social reintegration in Jamaica. It uses various methods to seek the authentic voices of inmates, ex-prisoners, deported migrants and practitioners, drawing on an original study to examine factors that might help ex-prisoners more successfully transition from a prison environment to life within the community. Leslie also raises important questions about the Jamaican state’s capacity to meet the needs of inmates, particularly as a large number of its citizens are subject to forced repatriation to their homeland by overseas jurisdictions due to their offending. Recidivism in the Caribbean provides a unique insight into institutional and community life in a post-colonial society, whilst linking practices theories of offender management. It will particularly appeal to criminologists and sociologists interested in tertiary crime prevention but also those interested in correctional policy and practice, punishment and deviance.
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England
by Elaine LeongAcross early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming “treasuries for health,” each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities. In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elaine Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or “household science”. She shows how English homes acted as vibrant spaces for knowledge making and transmission, and explores how recipe trials allowed householders to gain deeper understandings of sickness and health, of the human body, and of natural and human-built processes. By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science.
Recipes and Reciprocity: Building Relationships in Research
by Hannah Tait Neufeld and Elizabeth Finnis;editorsRecipes and Reciprocity considers the ways that food and research intersect for both researchers, participants, and communities demonstrating how everyday acts around food preparation, consumption, and sharing can enable unexpected approaches to reciprocal research and fuel relationships across cultures, generations, spaces, and places. Drawing from research contexts within Canada, Cuba, India, Malawi, Nepal, Paraguay, and Japan, contributors use the sharing of food knowledge and food processes (such as drying, steaming, mixing, grinding, and churning) to examine topics like identity, community-based research ethics, food sovereignty, and nutrition. Each chapter highlights practical and experiential elements of fieldwork, incorporating storytelling, recipes, and methodological practices to offer insight into how food facilitates relationship-building and knowledge-sharing across geographical and cultural boarders. Contributors to this volume bring a range of disciplinary backgrounds—including anthropology, public health, social work, history, and rural studies—to the exploration of global and Indigenous foodways, perceptions around ethical eating and authenticity, language and food preparation, perspectives on healthy eating, and what it means to develop research relationships through food. Challenging colonial, heteropatriarchal, and methodological divisions between academic and less formal ways of knowing, Recipes and Reciprocity draws critical attention to the ways food can bridge disciplinary and lived experiences, propelling meaningful research and reciprocal relationships.
Reciprocal Ethnography and the Power of Women's Narratives
by Elaine J. LawlessFolklorist Elaine J. Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research with underserved groups in the American Midwest, including charismatic Pentecostals, clergywomen, victims of domestic violence, and displaced African Americans. She has consistently focused her research on women's speech in these contexts and has developed a new approach to ethnographic research which she calls "reciprocal ethnography," while growing a detailed corpus of work on women's narrative style and expressive speech. Reciprocal ethnography is a feminist and collaborative ethnographic approach that Lawless developed as a challenge to the reflexive turn in anthropological fieldwork and research in the 1970s, which was often male-centric, ignoring the contributions by and study of women's culture. Collected here for the first time are Lawless's key articles on the topics of reciprocal ethnography and women's narrative which influenced not only folklore, but also the allied fields of anthropology, sociology, performance studies, and women's and gender studies. Lawless's methods and research continue to be critically relevant in today's global struggle for gender equality.
Reciprocal Relationships and Well-being: Implications for Social Work and Social Policy (Routledge Advances in Social Work)
by Carol Munn-Giddings Maritta Törrönen Laura TarkiainenA sense of participation and opportunities to share and participate in activities or groups that are important to them are crucial factors in human wellbeing. This book provides a robust empirical and theoretical analysis of reciprocity and its implications for social work and social policy practices by discussing how ideas of reciprocity can be understood and applied to welfare policy and social care practices, as well as how the act of reciprocity supports the wellbeing of citizens. Contributions from Finland, Germany, Russia, the UK, the USA and Canada illuminate the ways in which socio-political contexts influence the power relations between citizens, practitioners and the state, and the potential (or otherwise) for reciprocity to flourish. It will be essential reading for social care practitioners, researchers and educationalists as well as postgraduate students in social work and related social care and community-oriented professions and social policy makers.
Reciprocity and Dependency in Old Age
by Sue ThompsonThis book highlights (1) the significance of reciprocity for the maintenance of self-esteem in old age and (2) the negative implications for the well-being of dependent older people when that significance goes unrecognized and, as a consequence, opportunities to give back to society, as well as take from it, are not facilitated by those in a position to do so. The discussion draws on research undertaken in the UK and Southern India into the extent to which having the self-perception of being valued in the world is important to older people in receipt of care support and whether, in their experience, this is recognized by others. The author presents an analysis of theoretical insights from leading thinkers across a broad range of literature and from several disciplines, including social theory, social work, philosophy, and gerontology. The author also gives voice to the perspectives of those dependent older people not often heard because of marginalizing and disempowering processes that contribute to their having little opportunity to be heard in the first place. The emphasis of this book is on aspiration to a meaningful life and continuing personal growth as offering a challenge to dominant discourses the equate old age with decline.