Critical reflections on child psychiatry

Child psychiatrists have claimed to represent the best interests of the child. This paper examines the evidence in support of this view. In addition, the paper examines the extent to which child psychiatrists have led the fight for the protection of the child's dignity, privacy, and personal integrity. The findings are discouraging and indicate that psychiatric intervention places the child's rights in double jeopardy. It is suggested that the child must be protected with judicial and other safeguards against psychiatric intervention.     

Some reflections on discourses on football hooliganism

This essay is partly a response to the recent ethnographic research carried out by Armstrong and Harris, and partly a survey of a more general set of interconnected discourses about football hooliganism as a social phenomenon over the past thirty years into which the work of Armstrong and Harris fits. Discourses on football hooliganism seemed to have proliferated just as the ‘object’ in question seems to have disappeared from public view; at least in Britain, if not in other parts of Continental Europe. Part of the problem lies in the difficulty of defining accurately what we mean by the highly contentious phrase ‘football hooliganism’, a term which has no specific referent in English or Scottish law and whose boundaries, or ‘field’, are demarcated by these various discourses or ‘disciplines’ themselves: namely legal, sociological, psychological, criminological, geographical, architectural and so on. The essay offers examples of approaches which might overcome some of the difficulties experienced in researching football hooliganism.     

道格拉斯《自述》中的异质叙事策略研究

《弗雷德里克·道格拉斯:一个美国奴隶的自述,由他本人亲自撰写》是美国奴隶叙事的经典之作,它的成功和经典化离不开巧妙的异质叙事策略。传统的奴隶叙事试图借黑人身份和白人文化的融合建立自己的独立身份,而道格拉斯的《自述》则强调了自己作为黑人的异质性身份。黑人歌曲成为黑奴将信息编码的载体和保护黑人文化的工具,与科维的打斗颠覆了作为奴隶制根基的主奴关系,而非暴力不合作的策略则让道格拉斯能够与奴隶制抗争,最终获得自由。     

Narrative Freedom1

This article is based on the presidential address delivered by Robert Zussman at the 2012 annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society.     

Power at work: reflections on the research process

Reflecting on a research project on workplace learning amongst low-grade staff in the public sector, this paper identifies a number of key issues arising from the research process. The theme which runs throughout the paper is a concern with the nature of power, both in the workplace and in the research process. The research itself focused on a relatively powerless section of the workforce. The process of securing access contributed to the research team's understanding of power relations in the work place and to consideration of the nature of the relationship between the researcher and the researched. The paper identifies a range of sources of power and concludes that researchers must use an understanding of the research process as a part of the findings, not merely a route to findings.     

Thinking of age: Personal reflections on critical gerontology

This essay is a reflection on how personal experience has inspired and shaped my ideas about critical gerontology. It is a writing from the inside about the outside world of intellectual discovery, apart from the typical narratives about career and research. I take this opportunity to explore the life of thought through my own life, and conclude that our ideas about aging are bred in those places where humor, tragedy, conflict, passion and sympathy make it imperative that we ask the questions we do as critical thinkers.     

Social work leadership: reflections on a student-led conference

Servant leadership encompassing collaborative mentorship, empowerment and a faculty/student partnership approach contributed to the success of an international social work conference led by undergraduate students and supported by faculty members. Using a retrospective case study design, data were collected from social work undergraduate students on the conference planning committee, reflections of faculty, and documentation from conference evaluations. This paper explores the findings of the conference planning experience and considers how social work principles can foster student engagement and build capacity for undergraduate students to practice leadership skills within higher educational settings.     

Narrative in Intercultural Education

In this paper, I discuss the power of narrative in intercultural education. Apparently simple tales, anecdotes, and personal accounts all belong in a narrative universe, which interrogates our assumptions about culture, cognition, language, communication, learning and teaching. I argue that stories have much greater significance in learning and teaching than we usually accord them in educational literature and programmes, and can have ramifications for the intercultural relationships in classrooms.     

青年研究的叙事转向

随着青年研究的日益发展,定量研究的数据模型不足以呈现和解释当下纷繁复杂的青年现象,而文学领域中的叙事凭借自身的实践价值逐渐走近人文社会科学的学科视野。青年研究的叙事转向为读懂青年、走进青年提供一条认识、理解以及研究的有效路径和方法。青年研究的叙事转向内在地含有三个维度,分别是青年研究视角从"问题本位"转向"青年本位",青年研究范式从"宏大叙事"转向"个体叙事",青年研究关系从"主体与客体"转向"主体间性",这三个维度中叙事转向问题及其现实的实践路径值得探讨。