Fostering supportive interactions in the neighbourhood: Using visualized narratives

The use of art (e.g. visualized narratives) in social work may stimulate dialogue between community members about family support in their neighbourhood. The Visualized Narratives on Parenting Interactions in the Neighbourhood (VN-PIN) were developed in order to foster this dialogue. The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the VN-PIN in social work practice and to gain insight in mechanisms that stimulate dialogues supported by visualizations. A qualitative process evaluation was conducted to explore the use of the VN-PIN in various urban settings. We observed meetings (N = 14) where the VN-PIN was applied and interviewed professionals and community members (N = 81). The results of this study show that the VN-PIN intervention gives parents a voice and allows them to recognize and reflect on their own parenting behaviour, thereby contributing to mutual exchanges in a supportive community. The conclusion of this study is that the VN-PIN is a useful intervention that social work professionals can use to foster dialogues about parenting within diverse contexts in super-diverse neighbourhoods. The intervention fosters a supportive structure to share experiences of various community members. Future research is needed to further evaluate the experiences and satisfaction of community members with the intervention.     

论乌托邦精神的价值诉求——兼评西方马克思主义者布洛赫的乌托邦思想

面对着20世纪上半叶西方世界的文化危机,即人的物化和异化、技术世界对人类的驾驭与奴役、价值理性被工具理性所消解、科学世界的膨胀与生活世界的消逝等等,以此为文化背景,唤醒人内在的超越的和批判的本性,即乌托邦的精神,扬弃和超越以物化和异化为特征的文化——历史困境,从而实现人的自我解放,使人真正成为历史进程创造性的主体,这即是笔者所要达到的哲学主题。     

搭建人文关怀的社会平台--从公众需求看大众传媒作为公共空间

公共空间是随着现代公民社会的产生而出现的,是现代化的产物,是社会进步的表征。与作为党和政府的"喉舌"不同,大众传媒作为公共空间,能彻底改变过去那种事实上的单向传播(灌输)模式,使双向对称传播(互动)得以落实,从而真正成为公民与政府、政权政治与政权外政治联系的桥梁与纽带,即通过体恤民众,满足民众的精神诉求,培养民众作为现代人应具备的自主意识和责任意识,在沟通协调中促进政府与公民相互间的了解、理解和信任,争取公民对政府的自愿合作与对政治的自觉认同,在社会上树立起公共精神品格,使自身成为引导民众、促进民主的"文化场"。大众传媒作为公共空间既有利于建设社会主义民主政治,又有利于我国社会主义精神文明的建设与发展:大众传媒作为公共空间更为关注人本身,更有利于满足人们的交往需求、尊重需求与认同需求;大众传媒作为公共空间着眼于让公众舆论发出自己真实的声音,更有利于满足公众政治参与的需求;大众传媒作为公共空间更为关注人的生存与处境,更有利于公众缓释精神压力,增强社会联系。     

析J.M.库切小说《耻》中超越种族的生存困惑

库切的代表作<耻>是一部寓意丰富、思想深刻的小说,从不同角度解读会获得不同的启示.本文以小说揭示新南非新旧交替时代种族问题为出发点,深层剖析作品所反映的人类共同的生存境遇,展示作家对人类苦难的深切同情和其人道主义的终极关怀.     

Confessional identity and models of aristocratic conversion in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Hungary

This article explores the intricate relationship between representations and social practices in the context of aristocratic conversion, non-conversion and marriage. The autobiography of a Calvinist magnate woman, who lived in a mixed marriage and resisted conversion, is discussed and interpreted as a non-conversion narrative. It is compared to other extant documentation (both ego-documents and third-person narratives) regarding the conversion to Catholicism of four aristocratic men, whose political and social positions were enhanced as a result of conversion. The construction of Habsburg rule and its concomitant pressure for Catholicism provides the common political context of both eighteenth-century Transylvania and seventeenth-century Habsburg Hungary, where these stories take place. Offering a further comparative perspective, the study aims to highlight the similarities and differences between Hungarian and European accounts. It also pinpoints the underlying similarities within the conversion models of rival confessions (Catholic and Protestant) and brings to the fore the social practices that entailed the crossing of confessional boundaries. Its most surprising finding is that in the propagandistic climate of the confessional age even the autobiographical narrative was turned into a tool of propaganda against mixed marriages. Amid this confessional rivalry, not only were the appeal of female agency and the story of conversion for love and marriage lost but, in Habsburg Hungary, politics was also excluded from conversion models due to the ambivalent relationship of the elite to the foreign king. Similarly to patterns identified in other regions of Europe, martyrdom played a significant role in both Protestant and Catholic conversion models.     

Relating mothers' social framing to their children's entry competence with peers

The purpose of this study was to examine how mothers view and construct meaning their children's social interactions, and to understand the interpretive frames they bring to filtering the social world and conveying meaning to their children. Maternal narrations to their children' videotaped entry behavior revealed narration patterns related to their children' entry behavior and the group's response. Generally, when their children were behaving competently, mothers appeared to have a broad based, context embedded view of the interaction, but focused more specifially when difficulties arose, These narration patterns were influenced ny the mothers' own remembered childhood social competence and recollections of positive and anxious peer experiences. Implications of these results for the socialization process were discussed.     

焦仲卿妻“自求遣归”初探

长诗之圣《孔雀东南飞》中的主人公焦仲卿妻与其他众多的“弃妇”相比,其独特之处在于其能“自求遣归”,这在当时的封建社会,对于地位极为低下的妇女来说,有着深远的社会意义,标志着中国古代妇女在争取自身解放的漫长道路上迈出了可喜而艰难的一步。     

Tensions and paradoxes of humanitarianism. Dialogue with Lilie Chouliaraki

Lilie Chouliaraki is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a background in Languages and Linguistics and her research has a strong interdisciplinary orientation, drawing on social and cultural theory, moral philosophy and sociology, visual communication and discourse theory. Her main interest lies in understanding how the media shape our ethical and political relationship to distant others; how they inform the ways we witness the vulnerability of these others and the ways we are invited to feel, think and act towards them. In 2006, she published The spectatorship of suffering, which is a seminal piece of work within the field of Media Studies, opening up the domain of mediated suffering studies. In 2013, Lilie published The ironic spectator: solidarity in the age of post-humanitarianism, which was awarded the Outstanding Book of the Year Prize by ICA 2015, and has been widely reviewed and acclaimed. In this recent work, Chouliaraki explores how digital media are today changing the traditional relationship between humanitarian practice and politics, focusing on the ways humanitarian agencies try to - and fail to - combine a dominant market logic with a political vision of justice and social change.     

“I’m Just a Woman. But I’ve Never Been a Victim”: Re-conceptualizing Prostitution Policy through Individual Narratives

Drawing on narrative theory in political science and policy studies, this article argues that narratives serve definitional purposes in the prostitution policy process, but not all narratives are equally influential here. To illustrate, it shares Gloria Lockett’s narrative. Lockett is a 65-year-old African American former sex worker, prostitutes’ rights activist, and the cofounder and the current executive director of the California Prostitutes Education Project, an HIV/AIDS prevention and education nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area. Although Lockett’s narrative does not represent all women in prostitution, it complicates dominant understandings of prostitution in the United States, contests the current criminalization regime, and alerts health authorities to sex workers’ occupational health and safety concerns. Yet even as others share and support her narrative, various legal and ideological factors limit its impact in the policy process.