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Selected AbstractsAgricultural Land, Gender and Kinship in Rural China and Vietnam: A Comparison of Two VillagesJOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE, Issue 2 2009DANIÈLE BÉLANGER This study examines the impact of current land policies in China and Vietnam on women's entitlement to land, women's wellbeing and gender power relations. The ethnographic study of one village in each of the two countries contextualizes women's lives in the kinship and marriage system in which power and gender relations are embedded. Current land policies, when implemented in the existing kinship and marriage system, make women's entitlement to land more vulnerable than men's, limit women's choices and weaken their power position. Variations in kinship rules in the two countries lead to different outcomes. In the Chinese village the dominance of patrilocal marriage and exogamous marriages limits women's access to land, whereas in the Vietnamese village the rigid concentration of inheritance to males puts women in a difficult position. The comparison between communities of rural China and Vietnam reveals the importance of considering gender and kinship when studying the implementation and impact of land policies. [source] Management of children with otitis media: A summary of evidence from recent systematic reviewsJOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH, Issue 10 2009Hasantha Gunasekera Abstract Health-care professionals who manage children are regularly confronted with clinical questions regarding the management of the full spectrum of otitis media: acute otitis media; otitis media with effusion; and chronic suppurative otitis media. Given the variety of potential therapies available, the wide spectrum of middle ear disorders, and the lack of consensus about management strategies, clinicians are in a difficult position when managing these children. In this review, we seek to summarise the current best evidence for answering otitis media management questions by collating existing systematic reviews. [source] Derrida's Defence of Paul de Man's Wartime Writings: A Deconstructionist DilemmaORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 1 2000Dieter Freundlieb Derrida's attempt at a defence of Paul de Man's wartime writings put him in a difficult position. Had he remained loyal to his usual deconstructionist practice of interpretation, he would have been unable to defend de Man in a politically effective way. Derrida therefore chose a hybrid form of interpretation that is neither purely deconstructionist nor easily classifiable in any other way. Faced with a case in which a purely deconstructionist reading would not have achieved his aim of minimising the political damage caused by the discovery of de Man's wartime writings, Derrida opted for an interpretive approach which allowed him to read into de Man's texts what he wanted to get out of them, ignoring what seems obvious to less biased readers. [source] Death for a Terrorist: Media Coverage of the McVeigh Execution as a Case Study in Interorganizational Partnering between the Public and Private SectorsPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW, Issue 5 2003Linda Wines Smith In June 2001, the Federal Bureau of Prisons helped to carry out the execution of Timothy McVeigh for his role in the infamous 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The intense national and international media attention that the execution received was virtually unprecedented in the bureau's history, and it put the bureau in the difficult position of having to carry out two potentially conflicting responsibilities: facilitating coverage of the execution by hundreds of reporters, producers, and technicians, while maintaining the safety and security of the maximum security penitentiary in which the execution was held. Historically, the Bureau of Prisons has preferred to maintain a low media profile and had no experience managing a large-scale media event. This article examines how the bureau met this challenge by forming a partnership with the news media through the creation of a Media Advisory Group. It analyzes the goals, functions, and achievements of the Media Advisory Group by employing the Dawes model of interorganizational relationships. [source] Playing Games with History: Tony Blair's European Policy in the PressBRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 4 2007Oliver Daddow This article examines how Tony Blair on the one hand and the Euro-sceptical press on the other have ransacked history to support their respective arguments about British European policy since 1997. It considers first of all why history plays a key role in British discussions about European affairs; it does so, firstly, because of the discipline's intimate connection with the making of national identities and, secondly, because Europe has long been historicised as the ,other' against which the British identify themselves. The second part of the article considers the rhetorical strategies Blair and the press have used to persuade the public using content analysis of Blair's foreign policy speeches and articles on Europe in the sceptical British press since 1997. I argue that Blair finds himself in a difficult position in part because of his own failure to make the case for Europe forcefully and consistently enough and in part because of the difficulties inherent in altering deeply entrenched Euro-sceptical opinions in Britain's leading press outlets. [source] Child care practice innovations: using a model of change to develop training strategiesCHILD ABUSE REVIEW, Issue 1 2001Jan Horwath Abstract Modernizing health and social services is a major part of the current government agenda in England. As a consequence of this agenda, social workers and their managers are faced with new initiatives designed to increase the effectiveness of social services. Managers and trainers frequently find themselves in a difficult position; they are expected to introduce innovations to a workforce who can feel overwhelmed by the degree and pace of change, and as a consequence some workers can be hostile or resistant to learning about, and working with, new initiatives. This paper describes ways in which a theoretical model of change can be used to analyse likely workforce responses to policy and practice innovations. Based on this analysis, consideration is given to the implications of these responses for training and staff development. The application of the model to the design and delivery of a training strategy is explored: the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families (Department of Health, Department for Education and Employment and The Home Office, 2000) is used as a case example. (This framework is new assessment guidance issued by the Department of Health for use in England.) The paper describes ways in which the model can assist educators promote effective learning and support practitioners and their managers through major change. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | ||||||||||