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Dualistic Thinking (dualistic + thinking)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	80%

Selected Abstracts

The three m's,mediation, postmodernism, and the new millennium

CONFLICT RESOLUTION QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2001
Dale Bagshaw
Postmodernism can be seen as a reaction to modernism. A modernist culture, built over the last few centuries around forms of rationality, self-discipline, and scientific values, is succumbing to the effects of rapid and unprecedented technological and economic change. The weakness of modernist thinking was the search for unitary definitions and the reduction under one label of complex clusters of thought. This article investigates the strengths and weaknesses of postmodernist and poststructuralist ideas for mediation at the beginning of the new millennium and argues that some aspects of postmodernist thinking are important to mediation,in particular the recognition of the power of language, or discourse, to reflect and shape the world. Postmodernism rejects dualistic thinking, notions of "neutrality" and "objectivity," and mega theories or overarching "truths," and celebrates diversity and conflict. Postmodernism offers mediators a new way of thinking about thinking but has its drawbacks when considering issues of human rights. [source]

Tongue Sandwiches and Bagel Days: Sex, Food and Mind-Body Dualism

GENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 4 2004
Lynne Baxter
The substantive content of our paper is that of mind-body dualism, which we explore through food metaphors. However, our primary aim is to use these food metaphors to explore the difficulties in going beyond dualistic thinking. We do this by focusing on dualism as a learnt state of being. Accordingly, and using an analysis of pedagogies of the everyday that takes account of particular communities of practice, we seek to demonstrate the (re)production of dualistic frameworks in organizational life. Our conclusion returns to a political agenda that is concerned to go beyond the inevitable hierarchization implicit in dualistic construction. Here we present the case for the retention of the binary and we indicate the work that now needs to take place if we are interested in developing interpretations that express the fluidity of gendered identities. [source]

Why Kant and Ecofeminism Don't Mix

HYPATIA, Issue 3 2001
JEANNA MOYER
This paper consists of two sections. In section one, I explore Val Plumwood's description of the features of normative dualism, and briefly discuss how these features are manifest in Immanuel Kant's view of nature. In section two, I evaluate the claims of Holly L. Wilson, who argues that Kant is not a normative dualist. Against Wilson, I will argue that Kant maintains normative dualisms between humans/nature, humans/animals, humans I culture, and men/women. As such, Kant's philosophy is antithetical to the aims of ecofeminism, which seeks to expose and dismantle such dualistic thinking. [source]

Private or public: debating the meaning of tenure legalization

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2002
Ann Varley
Hernando de Soto's book The mystery of capital has renewed debate about illegality in low,income housing in Latin America, Asia and Africa. De Soto and others argue that property titles provide the poor with collateral for loans to improve their housing or set up a business. Critics argue that incorporation into the formal market will displace the original inhabitants. In this article I analyse these debates about legalization as expressions of the dualisms that have shaped western thought. The relation between legal and illegal can be understood as a variant of the public/private dichotomy. Challenging the opposition of legal to illegal, I argue that the difference between them is not as great as the proponents of legalization assume. This questions the efficacy of legalization as an engine of change. In Mexico, the beneficiaries of legalization have little interest in formal credit, preferring loans from friends or relatives, and legalization does not lead to displacement. The failure of theories about legalization to predict the outcome is a product of their reliance on dualistic thinking and of the exclusion of the private from their accounts of the process. Le livre d'Hernando de Soto, The mystery of capital, a relancé le débat sur l'illégalité de l'habitat à faible revenu en Amérique latine, Asie et Afrique. Selon de Soto et d'autres, les titres de propriété procurent aux pauvres une garantie pour emprunter afin d'améliorer leur logement ou de créer une entreprise. Les opposants affirment qu'une intégration au marché officiel déplacerait les habitants d'origine. L'article analyse ces débats sur la légalisation en tant qu'expressions des dualismes qui ont façonné la pensée occidentale. On peut appréhender la relation entre le légal et l'illégal comme une variante de la dichotomie public,privé. En contestant l'opposition légal,illégal, on peut affirmer que la différence n'est pas aussi importante que le supposent les partisans de la légalisation, ce qui remet en cause l'efficacité de celle,ci en tant que moteur de changement. Au Mexique, les bénéficiaires de la légalisation s'intéressent peu au crédit officiel, préférant les prêts entre amis ou parents, et cette légalisation ne provoque pas de déplacement. Les théories sur la légalisation ont échoué dans leur prédiction des résultats, car elles s'appuient sur une réflexion dualiste et excluent le privé de leur évaluation du processus. [source]

Are We all Natural Dualists?

THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Issue 3 2001
A Cognitive Developmental Approach
The article takes to task the well-established anthropological claim that non-Western peoples are free from the traps of dualistic thinking. Although Vezo informants in Madagascar produce statements that could be used to support such a claim, experimental procedures that target their inferential reasoning reveal that they systematically differentiate between mind and body, between the biological processes that determine the organism and the social processes that shape personhood. This suggests that there is a significant discrepancy between people's explicit linguistic statements and their implicit theoretical knowledge. Moreover, developmental data show that such implicit theoretical presuppositions are essential to the production and transmission of cultural knowledge. Thus, Vezo children, who do not as yet differentiate between the biological mechanism of birth and the social mechanism of nurture, are still unable to grasp a salient aspect of Vezo culture, namely the causally integrated set of ideas that guide the way adults classify the social world. These findings have significant theoretical and methodological implications for the constitution of anthropological knowledge. [source]