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New Meaning (new + meaning)
Selected AbstractsMemory, Trauma, and Embodied Distress: The Management of Disruption in the Stories of Cambodians in ExileETHOS, Issue 3 2000Professor Gay Becker Embodied memories of terror and violence create new meaning and reorder the world, but in doing so they encompass the inexplicable aspects of cultural processes that have allowed the world one lives in to become an unspeakable place, hostile and death-ridden. In this article, we examine the narratives of Cambodian refugees'experiences of the Khmer Rouge regime against the backdrop of an ethnographic study of older Cambodians' lives in an inner-city neighborhood. The stories from this study of 40 Cambodians between the ages of 50 and 79 illustrate the relationship between bodily distress and memory, and between personal history and collective experience. These narratives reveal how people strive to create continuity in their lives but under certain circumstances are unable to do so. [source] "I think of God, in order not to be aware": defensive dissociation and the use of religious objectsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 2 2004Ryan LaMothe Associate Professor of Pastoral Counselling Abstract This article explores the relation between defensive dissociation and the use of religious objects from three related directions. First, religious objects and their attributes provide an interpretative framework that generates, for the believer, an unassailable and thoroughly self-consistent experience of agentic hate and hostility and a concomitant sense of worth, power, and efficacy, which together keep intolerable anxiety unformulated and thus outside of awareness. The unassailable religious object (e.g., crucifix or swastika) points to the collapse of potential space whereby doubt and ambiguity, which are necessary for the construction of new meaning, are eliminated. Second, I depict how unthinkable anxiety is dissociated, in part, through the formulation of omnipotent identifications and these identifications represent a collapse of potential space , a refusal to recognize likeness in difference and difference in likeness. Third, the collapse of potential space attends the breakdown of the dynamic tension between generating and submitting to experience. On the one hand, this collapse enables a compulsive, omnipotent construction of experience, a concomitant rigid subjectivity, and the foreclosure of new meaning. On the other hand, it leads to an intrapsychic, desymbolized space: an empty space from which subjectivity, meaning, and value are absent. The hidden presence of desymbolized space is indicated in the intentional construction of a depersonalized other and by the wish or plan to annihilate real and imagined others. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd. [source] Ouch! , a logotherapeutic discourse of butch and tattooed in ChinaJOURNAL OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, Issue 4 2010Wing-sun Liu This is a study of a small group of self-identified butch lesbians in their consumption of tattoos. The emotion-laden experience of negotiating social symbolism and self-identity (Elliott, 1997) in the context of hyperrealism (Baudrillard, 1983) has given rise to what Frankl (1984) has described as "existential vacuums." Frankl suggested that these "existential vacuums" can be filled with a higher level of meaning. An artifact of consumption, the tattoo, is used by the informants in this study as a component of bricolage in the DIY process of constructing a new self (Elliott, 1997), with the entire process of being tattooed , particularly the hyper-stimulation and pain of the procedure , further "existentializing" a new existence of "imagined masculinity." This new existence that transcends suffering and assigns new meaning to life is the principle idea of Frankl's logotherapy (Frankl, 1984; Barnes, 2000; Blair, 2004). Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] ,Reliability' Reconsidered: A Critique of the HRO-NAT DebateJOURNAL OF CONTINGENCIES AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2001Alan Jarman The concept of reliability is beginning to take on new meaning as Information Technology becomes pervasive in both the private and public sectors. This topic deserves further attention as new mobile Internet systems proliferate. This research note is concerned with developing a more operational understanding of the concept of ,reliability'. The HRO-NAT Debate is raising many related issues in this regard. However, the article goes further and seeks to provide a multi-level contingent schema for this purpose. [source] Workers are people too: Societal aspects of occupational health disparities,an ecosocial perspectiveAMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE, Issue 2 2010Nancy Krieger PhD Abstract Workers are people too. What else is new? This seemingly self-evident proposition, however, takes on new meaning when considering the challenging and deeply important issue of occupational health disparities,the topic that is the focus of 12 articles in this special issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. In this commentary, I highlight some of the myriad ways that societal determinants of health intertwine with each and every aspect of occupation-related health inequities, as analyzed from an ecosocial perspective. The engagement extends from basic surveillance to etiologic research, from conceptualization and measurement of variables to analysis and interpretation of data, from causal inference to preventive action, and from the political economy of work to the political economy of health. A basic point is that who is employed (or not) in what kinds of jobs, with what kinds of exposures, what kinds of treatment, and what kinds of job stability, benefits, and pay,as well as what evidence exists about these conditions and what action is taken to address them,depends on societal context. At issue are diverse aspects of people's social location within their societies, in relation to their jointly experienced,and embodied,realities of socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, nationality, nativity, immigration and citizen status, age, gender, and sexuality, among others. Reviewing the papers' findings, I discuss the scientific and real-world action challenges they pose. Recommendations include better conceptualization and measurement of socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity and also use of the health and human rights framework to further the public health mission of ensuring the conditions that enable people,including workers,to live healthy and dignified lives. Am. J. Ind. Med. 53:104,115 2010. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Ideas, bargaining and flexible policy communities: policy change and the case of the Oxford Transport StrategyPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 3 2003Geoffrey DudleyArticle first published online: 8 AUG 200 Critiques of policy networks have highlighted particularly the inability of concepts such as policy communities to explain policy change. The established construction of policy community places it chiefly as a metaphor for a relatively stable network within the policy process, which emphasizes the resource dependencies between key stakeholders. Typically, a process of bargaining brings about accommodation and a state of negotiated order. However, a key problem arises in explaining major policy change where an established policy community persists. One solution here is to appreciate that, over time, dominant ideas and associated policy meanings may shift appreciably within an otherwise durable policy community. Thus, even a seemingly insulated policy community, under certain conditions, may not be immune to idea mutation and new policy meanings. Given the central importance of policy communities, these shifts may induce significant policy change. A case study of this type is provided by the Oxford Transport Strategy (OTS), where a dual process of change took place. On one level of analysis, a challenge to the policy community produced a typical bargaining strategy, with an emphasis on negotiated order. On another level of analysis, however, the terms of the policy debate shifted markedly, and produced a new meaning for the key concept of integrated transport within the policy community. In turn, this process induced significant policy change. The article concludes that, ironically, the survival of a policy community depends on its ability to re-create itself by visualizing a new future. [source] Art and the Re-Presentation of the PastTHE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Issue 1 2000Christopher Tilley This article considers conceptual links between producing installation art works in the present and interpreting prehistoric lifeworlds. We consider connections between the work of contemporary ,landscape', ,environmental' or ,ecological' artists and an on-going landscape archaeology project centred on Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor in the south-west of Britain. We argue that the production of art works in the present can be a powerful means of interpreting the past in the present. Both the practices of interpreting the past and producing art result in the production of something new that transforms our understanding of place and space resulting in the creation of new meaning. Art and archaeology can act together dialectically to produce a novel conceptualization of the past and produce a means of relating to the past that is considerably more than the sum of its parts. [source] Lifelong Learning in Swedish Universities: a familiar policy with new meaningsEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, Issue 3 2001Berit Askling First page of article [source] Ontogenesis in Narrative Therapy: A Linguistic-Semiotic Examination of Client ChangeFAMILY PROCESS, Issue 1 2004Peter Muntigl Ph.D. In this article I investigate how the narrative therapy process facilitates client change. The kind of change that I focus on is linguistic-semiotic; that is, how clients develop their meaning potential through language. What I will demonstrate is how an examination of the linguistic-semiotic level provides new insights into narrative therapy's role in endowing clients with the semiotic materials to make new meanings. An examination of six conjoint sessions involving a narrative therapist with one couple revealed that client change or ontogenesis is composed of three semiotic phases. In the first phase of ontogenesis clients display a beginning semiotic repertoire by formulating "extreme case" descriptions of self and other's behaviors. In the second phase clients are scaffolded by therapist's questions and reformulations into construing events as problems and problems as the agents of negative behaviors. In the final phase clients display a development in their semiotic potential. Clients are able to eliminate problems and construe themselves as agents without prior therapist scaffolding. Therefore, in the latter stages of the narrative process clients are able to deploy meanings that have been generated throughout therapy, in order to produce narratives of self agency and self control. [source] ,Being appropriately unusual': a challenge for nurses in health-promoting conversations with familiesNURSING INQUIRY, Issue 2 2008Eva Gunilla Benzein This study describes the theoretical assumptions and the application for health-promoting conversations, as a communication tool for nurses when talking to patients and their families. The conversations can be used on a promotional, preventive and healing level when working with family-focused nursing. They are based on a multiverse, salutogenetic, relational and reflecting approach, and acknowledge each person's experience as equally valid, and focus on families' resources, and the relationship between the family and its environment. By posing reflective questions, reflection is made possible for both the family and the nurses. Family members are invited to tell their story, and they can listen to and learn from each other. Nurses are challenged to build a co-creating partnership with families in order to acknowledge them as experts on how to lead their lives and to use their own expert knowledge in order to facilitate new meanings to surface. In this way, family health can be enhanced. [source] Managing Change Across Boundaries: Boundary-Shaking Practices1BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2005Julia Balogun To date, boundary spanning has primarily been conceived of as an activity relating an organization to its environment, including other organizations with which it cooperates and competes. In contrast, this study focuses on the boundary spanning practices of individuals acting as change agents to implement boundary- shaking change initiatives across intra -organizational boundaries. These boundary-shaking individuals all work for blue-chip organizations in sectors as diverse as pharmaceuticals, consultancy and automotive. The change initiatives are equally diverse, including post-merger integration, exploitation of across-business synergies and implementing more integrative structures. Through our examination of boundary-shakers we are able to extend what we know about internal change agency and change agent skills and practices. Our starting point is that organizations are comprised of networks of people with a degree of common interest. Our research shows our research subjects to be active movers and shakers in these networks, using their knowledge of the organizational political context and the motivations of others to create new networks (or new meanings within old networks), which then enables them to pursue their change objectives. [source] | ||||||||||||||||