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Some Reflections (some + reflection)
Selected AbstractsFeminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic RevivalCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2001Saba Mahmood First page of article [source] Making Sense of Gender in Shifting Institutional Contexts: Some Reflections on Gender MainstreamingIDS BULLETIN, Issue 4 2004Ramya Subrahmanian First page of article [source] Managing Crises in the EU: Some Reflections of a Non-EU ScholarJOURNAL OF CONTINGENCIES AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT, Issue 4 2005Boris Porfiriev In recent years the EU has been increasingly involved in development and implementation of crisis policy as a component of its development and security policy. This process is seriously complicated by the EU architects, who had never conceived it as a crisis management institute. Therefore they failed to design built-in organisational capacities into the Union to mitigate and respond to crises. In addition, the EU-agreed overarching concept of crisis as such and EU crisis in particular is missing. Both issues remain a primary question on research and policy agendas. Provided below are some of the author's considerations and comments on these issues. It is argued that, despite the existing divergence in crisis interpretations in the EU, coherent conceptualisation is possible and approaches to this are introduced. Practical implications of generic crisis conceptualisation for EU crisis management policy are analysed. Within this context three major lessons from international experience, including that from the USA and Russia, are emphasised. These concern the issues of organisational flexibility, learning from earlier major crises and comprehensive training of crisis decision units critical for efficient crisis management policy. [source] Makeshift: Some Reflections on Japanese Design SensibilityARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Issue 4 2005Sarah Chaplin Abstract By constructing a series of prologues on preconditions of making across cultural and industrial traditions, Sarah Chaplin describes the embedded condition of uncertainty that lies within the very human act of making. ,Makeshift' recognises the impermanent and the imperfect, the ritualistic and the indeterminate. From a question of meaning, this text argues that in Japanese culture at least, ,things are never fully designed, but are always in a state of being designed'. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Social Work Advocacy in Singapore: Some Reflections on the Constraints and OpportunitiesASIAN SOCIAL WORK AND POLICY REVIEW, Issue 3 2010Kerry Brydon One central concern of social work is advocacy for social justice. This is a lofty ideal but a difficult ideal to achieve in view of social work being delivered in sociopolitical contexts with varying degrees of tolerance of advocacy. This discussion is based on a case study from Singapore and considers some of the particular constraints and opportunities in that context, while also making the point that those similar constraints and opportunities exist in all contexts. A model that combines principles of advocacy and collaboration is proposed as a means of embracing social work advocacy in Singapore and other contexts. [source] | ||||||||||