. Totalitarianism is, she suggests, both facilitated by and in turn engenders certain basic experiences in living together, or characteristic states. One is isolation, a political condition that she distinguishes from the more personal condition of loneliness, and
COVID and the Era of Emergencies
What Type of Freedom is at Stake?
Danielle Celermajer and Dalia Nassar
Modernisation and Social Change
The Impact on Iranian Elderly Social Networks and Care Systems
Mary Elaine Hegland, Zahra Sarraf, and Mohammad Shahbazi
Anthropological field research in Iran, mainly in the village of Aliabad and in nearby Shiraz in south-west Iran, has documented radical social, cultural, religious and economic change over the last 28 years. Increasing emphasis on the nuclear rather than the extended family and pressures for geographic and social mobility have profoundly influenced the lives of the elderly. The traditional family system of support for elders - with regard to emotional and social needs, as well as financial assistance and physical care - is breaking down. Social scientists, social workers and health personnel must focus on adequately addressing the needs and concerns of the Iranian elderly in the twenty-first century and on developing alternative systems to deal with key elderly issues of health, well-being and social incorporation.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2007
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- Research Article
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- 55–73
Denis Vuka
during the years of Albania’s self-isolation from 1978 to 1990, which followed the country’s withdrawal from the international arena. The 1980s saw in textbooks a dramatic increase in the use of images and visual resources—and a proliferation of myths
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 69–85
The Democracy of Everyday Life in Disaster
Holding Our Lives in Their Hands
Nancy L. Rosenblum
when we venture outside. We strain to see them, for sighting is a comfort: we are not alone in isolation and fear. We relish contact and conversation from a distance. Our back and forth is personal and individual. How are you navigating daily tasks? Are
What Makes a Panther a Panther?
Genetics, Human Perceptions, and the Complexity of Species Categorization
Catherine Macdonald and Julia Wester
experience “species” as being both a social and biological construct, and that the question of what a species is cannot be “solved” or answered in isolation from subjective and socially constructed questions about how an animal or group of animals fits into
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Girlhood Identity in The Craft
Emily Chandler
popularity. In her landmark study of girls’ and women’s psychology, Carol Gilligan found that adolescent girls derive security from inclusion in a group; they perceive isolation as dangerous (1982). By depicting the girls’ marginalization prior to their
Holistic Houses and a Sense of Place
Contextualizing the Bishop Museum Hale Pili Exhibit through Archaeological Analyses
Jennifer G. Kahn
houses are exhibited in isolation, creating a timeless quality and supporting simplistic notions of the unchanging nature of folkways ( Chappell 1999 ). Like other folk housing exhibits, the hale pili exhibit falls into a “colonial picturesque” schema
India Halstead
interconnectedness: the oceanic feeling. For Rebecca Horn, however, alienation also played an intimate, personal role: her work was driven not only by this pursuit of social emancipation, but also by an attempt to come to terms with her own traumatic isolation. At
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 31–59
Singing with Dignity
Adding Social Quality to Organization Studies on Aging
Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil
How to Counteract the Isolation of Older Persons and of Organization Studies from Social Policy Management and organization studies (MOS) is vast, diverse, and sophisticated, and it is indeed surprising that its impact on public policy is less than
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 69–87
A World Event (On Circumnavigation, 1519-1522)
Excerpt from Guillermo Giucci's Tierra del Fuego: La creación del fin del mundo
Guillermo Giucci
The idea of the world as a sphere was an old theoretical presupposition. Only with both the crossing of the Strait of Magellan and circumnavigation were the geographical areas unknown to the Europeans opened to global trade. Therefore, this world event would be inscribed in the annals of history as a marker of the beginning of modernity, the era of maritime colonization that forever altered the notion of radical isolation.
