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How We Are with Each Other

Ann Burack-Weiss

in The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life

This chapter discusses relationships with life partners, friends, and paid helpers, emphasizing and contrasting caregiving and care receiving.

Postscript: the rupture of loss and trauma

David Bolton

in Conflict, Peace and Mental Health: Addressing the Consequences of Conflict and Trauma in Northern Ireland

The book concludes with the Postscript - a more personal reflection by the author on the impact of loss and trauma on individuals and the community affected by war, conflict and disaster. Beyond ... More

The book concludes with the Postscript - a more personal reflection by the author on the impact of loss and trauma on individuals and the community affected by war, conflict and disaster. Beyond research and research findings, the author draws attention to the importance of empathy, to relationships, to the need for healing, to taking responsibility, to letting go, to social justice and fairness, to the need to invest in future generations after conflicts end, to the importance of hope, and the place of growth and resilience. He concludes with a plea for the human impact of war and conflict to be a key and early consideration, when peace is being made after conflicts end.Less

April 2006: Rushed Law and Wrongful Death

Kenneth McK Norrie

in Professor Norrie's Commentaries on Family Law

This commentary identifies a flaw created by the amendment of the Damages (Scotland) Act 1976 made by s.35 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 which removed relationships of affinity from the ... More

This commentary identifies a flaw created by the amendment of the Damages (Scotland) Act 1976 made by s.35 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 which removed relationships of affinity from the category of relatives entitled to sue for wrongful death, but did not allow such relatives to make a claim based on being accepted as a member of the family. It calls for imaginative judicial interpretation, which was subsequently provided in Mykoliw v Botterill 2010 SLT 1219.Less

Preparing for a revolution

Sonja Tiernan

in The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Social Revolution Begins

An overview of the Constitutional Convention which was established to ensure ‘participative democracy’ in considering changes to the Irish Constitution. This chapter examines how in April 2013 ... More

An overview of the Constitutional Convention which was established to ensure ‘participative democracy’ in considering changes to the Irish Constitution. This chapter examines how in April 2013 delegates overwhelmingly called for a constitutional change to extend civil marriage to same-sex couples and, significantly, to include amendments for parental rights in this regard. The chapter also describes the beginning of a great controversy, popularly referred to as ‘Pantigate’, which placed the issue of marriage equality centre stage in an open debate about homophobia.Less

The final hurdles

Sonja Tiernan

in The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Social Revolution Begins

This chapter examines the final stages of the campaigns for and against voting for marriage equality in the forthcoming referendum in May 2015. This includes an examination of the Catholic Church’s ... More

This chapter examines the final stages of the campaigns for and against voting for marriage equality in the forthcoming referendum in May 2015. This includes an examination of the Catholic Church’s stance and their actions in the weeks before the referendum.Less

Local Studies of Young People

Francis Wing-lin Lee

in Nurturing Pillars of Society: Understanding and Working with the Young Generation in Hong Kong

This chapter illustrates some of the trends and contemporary situations faced by young people in Hong Kong by looking at two studies. The first is “Youth Trends in Hong Kong 2004–2006” that shows ... More

This chapter illustrates some of the trends and contemporary situations faced by young people in Hong Kong by looking at two studies. The first is “Youth Trends in Hong Kong 2004–2006” that shows findings regarding the young people's population and family, potentials and education, economic independence, social participation, physical and mental health, and behavioral health through acquiring and analyzing important statistics from government offices and departments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The second study, “Family Relationships of the Only Children,” is a comparative study that attempts to look into how children from one-child families are affected by family relationships, and how the positive development of these children may be enforced through comparing data acquired from single children, and from children with one or more siblings.Less

Introduction

Ashley Baggett

in Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900

This book examines the changing public policies concerning intimate partner violence (commonly called domestic violence) in heterosexual relationships through the lens of shifting gender roles in New ... More

This book examines the changing public policies concerning intimate partner violence (commonly called domestic violence) in heterosexual relationships through the lens of shifting gender roles in New Orleans from 1840 to 1900. In those sixty years, the concept of masculinity and femininity as well as race changed and fueled social and legal responses to abuse.Less

“We Are All Men”: Transforming Gender Expectations in New Orleans during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Ashley Baggett

in Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900

Fighting for God, country, and home, southern men in the antebellum period fulfilled their ultimate role as protectors. This patriotic fervor started to wane as the war continued. Some letters from ... More

Fighting for God, country, and home, southern men in the antebellum period fulfilled their ultimate role as protectors. This patriotic fervor started to wane as the war continued. Some letters from nurses and soldiers illustrate questioning not only the war but also the concept of a good death. After the Civil War, thousands of men returned physically or emotionally scarred. As men tried to make sense of what it meant to be a man in the postwar years, they were not alone. Women too threw off the rigid expectations of antebellum womanhood in large part due to their Civil War experiences. Serving as nurses, running the household, and living under occupation since 1862, New Orleans women acted in roles traditionally considered masculine. They emerged from the war more aware of the drawbacks of dependence and began expecting more reciprocal, although by no means egalitarian, relationships.Less

Lone parenthood

Morag C. Treanor

in Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive

Chapter four explores the importance of, and relationship between, family formation, or ‘breakdown’ and lone parenthood in the context of childhood poverty. Few subjects excite the public and ... More

Chapter four explores the importance of, and relationship between, family formation, or ‘breakdown’ and lone parenthood in the context of childhood poverty. Few subjects excite the public and political imagination quite as much as the issue of lone parents. It is an area with strong connections to poverty, disadvantage, gendered inequalities, and the supposed breaching of normative values and expectations. I engage with myths and assumptions about lone parents and reveal the corrosive effect of demonising lone-parent family life on children’s lives and wellbeing. I show that relationships are dynamic, that lone parents are not a homogenous group, that a large proportion of children will spend time in a lone parent formation, and that how a government responds to lone parents in policy terms directly relates to how impoverished their children will be. This chapter also discusses how poverty and emotional mal-being are not inevitable consequences of separation and divorce. The role of separated fathers in lone parent families, particularly their financial contribution and involvement in their children’s lives, are explored.Less

Anchoring identity: the construction of responsibility for and by young offenders in the US

Alexandra Cox

in Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth: Contemporary Policy and Practice

This chapter is concerned with the construction and expression of responsibility by and for young offenders. It examines some of the ways in which the expression of responsibility is demanded of ... More

This chapter is concerned with the construction and expression of responsibility by and for young offenders. It examines some of the ways in which the expression of responsibility is demanded of young people within youth justice systems, and then how young people respond to these demands. The data reveals that young people involved in the youth justice system have a strong desire for having their expression of responsibility beyond their criminal case recognized and made visible— especially as it relates to their social and familial relationships and as it is grounded in their social context.Less

Social networks and social lives

Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay

in Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in A Global City

The social networks, community engagement, activities outside of work and transnational relations of undocumented migrants are considered in this chapter. Most people had effectively and ... More

The social networks, community engagement, activities outside of work and transnational relations of undocumented migrants are considered in this chapter. Most people had effectively and strategically built networks of friends while in the UK and this was instrumental to everyday lives, especially when looking for work. Family relations were often more complex than those with friends and difficulties could be accentuated between family members when it involved working relationships. By living in London, our interviewees either lived in enclave areas or had access to such areas, though this did not necessarily mean that these areas were always visited or explored; in some cases they were actively avoided. Nevertheless ethnic clusters facilitated community organisation, neighbourhood encounters, and sometimes conviviality, access to faith groups and cultural activities, as well as jobs and social lives and they were almost always with people from the same ethnic and/or linguistic group. While a minority participated in activities outside of work, either community based or some limited social activities, most were limited by finances and long working hours as well as the need try and stay hidden. Networks were carefully managed and this could result in loneliness and feelings of isolation.Less

No-Nonsense Organic: Negotiating Everyday Concerns about the Environment, Health, and the Aesthetics of Farming

Connor J. Fitzmaurice and Brian J. Gareau

in Organic Futures: Struggling for Sustainability on the Small Farm

This chapter addresses some of the big issues consumers and scholars assume, even implicitly, matter to committed organic movement farmers: the environment and health. Certainly, these concerns play ... More

This chapter addresses some of the big issues consumers and scholars assume, even implicitly, matter to committed organic movement farmers: the environment and health. Certainly, these concerns play a role in organic practices. However, this chapter shows that they are rarely explicitly addressed. Instead, such issues take on an instrumentalism and practicality in everyday experiences. Concerns about health and the environment were directly related to visceral experiences of farming, like experiencing the simple pleasure of eating a sun-warmed tomato off the vine. The big issues of sustainability acquire a taken-for-granted character, propagated in farmers’ networks of relationships. This chapter shows, once again, the centrality of lifestyle considerations in the making of organic practices. However, lifestyle concerns can also thwart more sustainable practices. For some farmers, the pursuit of a comfortable lifestyle required abandoning hallmarks of organic practice, like fallow periods for their fields in order to increase the amount of land under cultivation. As farmers struggle for livelihoods, they can become caught in a cycle of intensification that gradually erodes alternative practices. The chapter also discusses how the ability to remain alternative in light of such pressures is necessarily tied to forms of privilege—especially access to land and consumers.Less

La Guiannée and Its Heritage

Anna Servaes

in "Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée"

La Guiannée celebration eludes the historical colonial context, but is documented in France as early as the twelfth century. It is most likely a derivative of a Celtic tradition and belongs to a ... More

La Guiannée celebration eludes the historical colonial context, but is documented in France as early as the twelfth century. It is most likely a derivative of a Celtic tradition and belongs to a category of begging quests throughout the Carnival season, typically November-March or April. Similarities between the disguises used in twentieth century Prairie du Rocher and twelfth century France creates a strong cultural connection. Other festive elements such as masking, singing, drinking, and the giving of gifts have significant importance for the maintenance of socio-cultural relationships. Throughout the Midwest, La Guiannée is the one festive celebration that maintained its continual French presence since the founding of these communities. Newspaper and personal accounts describe in detail the twentieth and twenty-first century celebration and its evolution from medieval to colonial disguises.Less

Relationships

Tim Lomas

in Translating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being

This chapter outlines the second of the three meta-categories that together constitute the theory of wellbeing presented in the book. Its focus is relationships, which constitute the main way in ... More

This chapter outlines the second of the three meta-categories that together constitute the theory of wellbeing presented in the book. Its focus is relationships, which constitute the main way in which wellbeing is influenced. This meta-category comprises two subsidiary categories, love (i.e., close bonds with select others), and prosociality (connections with people ‘in general’). These in turn are woven together from multiple themes, identified through the analysis of untranslatable words. With love, 14 different types were identified, which were grouped into four main themes: non-personal (e.g., for objects); caring (e.g., for family members); romantic (e.g., for one’s ‘partner’); and transcendent (e.g., for a spiritual figure). With prosociality, five main themes were found: socialising and congregating; morals and ethics; compassion and kindness; interaction and communication; and communality. Together, these categories and themes cover the diverse ways in which relationships can contribute to wellbeing.Less

A Map of Well-Being

Tim Lomas

in Translating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being

This concluding chapter summarises the analysis presented in the preceding chapters, and charts a path for the lexicography project to take over the coming years. The chapter begins by distilling the ... More

This concluding chapter summarises the analysis presented in the preceding chapters, and charts a path for the lexicography project to take over the coming years. The chapter begins by distilling the core features of the three meta-categories that together form the overarching theory of wellbeing introduced here, representing the main ways it is experienced (feelings), influenced (relationships), and cultivated (development). In a spirit of reflexivity, it is acknowledged that the analysis in the book has its limitations, including being influenced by the situatedness of the author. However, it is argued that these very limitations can provide the basis for a future research agenda. It is anticipated that this could have two main strands: an empirical strand (aimed at improving the lexicography), and an applied strand (involving initiatives to help people cultivate familiarity with the phenomena signified by the words). Together, these two strands will allow the potential of the lexicography to be fully realised and harnessed in the years ahead.Less

The Structure of Sustained Dialogue and Public Deliberation

Jon Van Til

in Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems: Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue

This chapter discusses two forms of interaction: sustained dialogue and public deliberation. Sustained dialogue and public deliberation are forms of structured human interaction that address, name, ... More

This chapter discusses two forms of interaction: sustained dialogue and public deliberation. Sustained dialogue and public deliberation are forms of structured human interaction that address, name, and frame issues of mutual concern. These approaches involve processes of deliberative democracy, or public talk, wherein citizen participants engage in designed and moderated discussions with the goal of increasing understanding and reducing conflict among themselves and the solidary groups to which they may belong. Dialogue is a five-stage process: Deciding to Engage; Mapping and Naming; Probing Problems and Relationships; Scenario Building; and Acting Together. Here, dialogue occurs by which enmity and suspicion become transformed into understanding and accommodation. Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.Less

Diving In: A Handbook for Improving Race Relations on College Campuses Through the Process of Sustained Dialogue

Teddy Nemeroff and David Tukey

in Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems: Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue

This chapter discusses the stages in conducting a sustained dialogue in a campus. In stage one, Deciding to Engage, students should develop a plan for establishing dialogue groups on their campus and ... More

This chapter discusses the stages in conducting a sustained dialogue in a campus. In stage one, Deciding to Engage, students should develop a plan for establishing dialogue groups on their campus and gather participants for those groups. Once individual groups are formed, the group leaders should explain the process to each participant. Then, the groups move into stage two, Mapping and Naming, where participants share their personal experiences. The group leader will notice a change in the character of conversations as the dialogue progresses into stage three, Probing Problems and Relationships, where participants are beginning to understand each other’s problems concerning race, gender and the like. With this understanding of the problem, the group then moves into stage four, Scenario Building, where members generate possible solutions to the problem. In stage five, Acting Together, group members enact the suggested solutions.Less

Relationship and rehabilitation in a post-‘what works’ era

Aaron Pycroft

in Risk and rehabilitation: Management and treatment of substance misuse and mental health problems in the criminal justice system

The research illustrates how substance misuse and mental health problems are not being addressed satisfactorily by the criminal justice system, as it is failing to keep pace with our understanding of ... More

The research illustrates how substance misuse and mental health problems are not being addressed satisfactorily by the criminal justice system, as it is failing to keep pace with our understanding of these issues. The author argues for the development of therapeutic and social-work oriented knowledge in working with people in the criminal justice system. Complexity theory, Mimetics and Virtue ethics are identified as areas with the potential to develop interventions. If engagement with people with mental health problems and substance misuse is to be successful, there needs to be an increased awareness in our understanding of the factors that affect human behaviour.Less

Conclusion

Emily West

in Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South

The conclusion suggests a re-conceptualization of the meanings of slavery, freedom, and the significance of affective relationships under a system of racial oppression. While it is surprising that ... More

The conclusion suggests a re-conceptualization of the meanings of slavery, freedom, and the significance of affective relationships under a system of racial oppression. While it is surprising that neither pro-slavery advocates nor proponents of the later “Lost Cause” drew greater attention to free blacks' enslavement requests as a propaganda tool, the explanation relates to contemporary discourses about slavery and freedom. Unhindered by bondage, free people of color were at “liberty” to attempt legally to change their status. But this “choice” provoked among slaveholders feelings of unease about black initiative even when the requests were for slavery itself. Enslavement petitioners were workers attempting to secure subsistence, who were engaged in a process of individual bargaining which was itself limited by coercion and discrimination. Their motivations were multi-faceted but beyond the performance of perceived white benevolence expressed in the immediate language of petitions, they also expose the complex ties that existed among and between free people of color, the enslaved, and white society. Family relationships assumed priority over legal status for free black petitioners.Less

Automatic Sweethearts for Transhumanists

Michael Hauskeller

in Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications

This chapter asks the question whether sexual and/or romantic relationships with robots could ever be as satisfying as the real thing. Three main arguments are made. First, if we assume that robots ... More

This chapter asks the question whether sexual and/or romantic relationships with robots could ever be as satisfying as the real thing. Three main arguments are made. First, if we assume that robots will be not be real persons and instead simply behave and act as if they are persons (“pseudo-persons”) then love and sex with them will never be as satisfying as it is with a real person. Second, if robots somehow manage to be real persons (and not just pseudo-persons), we run into problems regarding their moral status and, importantly, their freedom to choose to be our romantic partners. It is more satisfying to be loved by a real person that freely chooses to be your lover than it is to be loved by someone who is programmed to love you. Finally, it is argued that the desire for relationships with robotic persons does reveal something telling about the transhumanist desire for total autonomy and independence. The only possible way for me to become completely independent is by cutting all ties to other persons, by making my own world, uninhabited by any real persons except myself. Robotic partners may consequently be the preferred inhabitants of that transhumanist utopia.Less