Embodying labor, then and now

In her introduction to the new edition of Women on the Line, first published in 1982, Miriam Glucksmann notes that it had been written well before the body and embodiment had become an explicit focus of studies of work and employment. However, rereading Women on the Line reminds us that ethnographers have long paid attention to the embodied aspects of work, although few of them have written about them as eloquently as Glucksmann. In the original volume she was able to articulate how it felt to experience herself in relation to her environment, a phenomenological perspective made possible by her adoption of an autoethnographic writing style (a strategy linked to her rejection both of a narrowly academic approach and, in consequence, of the disembodied authorial voice that tended to go with it). Perhaps another reason why Glucksmann was able to write about her working on the line with such sensitivity to the embodiment of the experience is that she was new to assembly line work, so the embodied routines of factory life had not yet been submerged below the level of conscious articulation. It is useful therefore to summarize what she had to say and to think about how we can build on it

“Commentary on The Dream of Scipio”

Рукопись поступила в редакцию 16 марта 2017 г.Перевод с латинского сделан по изданию: Macrobii Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis // Macrobius. Vol. 2. Leipzig, 1970. Использовался также английский перевод: Macrobius. Commentary on the Dream of Scipio / Translated by W. H. Stahl. N. Y., 1952.Из философских сочинений конца Западной Римской империи самыми значительными были произведения латинских авторов, последователей философии Платона и неоплатоников. Феномен западного платонизма и неоплатонизма характеризуется тем, что его сторонники опирались на пифагорейско-платонические идеи, представленные в сюжете сновидения Сципиона из трактата Цицерона «О государстве». Главной фигурой здесь является Макробий Феодосий, который «ввел в научный оборот» этот цицероновский сюжет и сделал его весьма популярным в последующее время, написав «Комментарий на “Сновидение Сципиона”». О жизни Макробия (V в. н. э.) известно не так уж много. В исследовании М. С. Петровой суммированы все данные о нем и его сочинениях в виде краткой биографии. Комментарий Макробия рассматривается во многих работах — как в российских, так и в зарубежных, и во всех них, как правило, признается неоплатоническая направленность его воззрений. Во всяком случае, В. Х. Шталь замечает, что комментарий на сновидение Сципиона, принадлежащий Макробию, был наиболее важным источником платонизма на латинском Западе в Средние века. Переведенные главы трактата Макробия содержат защиту учения Платона о самодвижении души и опровержение доводов Аристотеля о неподвижности души.It was the Latin adherents of Platonism and Neoplantonism who produced the most notable works among philosophical texts of the late Roman Empire. Western (Neo-)Platonists often referred to Pythagorean and Platonic ideas expounded in the Dream of Scipio, a fragment in the final part of Cicero’s “De re publica”. Macrobius who authored “Commentary on the Dream of Scipio” was a key figure in introducing and popularizing this Ciceronian literary plot for posterity. On Macrobius’s life very little is known with certainty. M.S. Petrova’s short biography of Macrobius offers all information on him and his writings that is available. The Commentary, however, had a lasting impact and is discussed in a number of academic studies. Most of these studies highlight the platonic heritage in Macrobius’s thought. V. Stahl emphasizes that the Commentary served the principal source of knowledge about Platonism in the Latin West in the Middle Ages. The chapters of Macrobius’s Commentary translated below include his defense of Plato’s doctrine of the auto-motion of the soul and his refutation of Aristotle’s criticism of this platonic doctrine

Wale Babe Di Manado (Paradoks: the Beginning of the End)

Dalam tradisi Minahasa, Wale (rumah) adalah kosmos terkecil dimana kehidupan berawal dari situ. rumah merupakan ruang hidup, ruang belajar dan pembentuk integritas manusia-manusia Minahasa. Rumah menjadi bagian intergral antara manusia, alam dan sang pencipta. Barang bekas (Babe) adalah salah satu produk alternatif untuk pemenuhan kebutuhan manusia, disamping harganya yang terjangkau kualitasnya masih bisa bersaing. Permasalahanya adalah belum adanya wadah yang mampu memfasilitasi hal tersebut. Disamping pandangan masyarakat terhadap barang bekas yang masih lekat dengan stigma negatif. Keterampilan untuk mengolahnya menjadi produk ekonomi yang berkualitaspun masih minim. Wale Babe hadir sebagai solusi dari permasalahan tersebut. Menjadi jembatan antara gaya hidup masyarakat Manado yang “bergengsi tinggi” dan pemberian nilai pada barang bekas. Pendekatan Paradoks; The Beginning of the End sabagai upaya penyadartahuan masyarakat untuk Mawale, serta penyadartahuan bahwa manusia dan barang dapat sewaktu-waktu rusak, menjadi bekas dan kehilangan nilai namun selalu ada alasan untuk kembali memperbaiki semua itu. Proses Perancangan terdiri dari dua tahap. Tahap pertama adalah Pengembangan Wawasan Komprehensif yang menekankan pada kedalaman kompilasi, analisis dan sintesis tentang Wale Babe, Paradoks dan Tapak Perencanaan, Sedangkan tahap kedua adalah Transformasi Desain dengan tiga siklus konteks penekanan yaitu Tema, Fungsi dan Lokasi. Masing-masing siklus memiliki metode dan strategi khusus namun tetap berkesinambungan. Penerapan tema Paradoks; The Beginning of the End menjadi harapan terciptanya wadah baru berupa bangunan komersil yang juga berfungsi sebagai ruang sosial yang dinamis dan edukatif. Pembentukan persepsi lewat permainan bentuk, kemisteriusan ruang dalam dan ruang luar menjadi kombinasi yang ideal untuk membahasakannya dalam konsep arsitektural. Begitu pula dengan kontraversi pemilihan lokasi, lahan yang di nilai eksklusif dan mahal dianggap tidak cocok untuk objek yang menawarkan barang bekas, menjadi tantangan konsep arsitektural bekerja, serta menjadi pembuktian bahwa arsitektur dapat menjadi jembatan antara persepsi dan pengkotak-kotakan ekonomi dan status sosial. Bangunan komersil yang menawarkan barang bekas serta konsep rumah sebagai lokasi bisnis bukan merupakan hal baru, namun konsep “ruang hidup yang menghidupkan” adalah sebuah “ke-baru-an” konsep yang ditawarkan, Wale (rumah) menjadi ruang interaksi sosial, ruang edukasi, ruang spiritual, ruang perenungan dan ruang kreatif

The Authentic Voice: Digital stories and the organization

The cultivating compassion project set out to represent and celebrate compassionate practice within local NHS Trusts by creating compassion digital stories for educational purposes. A key project aim was to capture and build on existing practice in order to develop compassionate culture within the organization. The project took an appreciative inquiry approach, which considers that the creative process of storytelling can facilitate a ‘collective imagination’ that can become constructive in making possible change and improvement within and for the organization. Six stories from three separate NHS trusts were created for the toolkit and have successfully been used to raise awareness of compassion. However, these stories are very different from other digital stories. This paper asks why? It explores the impact on the choice of story, the narration of the story and the images used when the stories are specifically created for educational purposes and are considered to represent examples of compassionate care for professional practice development. The paper suggests that the authentic voice can be lost when stories become incorporated into the organizational discourse. Thus, rather than the stories enabling a ‘collective imagination’ they can become representative of prescribed organizational norms. However, the paper argues that despite this, the value of the stories in facilitating discussing and learning remains because within the organizational context when these prescribed norms are brought to life through the medium of the digital stories, they can be challenged.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Using appreciative inquiry to develop, implement and evaluate a multi-organisation ‘Cultivating Compassion’ programme for health professionals and support staff

The ‘Cultivating Compassion’ project was developed in response to a research and innovation call relating to compassion training for National Health Service staff in the South East of England. The project aims included the following: the use of Appreciative Inquiry to develop, implement and evaluate a sustainable and evidence-based programme of compassion awareness training through engaging with a diverse group of health professionals and support staff; an evaluation of a ‘train the trainers’ approach; and an evaluation of ‘compassion lead’ roles and a multi-modal compassion toolkit. The project team included academics from two universities and one medical school, NHS staff from three separate organisations and service users. The participants recruited to the study included doctors, nurses, receptionists, chaplains and others working in close contact with service users from within four NHS organisations in the South East of England. The main findings from the project using thematic analysis from participant focus groups and interviews identified project enablers and inhibitors, the value of project resources, and shifts in perspectives. Project conclusions highlighted the importance of effective senior-level support and organisational leadership in cultivating compassion within a healthcare organisation and the importance of the integration of compassion-promoting resources within existing staff development initiatives

Editorial: the anxiety of caring and the devaluing of nursing

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Der christliche Osterglaube : Predigt gehalten am Ostersonntage 1868

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Dein Reich komme! : Predigt zum funfzigjährigen Jubiläum der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat, am 12. December 1852

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