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Social Work Abolitionism in the Midst of the Hong Kong Protests
No full text2019 was a historic year for political struggle in Hong Kong. What had begun as protests against a bill that would allow for the extradition of activists and labour organizers to the mainland Chinese criminal justice system, transformed into a broader movement against authoritarianism and policing. A praxis embodying social work abolitionism has emerged in this context, with growing recognition that social service and healthcare sectors are closely intertwined with policing in Hong Kong and are in no way neutral bodies. This recognition has led to abolitionist solutions. Mutual aid practices have been highly visible in the protest movement, from protest supply stations to aunties sneaking into occupation sites to cook food for student protesters. The distrust of hospitals has led to the development of underground clinics, and activists have sheltered and cared for children kicked out of homes due to political differences with their families, creating networks of politicized chosen families. These seeds of abolitionism that have emerged in Hong Kong show that challenges to the carceral system are not exclusive to the West and social work abolitionist analysis and activism cannot be limited in geographic scope.
Keywords: Abolitionism, Social Work Abolitionism, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Protest
Defeasible Reasoning in Islamic Legal Theory
No full textThere is a common understanding among logicians today that nonmonotonic types of reasoning, such as defeasible or presumptive, can clearly warrant a rational acceptance of its conclusion. Recognition of the significance and legitimacy of these forms of arguments, which were considered for long as fallacious, is believed to be very recent and many logicians tended to reject any discussions around it within the tradition of logic after Aristotle. In contrast, Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), since medieval age, has recognised the validity and importance of non-deductive forms of reasoning, analysed the structures of such arguments and demonstrated how the conventionally understood fallacies are not essentially fallacies. Qiyās – generally represents analogical reasoning – is taken here as a case of defeasible reasoning in Islamic argumentation. This paper will show through works of two emblematic medieval Muslim jurist-logicians, al-Juwainī and al-Ghazzālī, that understanding the legitimacy and the structure of non-deductive forms of arguments is at the core of Islamic legal theories (usūl al-fiqh), and that they recognised its legitimacy and proposed a dialectical method (jadal) of approaching it.
Les logiciens comprennent généralement que les types de raisonnement non monotones peuvent justifier l’acceptation rationnelle des conclusions. L’importance et la légitimité de ces formes d’arguments, qui ont longtemps été considérées comme fallacieuses, ont été controversées parmi les logiciens de la tradition logique aristotélicienne. En revanche, la jurisprudence islamique (fiqh) a depuis longtemps reconnu l’importance des formes de raisonnement non déductives et a démontré que les sophismes conventionnellement compris ne sont pas essentiellement des sophismes. Le qiyās – qui représente généralement le raisonnement analogique – est un exemple de raisonnement réfutable dans l’argumentation islamique. Je montre à travers les travaux de deux juristes-logiciens musulmans médiévaux emblématiques, al-Juwainī et al-Ghazzālī, que la compréhension de la légitimité des formes d’arguments non déductives est au cœur des théories juridiques islamiques (usūl al-fiqh), qui ont proposé une méthode d’approche dialectique (jadal)
Fred Thomas in Baseball
No full textBest known for his skills on the basketball court, Fred Thomas also made significant contributions to baseball history as the first Black player to play in the Eastern League in 1948. Active in the Windsor and Detroit areas, Fred Thomas’s baseball story deepens our understanding of cross-border baseball history and how the desegregation of baseball in the US played out in Canada.Mieux connu pour ses talents sur le terrain de basketball, Fred Thomas a également contribué de manièresignificative à l’histoire du baseball en étant le premier joueur noir à jouer dans la ligue Eastern en 1948.Actif dans les régions de Windsor et de Detroit, la carrière de baseball de Fred Thomas nous permet de mieuxcomprendre l’histoire du baseball transfrontalier et les effets de la déségrégation du baseball aux États-Unis surle baseball canadien
Cet obscure object du désir (philosophique)
No full textThis paper is a response to H. Siegel’s “Arguing with Arguments” from a rhetorical perspective on argumentation. First I address Siegel’s concept of ‘argument in its abstract propositional sense’ and attempt to show that it is not at all an obvious object that should unquestionably be the privileged focus of argumentation theory. I then defend C. W. Tindale’s rhetorical perspective on argumentation against some of Siegel’s misreadings and also some of his legitimate disagreements regarding the relations between persuasion and rational justification and the way we should understand the source of argumentative normativity.Cet article est une réponse à « Arguing with Arguments » de H. Siegel d’un point de vue rhétorique sur l’argumentation. J’aborde d’abord le concept siegelien d’« argument dans son sens propositionnel abstrait » et tente de montrer qu’il ne s’agit pas du tout d’un objet évident qui devrait incontestablement être le centre privilégié de la théorie de l’argumentation. Je défends ensuite la perspective rhétorique de C. W. Tindale sur l’argumentation contre certaines erreurs de lecture de Siegel ainsi que contre certains de ses désaccords légitimes concernant les relations entre persuasion et justification rationnelle et la manière dont nous devrions comprendre la source de la normativité argumentative
As Syllable from Sound: Evaluating Auditory Arguments
No full textAbstract: This paper addresses the prob-lem of how to identify and evaluate argu-ments made in a nonverbal form. Such arguments may employ images, sounds, or a combination of these in a truly mul-timodal presentation. Here, we concen-trate on those which are classified as au-ditory, i.e. contain at least one premise or the conclusion in sound form. We pro-pose and test a solution whereby some el-ements of the Comprehensive Assess-ment Procedure for Natural Argumenta-tion (CAPNA) are modified to allow for the evaluation of auditory arguments. The results of this approach are illus-trated with the help of a number of au-thentic examples.
Résumé: Cet article aborde le problème de la façon d\u27identifier et d\u27évaluer les ar-guments présentés sous une forme non verbale. De tels arguments peuvent uti-liser des images, des sons ou une com-binaison de ceux-ci dans une présenta-tion véritablement multimodale. Ici, nous nous concentrons sur les arguments classés comme auditifs, c\u27est-à-dire qui contiennent au moins une prémisse ou la conclusion sous forme sonore. Nous pro-posons et testons une solution dans laquelle certains éléments de la procédure d\u27évaluation globale de l\u27argu-mentation naturelle (CAPNA) sont mod-ifiés pour permettre l\u27évaluation des ar-guments auditifs. Les résultats de cette approche sont illustrés à l’aide de nom-breux exemples authentiques
Creating Spaces of Engagement: Exploring High School Youth’s Voices in Reshaping the Social Justice Curriculum
No full textThe current structure of formal education makes it difficult for teachers and students to hold meaningful conversations to support high-school youth’s meaning-making of critical social-justice issues. This paper presents data on three high-school youth’s knowledge and experiences with social justice issues during the pandemic. Specifically, the paper aims to explore how youth construct knowledge and counter dominant discourses through utilizing informal learning spaces, such as social media platforms, peer and family conversations, as well as personal encounters. In addition, and more importantly, an exploration of how formal education can incorporate social-justice issues into the curriculum is considered. The analysis of these high school youth’s interview conversations presents their diverging needs to learn about social-justice topics in both formal and informal learning contexts. The data also illustrates the power of their voices in a way that could inform future curriculum development. Discussions and implications highlight the possibility of creating such ethical spaces in formal education to engage in social-justice topics
The impact of virtual or blended learning on sense of belonging in first-year undergraduate health sciences students enrolled in an inquiry-based course
No full textLiterature suggests post-secondary students felt disengaged and socially isolated while learning virtually, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we explored whether a sense of belonging is differentially achieved in an inquiry-based course between two different delivery formats: virtual and blended (combination of virtual and in-person). Our primary measurement instrument was a modified version of the 26-item Sense of Belonging-Revised Scale, which we distributed to all first-year health sciences students enrolled in an Inquiry course at [institution name removed for blinding purposes] University during the 2021-2022 school year. Data analyses revealed no statistically significant difference between the two groups across the four subscales of the Sense of Belonging-Revised Scale: perceived peer support, perceived classroom comfort, perceived isolation, and perceived faculty support. As promoting community is a core skill in our Inquiry course, this may have reduced the perceived difference between the two groups. Future directions include exploring facilitators’ perceptions and experiences across course delivery formats. 
Remembering Amy Rossiter: The Governing Effects of Self-Esteem Knowledge on Social Work Practice
No full textAmy Rossiter has long called our attention to the governing effects of social work knowledge (i.e., how it directs both discursive thinking and the daily actions of people). For her, knowledge itself is neither neutral nor true but is produced and maintained by discourse that defines what is considered acceptable and true. The production of knowledge is a relation of power; therefore, social work knowledge itself should be a topic of scrutiny. Taking her argument to heart, we seek to show how the governing effects of knowledge discursively operates in a practice setting, using a pilot program training manual designed to help East Asian Canadian immigrants to build self-esteem as a case example. Instead of viewing the training manual as having discovered some truths regarding the nature of self-esteem, we take it as knowledge that reflects the dominant discourse of self-esteem that is constituted historically, materially, and discursively. In so doing, we attempt to show how the concept of self-esteem is produced and how it organizes and governs social work practice
Melting Pedagogies in Times of Despair: Engaging With and Through Rossiter’s Ethics
No full textAmy Rossiter’s body of work has had profound pedagogical and theoretical impacts on the lives and work of the authors of this paper. Using a relational methodology with letters as a starting point, we interview each other about Rossiter’s impact on each of us, and continue this engagement with letters throughout the article. With particular focus on despair in the classroom, we extend Rossiter’s contributions in conversation with Cvetkovich, Ahmed, and other queer and critical affect theorists to think through how to encounter that despair with the use of “melting pedagogies.” We illustrate some of the ways that we try to facilitate this melting, knowing that this work is always partial, contingent, and located in our own practices in the context of despair and hope. We finally consider what scholars and educators can learn and who they can become through ongoing and deliberate engagement with Rossiter’s deep and incisive contributions to ethics and a commitment to social justice