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The Merchant Networks of Afghan Sikhs: The Cold War, its Legacies and Beyond
Full text linkThis article documents the migration of Afghanistan’s Sikh communities to Asia and Europe during the Cold War and its aftermath. It analyses these migratory trajectories both in the context of conflict in Afghanistan and the refugee flows it created as well as in relation to the long-term role of Afghan Sikhs in transregional trade. The article argues that exploring Sikh migration from Afghanistan through the twin analytical lenses of trade networks and the Cold War helps to illuminate a more complex range of identities and experiences than allowed for by a singular focus on their status as either ‘refugees’ or migrants from ‘the Global South’
Disaster Citizenship and Solidarity of Informal Groups: A Case Study in Disaster-Affected Villages in Eastern China
Full text linkThis article explores how disaster-affected people respond to state-led disaster governance through the analytical concepts of solidarity and disaster citizenship. This form of governance consists of two aspects: 1) modernisation, involving resettlement for urbanisation and economic recovery as well as modern technology and infrastructure for risk prevention; and 2) moral state, manifested in the state’s demonstration of compassion and its demand of gratitude. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two flood-affected villages, I examine villagers’ responses to the state’s governing of public opinion, resettlement and recovery. The study reveals that villagers contested the government’s control of public opinion by forming communal opinions, resisted resettlement and remade places out of state-designed space for reconstruction in informal groups such as neighbourhoods and kin. Besides existing social ties, villagers built their solidarity with a shared sense of socioeconomic justice rooted in a long tradition of state-society interactions. Their solidarity was enhanced but also undermined by state-led disaster governance. Nonetheless, villagers reinforced and redefined their claims to entitlement and negotiated their autonomy. This article concludes that social practices and experiences of the villagers embody disaster citizenship in rural China through solidarity of informal groups negotiating post-disaster life on their own terms
Danske arbejdspladsers personalehåndtering under Covid-19 med særligt fokus på seniorarbejdskraften
Full text linkEksisterende forskning har allerede belyst, hvordan køns-, etniske og socioøkonomiske uligheder på arbejdsmarkedet er blevet forstærket under covid-19-pandemien. Denne artikel adskiller sig fra den eksisterende forskning derved, at fokus er på alder. Nærmere bestemt rettes blikket mod mulige aldersbetingede forskelle i arbejdsgivernes fastholdelses- og afskedigelsesmønstreunder covid-19-krisen. Teoretisk tager artiklen afsæt i de sociologiske segmenteringsteorier, og empirisk trækker vi på en arbejdspladssurvey, der er gennemført på cirka 5.000 danske arbejdspladser i perioden november 2020 til februar 2021(se SeniorArbejdsLiv.dk). De statistiske analyser viser, at arbejdspladsernes personalehåndtering og brug af støttepakker i høj grad har været betinget af arbejdspladsens økonomiske forhold, og i mindre grad de sociale forhold på arbejdspladserne. Undersøgelsen viser endvidere, at selvom støtteordningerne har fungeret som et bolværk mod afskedigelser, så har støtteordningerneikke forhindret afskedigelser. Blandt de afskedigede har vi yderligere fundet, at der ikke er markante uligheder i de aldersbetingede afskedigelser. På 13 % af arbejdspladserne har seniorerne været overrepræsenteret blandt de afskedigede, medens de 30-54-årige har været overrepræsenteret på 25 % af virksomhederne. 
Pædagogiske omsorgskvaliteter: i kampe med tid
No full textÆldreplejen i Danmark har i adskillige år været udfordret af rekrutterings problemer og har samtidig været skydeskive for kritik af manglende menneskelighed og værdighed i tilgangen til samfundets ældre borgere. De politiske bestræbelser på at modernisere ældreomsorgen har medført en stigning i antallet af pædagoger ansat i den kommunale ældrepleje. Artiklen undersøger, hvilken betydning det får, når en ny profession træder ind i omsorgsarbejdet med ældre. Med afsæt i et forskningsprojekt om pædagogers faglighed i mødet med ældreplejen zoomer artiklen ind på, hvordan praksis formes og erfares i dette dilemmafyldte møde. Analyserne trækker på feltarbejde og belyser, hvordan pædagogers omsorgspraksisser i ældreplejen aftegner en række efterspurgte omsorgskvaliteter, som pædagogerne samtidig må kæmpe for at realisere, blandt andet gennem et arbejde på og med tid. Artiklen belyser således muligheder og problemstillinger i forhåbningerne til en ny professionsgruppes bidrag i en ældrepleje, der i årevis har været domineret af NPM. Afslutningsvis stilles spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt pædagoger som relationsprofession kan fungere som den rambuk, ledelserne ønsker at drive ind i ældreplejen, eller om pædagogers indspil snarere kan betragtes som individualiseredekampe for at få fagpersonlige idealer til at lykkes i en sektor, der trænger til fornyede kræfter til at forløse ideen om velfærdsstatens varme hænder og menneskelige ansigt
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Full text linkPastoral Power, Sovereign Carelessness, and the Social Divisions of Care Work or: What Foucault Can Teach Us about the “Crisis of Care”
Full text linkContemporary thinkers studying biopolitics find little interest in Foucault's "vague sketch of the pastorate”. Described by Foucault as an inherently “benevolent” “power of care”, the concept seems inadequate to describe the deadly forms of carelessness that characterize the current government of life. Sovereign power, as a power of decision over life and death that works by distinguishing populations whose lives are worth affirming from social groups whose lives are not, therefore takes precedence in the examination of the governmental connection between care, violence, and biopolitics. Yet, what we might call the “sovereign turn” in the field of Foucault studies is not without a significant drawback. The focus on the logic of exclusion through which governments “care about” specific groups and “take care of” them, while actively producing subjects that cannot or must not be cared for, often overshadows the analysis of how care is currently given and received. More often than not, the post-Foucauldian critique of governmental concern for life neglects the long-standing feminist critique of how support for life, in the form of care work, has historically been organized along lines of gender, race, and class. In contrast, this article argues that delving into the relationship between pastoral power and governmentality enables the development of a framework that encompass both these critiques, shedding new light on the mechanisms at play in the current “crisis of care”
Genealogy as an Ethic of Self-determination: Husserl and Foucault
Full text linkThe way in which Foucault confronts Husserl helps to highlight the instance that drives Foucauldian research and its current legacy. Foucault inscribes his work through Husserl within a broader tradition, namely, that of the critical thinking that has crossed all of modernity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and up to phenomenology. His main legacy can be identified precisely in the way he relaunches and radicalises this tradition by intensifying its critical gaze.
We will follow the steps of The Crisis of European Sciences to evoke the underlying purposes of Husserl's work, showing how his genealogical analysis of scientific knowledge, as a mix of historically determined practices, is guided by the ethical aim of self-determination. Later we will show how Foucault takes up this instance in a completely original way, and we will analyse which analogies and differences can be traced between the two authors’ approaches to the problem of an individual's self-determination in his relationship with the network of knowledge-power in which he is immersed. In fact, both authors consider that there can be no emancipation and self-determination of the individual without a preliminary historical-critical retrospective on knowledge and on the ways in which its contents have been constituted. But this retrospective, which we could define generically as genealogical (genetic-phenomenological in Husserl's terms), is played out differently by the two authors and implemented by Foucault with a greater degree of radicalism
Power + Fashion
Full text link“Power dressing,” itself a women’s dress reform movement, as it came to be called in the 1970s, used to distinguish typical feminine dress styles and was seen as a necessary strategy for a more subdued image on par with the masculine, serious, and formal professional dress, namely the ubiquitous suit and tie. This new ‘career’ woman became visible by her appearance and choice of dress codes that reinforced her position as a businesswoman who was seriously committed to her work. But from the perspective of the first decades of the new millennium, power dressing and power and fashion have far wider meanings and ramifications. For Michel Foucault, power is a regulatory principle that is used to control social interactions and to impose structures that inform the ways in which we act and appear. In line with Foucault’s analysis, to dress is already to respond to tacit frameworks of power, and because it involves already accepted codes of visualisation and behaviour, to “power dress” is not simply to wield or enact power voluntarily but to succumb to it as well. Further, as this paper will reveal, power dressing can also be understood according to Foucault’s “technologies of self”, which sees the historical subject as both subject and object of a network of discursive forces that are considered normative as opposed to constructed. Power dressing still exists today but according to a more nuanced and multivalent configuration. It can also be thought of as a particular form of renunciation that facilitates an embodiment of power much as religious asceticism and privation is (purportedly) constitutive of a more authentic self.