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Get PDFDenne artikel er en opfølgning på casebeskrivelsen ”Kampen om den organisatoriske selvfortælling” (find den her: https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/SiS/article/download/5567/6184), hvor der blev stillet en række en række spørgsmål til læserne. Artiklen her giver en række mulige svar på de stillede spørgsmål, samt en kort gennemgang af den teori, der fører frem til de givne svar
Entangled Histories of Assimilation: Dillon S. Myer and the Relocation of Japanese Americans and Native Americans (1942–1953)
Get PDFDillon S. Myer (1891–1982) has been framed as the lone villain in incarcerating and dispersing the Japanese Americans during WWII (as director of the War Relocation Authority) and terminating and relocating Native American tribes in the 1950s (as Commissioner of Indian Affairs). This view is almost solely based on the 1987 biography Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism by Richard Drinnon. Little more has been written about Myer and his views, and a comprehensive comparison of the programs is yet to be published. This article compares the aims of the assimilation and relocation policies, especially through Myer’s public speeches. They paint a picture of a bureaucrat who was committed to his job, who held strongly onto the ideals of Americanization and assimilation, and who saw “mainstream” white American culture as something for all to strive after, but who was hardly an utter racist
“I Take Everything Back That I Said”: Ambivalence and Motherhood in Mildred Pierce
Get PDFThis article discusses motherhood in James M. Cain’s Mildred Pierce (1941). It argues that academic criticism so far has neglected the important contribution Cain’s text makes to debates concerning motherhood norms in the post-Depression years. The article takes as its central concern the fraught relationship between Mildred and her daughter, Veda. Building on Sianne Ngai’s theory of “ugly feelings,” the article claims that Mildred’s ambivalent emotional responses to her daughter reveal how social norms obstruct mothers’ agency. Rather than categorically rejecting Veda’s bad behavior, Mildred’s anger, pain, fear, and jealousy are retracted immediately after they surface. As such, Mildred’s maternal emotions are ambivalent and should be perceived as ugly feelings that have the potential to diagnose situations of obstructed agency. This article thus argues for the complexity of Cain’s representation of motherhood and shows how mothers’ ambivalent emotions reveal limited agency in their navigation of social norms
Involvement-based treatment? Intersectionality and affect in substance abuse treatment
No full textArtiklen undersøger, hvordan et socialt behandlingstilbud til unge med rusmiddelproblemer arbejder med det pædagogiske redskab »inddragelse«. Via analyser af et empirisk materiale produceret gennem et feltarbejde på stedet med fokus på de ansatte undersøges det, hvordan inddragende behandling trækker på sociale kategorier. Intersektionalitet anvendes som et analyseblik til at udforske, hvad der bliver mødt som relevant adfærd i behandlingstilbuddet, og hvordan dette knytter sig til sociale kategorier. Her benyttes desuden et affektteoretisk perspektiv til at diskutere, hvordan vrede og modstand interagerer med graden af inddragelse. Gennem to empiriske eksempler illustreres artiklens analytiske pointer. Artiklen tilbyder en empirisk analyse af de kommunikative praksisser, der udspiller sig i behandlingen, og peger på, at graden af inddragelse i vid udstrækning er afhængig af, hvilke sammenvævninger af kategorier der bliver betydningsfulde i de ansattes vurderinger af de unge.This article explores substance abuse treatment for young adults, and focuses on how involvement-based and person-centered treatments are practiced and performed in meetings between the young adults and the therapists. The analysis builds on empirical materials gathered from ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish municipal treatment-institution, and it focuses on a young woman and a young man as it investigates how treatment differs in relation to intersectional processes of social categorizations. Moreover, perspectives on affect are used to discover how anger and resistance are at play in treatment communication. The article concludes that the young adults are positioned in certain client-identities and that these identities are connected to notions of social background, psychiatric diagnoses, resources and gender
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Altering absence: From race to empire in readings of Foucault
Get PDFThis article will address sexuality as a medium of empire, approaching this question through the absence of empire in Foucault’s history of sexuality. This absence of empire is all the more enigmatic given that it coincides with the omnipresence of race. To that extent, I argue for an “alteration of absence” in the reading of Foucault. Acknowledging the paradoxical presence of race--perhaps even its centrality--in Foucault’s analysis of sexuality and liberalism is a necessary step to reveal the depth of another absence, that of empire and coloniality. The article discusses this blind spot in Foucault’s work, arguing that a form of racial distinction operates through sexuality.It attempts to assess how influential this “imperial absence” is to the genealogy of sexuality and race. Lastly, it also sketches some possible reconfigurations of Foucault’s theses when read in colonial or postcolonial contexts
Do Money, Power, Family and Connections Really Matter in Politics? Analysing Factors of Success in the 2010, 2013 and 2016 Philippine Senatorial Elections
Get PDFMyriad debates in electoral politics have drawn attention to the importance of and risks to genuine democracy brought about by factors such as campaign spending, incumbency, political party affiliation and political dynasties. However, only a few studies utilize integrative and multivariate approaches to understanding the contribution of these factors, and this is even rarer for studies on the Philippines of recent times, despite its being among the first and most vibrant democracies in Asia. Examining the relationships to senatorial candidates' total number of votes for the 2010, 2013 and 2016 elections findings reveal overall that total campaign expenditure has a very significant relationship with the number of votes, this being consistent for all of the elections covered by the study. Thus money matters a lot – even when compared with the traditionally highly regarded factors such as incumbency, political dynasty and membership to political parties. This article discusses the results in relation to the socio-political context of the Philippines and provides additional insights and implications of the findings
Institutions as Constraints and Enablers: Changes in Human Resource Management Practices of Foreign Companies during Economic Reform in China
Get PDFThis article demonstrates how the development of labour market institutions alongside economic reform has impacted the human resource management (HRM) practices of foreign companies in China. A historical approach is applied to examine the transformation of China from a centrally planned labour administration system to a market-based labour institution. The HRM practices of foreign companies are seen being embedded in China's macro-institutional environment, which constrains and/or enables foreign companies to exercise people management. Drawing on previous research, the study shows that HRM practices in the early reform period were primarily constrained both by formal and by informal institutions. The evidence from Finnish companies operating in China shows that HRM practices in the late reform period are largely enabled by formal institutions; however, foreign companies face the need for adaptation to the demands of informal institutions. Furthermore, the scarcity of human resources and rapid yet heterogeneous socio-economic development pose additional challenges for people management in China today
Personal Printers and Ink in São Paulo and Recife: Getting New Things Done
Get PDFTeam ethnography for a desktop printer manufacturer in two Brazilian cities on desktop printers and printing is reported here. Our team aimed to resolve an initial puzzle about printers and ink and explored what was going on with the desktop printers as they were acquired, used, and maintained. Our work expanded to encompass the LAN house, small shops, often operated by entrepreneurs, that provide access to the Internet and to printing. The research led to an intrapreneurial modification of a long-standing desktop printer business model by the client. The article concludes by exploring how entrepreneurs (shop owners and teams doing ethnography for hire) and intrapreneurs (those who venture from within a large enterprise) widen the scope of their venturing to encompass wider social and political issues like moral panic, poverty reduction programs, and building social capital in low-income communities in the course of entrepreneurial venturing