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Provocation and Diminished Capacity in Nordic Criminal Law: Two Rationales for Mitigating Crimes of Violence Committed in an Agitated State of Mind
Full text linkOne of the key distinctions when assessing crimes of violence, such as intentional homicide and assault, is that between acts committed in ‘cold’ and ‘hot blood’. The last term refers to acts committed in an intense emotional state, usually in response to a perceived insult from the victim. In the penal codes of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, mainly two types of mitigating circumstances are associated with these acts. These mitigating circumstances can be referred to as ‘provocation’ and ‘diminished capacity’. In this article, the division between these two types of different provisions is challenged through an analysis of their rationale. Finnish criminal law is presented as an alternative to making the distinction. The article’s analysis highlights the underlying psychological and moral assumptions about emotions and violence on which these provisions on mitigating circumstances are built
Governmental regulations for outpatient surgery
No full textI 2020 ble bortimot 70% av alle kirurgiske inngrep i Norge utført som dagkirurgi. Ved dagkirurgi kommer pasienten til sykehuset og reiser hjem samme dag, og pasienten er sin egen sykepleier før og etter operasjonen.
Denne artikkelen handler om hvordan den norske regjeringen har posisjonert seg til dagkirurgi. Artikkelen er basert på analyser av regjeringsdokumenter om dagkirurgi fra perioden 1995-2020. Den franske sosiologen Pierre Bourdieu sin praktikkteori og praxeologiske konstruksjoner av regjeringsdokumentenes habitus, er brukt som analytiske verktøy.
Analysene viser at den dominerende argumentasjonen i regjeringsdokumentene handler om at dagkirurgi er kostnads- og ressursbesparende. Argumenter som at dagkirurgi kan være et gode for pasientene, benyttes for å legitimere gjeldende praksis.
Regjeringens argumentasjon for mer dagkirurgi er i samsvar med selvhjelpsideologien som oppstod i sykepleiefaget på 1960-tallet og med LEON-prinsippet som oppstod på 1970-tallet, om omsorg på lavest mulig omsorgsnivå. Argumentasjonen samsvarer også med New Public Management-ideologien som fikk innpass i offentlig sektor i Norge på 1990-tallet.This article researches how the Norwegian welfare state legitimizes outpatient surgery in Norwegain hospitals. The article is based on a master thesis that investigated how the Norwegian government positions towards outpatient surgery by analyzing governmental documents from 1995 to 2020 (Dahl, 2020). Outpatient surgery is a very relevant and standardized form of organizing surgical treatment, and relies on the patient\u27s ability to be their own nurse before and after surgery.
The article is based on an assumption that strategies for efficiency have been a central part of the increasing prevalence of outpatient surgery the last 20 years. The article is based on the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) theory on practices and praxeological analysis
Through the analysis of the governmental documents, we found that the Norwegian government uses different arguments when positioning towards outpatient surgery. First the government argues that patients benefit from outpatient surgery. Still, the dominating arguments found in the documents is that outpatient is cost-efficient and saves resources. Governmental regulations about outpatient surgery were first found in 1995, which is at the same time New Public Management was implemented in the Norwegian healthcare system. The increase of outpatient surgery can be seen in context with the development in management in public healthcare in the same time period
«Watching with others»: En undersøkelse av postkort som kritikkformat og -metode
Full text linkThis article looks at empirical data produced in a workshop model for criticism for young people who have seen performing arts through the national art program The Cultural Schoolbag (TCS). The participants explore and communicate their performing arts’ experiences through texts and drawing on postcards. This study uses an extended concept/definition of performing arts and performance (Fischer-Lichte, 2014; Reason, 2010; Sauter, 2006), as well as an extended definition of criticism (Martin, 2016; Rogoff, 2004; 2008; Schmidt, 2018) and focuses on the social aspects of the performing arts experience. In this article , I propose the postdad as a method and as a format for criticism that invites for co-creation, creative and performative writing and assessment where the entire performing arts experience is included. Who do the participants address through the cards, and what positions of sender does the postcard open up for? What social relationships come to light or shape the cards? What kind of criticism can the postcard be
Health Musicking Technology: Using the iPad® as a Health Resource in Adolescent Mental Health Care
No full textThe purpose of this article is to contribute more knowledge about digital technology in music therapy and public health, focusing on portable tablet technology. The article presents the findings from a multiple case study in which four adolescent outpatients from a mental health institution for children and adolescents participated in an iPadbased music workshop. The empirical data is sourced from qualitative interviews and participatory observation conducted during the workshop. The analysis suggests that the activity of making music with an iPad establishes and develops social relations, promotes self-esteem, and develops identity, enhances subjective wellbeing, and aids in dealing with daily life problems. Furthermore, it is suggested that the activity has value in terms of affording co-creation, strengthening agency, and building self-efficacy. The discussion includes reflections and critique concerning health-affordance, health musicking, and identity, and it argues for the benefits of using digital music technology with adolescents in mental health care
Navigating Uncertainty: A Music-Based, Insight-Oriented, Online Group Process for Early Career Researchers During the Global Pandemic
No full textThis report describes a music-based, insight-oriented, online group program for supporting the wellbeing of early career researchers during the global pandemic. A substantial body of research illuminates the wellbeing challenges faced by university students, notably PhD researchers. This context, coupled with the author’s significant experience and leadership roles within a tertiary research and teaching environment, and with a key responsibility for student wellbeing, led to the opportunity to conceive of a novel online program designed specifically for PhD researchers. Students were invited to engage in an 8 week, online group program, incorporating a range of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches influenced by the author’s specific experiences as a music therapist, Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) therapist, lecturer and transformational coach. The use of self-revealing storytelling, alongside guided, creative, experiential activities, with a strong emphasis on music listening was fundamental to supporting participants in recognising both the shared nature of the external conditions they were grappling with as early career researchers, as well as the internal barriers to personal flourishing that they might benefit from understanding. Evaluation of the group involved narrative feedback through participant self-report in week four of the program, with typical feedback including descriptions of how the group afforded reconnection with their research aspirations, perspective and insight into their current personal challenges and strategies for better supporting oneself. Although this program was created specifically to respond to unexpected conditions, some aspects may be useful for future program design
Anteckningar om klasser, klassmedvetenhet och gender hos Marx enligt Göran Therborn och Erik Olin Wright jämfört med Pierre Bourdieu
Full text linkArtikeln innehåller en rad systematiska anteckningar om klasser, klassmedvetenhet och gender hos Marx enligt Göran Therborn och Erik Olin Wright, jämfört med Bourdie
Das Betreten des Ambientes: Eine performative kollaborative Autoethnographie über die Improvisation von Musiktherapeut*innen mit digitalen Musiktechnologien
No full textSeit den 1980er Jahren besteht ein Interesse an den klinischen Vorteilen und Herausforderungen des Einsatzes digitaler Musiktechnologie in der Musiktherapie. Dennoch gibt es immer noch wenig Informationen über die Erlebnispotentiale digitaler Musiktechnologien unter Beziehungsaspekten, psychodynamischen und ökologischen Gesichtspunkten. Der Ambient-Modus des Seins stellt einen heuristischen Ansatz für das klinische Hören beim Einsatz digitaler Musiktechnologie dar. Eine Gruppe von vier Musiktherapeut:innen hat die performative kollaborative Autoethnographie eingesetzt, um ihre gemeinsame Erfahrung des Eintauchens in den Ambient-Modus bei der Improvisation mit digitalen Musiktechnologien zu verstehen. Sieben Videoausschnitte aus sechs verschiedenen Improvisationssitzungen wurden ausgewählt, um dieses Thema und seine Auswirkungen auf die Arbeit von Musiktherapeut:innen zu untersuchen. Im Einklang mit den Werten der performativen kollaborativen Autoethnographie werden die Ergebnisse und die Diskussion dieser Studie als ein Dialog zwischen den Forschenden präsentiert. Die Erfahrung jedes Gruppenmitglieds beim Betreten des Ambientes war einzigartig. Dennoch teilten sie eine gemeinsame Ehrfurcht vor der Art und Weise, wie sie in der Lage waren, einen Ambient-Raum mit Hilfe digitaler Musiktechnologie zu schaffen, die als Co-Agent innerhalb ihres Gruppenprozesses fungierte. Die Gruppenmitglieder diskutieren klinische Implikationen für diese Forschung, einschließlich der Vorteile, Herausforderungen und der Rolle von Geschlecht/Identität beim Einsatz digitaler Musiktechnologien.Since the 1980s, there has been an interest in the clinical benefits and challenges with the use of digital music technology in music therapy, yet there is still little information about the experiential potentialities of digital music technologies from relational, psychodynamic, and ecological frameworks. The ambient mode of being presents a heuristic approach to clinical listening when using digital music technology. Performative collaborative autoethnography was utilized by a group of four music therapy clinicians who wanted to understand their shared experience of entering the ambient while improvising using digital music technologies. Seven video excerpts from six different improvisation sessions were chosen to explore this topic and its implications for being a music therapy clinician. In keeping with the values of performative collaborative autoethnography, the results and discussion of this study are presented as a dialogue between the researchers. Each group members’ experience of entering the ambient was unique, but they shared a common reverence for how they were able to create an ambient space using digital music technology, which acted as a co-agent within their group process. The group members discuss clinical implications for this research including the benefits, challenges, and the role of gender/identity when using digital music technologies
From “Climate Change” to “Climate Crisis”? : Analyzing Changes in Global News Nomenclature from 1996 to 2021
No full textClimate change is one of the core challenges of humankind – and legacy news media continue to be important sources of information about the issue for many people around the globe. Accordingly, how news media portray climate change is important for public awareness and perceptions of the issue. The labeling of the topic – which may rely on more neutral terms like “climate change” or “global warming” or more alarming terms like “climate crisis”, “climate emergency” or “global heating” – is an important facet in this respect. In step with the increasing importance of the issue, outlets such as the British “Guardian” have switched to these more urgent terms in their coverage of climate change. But it is unclear, so far, how pronounced this switch is, and which media have followed suit. Relying on an automated content analysis of climate change coverage from 16 news outlets in eight countries around the world between 1996 and 2021 (N = 89,887), our study investigates the use and proliferation of “climate change compounds” such as “climate crisis”, “global heating”, or “global warming” used to describe the phenomenon. We find that news media still use neutral terms – especially “climate change” – more often than alarming labels. However, the use of the latter has increased strongly since 2019, presumably due to country-specific events and changes in editorial guidelines of national outlets
Heart of the Country
No full textHow can we create a world that will offer our children wisdom, humanity, responsibility and hope? Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural village school in Hokkaido, Japan, passionately believes he knows the way - by giving children a moral compass to guide their lives, by educating their hearts as wells as their minds. Heart of the Country takes time - a full calendar year, to follow the life of this extraordinary man and the families and children he has dedicated himself to. It is also the story of the village of Kanayama, a rural farming community bound together by love for its children and a deep respect for learning. Parents, elders and leaders of this once impoverished town have been tempered by the long journey through the cultural upheaval of postwar Japan. They embrace Principal Yasutomo’s vision of hope for the future, but not without wary glances back to the past.
Produced in collaboration with the community of Kanayama, Hokkaido and the Hokkaido University of Education Japan
Fish On!
No full textThe Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is a film about the Indian tribes of the river ecosystem – what the Klamath means to them and how they draw on traditional and modern resources to restore its strength, beauty and balance.
The film focuses on the Klamath River and the Indian tribes of the lower basin - the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk. Yet this story has implications for any number of river ecosystems and indigenous peoples around the world. Through the Indian tribes of the Lower Klamath, the film reminds us how the health of a people and the health of its lands are integrally linked