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Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore, "Aging Thoughtfully: Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret."
No full text"Breeding Ground for Terrorism:" Constitutional Aspects of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1993-8
No full textThe Northern Ireland peace process is one of the few models for conflict resolution to have produced a demonstrable reduction in paramilitary activity by restructuring society to allow for genuine participation by their political associates. Several scholars have attempted to discern how the developments that occurred during this period convinced loyalist and republican paramilitaries to make previously unimaginable compromises and enter into nonviolent constitutional politics. This article is a departure from previous theories because it focuses on the activities of the Irish and British governments and their acceptance of the fundamental principles of unionist consent and national self-determination. They enshrined these principles into their respective constitutions, demonstrating to Northern Ireland’s warring communities that they had effectively renounced their traditional positions in the conflict and indicated that the constitutional future of Northern Ireland would be determined by its people alone. It examines the interplay between the governments’ activities and the loyalist and republican responses, and finally argues that it was these unique constitutional changes that occurred in the 1990s that enticed the republican and loyalist paramilitaries to end their armed campaigns and to support the political settlement enshrined within the Good Friday Agreement
RESPONSES TO STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE: THE EVERYDAY WAYS IN WHICH QUEER AND TRANS MIGRANTS WITH PRECARIOUS STATUS RESPOND TO AND RESIST THE CANADIAN IMMIGRATION REGIME
No full textThis article examines how the Canadian immigration regime socially organizes the everyday lives of queer and trans migrants with precarious status. Drawing from key findings from an institutional ethnographic study, this article maps out the disjuncture between the actual experiences of queer and trans migrants with precarious status and the ideological and textual production of precarious status by the Canadian state. Making explicit this disjuncture reveals how the Canadian immigration regime enacts structural violence upon queer and trans migrants. This article also engages with the response-based approach to violence in order to understand how queer and trans migrants actively respond to this violence. In doing so, this article highlights the ways in which queer and trans migrants respond and resist the structural violence integral to the Canadian state’s production of precarious status
INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE: UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO PAIN-BASED BEHAVIOUR IN CHILD AND YOUTH CARE WORK
No full textWe are grateful to Dr. Sibylle Artz, Editor of the International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, for the invitation to produce a special issue on pain-based behaviour in child and youth care work. Since the term was created and published in 2002 (Anglin, 2002), the notion has entered the literature, the research, and, perhaps most importantly, the practice of child and youth care internationally. The eight articles in this issue come from Ireland, Australia, the United States, and Canada, and offer a broad range of perspectives.After receiving the invitation to compile this issue, we scanned the recent child and youth care literature and readily identified 13 publications — articles and books — using the term pain-based behaviour. There are undoubtedly many more, however we believed the authors of these publications would present a significant cross-section of perspectives on understanding and responding to pain and pain-based behaviour. We are excited and honoured that the authors represented here were able to contribute articles to this issue
FEEL THE PAIN AND DO IT ANYWAY
No full textThis article is a reflective account of the process of a social care worker’s professional development over a span of 28-years, primarily working within children’s residential care settings. It charts the author’s journey with regard to his ability to cope with anxiety (pain-based fear) and to live “on the edge” in his professional practice. The author’s personal experience as a young boy of the death of his father is identified as having caused pain-based behaviours for the author until such time as he faced the pain of this loss. The traumatic experience then became an asset in his direct work with children and young people in the role of a “wounded healer”. The article introduces the concept of “vicarious confidence” and its critical role in leadership and supervision. Self-care is discussed and the concept of “system-trauma” is identified. The article also discusses the role of magic in social care and links this to neuroscience and brain MRI images. The article highlights the positive role pain can play in enabling workers to connect empathically with hurt children and young people and posits that if we are to care authentically then we must be prepared to experience pain
ADDRESSING PAIN AND PAIN-BASED BEHAVIOURS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN CHILD PROTECTION AND OUT-OF-HOME CARE
No full textIn this paper we discuss the concepts of physical and emotional pain and people’s reactions such as pain-based behaviours. We describe our work with children and young people in the Victorian (Australia) child protection and out-of-home care system who have experienced many painful experiences often resulting in pain-based behaviours. We describe our practice approach with a description of the “PAIN Relief” emotional first aid tool. We highlight implications for practice, and training in response to emotional pain and pain-based behaviours
