301 research outputs found
Angie Thomas in Conversation with Kiese Laymon
No full textIn this session, hosted by Square Books, international phenomenon Angie Thomas talks with author Kiese Laymon about her new book Concrete Rose, which revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give. Thomas’s latest book is a searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood
LA REINTEGRACIÓN SOCIAL DE EX SECUESTRADOS Y DE EX GUERRILLEROS EN COLOMBIA: REPRESENTACIONES SOCIALES, MODELOS DE INTERVENCIÓN Y MATRICES FAMILIARES
No full textLa presente investigación, con un enfoque cualitativo-hermenéutico (utilizando como estrategias el análisis de contenido y la fenomenología interpretativa) explora el fenómeno del conflicto armado colombiano, con un foco especifico en el proceso de reintegración social y de la experiencia subjetiva como ex secuestrados y como ex guerrilleros. Se integra la dimensión polito-social con aquella clínica a partir de tres vértices de análisis:
Estudio 1: Las representaciones sociales, acerca del actual conflicto armado y de las figuras involucradas;
Estudio 2: Los principales modelos de intervención, ofrecidos por dos de las organizaciones que trabajan directamente con ex secuestrados (Fundación País Libre) y con personas desmovilizadas de grupos subversivos (Agencia Colombiana para la Reintegración, ACR).
Estudio 3: Las matrices familiares y sus principales recursos relacionales que han ayudado a los sujetos durante la experiencia como secuestrados o como guerrilleros y durante el regreso a la sociedad. Se analizan los tres ejes de las matrices familiares (los orígenes, el vínculo de pareja y el pasaje generacional -Cigoli & Tamanza, 2009-) y los recursos que pueden alimentar la resiliencia familiar (Walsh 2005).
Los estudios realizados buscan romper con la dicotomía víctima/victimario, trascendido el estudio individual de los implicados y de las repercusiones de los hechos traumáticos en ellos, para explorar dentro de sus relaciones y buscar los recursos existentes en ellas. Se presentan instrumentos útiles para orientar la intervención clínica a favor del proceso de reintegración social. Se presentan a su vez nuevos planteamientos que incluyan un trabajo decidido de las comunidades y de las familias que las conforman, como actores activos y no pasivos y victimizados como hasta ahora han sido tratados.La presente ricerca, con un approccio qualitativo-ermeneutico, esplora il fenomeno del conflitto armato colombiano, con un focus specifico sul processo di reintegrazione sociale e sull’esperienza soggettiva come ex sequestrati e come ex guerriglieri. La ricerca consente un’esplorazione in profondità, integrando la dimensione politico-sociale con quella clinica, lasciando alla luce tre vertici d’analisi;
Studio 1: le rappresentazioni sociali intorno alle figure di vittime e di carnefice e alle dinamiche relazionali del conflitto armato colombiano;
Studio 2: l’approccio, i metodi e le tecniche di lavoro degli operatori che si occupano di reintegrazione sociale di ex sequestrati (nella Fondazione País Libre) e di ex guerriglieri (nell’Agenzia Colombiana per la Reintegrazione, “ACR”);
Studio 3: le matrici familiari e i suoi principali risorse relazionali che hanno supportato i soggetti durante la loro esperienza come sequestrati e come guerriglieri e una volta rientrano in società. Sono analizzati i tre assi delle matrici familiari (le origini, i rapporti di coppia e il passaggio generazionale –Cigoli & Tamanza, 2009- e le risorse che possono alimentare la resilienza familiare (Walsh, 2005)
Gli studi cercano di superare la dicotomia vittima/carnefice, che organizza l’opinione pubblica colombiana e le rappresentazioni sociali delle figure di ex-sequestrati (le vittime) ed ex-guerriglieri (i carnefici). I risultati degli studi effettuati possono fornire strumenti utili per orientare l’intervento clinico e favorire il processo di reintegrazione sociale. Si presentano a sua volta nuovi approcci che includono il lavoro decisivo delle comunità e delle famiglie, che si presentano come attori partecipativi e non passivi e vittimizzati come generalmente sono trattati.The current research (with a qualitative-hermeneutic approach) explores the phenomenon of Colombian armed conflict. It is specifically focus on social reintegration process and the subjective experience of ex combatants and ex abducted people.
The study of the phenomenon in its clinical and sociopolitical complexity, articulates three vertices of analysis:
Study 1: Social representations, around the current armed conflict and its involved figures.
Study 2: The principal models of intervention offered by two organizations that work directly with ex abducted people (País Libre Foundation) and with demobilized people from illegal groups (Colombian Agency for Reintegration, “ACR”).
Study 3: Family patterns, and its principal relational resources tan have supported subjects during their experience as abducted or combatants and once their return to society. The three axes of family patterns were explored (the origins, the couple relationship and the generational passage –Cigoli & Tamanza-) and the resources that can support family resilience (Walsh, 2005).
Results break traditional polarization on the lectures around Colombian armed conflict. The present research transcends the individual study of involved participants and of implications of traumatic facts, to explore inside their relationships and resources. New approaches are presented to orientate interventions in clinical psychology that could be helpful to social reintegration process. It is also presented a new approach that includes the decisive role of families and communities as active actors instead of passive and victimized as they have been generally treated
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Alumni Spotlight #7: Life After Loss & The Art of Ghostwriting with Angie Ransome-Jones
No full textPodcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with UNT Alumnus Angie Ransome-Jones, author and ghostwriter for other aspiring writers. Susan and Angie discuss how she channeled the experience of losing her father into a book titled, "Path to Peace: A Guide to Managing Life After Losing a Loved One," and the ways in which the book led to her becoming a ghostwriter. They also discuss her roles in the UNT Black Alumni Network and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women's Dallas chapter
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The path to leadership: Angie Bartoli on her research into becoming a social work manager
No full textIn this inspiring episode of The Social Work Pivot Podcast, Janet sits down with Angie Bartoli, an accomplished social worker, academic, and author of Becoming a Social Work Manager. Drawing on her extensive career and doctoral research, Angie shares valuable insights into the transition from practitioner to manager and how she found her passion in academia
Land, Justice, And Angie Debo Telling The Truth To-And About-Your Neighbors
No full textWhen Angie Debo was an old woman, she lived in her hometown of Marshall, Oklahoma, where she had warm and close ties with her neighbors. She also had a more geographically dispersed network: a list of several hundred people, scattered around the nation, whom she would mobilize to write senators and congressmen, or to the president, on behalf of particular campaigns for Indian rights. She sent the members of her network mimeographed letters and in urgent circumstances made phone calls to them. She got her network geared up to write in support of Alaskan Native land claims, an enlargement of the Havasupai Reservation, and groundwater rights for the Papago or Tohono O\u27odham. She attended closely to events in Marshall and to events all over North America.
After she retired, Angie Debo did some international traveling. She went to Europe, Africa, and Mexico. In Africa she became friends with a woman who took care of her when she got sick; they stayed in touch for the rest of her life, and Angie Debo helped pay for the education of the children of this African woman. Debo traveled to Russia, and there is something very remarkable about the way she had been interested in and preoccupied by Russia since she was a teenager in Oklahoma. During the Vietnam War, Debo found her thoughts repeatedly turning to this tragedy; it seemed to her an extension of what she called America\u27s real imperialism, which had begun with the conquest of Indian people and which relied on an unfortunate trust in military force. Until the United States reckoned with the early history of its imperialismusually called westward expansion or the frontier -it would occupy a morally compromised position, Debo thought, in trying to uplift the world and spread ideals of democracy and justice.1
Angie Debo\u27s interests then were at once very local and very expansive, truly global. Her sense of the world\u27s connectedness is one dimension of a host of qualities that make her an inspiration. She was entirely and committedly Oklahoman, and entirely and committedly human. Contemplating her example truly stirs the soul.
Angie Debo\u27s capacity to inspire is also marked by a zone of mystery. Her courageous campaign to reveal the injustices done to Indian people, to recognize and explore their internal perspectives and experiences, and, generally, to write honestly and realistically about the process of displacement that put white Americans in possession of most of Oklahoma and the American West contains a puzzle: while Debo is best known for this critical and searching perspective on the conquest of North America, on other occasions she wrote in quite a different vein, returning to a much more familiar and conventional celebration of pioneer hardihood and enterprise. This is a paradox.2
In the twenty-first century, I am less able to cruise past this paradox. While a comparison to Jekyll and Hyde would certainly overstate the case, there do seem to be two public-record Angie Debos: Angie Debo #1, the justly famous, often-reprinted, often-cited author, who wrote critically and openly about the cruel, manipulative process of dispossession that made the modern state of Oklahoma possible, and Angie Debo #2, the much less famous, much less reprinted, much less cited author, who wrote cheerfully about pioneer courage and determination and who made and retained an easy peace with the frontier history associated with Frederick Jackson Turner. Angie Debo # 1 is the author of the famous books Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic (1934), And Still the Waters Run (1940), and A History of the Indians of the United States (1970). Angie Debo #2 is also the author of two books, her only novel-Prairie City (1944) and Oklahoma: Foot-loose and Fancy-free (1949)
Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle provides a summary of the information collected by the author from various sources about the location of the Battle of Round Mountain. Angie Debo discusses the debate over its precise location and the work of the Payne County Historical Society
In every grain of sand there is a world : an exhibition by Angie Seah
No full textExhibition catalogue : 08 October - 17 October 2014, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia.
Essay: Kyla McFarlane.
"This Asialinks Arts Residency Project is a collaboration between Asialink, the Art Incubator and Victorian College of the Arts and is supported by Arts Victoria.
Caring in Non-Ideal Conditions: Animal Rescue Organizations and Morally Justified Killing
No full textShelter staff in cash-strapped open-admission shelters are locked into a tragedy that is not of their own making: they are routinely and unavoidably confronted with the tragic choice of either killing animals or failing to care for the animals they are tasked with protecting. Consequently, open-admission shelters regularly kill animals who could, but for the want of more time, money, or a suitable home, have led reasonably good lives. This chapter explains how sometimes shelter workers have a full moral justification to kill an animal for non-euthanasia reasons and yet the animal killed is nonetheless wronged. The author argues that this wrong is perpetrated by the state, which is responsible for the distributive injustice that makes it impossible for shelter workers to rescue and care for all animals in need. Moreover, when shelter workers have justification for non-euthanasia killing, all individuals within the political community are responsible for the wrong done
Deciding on where the jobs go: the role of government in business site location decisions
No full textIn all fifty states and in countless jurisdictions, economic development agencies offer a myriad of financial and tax incentives to private firms under organizational charters to create new jobs, help retain existing jobs, and stimulate economic growth. Prior research results are inconclusive as to the effectiveness of these incentives. Some research concludes that states with strong assets such as a well-educated workforce and a good location are more attractive to employers than financial incentives offered by states. So what is the real attraction? The research addresses the following questions: 1. What factors inform public sector decision-making in business site location selection? 2. What factors inform private sector decision-making in business site location selection? 3. What are the dynamics between the public and private sector during the business site decision-making process? The research was conducted using a dynamic decision-making theory model (Sterman, 1988) to analyze qualitative data capturing discrepancies between public and private sector actors' understanding of the decision-making process. Through secondary data analysis, 8 factors that influenced site location decisions in New Jersey were formalized and applied in a semi-structured guide to interview 27 experts. Each participant expert ranked the 8 decision-making factors that influence their business site location decisions and provided descriptive stories justifying their ranking. Findings indicate that factors influencing business site location selection depend upon a public versus private sector point-of-view. Experts were then asked to clarify their rankings; their responses suggested incongruence in the roles played by public and private sector participants to influence the business site location outcomes. This dynamism between the public and private sectors underscores and helps to explain the initial discrepancies in the factor rankings. Scrutiny suggests a decision-making model operating in three phases: determining strategy options, assessing and evaluating alternatives, and implementing decisions. The private sector is involved in all three phases of the decision-making process, while the public sector is involved only in the implementation phase. The public sector's disproportional role in the business site location decision-making process suggests the need for reinterpretation of government's role in economic development.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Angie E. McGuir
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