Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis

Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004404589

Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis presents research on contemporary forms of decolonization and anti-colonialism in practice. It pertains to the ways in which individuals, groups, and communities engage with the logic of epistemic colonial power within areas of citizenship, migration, education, Indigeneity, language, land struggle, and social work. The contributions in this edited volume empirically document the conceptual and bodily engagement of racialized and violated individuals and communities as they use anti-colonial principles to disrupt criminalizing institutional discourses and policies within various global imperial contexts. The terms ‘Decolonization’ and ‘Anti-colonialism’ are used in diverse and interdisciplinary academic perspectives. They are researched upon and elaborated in necessary ways in the theoretical literature, however, it is rare to see these principles employed in applied forms. Decolonization and Anti-colonial Praxis provides a much needed contemporary and representative reclamation of these concepts from the standpoint of racialized communities. It explores the frameworks and methods rooted in their indigeneity, cultural history and memories to imagine a new future. The research findings and methodological tools presented in this book will be of interdisciplinary interest to teachers, graduate students and researchers. Contributors are: Harriet Akanmori, Ayah Al Oballi, Sevgi Arslan, Jacqueline Benn-John, Lucy El-Sherif, Danielle Freitas, Pablo Isla Monsalve, Dionisio Nyaga, Hoda Samater, Rose Ann Torres, Umar Umangay, and Anila Zainub.

Towards an Intelligent State

Towards an Intelligent State
Author: Bernardo Kliksberg
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781586031909

Explores the role that the State can play in relation to new social challenges. Includes discussions of community participation in development, the role of social and cultural capital in the development process and approaches to efficient social management. Suggests a move away from an omnipotent or minimal State towards a more integral one. Highlights the role the State can play in overcoming inequities and analyses the specific case of Latin America.

LEV

LEV
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 990
Release: 1999
Genre: Catalogs, Publishers'
ISBN:

Occupational Therapy Without Borders

Occupational Therapy Without Borders
Author: Frank Kronenberg
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This book challenges occupational therapists to more fully realise the profession's social vision of a more just society where disability, old age and other marginalising conditions and experiences are addressed. The book explores the new idea of occupational apartheid.

Sustaining Civil Society

Sustaining Civil Society
Author: Philip Oxhorn
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2015-08-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0271056614

“South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust.” This statement by Ricardo Lagos, then president of Chile, at the Summit of the Americas in January 2004 captures nicely the dilemma that faces Latin American countries in the wake of the transition to democracy that swept across the continent in the last two decades of the twentieth century. While political rights are now available to citizens at unprecedented levels, social and economic rights lag far behind, and the fledgling democracies struggle with long legacies of poverty, inequality, and corruption. Key to understanding what is happening in Latin America today is the relationship between the state and civil society. In this ambitious book, Philip Oxhorn sets forth a theory of civil society adequate for explaining current developments in a way that such controversial neoconservative theories as Francis Fukuyama’s liberal triumphalism or Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” cannot. Inspired by the rich political sociology of an earlier era and the classic work of T. H. Marshall on citizenship, Oxhorn studies the process by which social groups are incorporated, or not, into national socioeconomic and political development through an approach that focuses on the “social construction of citizenship.”

A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy

A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy
Author: Nick Pollard
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0702037028

This challenging and innovative book explores the political aspects of occupational therapy. It looks at how practitioners may develop political awareness in order to aid community development. A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy is about maximizing the potential impact of occupational therapists' engagements and ensuring the profession is working towards the contruction of a civic society. It is supported by twelve chapters of practice examples from the UK, US, Georgia and Australia, as well as a history of the profession as an agency for social change. It asks: - How is it possible to introduce the political into a profession that is linked to health and social care? - What form could political practice take, and how could the political components of practice be analyzed and evaluated? It includes significant theoretical chapters on gender, class and sexuality, challenges to holism, occupational literacy, and a discussion of political competence. This book will be of particular use for students exploring community and emerging role settings, client centred practice, occupational and social justice and the theoretical base of the profession. From an editorial team that is widely recognized for their challenges to traditional thought and practice in occupational therapy, this book will be of value not just to occupational therapists but also those employed in health profession management and development, and community based rehabilitation.