scholarly journals Community and Communitarianism in Toni Morrison: Restoring the Self and Relating with the Other

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
TaeJin Koh ◽  
Saera Kwak
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Good ◽  
Black Race ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Self Formation

Toni Morrison discusses the rebirth of the entire Black race through self-recovery. However, her novels are not limited to the identity of Black women and people but are linked to a wider community. Morrison might have tried to imagine a community in which Black identity can be socially constituted. In this paper, we discuss the concept of community by examining communitarianism, which is the basis of justice and human rights. Although community is an ambiguous notion in the context of communitarianism, communitarians criticize the abstract conceptualization of human rights by liberal individualists, but also see that human rights are universally applicable to a community as a shared conception of social good. Communitarianism emphasizes the role and importance of community in personal life, self-formation, and identity. Morrison highlights the importance of self-worth within the boundary of community, reclaiming the development of Black identity. In the Nancian sense, a community is not a work of art to be produced. It is communicated through sharing the finitude of others—that is, “relation” itself is the fundamental structure of existence. In this regard, considering Toni Morrison’s novels alongside communitarianism and Nancy’s analysis of community may enable us to obtain a sense of the complex aspects of self and community. For Morrison, community may be the need for harmony and combination, acknowledging the differences and diversity of each other, not the opposition between the self and the other, the center and periphery, men and women. This societal communitarianism is the theme covered in this paper, which deals with the problem of identity loss in Morrison’s representative novels Sula and Beloved and examines how Black individuals and community are formed. Therefore, this study aims to examine a more complex understanding of community, in which the self and relations with others can be formed, in the context of Toni Morrison’s works.

Praktiken und Praxis

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Thomas Alkemeyer
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Discipline Formation ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Embodied Self ◽  
Self Formation

Two forms or rather perspectives of observations appear alongside practice theories: The first perspective can be called the „theatre perspective“: practice here is observed as a regular, spatiotemporally ordered, socially structured, and therefore recognizable historical form of „practical doings and sayings“, in which participants are understood as mere carriers of practices and their bodies as the raw material for processes of formation. In the other perspective, understood as the perspective of the participants themselves, practices come into view as ongoing, conflictual, and contingent accomplishments, in which participants occur as intelligently collaborating contributors with so called „lived bodies“. These bodies are affectable, sites of experience, and media of a sensitivity that allow an embodied self to orientate itself (with)in a practice. This paper proposes a methodological mediation of both perspectives by taking into account both a sociological analysis of discipline, formation, or adjustment, and the reflexive sensing in action, which can be modeled phenomenologically. Thus, a „lived-body-in-accomplishment“ comes into view that serves the material basis of subjectivation procceses, i. e. the (self-)formation of a constitutionally conditioned (political) agency.

scholarly journals Mulheres Negras Evangélicas e o Processo de Autoformação

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Vanessa Maria Gomes BARBOZA ◽  
Ana Paula Abrahamian de SOUZA
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Sono State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Black Evangelicals ◽  
La Red ◽  
Self Formation

RESUMOO presente artigo é parte das análises da pesquisa autobiográfica em educação, movimentos sociais e práticas coletivas, sobre o processo de autoformação das mulheres negras evangélicas ativistas sociais no Brasil. O lócus da investigação é o movimento progressista evangélico, especificamente da recém-criada Rede de Mulheres Negras Evangélicas (2018) das quais fazem parte a pesquisadora as interlocutoras da pesquisa. Por meio do método autobiográfico e das epistemologias feministas construiu-se o caminho metodológico de aproximação e sistematização da realidade, e da analise interpretativa as reflexões das categorias: Experiência, Diálogo e Prática Política sobre as quais se buscou conhecer a importância do movimento social no processo de autoformação das sujeitas da pesquisa. Os resultados indicam uma autoformação comprometida com a mudança social, com a luta antirracista e antissexista, e com a construção de identidades dissidentes em meio ao conservadorismo e fundamentalismo religioso fortemente presente na sociedade brasileira.Autoformação. Negras Evangélicas. Movimento Social. Evangelical Black Women and the Self-Training Process ABSTRACT This article is part of the analysis of autobiographical research on education, social movements and collective practices, about the self-formation process of black evangelical social activists in Brazil. The locus of the investigation is the progressive evangelical movement, specifically the newly created Evangelical Black Women Network (2018) of which the researcher is the interlocutor of the research. Through the autobiographical method and feminist epistemologies, the methodological way of approaching and systematizing reality was constructed, and the interpretative analysis the reflections of the categories: Experience, Dialogue and Political Practice, which sought to know the importance of social movement in the process. self-training of the research subjects. The results indicate a self-formation committed to social change, anti-racist and antisexist struggle, and the construction of dissident identities amidst conservatism and religious fundamentalism strongly present in Brazilian society.Self-training. Black Evangelicals. Social Movement. Mujeres evangélicas negras y el proceso de Auto-FormaciónRESUMENEste artículo es parte del análisis de la investigación autobiográfica en educación, movimientos sociales y prácticas colectivas, sobre el proceso de auto formación de mujeres negras evangélicas activistas sociales en Brasil. El centro de la investigación es el movimiento progresista evangélico, específicamente la Red de Mujeres Negras Evangélicas (2018) recientemente creada, de la cual la investigadora y los interlocutores de investigación forman parte. A través del método autobiográfico y las epistemologías feministas, se construyó el camino metodológico de aproximación y sistematización de la realidad, y se construyeron las interpretaciones de las reflexiones de las categorías: Experiencia, Diálogo y Práctica Política sobre las cuales buscamos conocer la importancia del movimiento social en el proceso de auto-formación de las sujetas de investigación. Los resultados indican una auto-formación comprometida con el cambio social, con la lucha antirracista y antisexualista, y con la construcción de identidades disidentes en medio del conservadurismo y fundamentalismo religioso fuertemente presente en la sociedad brasileña.Autoformación. Negras evangélicas. Movimiento social. Donne evangeliche nere e processo di auto-formazione SINTESEQuesto articolo fa parte dell'analisi della ricerca autobiografica in educazione, movimenti sociali e pratiche collettive, sul processo di auto-formazione delle attiviste sociali delle donne di colore evangeliche in Brasile. Il focus della ricerca è il movimento evangelico progressivo, in particolare la nuova Evangelical Black Women Network (2018), di cui fanno parte il ricercatore e i partner di ricerca. Attraverso il metodo autobiografico e le epistemologie femministe, è stato costruito il percorso metodologico di approssimazione e sistematizzazione della realtà e sono state costruite le interpretazioni delle riflessioni delle categorie: esperienza, dialogo e pratica politica su cui cerchiamo di conoscere l'importanza del movimento sociale nel processo di auto-formazione delle materie di ricerca. I risultati indicano un'auto-formazione impegnata nel cambiamento sociale, con la lotta antirazzista e antisessualista e con la costruzione di identità dissidenti tra conservatorismo e fondamentalismo religioso fortemente presenti nella società brasiliana.Auto-allenamento. Neri evangelici. Movimento sociale.

scholarly journals SELF-PERCEPTION OF COMPETENCE IN CHILDREN FROM SOCIALLY VULNERABLE CONTEXTS, ASSISTED AND UNASSISTED BY SOCIAL SPORTS PROJECTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glauber Carvalho Nobre ◽  
Paulo Felipe Ribeiro Bandeira ◽  
Maria Helena Da Silva Ramalho ◽  
Francisco Salviano Sales Nobre ◽  
Nadia Cristina Valentini
Keyword(s):  
Social Acceptance ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Brazilian Version ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Psychological Features

ntroduction: practising sport contributes tothe reinforcement of important psychological features such as self-perception of competence, especially when participants are children from socially vulnerable contexts. Objective: to compare the socially vulnerablechildren’s self-perception of competence, assisted and unassisted by social sports projects. Method: a total of 235 children (male and female), aged between seven and tenyears, participated in this comparative study. They were divided into two groups: onegroup was formed by 106 children participating in social sports projects;the other was 129 children who did not participate in socialsports projects. The self-perception of competence was assessed by the Brazilian version of the Self-Perception Profile for Children. We used a three-way ANOVA to assess the possible interaction effect between gender, age and group (children assisted and unassisted) in the different dimensions of perceived competence. Results: The children attending sports projects reported higher overall self-worth (F(1.234)) = 6.132, p = 0.014, η2 = 0.026). It was observed that there was an effect of interaction between the variable age x group (F(1.234)) = 6.673, p = 0.010, η2 = 0.029) on the self-perception of social acceptance. There were no significant effects of group on the other dimensions of self-perception of competence. Conclusion: the children participatingin social sports projects showed more self-perception in terms of social acceptance and self-concept compared tonon-participatory children. This project does not help in other dimensions of self-perception.

scholarly journals FANDOM NATION: IDENTIFYING THE SELF-WORTH OF STUDENT INFLUENCERS OF PHILIPPINE SCHOOL DOHA, A PHENOMENOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (02) ◽  
pp. 421-435
Author(s):  
Julius M. Edrosolam ◽  
◽  
Luceno Laurena Denisse ◽  
De Guzman Aaron Christian ◽  
Vital Ian Ezekhiel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Self Worth

Background: The study encourages important and essential information gathered from members who are comparative with the actual presentation. Self-identity is the motivation behind this investigation conceptualizes how being a fan recognizes the actual researchers. Distinguishing self-worth in an instruction encompassing is fundamental. Students should be engaged to prepare their entitlement to articulation following their creating limit building self-esteem and procure information and abilities required for contest reason, dynamic, correspondence, and life challenges. Methods: The Qualitative type of research design applied, which utilizes responses inquiring concerning experiences from the participants viewpoint. Findings: This study examines how self-worth affects student influencers by fandom online and offline communities. Which leads to our central question, What are the benefits of social media in identity for the self-worth of selected PSD influencers? The main themes were: Fame and Fortune, Influence, Genuine Enthusiasts, and Entertainment. Fame and Fortune is the idea that manages cooperation and openness of the student influencers subsequently, it is a condition known while Fortune relates to abundance. Influence has an impact and can muchly affect the impression of others on somebody. Influence can be seen anyplace, either in web-based media or anyplace in PSD. The individuals who have a sizable measure of Influence are called influencers. Influencers might be the scaffold to discovering somebodys worth or the other way around, as found in one of the numerous reactions which express. Genuine Enthusiasts allude to the motivation to fulfill such prerequisites and become more grounded the more expanded the range they are denied. Ultimately, Entertainment gives euphoria and fervor to the watchers. Conclusions: Students can struggle to find their self-worth because of the steady difference in their environmental factors. Students in Philippine School Doha are presented to various types of individuals affected by their activities, giving them trouble finding their self-worth in a school loaded with multiple understudies. Recommendations: The data and observations found in this study could show a more concrete answer if it utilized a more significant response. Analyze and identify the behavior in a more detailed and intricate way from which a more paradigm can form.

الضيافة مِن حقوق الإنسان في ضوء السنة النبوية (Hospitality as a Constituent of Human Rights in the Light of the Prophetic Traditions)

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
سوهيرين محمد صالحين ◽  
أحمد المجتبى بانقا علي ◽  
أحمد حسن محمد
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Self ◽  
Good Treatment ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Needy

  الملخّص شاء الله عزّ وجلّ على لسان نبيّه عليه الصلاة والسلام أن تكون للضيافة مكانة عظيمة، وقد ذكرها النبي عليه الصلاة والسلام في سنته المطهّرة ضمنَ الأعمال المأمورة على سبيل الإلزام، والتي بسببها ذهب جَمعٌ من العلماء إلى وجوبها كما ورد ذلك مفصلا في الكتب الفقهية الإسلامية. وليس هذا فحسب، بل جاءت السنة النبوية مبيّنة بأن التعامل الحسن مع الضيوف مِن حقوق الإنسان بعضهم على بعض، سواء كان المرء مقيما أم مسافرا، مسلما كان أم غير مسلم، كما يستوي ذلك في يُسر المضيف وعُسره، بل كلٌّ يؤدّي هذا الحقَ بقدر استطاعته، مقرونا بالرضى والقبول. وإلى جانب ذلك، جاء حقُّ الضيف مقرونا في الذكر بحقوق عظيمة، منها: حق الله، وحق النفس، وحق الزوج، وحق الأصدقاء، وكذلك ذُكِر حق الضيف مُفضّلا ومقدّما على بعض القربات النافلة  مثل صوم التطوع، كما أبرز هذا مدى اهتمام الضيافة عند النبيّ عليه الصلاة والسلام وعند أصحابه رضي الله عنهم أجمعين. وعلى هذا الأساس، يهدف هذا البحث إلى بيان أن حق الضيف ليس من باب الصدقات التي يجب دفعها للمسافرين والمحتاجين فقط، بل هو أرفع شأنا وأوسع نفعا من هذا المستوى، بحيث تتميّز الضيافة عن الصدقة المطلقة بقَبول النبيّ عليه الصلاة والسلام للضيافة وعدم أخذه للصدقات، كما نعتبر تنبيه هذه النقطة جديدة في بابها إن شاء الله تعالى. وعليه، جاء هذا البحث مُعنونا: الضيافة مِن حقوق الإنسان في ضوء السنة النبوية. الكلمات المفتاحية: حق الضيف، أهمية الضيافة، السنة النبوية، الحقوق الإنسانية، الأعمال المأمورة. Abstract Almighty Allah willed to place hospitality in an esteemed position through the ÍadÊth of the Prophet (s.a.w.), who pronounced hospitality as part of the prescribed pious deeds. In line with this, a great number of scholars considered hospitality obligatory.  The Prophetic Sunnah went forward declaring good treatment of the guests as one of the human rights to be honoured by everyone to the other, whether resident or traveller, Muslim or non-Muslim according to the strength of the host and his family members. Whoever fulfils this right according to their capability is rewarded with pleasure of Allah. The right of the guest is mentioned in Prophetic traditions together with the great rights such as: the right of God, the right of the self, the right of the husband, and the right of friends. On this basis, this research aims to show that the right of the guest is not a mere charity paid to the travellers and the needy, but hospitality is superior to the level of charity. The hospitality can be distinguished from the simple charity by looking at the Prophet’s (s.a.w.) preference of the hospitality and to charity. This work advances a new viewpoint that hospitality of the guest is one of the constituents of human rights. Key words: Right of the Guest, Importance of Hospitality, Sunnah, Human Rights, Prescribed Deeds.

scholarly journals Autenticitet og kritisk sprogfællesskab hos Charles Taylor

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Manni Crone
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Moral Community ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Moral Space

Manni Crone: Authenticity and critical linguistic community of Charles Taylor Are we living in individualistic societies where authenticity and self-realization have become supreme values? Is it all we can dream about to realize ourselves? In this article I examine the modern roots of authenticity and argue with the Canadian communitarian Charles Taylor, that there exist ontological limits to individualism and the cult of the self. Against individualistic liberalists Taylor argues that the modern self unfolds in a preexisting moral community, but against the most conservative communitarians Taylor insists on authenticity and individualism as part of modern life. Modern authentic individuals do not just seek egocentric pleasure, but try to create a good life in dialogue with others. This dialogue unfolds in the ”moral space” of modernity, which is not a homogeneous ”community of values”, but rather an open space in which individualistic values enter into conflict with values such as human rights and respect for the other.

scholarly journals Migration controls in Italy and Hungary

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-412
Author(s):  
Umut Korkut ◽  
Andrea Terlizzi ◽  
Daniel Gyollai
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Public ◽  
Border States ◽  
Refugee Protection ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Abstract This article analyses the humanitarianism and securitisation nexus in effect to migration controls in Italy and Hungary. Noteworthy for our purposes is how the humanitarian discourse is undervalued as the EU border states emphasise either full securitisation or else securitisation as a condition for humanitarianism when it comes to border management and refugee protection measures. Our goal is to trace, on the one hand, how politicians conceptualise humanitarianism for the self and for the extension of the self; and, on the other, how they subscribe to humanitarianism for the other as long as the other follows what the self demands. Reflecting on the institutional and discursive nexus of humanitarianism and securitization in effect to migration controls, we trace political narratives of Europeanisation geared to affect the public. We refer to how securitisation challenges humanitarianism while undervaluing human rights for the other and foregrounding human rights for the self.

scholarly journals Racism and Representation of Racialized Beauty in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Dr. Nirjharini Tripathy
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
The Impact

The American novelist Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye portrays black society and deals with the themes of black victimization and racial oppression. It presents a prolonged representation of the means in which the standards of internalized white beauty contort the life and existence of black women. This paper explores and elucidates the impact of race, racial oppression and representation in The Bluest Eye. And how racism also edifices the hatredness between Blackand White communities. This paper will discuss various issues and concepts such as Race, Race in the Colonial Period, Racializing the Other and Stereotyping. The paper also deals with understanding Representation through the ideas of Saussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Geertz, and Said. Racism is primarily a belief in the supremacy and dominance of one race upon another that consequences in the differences, discrimination and prejudice of people towards one another rooted and established on their race or ethnicity. Racism has deeply affected the African-American coloured people making them feel inferior. The Bluest Eye reflects the appalling effect on blacks individualising the values of a white culture that rejects them both immediately and incidentally. Even after abolition of slavery legally still the African-Americans faces the cruelty of racial discrimination and never considered equal to the whites. The Black people struggles to ascertain themselves with the white and their ethnic ways. Toni Morrison propounds on black cultural heritage and seeks the African-Americans to be gratified and proud of their black colour as well black identity. This paper conveys the essence of the coloured people’s fight for their race, and  also its continuance and forbearance in a principally multicultural White dominated  America.  

scholarly journals Shaming school children: A violation of fundamental rights?

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan F. Goodman ◽  
Britiny Iris Cook
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
School Children ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Charter Management Organizations

Children in schools are often shamed, at times intentionally, sometimes inadvertently. The question we pose is whether this practice violates their fundamental human rights, in particular that of freedom. Arguably, because of their limited capacities and dependent status what children require is protection rather than rights. Yet, children are not just a collection of needs requiring care; they are also apprentices to adulthood holding ‘rights-in-trust’. We confront the conflict through the following: (1) clarify the slippery term shame and its corollaries humiliation, embarrassment, and guilt; (2) illustrate school shaming practices with a focus on No Excuses charter management organizations; (3) review empirical and theoretical appraisals of shaming; (4) suggest that the concept of human dignity, upon which human rights rest, creates a moral barrier limiting the permissibility of shaming; (5) it follows schools should foster children’s dual rights, welfare, and freedom/autonomy, with a consciousness of freedom as the eventual and pre-eminent goal; (6) in conclusion, shame – a disparagement of the other by a person in authority that is both intended and received as such – is almost never justified as a disciplinary technique. It shrinks the self and immobilizes action. Discipline through guilt inducement is far preferable because its target is an act, not the person, and it motivates reparation. Schools are therefore obliged to abolish shaming practices, in so far as they can, and search for disciplinary alternatives; we offer an approach.

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