Recovering both Confucianism and Christianity from the Dialectic of the Three Bonds and Five Relationships from a Harmonious Relational Perspective

The chapter discusses the relationship between social movements and peaceful change. First, it reviews the way this relationship has been elaborated in IR constructivist and critical analyses, as part of transnational activist networks, global civil society, and transnational social movements, while considering the blind sides left by the dominant treatment of these entities as positive moral actors. Second, the chapter reviews insights from the revolution and political violence literature, a literature usually sidelined in IR debates about civil society, in order to cast a wider relational perspective on how social movements participate in, and are affected by, interactive dynamic processes that may escalate into violent outcomes at both local and international levels.

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How Stakeholders React to Issues with Risk Implications: Extending a Relational Perspective of Issues Management

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management ◽

10.1111/1468-5973.12359 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mengqi Monica Zhan ◽

Xinyan Zhao

Keyword(s):

Issues Management ◽

Relational Perspective

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Sociocultural affordances and enactment of agency: A transactional view

Theory & Psychology ◽

10.1177/0959354321989431 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095935432198943

Author(s):

Jarkko Pyysiäinen

Keyword(s):

Culturally Appropriate ◽

Relational Perspective ◽

Sociocultural Practices ◽

Critical Issues

This article argues that when attempting to extend the concept of affordances to encompass action possibilities characteristic of our sociocultural environments, a transactionally informed relational perspective—along the lines formulated by classical pragmatist thinkers (especially Dewey and Bentley but also Peirce and Mead)—proves useful. A transactional perspective helps to reveal the intimate conceptual connections between sociocultural affordances (SCAs) and agency: both are crucially about contextually defined goal-directed doings, and about learning to fluently master particular patterns of habits, skills, and sociocultural practices in culturally appropriate and socially feasible ways. The paper outlines first, critical issues in the conceptualization of SCAs; second, how the concept of SCAs also points towards a transactional conception of agency enactment; and third, how a transactional view helps to make sense of some of the apparently puzzling tensions and fringe areas between various conceptualizations of (sociocultural) affordances and agency.

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