Reciprocating Care in French Survivor Narratives from the Algerian War

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-336
Author(s):  
AMY HUBBELL
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
Personal Care ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Survivor Narratives

Three women who survived bombings as children during the Algerian War (1954-1956) published autobiographies of their recovery between 2012 and 2016. Danielle Michel-Chich had a leg amputated when she was five after a bombing in Algiers, Nicole Simon’s legs were burned and scarred from a bombing in Mostaganem when she was fifteen and Delphine Renard was blinded and disfigured at the age of four when a bomb exploded in her Parisian home. Each woman recounts the pain and guilt of survival and grapples with how to reciprocate the care they received. Using a social justice framework, this essay examines how narratives of care build connections between people. As the child survivors of terrorist attacks cope with medical and personal care after bodily trauma, writing becomes a major part of self-care in the recovery process.

scholarly journals Trigger Warnings: Sex, Lies and Social Justice Utopia on Tumblr

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenore Bell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Sexual Trauma ◽  
Self Care ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Community ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Trigger Warnings

Inthe spring of 2012, a major scandal rocked the queer social justice communityon Tumblr. One of its most popular bloggers and activists, a 22 -year-oldtransman named Ira Gray suddenly faced by a deluge of sexual assaultallegations from multiple people via Tumblr. Despite the queer social justicecommunity's pride in being open and accepting, many of its practices are rigid,pedantic and counterproductive. The rise and fall of Ira Gray's celebritystatus has highlighted how truly divided this online community can be.Sexuality and gender identity were not the only lines of contention; mentalillness, race, class and trauma played dominant roles in the discussion. Thevery fact that the accusers had stayed silent for so long is telling. Throughanalysing the tumblr posts of the accused, accusers and othercommentators/spectators, one can see how mental illness, privilege andsexuality are negotiated in this small yet global community. For many queersocial justice tumblr bloggers, graphically detailed posts about theirexperience of sexual trauma lie side-by-side with explicit nude phone cameraportraits of the blogger tagged as "self-care." I argue that theethos created by this corner of the internet does not provide a queer oasis forthe user away from an overbearing, hetero-normative world. Instead, itintroduces a complicated set of rules and mores that presents newcomplications. The combination of naked exposure and online depersonalisationcan prove toxic.

scholarly journals Self-Care: An Ethical Imperative for Anti-Racist Counselor Training

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Mitchell ◽  
Erin Binkley
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Counselor Training ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Racial Identity Development ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Development Models

Attention has been given to multicultural counseling, social justice and advocacy work over the last several decades; with this in mind, it is essential Counselors educators work as anti-racist change agents to understand the role of self-care in advocacy and be armed with self-care strategies based upon racial identity standing. Working through the lens of racial identity development models, educators will learn ways to support students of the dominant culture in engaging in self-care without initiating oppressive behaviors, and conversely will learn strategies to assist Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color (BIPOC) in enacting self-care without assisting in their own oppression. Thus, the purpose of this conceptual manuscript is to (a) provide a rationale for self-care as an ethical imperative, (b) introduce self-care strategies to employ while supporting anti-racist andragogy through intentional wellness, and (c) call students to build self-care routines focused on multiculturalism and social justice.

For Those Considering Medical School

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-133
Author(s):  
Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Care Plan

This chapter offers advice about how to survive and thrive in medical school as a woman of color. Ejiogu recognizes the importance of finding support as a medical student committed to social justice principles and how to negotiate a profession that routinely is known for its mistreatment of nonwhite communities and women. She advocates anticipating potential triggers in an oppressive environment and the need to implement a self-care plan as a way to protect oneself.

Medicine in old age

2010 ◽  
pp. 5389-5405
Author(s):  
Gordon Wilcock ◽  
Kenneth Rockwood
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Personal Care ◽  
Slow Movement ◽  
Geriatric Population ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Degree Of Disability

Frailty occurs in a mainly older or geriatric population, is linked to the accumulation of a number of different health-related problems, and may influence disease presentation. A frequently used clinical definition recognizes presentations comprising weight loss, exhaustion, slow movement, a low level of physical activity, and weakness. It can also be graded by degree of disability: (1) very mild frailty describes someone who has given up complex hobbies; (2) mild frailty implies some dependence on ‘instrumental activities of daily living’; (3) moderate frailty involves intermediate self-care activities; and (4) severe frailty requires personal-care dependence. The complexity of frailty underlies the difficulties that often arise when managing the care of an older person. Understanding the concept and consequences of frailty is essential to the problems of and successful management of many older people....

Between insurgents and government: the International Committee of the Red Cross's action in the Algerian War (1954–1962)

2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (883) ◽  
pp. 707-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Perret ◽  
François Bugnion
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
French Government ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Asymmetric Warfare ◽  
National Liberation Front ◽  
Police Action

AbstractThe French government and an armed insurrectionary movement – the National Liberation Front (FLN) – confronted each other for over seven years in the Algerian War, which would become the archetype of wars of national liberation. It brought the new conditions of struggle in revolutionary warfare to a convulsive climax characterized by terrorist attacks, underground warfare, and repression. On the humanitarian front, the challenge of ensuring respect for humanitarian rules in asymmetric warfare was posed more bluntly than in any previous conflict. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) faced the triple challenge of offering its services to a government facing an armed insurgency that it claimed to be able to bring under control through police action alone, of entering into contact with a liberation movement, and of conducting a humanitarian action in the context of an insurrectionary war.

scholarly journals The “ARAB-ORIENTAL” in post-9/11 America : A Reading of LAILA HALABY’S Once in a Promised Land

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
*Ms. Anwesa Chattopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Major Part ◽  
The United States ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
The Usa

The Orientalist psychology has been persistently shaped by an ideological demarcation between Westerners and Arab-Orientals; “the former are (in no particular order) rational, peaceful, liberal, logical, capable of holding real values without natural suspicion; the latter are none of these things” (Said, p. 49). The Orientalist perspective has remained ingrained in the Western mind across the decades, persistently shaping the colonialist ideology in an era of mass migration. The latter decades of the nineteenth century witnessed a rapid upsurge in the migration of Arabs, a major part of whom settled in the United States. The continuous upsurge in the Arab migration and settlement was concurrent with the growing spur of racism, which forms the basis of the victimization of the Arab-American populace. In this regard,Steven Salaita (an eminent critic of Islamophobia and a spokesperson for the “Anti-Arab Racism” in the USA) observes, “The origin of American racism is a combination of European colonial values and interaction with Blacks and Indians” (p. 5). In the light of the above statement, this paper aims to study Laila Halaby’s novel Once in a Promised Land (2007) from an orientalist perspective, and locate the traces of Islamophobia that had victimized the Muslim immigrants in America after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

“Netflix and Heal”

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Tanya Horeck
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Productive Activity ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Internet Tv ◽  
Viewing Habits ◽  
Tv Shows

This article explores how binge-watching shifted from guilty pleasure to essential self-care during the extended lockdown prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While binge-watching was prescribed as one of the most effective ways to ward off lockdown ennui, quarantine conditions also led to its reframing as a politically productive activity, one tied to social-justice projects. Following the worldwide outrage over the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, listicles emerged of antiracist films and TV shows for viewers to watch as a means of converting them from unreflective couch potatoes into socially enlightened citizens. While such lists are problematic, COVID culture’s recasting of binge-watching as civic duty compels reflection on how viewing habits in the streaming era might be related to public pedagogy around social-justice struggles. The article concludes by pointing to the continued relevance of binge-watching as a concept that captures the affective intensities of internet TV and user-directed viewing during the pandemic and beyond.

scholarly journals NURSING CARE IN MEETING PHYSICAL MOBILITY NEEDS INPATIENTS NON HEMORRHAGIC STROKE IN RSKD DADI MAKASSAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Nurshiyam Nurshiyam ◽  
Muhammad Ardi ◽  
Muhammad Basri
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tissue ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Hemorrhagic Stroke ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Physical Mobility ◽  
Care Approach ◽  
Care Assistance ◽  
The Right

Stroke is damage to brain tissue caused by a sudden reduction in or supply of oxygen in the blood. Brain tissue that has decreased oxygen supply will experience decreased function and cell death. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of nursing care to meet the needs of physical mobility in stroke patients at RSKD Dadi Makassar. The study design was a case study in the form of a nursing care approach in two non-hemorrhagic stroke patients. The results showed both patients experienced weakness of the right limb which caused impaired physical mobility and total self-care deficit. Nursing interventions in patients include ambulation support, mobilization support, range of motion exercises and self-care assistance. Nurses should provide care and education to families about the care of stroke patients who experience physical mobility impairments and self-care deficits. Families also need to provide support to stroke patients undergoing treatment to increase motivation, speed up the recovery process and prevent complications. 

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