Dealing with Difference: Researching Health Beliefs and Behaviours of British Asian Mothers

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Reed
Keyword(s):  
Health Beliefs ◽  
South Asian ◽  
The Other ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Hierarchical Relations ◽  
The One ◽  
Asian Mothers ◽  
Multiple Difference

Contemporary sociology is faced by a central problem of conceptualising and rendering empirically operable the concept of difference without dissolution into perpetual plurality on the one hand, and recourse to fixed hierarchical relations on the other. Drawing on attempts to operationalise research categories within a research project on the health beliefs and behaviours of South Asian mothers, the paper explores the difficulties of operating concepts of difference at epistemological analytical and methodological levels. For example, within the research there are difficulties in operationalising concepts of local/global difference and differences between western and non-western medical systems without fixing one in a privileged position relative to the other or without seeing them as necessarily always equal. The research also raises questions of how to sample across multiple difference and develop interview and writing strategies which do not fix relations between researcher/researched in either equal or hierarchical relations. The paper draws on attempts to cope with these problems. It engages with post-modern approaches to difference but stops short of complete deconstruction, developing these approaches instead within a dialectical framework. A dialectical approach attempts to contextualise difference, recognising the interrelationship and contradiction between research categories of difference, temporally locating hierarchies between them. Methodologically, it also strives to develop an approach which steers a course in between a position of researcher as ‘expert’ and a position where our knowledge of others is treated as inconceivable.

scholarly journals AN IMPERIAL APOSTLE? ST PAUL, PROTESTANT CONVERSION, AND SOUTH ASIAN CHRISTIANITY

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
SHINJINI DAS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Imperial Ideology ◽  
The One ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThis article explores the locally specific (re)construction of a biblical figure, the Apostle St Paul, in India, to unravel the entanglement of religion with British imperial ideology on the one hand, and to understand the dynamics of colonial conversion on the other. Over the nineteenth century, evangelical pamphlets and periodicals heralded St Paul as the ideal missionary, who championed conversion to Christianity but within an imperial context: that of the first-century Roman Mediterranean. Through an examination of missionary discourses, along with a study of Indian (Hindu and Islamic) intellectual engagement with Christianity including Bengali convert narratives, this article studies St Paul as a reference point for understanding the contours of ‘vernacular Christianity’ in nineteenth-century India. Drawing upon colonial Christian publications mainly from Bengal, the article focuses on the multiple reconfigurations of Paul: as a crucial mascot of Anglican Protestantism, as a justification of British imperialism, as an ideological resource for anti-imperial sentiments, and as a theological inspiration for Hindu reform and revivalist organization.

Machtmechanismen und Selbstspiele

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mo Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Power Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One

Through this work, one can find a new way of interpreting Yoko Tawada's work and a new perspective on power analysis and self-play for intercultural literary studies. On the one hand, the book deals with the violent subject constitution under three kinds of power mechanisms in texts of Tawada, on the other hand, Tawada's peculiar writing strategies in the form of self-play are presented as an experimental struggle against the subjectification of power. The approaches of Michel Foucault and Erich Fromm as well as the relevant theories in culture, genetic studies and science criticism are taken up in order to create a theoretical foundation for the interpretation of Tawada's texts.

Bioinformatics as Applied to Medicine

Biotechnology ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 185-209
Author(s):  
Paraskevi Papadopoulou ◽  
Miltiadis Lytras ◽  
Christina Marouli
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computational Methods ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Smart Data ◽  
The One

The emerging advances of Bioinformatics have already contributed toward the establishment of better next generation medicine and medical systems by putting emphasis on improvement of prognosis, diagnosis and therapy of diseases including better management of medical systems. The purpose of this chapter is to explore ways by which the use of Bioinformatics and Smart Data Analysis will provide an overview and solutions to challenges in the fields of genomics, medicine and Health Informatics. The focus of this chapter would be on Smart Data Analysis and ways needed to filter out the noise. The chapter addresses challenges researchers and data analysts are facing in terms of the developed computational methods used to extract insights from NGS and high-throughput screening data. In this chapter the concept “Wise Data” is proposed reflecting the distinction between individual health and wellness on the one hand, and social improvement, cohesion and sustainability on the other, leading to more effective medical systems, healthier individuals and more socially cohesive societies.

Comments from a South Asian Perspective: Food, Famine, and the Chinese State

1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 789-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Greenough
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
The Other ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Single Genus ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The One ◽  
India And China ◽  
Mode Of Production

Western writers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries found it plausible to refer to India and China in the same breath as if they were species of a single genus, employing concepts like “Oriental despotism” and “the Asiatic mode of production.” No more. Indeed, modern language and area studies have so impressed upon us the historical uniqueness of these two societies that only infrequently will scholars cite an idea or event in the one to illuminate the experience of the other. Nonetheless, there is much to be gained by making comparisons when they cast light on particular problems or reflect upon the methods of scholarship. I thus vault the Himalayas and discuss below some contrasts in the approaches taken and the results achieved when students of historical India and China have examined the problems of subsistence. The three fine papers by James Lee, Peter Perdue, and R. Bin Wong, and the stimulating introduction by Lillian M. Li provide the pegs for these brief comments.

Mobility

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-140
Author(s):  
Anusha Kedhar
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Aesthetic Development ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

Chapter 3 theorizes the flexibility of migrant South Asian dancers in Britain in relation to neoliberal demands for the transnational mobility of labor, on the one hand, and restrictive British immigration and citizenship policies, on the other. The artistic contributions of migrant South Asian dancers have been integral to the aesthetic development of British South Asian dance but have gone largely unacknowledged. This chapter tracks the various legal, economic, cultural, and political factors that both facilitated and hindered the mobility of transnational dance labor from India and the Indian diaspora to Britain between the 1990s and 2010s. In particular, it examines how immigration policies have choreographed the movement of transnational dance labor across borders, both speeding it up and slowing it down and, sometimes, stopping it altogether. Keeping the lives of transnational South Asian dancers and their experiences of migration at the forefront, the chapter takes an intimate look at how dancers negotiated volatile economic and political conditions. It argues that transnational dancers present a unique case in the study of flexibility insofar as they are hyperflexible: versatile (across dance forms), but also agile (across borders) and adaptable (across cultures). Focusing on these three aspects of flexibility, the chapter explores how hyperflexibility was demanded of and cultivated by migrant dancers to various ends and effects, and with varying degrees of stretch-ability.

Narrating South Asian Partition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anindya Raychaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Oral History ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Private Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The One ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This book brings together “private” and “public” forms of memory narratives of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition, by looking at oral history testimonies (covering direct and inherited memories) on the one hand, and the literature and cinema of partition on the other. The book makes the case that survivors of partition and their descendants are able to exert control over the ways they remember partition and through the ways in which they tell these stories. The book looks at a number of different themes that appear across the oral history interviews, literature, and cinema—home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers—and shows how these narratives need to be seen as evidence of agency on behalf of the narrators. This agency through narration is sometimes explicit, more often implicit, but always contested and politicized. A careful examination of the ways in which agency is manifested in these texts will, I argue, shed new light on the ways in which the events of partition are remembered, narrated, and silenced in public and private life within and beyond the south Asian subcontinent.

scholarly journals What should happen, but has not yet happened: Painterly tales of justice

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-216
Author(s):  
Mani Shekhar Singh
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Law ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The One

South Asian folk and vernacular art practices have invariably been presented in scholarly writings as ‘tradition-bound’ with fixed conventions of image-making and iconography embedded in ritual and cultural life. This article proposes a shift by drawing attention to the lifeworlds and painterly practices of young women artists from the Mithila region of Bihar in India. Relatedly, then, I foreground a set of paintings, which are contemplations on a specific form of matrimonial violence in India—the terrifying murder of brides by dousing them with kerosene and burning them alive for bringing insufficient dowry. What is notable about these paintings is the ways in which the young women artists articulate the spectre of dowry violence and death using pictorial resources and techniques that are typically Maithil in signature. The paintings, in the process, create a community of spectators, whose participation in art’s performance makes the picture surface both visible and legible. Each painting, with its intimate narration of dowry violence, teases out different dynamics between tradition and violence, on the one hand, and violence and justice, on the other. Using visual resources of fragmentation and juxtaposition, centring and repetition, ambivalence and excess, the artists contest the ‘official’ imagery and iconography of justice made available in the name of blindfolded Justitia. I argue that the creative imagination of young artists and their artworks inhabit legally plural worlds, where justice for the bride is evoked by renouncing the workings of state law. And, we might add, it is by foregrounding ‘a possibility of exile, of there being an “elsewhere”’ (Das 1999) is what makes ‘worldmaking’ possible.

Bioinformatics as Applied to Medicine

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paraskevi Papadopoulou ◽  
Miltiadis Lytras ◽  
Christina Marouli
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Computational Methods ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
Smart Data ◽  
The One

The emerging advances of Bioinformatics have already contributed toward the establishment of better next generation medicine and medical systems by putting emphasis on improvement of prognosis, diagnosis and therapy of diseases including better management of medical systems. The purpose of this chapter is to explore ways by which the use of Bioinformatics and Smart Data Analysis will provide an overview and solutions to challenges in the fields of genomics, medicine and Health Informatics. The focus of this chapter would be on Smart Data Analysis and ways needed to filter out the noise. The chapter addresses challenges researchers and data analysts are facing in terms of the developed computational methods used to extract insights from NGS and high-throughput screening data. In this chapter the concept “Wise Data” is proposed reflecting the distinction between individual health and wellness on the one hand, and social improvement, cohesion and sustainability on the other, leading to more effective medical systems, healthier individuals and more socially cohesive societies.

Kierkegaard as Socratic Street Preacher?: Reimagining the Dialectic of Direct and Indirect Communication for Christian Proclamation

2017 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-300
Author(s):  
Aaron Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indirect Communication ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Christian Proclamation

Is it possible to believe that the implications of the Christian Gospel are of such a kind that it cannot be communicated directly, and that the implications of the Christian Gospel are of such a kind that it ought to be preached on the street? Whether such a view is indeed “possible” did not bother the great paradoxical thinker, Søren Kierkegaard, who appeared to hold it. Indeed, one of the most enduring elements of Kierkegaard's theological legacy is his rigorously dialectical approach to Christian communication. For the reader of Kierkegaard, comprehending his (in)direct communication is typically both a frustrating and inspirational affair. On the one hand, Kierkegaard believed that the Gospel—precisely because of its unique existential consequences—cannot be preached directly; and on the other hand, he believed in the impassioned proclamation of this very same Gospel for the very same reasons. Traveling through his enigmatic authorship, one finds both of these aspects side by side, back to front, or sometimes one on top of the other. It is well noted that although Kierkegaard displays different stages of emphasis, he never totally relinquishes the importance of either method. It is the question of this article to re-engage this dialectical quandary, and to see how the paradoxical juxtaposition might prove both directly and indirectly instructive to a theology of Christian proclamation.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

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