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This book takes up the challenge of the failure of most initiatives
in community-based service delivery to address the significant
philosophical shift that is necessary to create, implement, and
evaluate appropriately these sorts of projects. Challenging the
tendency to focus entirely on practicalities, the authors emphasize
the centrality of philosophy to any successful community-based
undertaking. While fully acknowledging the importance of local
knowledge and the guidance of projects by local people, this volume
shows that these principles are often at odds with the 'Cartesian'
mindset that underpins much project planning, with its emphasis on
objectivity in science and knowledge. Since all knowledge is
mediated by human activity and embedded in language and other modes
of expression, this dualist approach must be reconsidered. A
thorough rethinking of traditional service delivery, which takes
into account issues of data, methodology, and bias together with
questions of generalizability, community, power, and communication,
this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social policy, and
social work with interests in community-based service delivery.
This book takes up the challenge of the failure of most initiatives
in community-based service delivery to address the significant
philosophical shift that is necessary to create, implement, and
evaluate appropriately these sorts of projects. Challenging the
tendency to focus entirely on practicalities, the authors emphasize
the centrality of philosophy to any successful community-based
undertaking. While fully acknowledging the importance of local
knowledge and the guidance of projects by local people, this volume
shows that these principles are often at odds with the 'Cartesian'
mindset that underpins much project planning, with its emphasis on
objectivity in science and knowledge. Since all knowledge is
mediated by human activity and embedded in language and other modes
of expression, this dualist approach must be reconsidered. A
thorough rethinking of traditional service delivery, which takes
into account issues of data, methodology, and bias together with
questions of generalizability, community, power, and communication,
this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social policy, and
social work with interests in community-based service delivery.
Future technology information technology stands for all of
continuously evolving and converging information technologies,
including digital convergence, multimedia convergence, intelligent
applications, embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications,
bio-inspired computing, grid and cloud computing, semantic web,
user experience and HCI, security and trust computing and so on,
for satisfying our ever-changing needs. In past twenty five years
or so, Information Technology (IT) influenced and changed every
aspect of our lives and our cultures. These proceedings foster the
dissemination of state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas,
including their models, services, and novel applications associated
with their utilization.
Future technology information technology stands for all of
continuously evolving and converging information technologies,
including digital convergence, multimedia convergence, intelligent
applications, embedded systems, mobile and wireless communications,
bio-inspired computing, grid and cloud computing, semantic web,
user experience and HCI, security and trust computing and so on,
for satisfying our ever-changing needs. In past twenty five years
or so, Information Technology (IT) influenced and changed every
aspect of our lives and our cultures. These proceedings foster the
dissemination of state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas,
including their models, services, and novel applications associated
with their utilization.
This progressive resource brings the innovative power of narrative
medicine to the forefront of community public health care. Chapters
describe community involvement across a continuum of control, from
health consultants describing problems and suggesting solutions to
health committees designing programs and evaluating results.
Narrative strategies to this end, including authentic dialogue and
community mapping, are examined in the context of public health and
fleshed out with examples of different levels of participation by
community members. From the respectful collaboration modeled here,
the principles of community public health care can potentially
expand beyond the immediate community into other social domains on
a greater scale. Included in the coverage: * Narratives, local
knowledge, and world entry. * Community and narratives. * What is
dialogue? * Storylines, causes, and locus of interventions. *
Community mapping tells a story. * The politics of storytelling.
Narrative Medicine and Community-Based Health Care and Planning
gives health psychologists, sociologists, social workers, and
public health administrators realistic practical insights for
tapping into the unique resources communities and clients have to
offer. This is the next step in the evolution of public health,
toward large-scale improvements in care delivery, access to and
relevance of services, and patient and community outcomes.
This collection of essays reflects a wide array of realities and
experiences of people from different areas of the world, including
England, Nicaragua, Colombia, Spain, and Guatemala. Globalization
requires innovation and adaptation, things that are easier for some
countries to achieve than others. This book states that the current
form of globalization allows the West to dominate the world market
at the expense of other countries. This collection challenges the
framework of globalization and provides practical advice for making
globalization beneficial to all countries. This volume seeks to
transform globalization into something productive for humanity as a
whole. The nature and history of globalization is discussed as well
as its impact on the Third World. New approaches to globalization
are presented, as well as the rationale of these recommendations.
The book shows that globalization can be reworked in order to
include all countries, from the First to Third World.
Professors Murphy and Choi use postmodern philosophy to expose
an important source of racism and cultural domination. They examine
foundationalism, which they see at the core of the Western
intellectual tradition and which is shown to foster a metaphysics
of domination. By contrast, postmodernism undermines this root of
racism.
They demonstrate that foundationalism is not needed to support
identity, institutions, or political order. Indeed, they assert
that true pluralism is possible once foundationalist approaches to
knowledge and order are set aside. Special attention is directed to
two current modes of discrimination: institutional racism and
symbolic violence. Murphy and Choi provide an intriguing look at
ways to undercut the justification for racism and other threats to
cultural difference. This volume will be of particular interest to
scholars and other researchers in the areas of race relations,
cultural studies, and political theory.
Postmodern philosophy is shown to be a valuable tool for exposing
the bankruptcy of laissez-faire economics and culture and in
developing a democratic policy. Despite the claims made by
conservatives, Choi, Callaghan, and Murphy argue that an
unencumbered market does not encourage pluralism. Sources of power
are left intact that work in various ways to truncate democracy.
Postmodernism offers an alternative to the conservative ideology
and provides a new approach to promoting social equity. The
protests in Los Angeles during the spring of 1992 signaled that the
United States is a troubled society. Specifically, many people are
not close to experiencing democracy. This is the case even though
American society is becoming increasingly diverse. Certain powerful
interests constrict the American policy in very important ways.
Postmodern philosophy is used by Choi, Callaghan, and Murphy to
illustrate how this control is maintained through the manipulation
of symbolism and other cultural factors. Accordingly, they contend,
new symbolism is needed before a democratic, pluralistic polity can
be said to exist. Postmodernism is also employed to show how a
democratic mode of order can be conceptualized. Contrary to what
some critics claim, Postmodernism is a worldly philosophy that has
much to say about contemporary issues. This volume of cultural
criticism will be of interest to political philosophers,
sociologists, and others concerned with current social and
political problems.
PC or Political Correctness has received bad press, according to
Choi and Murphy. Indeed, the body of ideas and concepts embodied in
PC have been trivialized by conservatives seeking to defend their
own positions and by a press catering to a public put off by
philosophical discussions. Choi and Murphy seek to analyze the key
facets of the debate over PC.
Starting with an examination of the key concepts of PC, Choi and
Murphy review the essentials of neo-conservative social philosophy
and the Postmodern Alternative as well as neo-conservative
critiques of postmodernism. By providing a comprehensive
examination of PC from its historical and philosophical
underpinnings, Choi and Murphy show what is at stake in the
controversy. This book is an important synthesis for researchers
and students of contemporary philosophy and social policy.
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