Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2022-05-14DOI: 10.1177/00243639221101221
D. Benz
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW …","authors":"D. Benz","doi":"10.1177/00243639221101221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639221101221","url":null,"abstract":"The abrupt end of colonial rule in the Congo marked a major turning point in the history of decolonization. Academic and popular discussion has blamed the brutality of the Congolese civil war in the 1960s in part on the unwillingness of Belgian authorities to formulate a plan to surrender authority to the Africans. The formation of a Congolese elite in the late colonial period certainly drew the attention of scholars in the 1960s, but relatively few have examined this topic in later decades. The Lumumba Generation by Daniel Tödt is a new consideration of the convoluted negotiations between Congolese seeking preferential treatment with Belgian officials by claiming to promote assimilation to European norms of behavior. Tödt skillfully draws together a wide range of secondary literature, particularly regarding the formation and negotiated definitions of belonging within a loosely constituted middle class. He also examines the interplay between class identity, the state, and the role of law in Belgium and the Congo. The formation of an elite in the Congo highlighted the contradictions of colonial rule. Especially after World War 2, Belgian authorities wanted to showcase a growing middle-class African community that was Christian, dressed and lived along European lines, and was still loyal to European domination. This group was overwhelmingly male, even as a few women did also manage to receive state confirmation of their assimilated status. Although officials mocked the alleged snobbishness of the bourgeois Congolese, they also tried to monitor middle-class Congolese behavior. Some of the most fascinating reading in The Lumumba Generation is the rich collection of details about everyday life documented by officials determined to set firm lines between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Administrators did not want this group to gain political power and push aside the Belgians. Self-identified members of this group of new bourgeoisie demanded more political rights for themselves on the grounds that they had met the vague criteria set out by colonial officials. Much as in other colonies,","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":"91 1","pages":"925 - 925"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44202575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00243639221090808
{"title":"Call For Papers Special Issue November 2023 Exploring Outcomes from the Response to Covid","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00243639221090808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639221090808","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":"89 1","pages":"224 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48997099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2022-03-28DOI: 10.1177/00243639221085041
M. T. Lysaught, Beth Reece, Marcia A. Grand Ortega, Ana V. Guizado, Cecilia Bustamante-Pixa
{"title":"Building Caregiver Resiliency in Global Health: Embodying the Catholic Social Tradition in the Face of COVID-19","authors":"M. T. Lysaught, Beth Reece, Marcia A. Grand Ortega, Ana V. Guizado, Cecilia Bustamante-Pixa","doi":"10.1177/00243639221085041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639221085041","url":null,"abstract":"For international healthcare NGOs, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been significant. Healthcare workers in both LMICs and high-income countries have described the impact of the pandemic as traumatic. This article focuses on one initiative designed to address this impact: CMMB’s Building Resiliency program. This article provides an overview of the structure and content of program, situating it within the landscape of global mental healthcare disparities and caregiver trauma. Designed to address caregiver mental health in Peru, Haiti, Kenya, South Sudan, and Zambia, the program sought to offset global mental healthcare disparities by bringing needed psycho-social-spiritual support to CMMB staff. It was intentionally shaped by the commitments of Catholic social thought—particularly to the well-being, dignity, and integral human development of CMMB staff members, to envisaging new forms of solidarity, and to prioritizing subsidiarity and participation. Theories of post-traumatic growth provided the theoretical framework for three remotely delivered seminar series, which made space for staff members to share their stories with their colleagues, to build community, to foster creativity and hope, and to intentionally integrate faith and spirituality into both personal self-care as well as the common life of the organization. Thus, this was designed equally to build the organizational resiliency that is the fruit of Catholic social thought. For attending to caregivers’ mental health and well-being is crucial not only for the success of medical missions but for embodying and witnessing the Catholic commitment to the human dignity and the integral development of those who do the work of our organizations.","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":"89 1","pages":"184 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46623305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/00243639211037940
Ellen M. Dailor
{"title":"Book Review: Catholic Laity in the Mission of the Church: Living Your Personal Vocation","authors":"Ellen M. Dailor","doi":"10.1177/00243639211037940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639211037940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46405014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/00243639211037214
Qui Parle
{"title":"General Call for Papers","authors":"Qui Parle","doi":"10.1177/00243639211037214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639211037214","url":null,"abstract":"About the Journal: Qui Parle, an interdisciplinary journal of the humanities, arts and social sciences, is currently accepting general submissions for upcoming issues. Since its inception in 1986, the print journal has explored questions of language and textuality, theories of subjectivity, aesthetics, gender studies, critical theory and postcolonial theory. In recent years, the journal has expanded upon its original affiliation with literary criticism and Continental philosophy in order to featuring articles from the human sciences, including the philosophy of science, anthropology, and sociology. This dilation enables even greater possibilities for comparative examinations of critical questions of concern for the humanities and social sciences alike, including: cultural alterity, the politics of visual culture, secularity and religion, nationalisms, political violence, migration and diaspora, questions of psychological development and trauma, the politics of memory, the historical anthropology of science, and modes of non-European or Anglo-American intelligibility. The interrogative and imperative of the journal’s title—who speaks—articulates a common framework for the diverse modes and objects of inquiry taken up in its pages. In particular, the journal is committed to analyzing the conditions and effects of this multivalent question, which demands response but only admits provisional determination.","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":"88 1","pages":"429 - 429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41700893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linacre QuarterlyPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/00243639211037214a
{"title":"Call for Papers Special Issue November 2022: ART and Medicine: Explaining The Moral Dimensions of Assisted Reproduction","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00243639211037214a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639211037214a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44238,"journal":{"name":"Linacre Quarterly","volume":"88 1","pages":"430 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47575439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}