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{"title":"Building Peace in Northern Ireland: Hopes for the Future","authors":"S. Byrne, K. Levasseur, L. Reimer","doi":"10.1177/01605976221107093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976221107093","url":null,"abstract":"Since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, over 2 billion Euros have been poured into Northern Ireland for peacebuilding. This article presents the hopes and experiences of workers in CSOs funded by either or both funds, development officers, and civil servants employed by the funders. They confirm that peacebuilding and reconciliation projects funded by the European Union (EU) Peace and Reconciliation Fund and the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) have positively contributed to the peace process in Northern Ireland. Civil Society Organizational (CSO) projects support peacebuilding, reconciliation, and greater cooperation between the Protestant and Catholic communities. This study explored the perceptions of 120 respondents working with these funders. They indicated that designated peacebuilding funding promotes bridging, needs to be balanced, and is important to building the peace dividend and that local knowledge, practices, and skillsets should be built into the funding process. The politics of post-Brexit Northern Ireland means that understanding how to best fund peacebuilding and reconciliation is critical. At time of writing, tensions have risen.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"251 1","pages":"49 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72872330","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}

{"title":"Organizational Context and Student Activism: Assessing Similarities and Differences across a Secular and Religious College and University","authors":"G. Mireles, Sara M. Bumgardner","doi":"10.1177/01605976221095494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976221095494","url":null,"abstract":"Student activism is a well-researched phenomenon. However, student activism at religious institutions is less well known. This gap is significant given that religious colleges and universities comprise nearly 20% of all post-secondary schools in the United States (Digest of Educational Statistics). This study examines how student perceptions and behaviors associated with activism are shaped by organizational context. To answer this question, researchers interviewed students and administrators at two institutions: one secular, the other religious. We found that differences in perceptions and practices are influenced by the school administration. Additionally, we found that social change efforts at the religious institution were simultaneously nurtured and constrained by the administration. Two contributions emerge from these findings. First, an elaboration on activism at religious schools and second, the concept of embedded activism, which explains the way institutional context enables and constrains social change efforts on college and university campuses.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"4 1","pages":"594 - 618"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86904826","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}

{"title":"Book Review: Call Your “Mutha’”: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene","authors":"P. Godfrey","doi":"10.1177/01605976221092080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976221092080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"7 1","pages":"381 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75903957","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}

{"title":"“Can We Have Class Outside?”","authors":"J. Del Rosso","doi":"10.1177/01605976221083657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976221083657","url":null,"abstract":"Can we have class outside? This question raises issues about the conditions in which we teach and learn, as well as about the power relations of the classroom. This Final Thought makes a case for surrendering to the question. Can we learn to love it? Can we learn, even, to begin asking it to the people who learn with us in our courses?","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"31 1","pages":"687 - 694"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85487064","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}

{"title":"Inside-Out as Humanistic Pedagogy","authors":"Matthew DelSesto, David L. Sellers","doi":"10.1177/01605976221080169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976221080169","url":null,"abstract":"Pedagogy can be a humanistic way of engaging social realities in the current era of persistent social marginalization, racial injustice, and political polarization. This article explores one particular community-based pedagogy known as Inside-Out, which brings incarcerated students together with students from a college campus to study together at a local prison or jail. From the student and instructor perspective, the article looks at the ways that Inside-Out catalyzes humanistic thought and action—from within the social-historical context of prisons and universities. It explores how, if processes of racism or criminalization position social groups against each other, a humanistic pedagogy has the potential to meaningfully bring people together across social divides to reckon with dehumanizing social realities. Conclusions are offered on some key elements of an Inside-Out pedagogy that embody a humanistic approach and are relevant to other pedagogical contexts.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"80 1","pages":"665 - 686"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77794344","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}

{"title":"Book Review: Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America: Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru and Mexico","authors":"Ted Hamilton","doi":"10.1177/01605976221092081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976221092081","url":null,"abstract":"result she “...is often dismissed by other White feminists as essentialist, fluffy, simplistic...” (p. 71). However, it is because her invocation is not meant symbolically but quite literally and is inseparable from nonviolence, anti-racism, and feminism that her book has the heretical power to help shift our culture back to where we came from, as in from Mother Nature-Earth. Such a literal take deeply challenges the blindspots of our now globally dominant culture of objectifying Mother Nature, as it touches uncomfortably upon its deeply embedded hubris and ethnocentrism. This hubris and ethnocentrism have their roots in Christianity, along with a bias towards Paganism, hence Nature-Earth, whether we are fully conscious of it or not. This is the one area of weakness for me given her Western focus, as in her presentation of Christianity and the role it has played in relation to colonizing and exterminating Paganism, as in the role of Pagan Goddesses (such as Sheela na gig). For although she mentions Christianity broadly in a number of places, she makes almost no differentiation between Catholicism and Protestantism, the latter which has in general no remaining representation of the divine feminine and not uncoincidentally has been and remains in many ways in its American evangelical form the chosen weapon and refuge of the motherfuckers. This lack of more nuanced analysis of Christianity makes her closing plea that as a culture “...motherfucking must be foresworn; all forms of rape and rapism must end...” (p. 236) a bit less likely. For until we recognize the source of our actual spiritual and physical survival, most in our culture will not call upon the “Mutha.” As a result, I fear the Earth will remain an “It” and we will “consume her strength,” as beautifully expressed by Marilou Awiakta in her poem “When Earth Become an ‘It’” (p. 2). Yet nevertheless we must remember, as Caputi expresses, our “...‘Mutha’s’ powers of ending one way and beginning another” (p. 4). In that spirit, I am hopeful that “call our ‘Mutha’”will have a catalytic impact. In fact, I will be buying my 92-year-old mother one and who knows, perhaps we can do some “reclaiming” of our own; Cunt! For more on ‘cunt’ reclaiming see Inga (2018) and Rees (2013).","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"86 1","pages":"383 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81284416","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}

{"title":"Book Review: Planetary Specters: Race, Migration and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century","authors":"G. du Plessis","doi":"10.1177/01605976221092082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976221092082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"56 1","pages":"387 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80025966","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}

{"title":"Community-Based Work in the Context of Digital Interaction and COVID","authors":"John W. Murphy","doi":"10.1177/01605976211067561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976211067561","url":null,"abstract":"In the Era of COVID-19, most research and clinical practice have been carried out through videoconferencing (Zoom meetings). This style of interaction, however, comes into conflict with community-based work, which depends heavily on local insights and community entrée. In this paper, some of the reasons for this basic conflict are examined, along with some limited remedies for the restrictions placed on community-based work by computer-mediated discourse.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"9 1","pages":"652 - 664"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84504588","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}

{"title":"Shifting our Focus in Professional Development Programs from Changing Individuals to Building Community: Lessons from Namibia","authors":"K. Carter, Judy Aulette","doi":"10.1177/01605976211071059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01605976211071059","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated what academics in Namibia view as barriers to publishing and what supports they believe would facilitate their work. Data for exploring these issues were collected in reflection papers written by university teachers during a semester-long workshop. Their comments fell into two categories, one of which focused on individual weaknesses and individualistic solutions. The other category of comments made us aware of a factor to which we had not given sufficient consideration: the necessity of building community among scholars as a way of making research more productive and creative. We consider these findings within Bourdieu's (1989) framework noting the symbolic power of discourse on academic writing and the way in which challenges to that framework include not only “learning the unwritten rules” but creating social networks of support to allow and sustain that learning and to challenge the practices that isolate scholars as individual competitors. We argue that Ubuntu (human interconnectedness) is an essential factor in academic life, and it is a critical for challenging the power relations of dominant discourse.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"6 1","pages":"619 - 635"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83982753","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}

{"title":"What Birds Know: The Bird-Watcher as Sociologist","authors":"J. Del Rosso","doi":"10.1177/0160597620964763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0160597620964763","url":null,"abstract":"What can birdwatching teach us about teaching? This Final Thought recounts how, by learning to watch and identify birds, one sociologist developed more expansive senses of visual, experiential, and social teaching and learning.","PeriodicalId":81481,"journal":{"name":"Humanity & society","volume":"10 1","pages":"140 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82463471","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}